14 DECEMBER 1889, Page 26

Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co. send us the late Mr.

C. S. Calverley's Ball-Room Comedy, cleverly illustrated by May Quiton. It is a rhymed alphabet about a ball, beginning with " A is an angel of blushing eighteen," " B is the ball where that angel was seen," and ending with " Y is the yawning caused by the ball," and "Z stands for zero, or nothing at all." And also The Lady's Garden : a Calendar for 1890, delicately illustrated with pictures of the various flowers. Again, The Evening Hymn for Young Children, by Rev. S. Baring Gould, illustrated by N. C. Bishop-Culpeper ; Winter, Christmas, and other prettily illus- trated books of the same kind. Messrs. Marcus Ward and Co.'s single cards and landscapes are also very pretty.