Log-Book Notes through Life. By Elizabeth A. Little. (Regan Paul,
Trench, and Co.)—This is an exceedingly clever and successful attempt, by means of poetry and art—neither being too difficult to understand—to bring out in all respects the familiar comparison between the vicissitudes of a voyage and the events of human life. The realism of the pictures of a ship's tackle, especially of the star-knot and of the sailor's cross-knot, is perfect.
From Messrs. Griffith, Farran, and Co. we have received The Message of Love, an attempt by apposite quotations in prose and verse, and exquisite illustrations, which look like photographs, to exhibit love in all its nobler forms, including what Mr. George MacDonald terms " grand, perfect, glorious love" for woman; Our Father's Promises, a series of Biblical quotations, also beautifully illustrated; Golden Love, which is in some respects similar to, and in others is different from, The Message of Love ; and Art Thou Weary? in which music plays its part as well as poetry. The editor of all these religious gift-books is Mr. George C. Haite, F.L.S.
Messrs. George Routledge and Co. send us The Artistic Language of Flowers, a beautifully coloured and original version, with vocabulary and poetical quotations, of an old and popular fancy ; Summer Sunshine, a number of largely (in two senses) illustrated stories in prose and verse of what the late Charles Reade termed "men and other animals," intended for boys and girls ; Our Country-House, a book that little boys of about five years of age or so are sure to take delight in on account of its highly coloured pictures, in which the pleasant feats, and perhaps pleasanter fictions, of healthy country-life are reproduced; and A Journey Round the World, whose name tells its character. It is an abundantly and highly coloured geographical multum in parvo.
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