15 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 22

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GIFT-BOOKS.

Play ; a Picture Book of Boys, Girls, and Babies. Drawn by Edith Scannell. (Marcus Ward.)—This is a first-rate book for children. The pictures are large, well-drawn, and well-coloured. They are pictures of dollies, and bow-wows, and "prams," and other matters interesting to babydom. They are drawn in the costume of to-day; and, in fact, they are altogether admirably suited to please and teach the audience or spectator for whom they are intended. We venture to say that this is one of the best young children's books of the

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