15 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 22

Little Boys and Wooden Horses. By Juliana Horatia Ewing. Depicted

by R. Andre.—Papa Poodle, and other Pets. By the Same.—Tongues in Trees. By the Same. (S.P.C.K.)—Mrs. Ewing is too old a favourite with children to need commenda- tion. The first book is, perhaps, the best, except that we object to children being depicted as lying awake at night afraid of the dark. Such things tend to make them assume a terror, if they have it not, and to make it a reality. The story of the poodle is amusing; and the squirrel-life, if a little more beyond the ken of children, is pretty.