16 DECEMBER 1865, Page 19

Our Children's Pets. By Josephine. (S. W. Partridge.) — This

is a very prettily illustrated book, one of the illustrations, in which two goats meet on a tree that has fallen across a precipice, and solve the arising dilemma by agreeing to let one lie down and the other spring over its body, will fascinate every infantine mind,—but the illustrations are the essence of it, the matter to be illustrated being very poor indeed, and we fear made to illustrate the illustrations rather than to be illustrated by them. "Josephine" is dull and prosy, and not to the point. We recommend those children who may become possessed of this pretty little book not to read, but only to inspect it, in which case it may afford them a great deal of pleasure.