17 AUGUST 1878, Page 23

Crumbs from Dame Nature's Table. By Emma E. Adams. (Partridge

and Co.)—This is a very pleasant little child's book, with a charm of its own, in spite of its contriving to embody a good deal of useful information in a not, indeed, undisguised, but rather somewhat awkwardly disguised form. In spite of this, the chat of the children with the elders is so pleasant, so full of genuine childish observation, and so much relieved by pleasant anecdote and scientific gossip of the popular kind, that children will not resent its instructiveness. And the sentiment of the book is altogether pleasant, refined, and healthy, and full of true religions feeling. We need hardly add that, like almost all good books for children now, it contains a great deal of popular and pleasantly given natural history.