The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast, by Mr. Roscoe
; and The Elephant's Ball and Grand Fete Champotre, by "W. D." (Griffith and Farran), are fac-simile reproductions of the editions of 1808 and 1807, published by "J. Harris, successor to E. Newbery, at the Original Juvenile Library, the Corner of St. Paul's Church- yard." Mr. Charles Welsh, who gave to the public a similar repro- duction of "Goody Two-Shoes " last year, and met with the appre- ciation which his work deserved, tells us in his introduction the story of these two little books. The "Butterfly's Ball "—a poem of grace- ful fancy by an eminent man who did great services to his country— was the first and most famous of the series, which had for a time a great success (even in these days forty thousand' copies would be thought something). It is interesting to learn that the illustrations were early works of William Mulready. Mulready, indeed, began, Mr. Welsh tells us, to draw very early. Some of his work done at three and four years of ago was published.
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