17 NOVEMBER 1906, Page 10

The Child's Christmas. Pictured by Charles Robinson. Text by Evelyn

Sharp. (Blackie and Son. 6s. net.)—Here we have pencil and pen cleverly portraying for us the belongings and circumstances of Christmas. The pudding is stirred, the carol- singers come, the Christmas-cards are addressed, hampers are packed, the guests arrive, Santa Claus pays his visit—the writer heard the other day of some children in Canadian backwoods looking for his footsteps in the snow—the dinner, with songs and speeches, is held,—such things we have portrayed for us in a way that cannot fail to please the children, who have a taste for the real as well for the fanciful.