18 NOVEMBER 1882, Page 24

Poetry for Children, selected by E. A. Helps, Part II.

(G. Bell), designed for young people between ten and twelve years of age, follows well in the wake of a former series as a class book.• The poems chosen deal mostly with tangible objects, and keep within the range of children's vocabulary, which is usually rather limited, while, as might be expected, Mr. Helps has drawn largely on Gay, Cowper, Wordsworth, Bernard Barton, William and Mary Hewitt, and Charles Mackay.

We have received many of Letts's useful Diaries, though none of the smaller pocket sizes, which are, to our minds, the most useful of all. All, however, are useful, and well adapted to their various purposes.