19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 43

Sunday Reading for the Young (Wells Gardner, Barton, and Co.)

is a handsome volume, with a great variety of reading, subordinated to the end which the title indicates, and really excellent illustrations. Nothing, indeed, is more remarkable than the immense advance which has been made of late years in this respect. The portrait, "Old Pengoose," on p. 160, is a piece of capital work, not, of course, elaborated, but as effective as one could wish to see. The serial stories are, "A Flock of Four," by Miss Nancy Thorn ; " Best," by Miss Jane Brockman ; and "Fearless and True," by " Sigma." We feel doubtful about the adaptation of a matchless original in "Little Christian's Pilgrimage."