20 OCTOBER 1894, Page 22

The Sunday-school Union sends us a gaily coloured picture- book

(printed, we see, in Holland, whither not a little work of this kind is being driven by English prices), under the title of The Royal Nail Picture-Book. The frontispiece is "The Mail Fifty Years Ago," a coach and four struggling through a snow-drift. By way of contrast with this, we have a variety of modern illus- trations,—the travelling railway post-office, the steamer carrying mails, Indians overtaking a mail in America, an "Up-country Mail in the Colonies," he. The pictures are well drawn, and the verses are fluent and easy.