21 JUNE 1879, Page 24

The Adventures of the Bodley Family. By the Author of

"Dream Children." (S. B. Barrett.)—The " Bodley Family" moves into the country, and thus give occasion to some very pleasant narratives of country pleasures. Interspersed with these are some fairy tales, in humorous verse, cleverly written, and yet more cleverly illustrated. Both verse and illustrations are from the pen of a lady, now deceased, Miss Annette Bishop.—Of other books for children, we may men- tion The Old Man o' the Hills (Religious Tract Society), the story of an old man whose heart, set against God and man by wrongs received, is won back by kindness ; The Palace of Fun, and other Tales (Motley and Smith) ; and Sunshine Jenny, and other Stories, by Mrs. G. S. Rowley.