21 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 11

Little Folks. (Cassell and Co.)—This magazine for children— the younger

as well as the older are considered—keeps up to its standard, and even improves. Both the serious and the comic divisions are good. The serious is not heavy ; the comic is not vulgar. Miss Pollard, we see, tells the story of Ulysses, and tells it well. But why " Grecian " rather than "Greek " ? And why "Mercury" rather than " Hermes " ? Children cannot be taught too early to use the right names. We do not think that the poet of the Odyssey conceived of the Sirens in the shape that we commonly associate with mermaids.