CURRENT LITERATURE.
GIFT-BOOKS.
Tunes for Tots. By Anne Finch Hatton. (Hatchards.)—Here we have the words of twenty-four nursery rhymes set to music. Among them are such old favourites as "Little Boy Blue," "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son," and "Hush-a-bye, Baby," while the author has added a pretty little song of her own, under the title of "Good-Night."—Jottings for Juveniles, by Robert A. Gillespie, illustrated by Eva Pyne (Griffith, Farran, and Co.), contains some fairly good verses and drawings; but surely the old sailor in "He'd like to be a Sailor" is not drawn from life.—The Zoo, by the Rev. J. G. Wood (S.P.C.K.) is a well-executed book, though the colouring is not always all that could be wished. From the Sunday School Association we have received Young Days, a monthly illustrated magazine, and the Sunday-School Helper, a monthly magazine for parents, teachers, and scholars, elited by W. Copeland Bowie. Here we get some excellent hints for teachers, embracing, we are glad to see, a large variety of subjects. "In Memoriam," for instance, pictures of child-life from Dickens, &c.
Messrs. Dean and Co. send us some attractive-looking picture- books for children. The Circus is gorgeous with coloured repre-
sentations of equestriennes jumping through hoops from the
backs of horses, clowns in all kinds of postures, acrobats, elephants, performing horses, dogs, &c.—In A Medley of Picture Scraps and Rhymes, the drawings are not coloured, but are meant "to copy and to colour," perhaps a more attractive thing.—The Little One's Own Souvenir, edited by Mrs. Elizabeth Day, contains plenty of
reading, some of it, with large type and short words, specially intended for young children, and several hundreds of "chrome pictures by eminent artists."—From the same publishers we
also receive a little treatise on Macaws, Cockatoos, Parakeets, and Parrots, by the late Sir Thomas Dick Lauder and Captain Thomas Brown.
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