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Three picture-books of something of the same kind may be

mentioned together,-The Natural History Nursery Rhymes, by G. B (Sands and Co., 3s. 6d ) ; Cats, Pictured by Louis Wain and Versed by " Grimalkin " (same publishers); and The Journal of a Rabbit, founded on fact by M. T. W., Illustrated by E. B. L. (Grant Richards, ls.)-Another picture-book is Fairies, Written and Illustrated by Mary Tudor Pole (Broadbent, Manchester). -Also Songs of Near and Far Away, Illustrated and Written by E. Richardson (Cassell and Co., Cs.), and Nursery Rhymes, Illus- trated by F. D. Bedford (Methuen and Co., 2s. 6d.)