SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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GIFT-BOOKS.
The thirty-eighth annual volume of Young England (Sunday School Union, 158. net) is a capital present for a boy or a girl. It contains some interesting stories, many illustrations, and numerous articles on carpentry, treasure-hunting, school life, and other attractive topics.—From the same publishers comes the cheap and pleasing Child's Oton Magazine (Is. net), which is now in its eighty-fourth year and must be the oldest publication of its As a toy-book, Cackles and Lays, written by Miss Margaret Laving- ton and illustrated by Miss Helen Urquhart (J. Lane, 2s. 6d. net), will entertain small children. The verses and pictures are clover and amusing.
Miss Elizabeth Banks has written some rimming jingles on Sea- dog Pet (U.S.N.)" and other " mascots " of the American Navy for a little pamphlet, On the Beat that Ch4Cle Sam Built (3d.), which is sold, together with some original Christmas cards, through " Dile, Fund for the Allies" at the Canada Grand Trunk Railway &flees, 19 Coekspur Street, S.W. The proceeds go to buy comforts for British mine-eweepers and other sailors.
Mr. Bernard Sleigh has designed a very pretty and novel gift for the nursery in the shape of An Ancients Mappe of Fairyland (Sidg- wick and Jackson, 15s. net). It is about five foot wide and mounted on linen with rollers, as that, if need be, it can be stowed away in a drawer. On this great expanse the artist has delineated in the mannerof the mediaeval charts many of the wonders of Fairyland, its ports, its islands, Castle Warlock and the Weird Wood, the Forest of Lyonease and the Garden of Proserpine, and the knights and nymphs, witches and dragons who inhabit them magic realms. Mr. Sleigh has provided a little guide to his charming map, which will interest and amuse children.
Metiers. Harrap publish a delightful set of Old French Nursery Son Is (Ca net), with simple settings arranged by Mr. Horace Mansion and attractive coloured pictures by Mies Anne Anderson Tho songs include, of course, "Cadet Rousselle," " D Unit ono bergare," " Au chair do In tune," and other old favouritea.—From the-same publishers comes a pleasant version by Mr. Michael West pf Aucassin and Nice/as (10a (id. net), very well printed and decorated with
many fanciful coloured plates by Miss Evelyn Paul ; the songs have been eat to music by Mr. Horace Mansion.—The best chapter in DI Cyrus Townsend Brody's A Little Book for Christmas (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 5s.) is the story of a burglar who was mistaken by a child for Santa Claus and turned out to be her long-lost uncle. Mr. Brady minglesstories with personal reminiscences and reflections in this seasonable little book.
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