24 DECEMBER 1892, Page 25

Tales of Adventure and Stories of Travel. (Sampson Low and

Co.)—Most people remember those little annuals that in the earlier part of the century supplied our fathers with much of their miscellaneous reading,—" The Keepsake," "The Bijou," "Friendship's Offering," &c. A great deal of prose and poetry of unequal merit was to be found in them, and the most exquisite engravings. Some of these have really never been surpassed. The editor has culled from these annuals and biographies some of the more readable tales for the present volume, and illustrated it -with twenty reproductions in " Woodbury-gravure " of the more famous plates. It is decidedly an attractive volume, despite its make-up, and readable as well. The reproductive process has certainly been successful with Turner's plates.