24 DECEMBER 1892, Page 25

We have received from Messrs. Marcus Ward an illustrated edition

of Burns' poem, The Cotter's Saturday Night, with a sen- sible and sympathetic introduction from the pen of the Rev. Dr. John Hall. The frontispiece represents the birth-place of the poet, and his mausoleum. The illustrations are of varying merit. The lovers, on p. 14, make a good picture, but the "moor," on p.9, strikes us as not being very like the moor that Burns' cotter is likely to have traversed.—The same publishers also send us two prettily illustrated volumes cf fairy-tales and nursery-rhymes. The former are to be found in the Puss-in-Boots Picture Book, illustrated by E. Caldwell ; the latter in Little Mother Goose, illus- trated by Leslie Watkins. The children in this latter volume are particularly attractive.