24 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 24

The Rosebud Annual, 1895. (Clarke and Co.)—The "two hundred and

fifty illustrations " with which this volume is adorned, and the letterpress, both prose and verse, are chiefly of the humorous kind. As is not uncommonly the case, the pictures are better than the letterpress, and the prose is preferable to the verse, which halts more than it should. Children know good verse when they see it or hear it,--a faculty which seems to leave them sometimes when they grow up.