26 DECEMBER 1868, Page 24

Messrs. Routledge publish, for the benefit of the very little

ones, Baby's Birthday, Puss in Boots, an unusually spirited and humorous series of illustrations of an old friend ; and The Enraged Miller, which is new to us, and which strikes us as being comical, but of a somewhat doubtful moral. From Messrs. Cassell and Co. we have Queer Characters, representing the funny doings of animals who take to keeping school and other human occupations, the story of Row Cock Sparrow Kept his Christmas, and a versified little abstract of Robinson Crusoe, both of them adorned with spirited pictures; and .zEsop's Fables, to which we cannot accord any praise.