28 NOVEMBER 1885, Page 20

One Thing at a Time, and other Proverb Stories for

Boys and Girls.

Second Series. By Ethel Coxon, Madame Colomb, Mrs. M. Douglass, and other Authors. (John Hogg.) —By " Proverb Stories " are meant stories to illustrate and enforce proverbs of the moral order ; the tales are seven in number, and prettily illustrated. We have read the greater part of them, and with pleasure, particularly "The Quiet Daughter," based on " When the sun has set, the little stars may shine," and "The Best Suit." "The Little Model," from the French, on "'Tie a long day which has no night," is also very gracefully told. "The powder is wrapped up in the jam" skilfully ; it is there, but not tasted.