28 NOVEMBER 1891, Page 22

Messrs. Griffith, Farran, and Co. send us The PleasewellFainting- Books,

with a variety of outlines which children are to practise themselves in colouring. Some are of the very simplest, even rudest kind ; others more advanced.—We have also from the same publishers, The Newbery Painting-Books and The Newberg Toy- Books, with our old friends Jack the Giant-Killer, Goody Two-Shoes, and Ali Baba. Messrs. Griffith and Farran's volumes show a good average of drawing and colouring. The fairy-tales last mentioned are told at full length.