30 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 27

The annual volume of two well-known and favourite magazines for

children may be mentioned together. These are The Rosebud Annual (James Clarke and Co.) and Little Folks (Cassell and Co.) The illustrations in both keep up the improvement which of late years has been so marked in these periodicals.—We have also received Uncle Charlie's Sunday-Book (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.), containing "Pictures and Stories from the Bible ; " Dulcie's Lantern and other Stories, by Theo Gift (same publishers) ; The Story of Zelinda and the Monster, retold from the old Italian version by Mary Stuart Wolseley (J. M. Dent and Co.); Hoists For" ard, by Fred. Hall (G. Bell and Sons), and Amateur Photography (same artist and publishers), two volumes of amusing sketches.