Hubbard and her Dog" being, we think, the best.—From the
same publishers we have also The Children's Treasury of Pictures and Stories, 1887.—Quick March, by "An Old Soldier" (F. Warne and Co.), is a volume of rhymes, with coloured pictures somewhat of the Randolph Caldeoott style.—We have also received Nos. 1 and 2 of Gordon Browne's Series of Old Fairy Tales. (Blaokie and Son.) The drawings by Gordon Browne, the story retold by Laura E. Richards. No. 1 gives as "Hop o' my Thumb ;" No. 2, "Beauty and the Beast." The illustrations are spirited ; but why should the " beast " have been changed from the traditionary bear that we all know, to the very nondescript creature which Mr. Gordon Browne presents to us ? Early English Voyagers. (Nelson and Sons.)—In this volume we have the "Adventures and Discoveries of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier." To the account of the last of the three there is prefixed a chapter which is particularly worth reading on "The Buccaneers of America." Dampier himself was an extraordinary character, whose history is conspicuous even in that age of adventure. It is a singular thing that he should have vanished completely after his return to England in 1711.
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