4 NOVEMBER 1899, Page 8

Baby's Biography. By H. M. *M. Illustrated by Nat. R.

Prince. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 6s.)—This book, we are told, is designed " to afford parents, and more especially mothers, an opportunity of keeping a continuous record of the chief incidents in a child's career." , Day of birth, weight at birth, resemblances, foods, first airing, and so forth are to be recorded in their proper places. The volume is prettily decorated, but we cannot help thinking that there is something absurd about it. At the same time, we will allow that if Csesar's mother or Shakespeare's had kept such a record, we should have been much obliged to them. If a mother could only foresee !