5 DECEMBER 1896, Page 11

Hornbook Jingles. By Mrs. Arthur Gaskin. (Leadenhall Press.) —Mrs. Gaskin

begins by describing, by pen and pencil, the horn- books out of which the little girls of bygone generations learnt to read. This is well enough ; let us hope that young people will learn to be thankful for being better off,—but we cannot see how these " jingles " have anything to do with hornbooks. The pictures are fairly good, though rather monotonous ; the rhymes are not particularly amusing.