Illustrated Poems and Songs for Young People. By Mrs. Sale
Barker. (Routledge and Sons.)—This is a volume of extracts from poets old and new, illustrated with appropriate pictures. Many of the poems have certainly, and some of the engravings have probably, we may conjecture, done service before ; but the effect of the whole is satis- factory. The "young people" cannot do better than make or renew acquaintance with what they will find in these pages.—From the same publishers we get Roundabout Tales, told to Children, the best of the tales being descriptions of animal life; and five elegant little volumes which bear the title of Children of the Village, and contain various stories by Miss Mitford—" Amy Lloyd," The Two Dolls," and "The China Jug" among them—appropriately set forth with illustrations by F. Barnard, R. Barnes, M. E. Edwards, Miriam Kerns, and others.—For younger children we have the Dog and Cat Toy- book, by A. W. Cooper, with its coloured pictures of various familiar animals ; and the Lion and Tiger Toy-book, devoted to animals which we happily see only on the other side of strong bars.
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