6 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 9

Nursery Rhymes. Illustrated by F. D. Bedford. (Methuen and Co.)—Here

we have some old favourites, as "Old King Cole," with some that are new to us, as " The Whale" (not modern, we presume, or it would not be called a " fish "). The art is of the newest, and certainly good of its kind, with well.harmonlsed colouring.