Three volumes, published by Messrs. Routledge and Sons, may be
mentioned together as supplying in a satisfactory way the wants of three classes of readers. These are Every Boy's Stories, Every Girl's Stories, and Every Child's Stories. The tales, numbering, 40, 39, and 27 in the respective volumes, have been drawn from a variety of authors, past and present. Among the first we observe the names of Thomas Archer, Amelia B. Edwards, James Pycroft, Countess D'Aulnoy, Maria Edgeworth, Lord Brabourne, Mary Russell Mitford ; among the latter, Mrs. Sale Barker, Julia Goddard, Mrs. Haweis, the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, Lieutenant Low, W. Fenn. Each volume is adapted to its proper clientele, but in no very exclusive way,— girls, for instance, may well read, as indeed we find to be their custom, what is meant in the first instance for boys ; and both boys and girls may make their way with profit into the preserves of the children.
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