My Book of Brave Men (Blackie and Son, ls.) gives
some spirited pictures of fighting, showing the darkness as well as the silver lining of the cloud.-From the same publishers : Tales and Talks about Children (2s. 6d.); Our Wonderful World (1s.); Our Toy Zoo, by May Byron, with comic animals (2s. 6d.) ; Cinderella (1s.); Ride-a-Cock Horse (1s.) ; and Mother Goose.-It will be sufficient to give the name of Louis Wain's Annual, 1907 (Bemrose and Sons, is.)-An Alphabet of Beasts, by L. Beatrice Thompson (Gay and Bird, 2s. Gd. net), commends the task of learning the letters by pictures of animals.-The Baby's Day Book, by W. Graham Robertson (John Lane, 3s. 6d.), has some good verse, though sometimes, perhaps, a little too " grown-up." But here is a stanza from "The Lady Dream-Come-True":-
• ' For every dream that ever is born
She lays it by in her garden close.
The darkest watch must wear to the morn,
The blackest twig may put forth a rose; So every seed in the dream world set, Be it never so little, so dark of hue, May spring to its bud and its blossom yet
At the word of Dream-Come-True."
-Dart ens Leading Strings (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., 2s.) is a suitable volume for young readers.
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