13 DECEMBER 1884, page 18

Two Gift-books For Christmas.*

"OF making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness to the flesh." Thus wrote the wisest of men ; but his words find scant observance in these later days,......

Daffodil And The Crodxaxicans. By Augusta Webster....

a little girl who, by help of finding an elf-cup, and fal, filling certain other conditions, is able to visit a certain frog-world under the water, and to return therefrom with......

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GIFT-BOOKS. Stories of the Italian. Artists. By the Author of " Belt and Spur." (Seeley and Co.).—If we have a fault to find with this very pleasant book, it is that the canvass......