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The Vicar Of Wakefield. (john Hogg.)—this Classic Appears...

biographical introduction from the pen of Mr. H. J. Nicoll, a good paper, and giving in the way of narrative and criticism what a reader requires. It is a curious Latinism, by......

Yet Another Magazine For The Same Well-provided-for Class...

is Harper's Young People (Sampson Low and Co.) A critic feels that the praise which he is bound to bestow on these carefully conducted periodicals cannot but be monotonous. The......

Gray's Elegy. Illustrated By Norman Prescott Davies....

J. W. Hales contributes an introduction, which says pointedly and well what has to be said about the Elegy, and gives the stanzas which the severe taste of the poet rejected......

The Boys' Own Annual Is The Yearly Volume Of The

Boys' Own Paper ; the Girls' Own Annual, of the Girls' Own Paper, and both appear under the auspices of the Religious Tract Society. Both are well-established favourites, and......

Home Pictures. Written By G. Roddieh. Pictures By...

(S.P.C.K.)—The pictures are pretty ; the verses might be improved. Rhymes should rhyme, and lines should scan, however young the readers for whom they are intended. And why, we......

Sunday Reading For The Young. (wells Gardner, Darton, And...

—The " young " for whom this magazine is intended are really little people, still some way off their teens. It is for their benefit, probably, that the stories are cat up into......

Illustrations. Conducted By Francis George Heath. (wells...

Co.)—We welcome with all wishes for its pro- sperity and long life, this new magazine, a collected volume of which we have now for the first time before us. Its object is to......

St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine For The Young. Con-...

by Mary Mapes Dodge. (Century Company, New York ; Warne and Co., London.)—This magazine appears, as usual, in two convenient volumes, and the most determined patriotism cannot......

Heroes Of Industry. By Evan Rowland Jones. (sampson Low And

Co.)—These sixteen sketches, each of them illustrated with a portrait of its subject, describe various persons who have made them- selves a name in commerce, manufacture, or......

The Song Of Songs. With Twenty-six Etchings After Bida. (j.

C. Nimmo.)—In this handsome volume we have the "Song of Solomon" as it stands in the Revised Version. The artist has taken, we gather from the illustrations (for introduction......

The Rosebud Annual (clarke And Co.) Has Charmingly Quaint...

tures—these seem, indeed, to be its speciality—and cannot fail to be a favourite.......

The Editors Of Hood's Comic Annual Have, As Usual, Taken

great pains to give their readers abundance and variety, both in letterpress and in illustrations. Within the compass of not mach over a hundred pages, they give over forty......

We Must Be Content With Welcoming Again Little Wide Awake,

edited by Mrs. Sale Barker (Rontledge and Sons), a periodical of which we have spoken before more than onoe with well-deserved praise, and which presents itself this year with......

The Handy Natural History. By The Rev. J. G. Wood.

(Religious Tract Society.)—One can hardly expect much that is new in a popular book on this subject; but we get exactly what we are led to expect by the title, a convenient......

The Little Ones' Own Coloured Picture-paper. (dean And...

its colours to please the eye, its large type, syllabled words, games, puzzles, Kindergarten lessons, etc., it is excellently adapted for little folks.......

A Very Pretty And Convenient Little Gift-book Is The...

Pocket Shakespeare. Edited by J. Talfourd Blair. (D. Bryce and Son, Glasgow.)—It consists of eight small volumes, weighing (whole- bound in leather) about 4oz. each, and......