Marjorie And Her Papa. By Robert Home Fletcher. (t. Fisher
Unwin.)—A very pretty book, with child-talk and capital pictures, and an extravagant little story of the " Alice in Wonderland " type, and other pleasant and entertaining......
Reynolds And Children's Portraiture In England. By W. J. Lof
tie. (Blackie and Son.)—This is a volume intended both for ornament and for utility. It is one of " Vere Foster's Water-Colour Series," and Mr. Loftie's descriptions are......
The Illustrated Book Of Patience Games. Translated And...
Professor Hoffmann. (Routledge and Sons.)—" Patience," which certainly has the unique recommendation that it can be played by one person, has a continuously increasing......
Various Gaily Illustrated Books Intended For Younger...
mentioned together :—Routiedge's Book of Birds. Beasts, and Fishes (G. Routledge and Sons), given in another form in the Panorama of Birds, Beasts, and Fishes. From the same......
The Parachute, And Other Bad Shots. Written By J. R.
Johnson ; pictured by C. E. Brock. (Routledge and Sons.)—This is one of the cleverest books of the kind that we have seen for some time. The verse is fairly good, the drawing......
We Do Not Know Whether We Have Already Noticed The
Nursery Alice, by " Lewis Carroll " (Macmillan)—it bears, we see, the date of 1889—but we may anyhow commend it as a very pretty book. It is meant, the author tells us, for the......
Harper's Young People, 1891. (sampson Low, Marston, And...
volume is full of things that will please its readers. Pos- sibly one might say that it is too full, for the close printing and thin paper, needed if so much is to be given for......
A Summer In Kieff.* This Book Is Likely To Be
popular. It is quite the fashion for a lady to set off alone on an adventurous journey, contrary to the advice of all her friends and relations. Each con- tinent has met with......
Book Of Nonsuch. By H. C. Finlay. (d Bryce And
Son, Glas- gow )—Nonsense may be either good or bad. We can hardly include this new invention of Nonsuch in the first kind.......
Current Literature.
GIFT-BOOKS. 'The Century Magazine. May, 1891—October, 1891. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—The half-yearly volume of this well-known magazine scarcely needs any recommendation. The very......
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