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Maud Miller. With Illustrations By George Carline. (eyre...

illustrations of Mr. Whittier'a well-known poem are like the poem itself,—pretty enough at first sight, but not such as to bear looking into. For some reason or other the artist......

Mousey (george Routledge And Sons)--stories About...

very unequal work. There is a first-rule woodcut of "Dan and Dobbin," a Newfoundland holding a horse's bridle. On the other hand, them is one of an ant-bill which is deplorably......

Freddie's Letter. With Illustrations. (george Rontledge...

performance. Some of the stories and illustrations are very-good, some extremely bad. There are two very .pretty ones, "Wild Flowers," and a little sailor-boy giving a girl a......

The Sermon On The Mount. Illustrated. With An...

the Lord Bishop of Ripon. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The illustra- tione consist of twenty-seven engravings-after original drawings, the artists being H. Fenn, H. Sandham, F. S.......

The Panjandrum Picture. Book. By Randolph Caldecott....

Sons.)—We are inclined to think that either Mr. Randolph Caldecott or the stock of nursery rhymes is played out. With the exception of one picture showing the King following......

Great Painters Of Christendom, From Cimabue To Wilkie. By...

Forbes Robertson. (Cassell and Co.)—Here we have sketohes of the life and work of more than a hundred artiste, divided into the Italian, the Flemish, Dutch and German, the......

Marigold Garden. By Kate Greenaway. (routledge And...

like Mr. Caldeeott, suffers from her own &UMW/3 or excess. But happily for her she does not depend on fun, but on pretty drawings ; and her drawings and her poems are as pretty......

Through The Meadows, By Fred. E. Weatherby, Illustrated...

J. Edwards (Hildesheimer and Faulkner), is a volume of verses and pictures for children.......

Mother's Songs, Games, And Stories (william Rice), Is A-...

from Rrlibel's " Matter-kind Koeelieder," by Frances and Emily Lord, and , contains "the whole of the original illustrations, and the music, rearranged for children's voices,......

The Silver Trumpet. By L. T. Meade. (hodder And Stoughton.)

—This is a picture, drawn with the touches, minute as well as vigorous, which the author knows how to give, of life among the poor. A certain tin box which a sailor has left in......

No, Xiii : The Story Of The Lost Vestal. By

Emma Marshall. (Cassell and Co )—In the Atrium Vesta, not longago discovered in the Forum, there are certain statues of the Vestales Maxima, and among them one from which the......

We Have Two Of "mr. Randolph Caldecott's Picture Beeke"...

ledge and Sons),—Oliver Goldsmith's " Elegy on the Glory ef Mistress Mary Blaize" and The Great Panjandrum Himself. It isueedless to praise them. We are interested in learning......

Gytha's Message : A Tale Of Saxon England. By Emma

Leslie. (Mackie and Son.)—This is a well-drawn picture of some part of English life before the days of the Conquest and after it. The story opens with the arrival of a party of......

Pug The Pomeranian. By Mrs. Sale-barker. (routledge And...

tales, told by dogs and cats in propriis personis, and the woodcuts which illustrate them, are very good. The coloured illustrations are not an good, the colours being poor and......