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And Their Kindred. Miss Banks' Longest Tale, For...

by telling us how "Miss Mag Pyo had an ungovernable passion for all kinds of bright things," and "how she was sentenced to imprisonment for life" for indulging this passion......

Choice Poems From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated...

his Son, Ernest W. Longfellow. (Cassell and Co.) —Here we have twenty poems, illustrated by more than twice as many engravings. The poems are, for the most part, familiar.......

Blue-red ; Or, The Discontented Lobster, By Juliana...

painted in colours by R. Andre (S.P.C.K.), is an amusing story in verse, with equally amusing illustrations. The lobster who was not satisfied with being blue, and would be red,......

Ingle-nook Stories. By Mrs. Stanley Loathes. (shaw And...

are fairy-stories and other stories here, the best, we think, being the tale how an Irish boy, Master Roby by name, comes to the house of his maiden aunt to spend his Christmas......

The Swiss Family Robinson, In Words Of One Syllable, And

Robinson Crusoe, on the same principle, by Mary Godolphin (Routledge and Sons), are two volumes which we have, we think, noticed before. We think that to keep, without......

Dainty Drawings For Little Painters. Outline Pictures, By...

with descriptive Stories, by C. Shaw. (Shaw and Co.)—These outlines are to be coloured, a process for guidance in which the artist gives some simple directions. It is a little......

All Play. By Mary Thorn. Pictures By T. Pym. (shaw

and Co.)—Here is another book of the didactic kind. That "all play, no work, makes Jack an idle boy," is the obvious moral which it is in- tended to enlotce. "Master Guy" comes......

Current Literature.

GIFT BOOKS. Cities of the World : Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect. By Edwin Hodder. (Cassell and Co.)—We have here the account of seven cities of Europe, four of the......

Michael Angelo ; A Dramatic Poem. By Henry Wadsworth Long-

fellow. (Roatledge and Son.)—" Michael Angelo" was written by Mr. Longfellow about ten years before his death, and published in the Century magazine. We have spoken of it......

The Graver Magazines.

THE grave Magazines are doing their first work, the exhaustive discussion of the topic of the day, very well this month. They publish seven, or, we may say, eight papers on the......

At The Mother's Knee, By M. J. Tillsby (dean And

Sons), contains a number of gaily-coloured pictures for the little ones, describing life out of doors and at home.......

London Town, By Thomas Crane And Ellen Houghton (marcus Ward

and Co.), contains a number of brightly coloured illustrations, showing forth the various sights of London, accompanied by verses which are scarcely good enough. Little folks......