Aunt Tudy's Magazine for December. (David Bogue.) Amongst Aunt Judy's
usual good things, the first and most important is the annual fairy-story play, in verse, for young people to act in the Christmas holidays. It is the Brother Grimms' " Snow-white," versified, and very livelily done, with full stage directions and plenty of simple songs. The wood scenes and the seven kindly little dwarfs
are very attractive. It ends somewhat abruptly, and it is carrying moral teaching amusingly far, to deprive us of the poetical justice which we are looking to see executed, on the wicked queen and her serving-maid. There is also a pretty carol, with chorus, of course especially written for Christmas ; and a timely paper on gardening opera- tions for December. Why do not parents check the sentimentality of their little daughters, which peeps out in the affected names they append to their contributions to Aunt Judy's Cot,—" Four Little Ripples," " Kitten," " Tortoise," " Barbary Ape," " Queen Mab," " Puck," "Peas-blossom," " Toots," " Una," Sc. ?
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