Nister's Holiday Annual. (E. Nister.)—This is a book of short
stories suited to children's taste and excellently illustrated The names of authors are many, G. Manville Fenn, Maggie Brown, and E. Nesbit being among the best known. Altogether this is a capital book of the kind.—Gladys in Grammar Land, by Audrey Mayhew Allen (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.), is of the "Alice in Wonderland" schooL There never was a more difficult master to follow than "Lewis Carroll."—An A B C for Baby Patriots, by Mrs. Ernest Ames (Dean and Sons), is somewhat jingoist in tone. We are not nationally disposed to think too little of ourselves, even when we belittle ourselves most. " Its the very best Army that ever was seen " ; our name "has for ever been covered with glory and fame" ; as to Colonies, "of all the great nations Great Britain has most," are the endings of the ABC. Is there not too much of this F—The Littlest Ones, by Maud Humphrey and Elizabeth S. Tucker (Gardner, Darton, and Co.), gives us a number of pictures of babies and young children, prettily drawn and coloured, and furnished with appro- priate illustrations.—The Great Panjandrum, and other Fanciful Tales, by S. J. Adair-Fitzgerald, illustrated by Gustave Darre (Greening and Co.). is fairly well provided with fun and fancy. The Land of Long Ago. By L. L. Weedon. Illustrations by S. Stuart Hardy. (Ernest Nister.)—Here are things new and 31d, a highly ingenious Court scene, with figures that stand up, and the familiar nursery rhymes of " Bopeep," 8c.—Lays for the Little Ones (Ricordi and Co.) gives us a number of songs for children. These are written by Mr. F. S. Weatherley. Mr. Herbert T. Bunning contributes the music, and Miss Antilop Hardy the drawings.—Whys and Other Whys, by S. H. Hamer and Harry B. Neilson (Cassell and Co.), is a book of comic, really comic, animals.—Last, not least, comes the old favourite,. Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by L. L. Weedon, with illustra- tions by Ada Dennis and S. Stuart Hardy and others (E. Nister).
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