11 APRIL 1903, Page 25

What a Girl Can Make or Do. By Lina Beard

and A. B. Beard. (G. Newnes. 6s. net.)—The authors begin with a serious chapter on carpentering ; they follow this up with some playful suggestions as to the "Possibilities of an Easter Egg." And through the book something of the same sort of order is observed. "Vegetable Animals and Fruit Lanterns," with directions for making a "Potato Turkey," among other things, is followed by a quite useful chapter, not, however, without a comic touch, about "Models for a Home Drawing Class" and "Ink Pictures." In short, this is a delightfully ingenious book, which should be a blessing to children,—and to "grown-ups."