12 DECEMBER 1863, Page 22

Tales of Many Lands. By M. Frazer Tyner. (Virtue, Brothers,

and Co.) —Some of the prettiest stories for little children that we have read, keeping always strictly within the bounds of the possible, and yet idealizing the childish character. The author's boy heroes bear precisely the same relation to the boys of actual life that Sir Walter Scott's heroes and heroines bear to every-day men and women. Is the power of writing a story, completely natural in its incidents, but in which one or two leading persons act and think more nobly than ordinary people, confined to Scotland?