12 OCTOBER 1889, Page 40

The Prince of Nursery Playmates. (Sampson Low and Co.) — "

Nursery Tales, Nursery Rhymes, and Nursery Songs" constitute the contents of this volume. "Chevy Chase" is the highest flight attempted ; and there is the story in prose of "Bold Robin Hood." "The Butterfly's Ball" is included, and there are, of course, the old favourites, "Puss in Boots," "The House that Jack Built," &c. The illustrations are sufficiently good, though it is somewhat playful to speak of them as being by the "first artists."

Old Mother Goose's Rhymes and Tales, illustrated by Constance Haslewood (F. Warne and Co.), is good of its kind. The illustra- tions are above the average. Miss Haslewood, for instance, can draw a cat, an object with which really clever artists do not always succeed.