12 OCTOBER 1895, Page 36

AU the Prettiest Nursery-Rhymes. (Sunday School Union.)— The title adds,

"And Some New Ones." We must own that we have not cared to look for these. How is a grown—in fact, a grown-old—man to say whether a " nursery-rhyme " is good or bad ? The illustrations, by J. R. Sinclair and others, are not un- worthy of the rhymes.—From the same publishers we have One Hundred New Animal Stories. Here the " New" are welcome. For indeed the animals are becoming daily more clever,—or is it that we take greater pains, both to educate and to observe ? It must be confessed that some of these stories do not seem strictly " new " to us, but we do not doubt that they are true, and they are certainly instructive and entertaining.