We have received a new edition of The Household of
Sir Thomas More (J. C. Nimmo), a delightful book, which is also a careful study of manners and character. Mr. W. H. Hutton furnishes an introduction, in which he gives a sympathetic criticism of the book, and a brief memoir of the author (Miss Manning), and some notes on More himself. Twenty-five illustrations by John Jellicoe and Herbert Railton show off the book to the best advan- tage. The frontispiece is a reproduction of Holbein's portrait. —Ben Hur, by Lew Wallace (Sunday School Union), a cheap edition of an old favourite.—Another old friend—or rather company of old friends—is to be found in the volume entitled Verses for Children and Songs for Music, by Juliana Horatio, Ewing (S.P.C.K.)—The original illustrations from Aunt Judy's Magazine, for which the verses were actually written, has been very rightly given.—We have also renewed a pleasant acquaint- ance in Randolph Caldecott's Painting Book (same publishers).
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