Golden Hours. By Mrs. Sale Barker. (Routledge and Sons.)— Here
we have a number of gaily-coloured pictures, the subjects being children in the country, at the sea-side, at home, enjoying in short, in various ways, with games, books, pets, the "golden hours" of which the title speaks. There are some pretty little landscapes which we are inclined to like better than some of their brighter com- panions. Nor must we forget to mention the appropriate verses with which some of the pictures are accompanied.—From the same publishers we also get The Stories Maggie Told.—" Stories" which
are mostly about animals and the sports of boys and girls.—Tons
Tit's Wedding Day, and other Poems. By the author of "Aunt Effie's Rhymes."—Bob, the Spotted Terrier. With illustrations by Harrison Weir.—" Bob" tells his own story, and, of course, amuses as by looking at the matter from the point of view of the inferior animals.—The Feathers and Fur Picture Book is, unless we are mistaken (and it is very difficult always to remember what one has seen), an old friend. At all events, the subjects, birds and beasts of
'various kinds, are familiar. There are some thirty coloured full-page illustrations, and as many or more engravings of smaller size.— Large Pictures and Little Stories is a very similar volume, which we may venture, but with equal diffidence, to describe as new. But -whether the old or the new is the better, it is difficult to say. Some -of the pictures in the latter book please us, perhaps, most.
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