Messrs. Rontledge sends us a variety of picture-books, to which
we cannot devote the space which some of them, at least, deserve. There is Walter Crane's Picture-Book, with its "sixty-four pages of drawings," done in a very artistic style. Some of the contents, " King Luckieboy's Party" and "The Old Courtier," for instance, we think that we remember from last year; others, "How Dania was Lost,"" Chattering Jack," &c., are new. The Benny Penny Book, a book chiefly about birds, to which is added a descriptive poem called "Baby" (might we suggest that a French bedstead with great down pillows is not the proper place for a child of 12 months to sleep in ?) and "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood." Our Pets, a sufficiently descriptive title, with the Noah's Ark A B C, Old Mother Bubbard's Picture-Book, and Our Pets.—From Mr. Isfimmo we get The Royal Illuminated Book of Nursery Rhymes, two very elegant volumes, both within and without. Without are the neat bindings, within are the pictures (the work of a well-known artist in this line, Mr. Marcus Ward) the familiar rhymes, and the music to which they may be sung. Each of the rhymes may be obtained in a separate form. The mime should have been said of the various parts of Messrs. Routledge's volumes.
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