accomplish. Girlie listens to the pitiful tale of Mandarin, and
is warned against The Green Mountain. Boys. By Eliza F. Pollard. (S. W, nodding. The first verse indicates the pith of the story:-
And your head on a pivot is fixed,
Your affairs will wget hopelessly mixed."
A little further on Girlie meets with a crocodile who amuses her the Colonists, and the Red Indians in their two factions with by taking things literally ; for instance, they have tea, and the French and English sympathies, to be considered. But the result crocodile is thrown into a state of pity at the weakness of is a little burdensome to the reader, who does not reach the the tea, wonders if milk would do it any good, and finally struggle for independence till he has traversed more than a third wheels it tenderly about in a perambulator. Then we are of the volume. Then he will scarcely fail to be interested, though taken to a meeting held to decide questions, at which, after Under the Black Bogle. By Andrew Hilliard. (Blackie and presents a petition that the rest of his hair may be cut, his A Book of Christmas Verse. Selected by H. C. Beeching, with the Wallypug and the Ancient Mariner, Girlie and the Bathing-
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