We have also received the following publications intended for the
young :—Fairy Lang by the late Thomas and Jane Hood, their Son and Daughter, &c., with illustrations by T. Hood, junior (Griffith and Ferran), second edition, which is sufficiently recommended by the names attached to it; the Fairy Tales of Scienv, by J. C. Brough, with illustrations by S. H. Bennett (Griffith and Ferran), second edition, a pleasant volume enough of its kind; the island of the Rainbow, by Mrs. Newton Crosland (Rontledge), a little fairy tale that we have not found very interesting ; Aunt Enema, by the author of Rose and Kite (Routledge); and Try and Trust, by " L—S—N" (Routledge), two am dl books of which we may say, slightly altering the words of "L—S—N.," "that the portraiture is dull, though it is made in all sincerity and kindness ;" a New Edition revised, re-edited, and gathered into a single volume, of tales originally selected by Miss Mitford, with coloured illustrations (Warne), which we hardly think "will afford as much pleasure to the young readers of the present as they formerly did to the children of the past," tastes having consider- ably changed ; Ellen Montgomery's Bookshelf, by the authors of the Wide, Wide Worlg Queechy, &c., with coloured illustrations (Rontledge), which will be appreciated by the admirers of Miss Wetherell; Old Merry's Annual for 1865 (Jackson, Walked, and Hodder), a volume containing a great deal of grave reading, helped off by stories from the pen of Mrs. Webb, Miss Hewitt, and others ; the Children's Friend for 1865 (Seeley; Partridge), a is. 6d. book of a serious tone, very cheap, with excellent wood engravings, which will please little children, who are not com- pelled to read the letter-press ; and Sundays at Eneombe, by Rev. H. C. Adams, illustrated (Warne), a volume intended for Sunday reading, con- taining Bible stories told in rather an interesting way, and supplemented by conversations which are snpposed to furnish an antidote, but are much more likely to give a stimulus, to doubts respecting the Bible narrative.
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