16 DECEMBER 1899, Page 22

Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Sons send us among other works

in their "Father Tuck's Golden Gift' Series" Golden Stories and There was Once (both edited by Edric Vredenburg), by various -well-known writers—Helen Burnside, Norah Hopper, &c.—pro- fusely illustrated with full-page coloured designs and many black- and-white drawings in the text. The contents are in verse as well as prose, and bear out the editor's assurance of " Father Tuck's " constant desire to provide little girls and boys with nice things to read and look at. Miss Hopper's charming poem, " Rose Among the Roses," is really worth a place in a more ambitious collection. We have also received from this firm some very pretty Christmas 'calendars.