Among the Squirrels. By Mrs. Denison. With Illustrations by Ernest
Griset. (Routledge.)—The story in this book is somewhat disappointing, or at least it contrasts unfavourably with the pictures. They are remarkably good, perhaps the best we have yet seen of M. Griset's. The frog with a toothache, the old squirrel who is a witch and looks exactly like one in her disguise, the spider which puts up its back. and presents the very image of an old woman's cat, and the modest young lady squirrel who is betrothed, are all drawn with a mixture of force and delicacy which M. Griset has not shown before. Still, as the squirrels have appeared in very becoming costumes in all the earlier pictures, our insular proprieties are a little shocked by their subsequent nudity. Miss Tiny is such a favourite of ours before her marriage that we regret to see her developing suddenly into a matron, the mother of two little children, and utterly regardless of her personal appearance. However, her attractions are not much diminished, and she looks as nice, with her bushy tail and her two little ones by her side, as she did in the demure hat and short dress of her girlhood.
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