Grimm and Andersen's Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Helen Stratton. (Blackie
and Son. Cis.)-This is a handsome, and even stately, volume, of folio size, with full-page coloured illustrations, and others in black-and-white, all of excellent quality. Mist; Stratton's pencil is apt, whether it has to deal with mortal or non-mortal, "sellers vel hominem ponere vel denm," as Horace puts it. It was a happy idea to couple the old and the new- Grimm and Hans Anderden-together. And it was right also that their stories should be "selected and edited for little folk." Taken as they stand, they are sometimes rather strong meat.-.-- Simple Simon and his Friends. With Illustrations by Charles Crumble. (Greening and Co. 3s.)-" Simple Simon's Friends" are also friends of ours, Jack Horner, to wit, and Tom Tucker, and " Georgie Porgie" too, though he was not a well-conducted boy. Mr. Crombie's illustrations are excellent for their purpose.
New Enrrrons.-The Last of the Mohicans. By j. Fenimore Cooper. Illustrated by J. Jellicoe. (Mackie and Son. 2s.)-- We are glad to see a reprint of this story, certainly the finest that Cooper ever wrote, and one that need not fear comparison with more modern rivals.-From the same publishers we have also received King Oiaf's Kinsman, by Charles W. Whittler (2s. 6d.) King Olaf is the "Magnus the Martyr" to whom the twa churches by London Bridge are dedicated; by the same author, A Thane of Wessex, its sub-title being "A Story of the Great Viking Raids into Somerset" (2s. 6d.); John Hatoke's Fortune, by G. A. Henty, "A Story of Monmouth's Rebellion" (9d.) ; Rana Brinker, by Mary Mapes Dodge (1s. 6d.), "A Story of Life iii Holland," and one of the earliest works of the accomplished authoress ; The Organist's Baby, by Kathleen Knox (18. 6d.) ; Linda and the Boys, by Cecilia S. Lowndes (le. 6d.) ; Jock and his Friend, by Cora Langton (18.) ; A Little Adventurer, by Gregeon Gore.-From John F. Shaw and Co., Froggy's Little Brother, by Brenda (16.)
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