21 APRIL 1888, Page 23

Some Hobby-Horses. By C. A. Montresor. (W. H. Allen and

Co.) —Miss Montresor gives in this volume some instructions to young collectors,—collectors, that is, of such things as seals, crests, coins, and postage-stamps. All give abundant scope for application, and all are instructive. There can hardly be an Alexander who will have to sigh for other worlds to conquer in the matter of either coins or stamps. The Colonial stamps of England alone number as many as eighteen hundred, and then there are vast regions of the world to be explored when these are completed.