From Messrs. Griffith, Ferran, and Co. we have received several
picture-books, gaily coloured without, and printed within in large, clear type, and illustrated with drawings that are for the most part of considerable merit. We shall put them in what we con- ceive to be their order of merit, not, however, without diffidence, and deprecation of the possibly just resentment of the four artists whom we do not place at the top of the list The History of the House that Jack Built, illustrated by E. Morant Cox; The Old Woman and her Pig, illustrated by A. Chasemore ; and, bracketed together, Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog, newly illustrated by Walter Gibbons, The Comic Adventures of Dame Trot and her Cat, same illustrator ; The Story of Dick Whittington and his Cat, illus- trated by John Proctor.—From the same publishers we have also, in sundry parts, Marmaduke Multiply's Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians, giving an illustrated and rhymed multiplication-table.
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