24 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 24

The Story - Telling Album for our Boys and Girls (Wells Gardner,

Darton, and Co.), contains some two hundred pictures of men and things. We do not know why the particular epithet " story- telling " has been given to it. If there are any stories, they are of the very briefest. Mostly, the letterpress, never extending to more than a few lines, is a description or explanation of the drawing above. These drawings are distinctly meritorious, being for the most part both correct and spirited. We cannot pretend to classify them. We may mention with special praise a very pretty frontispiece, " Tabby Tom," a pretty little girl with a pretty but somewhat sulky-looking kitten on her shoulder.