Among new editions and reprints, we have Early Lessons, and
The Parent's Assistant, by Maria Edgeworth (G. Routledge and Sons). Who does not like to hear again of Rosamond and the Purple Jar, of Frank, of Harry and Lucy, and the admirable boy who saved a piece of whipcord instead of recklessly cutting it, and so had " a second string to his bow " ? (But would a piece of whipcord do for a bow-string ?) These people, good and bad, are, it is true, a little formal, and their characters have not much shading about them. Still, young readers might have worse food than the old-fashioned fare with which Miss Edgeworth used to delight their grandfathers and grandmothers.—We have also received: Bevis: the Story of a Boy, by Richard Jefferies (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.) ; Stories of Strange Adventures, by Captain Mayne Reid and others (same publishers) ; and A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (G. Routledge and Sons), including " Tanglewood Tales."
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