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Animal Land. By Sybil and Katherine Corbet. (J. M. Dent and Co.)—This is a delightful series of drawings of nonsense- animals. The animals are drawn by Mrs. Corbet from the vivid descriptions of her daughter Sybil, aged four. Without knowing it, Sybil belongs to the school of Edward Lear. The creatures presented to us by her and her mother have all the humour and imagination, and no little of the graphic skill, of that great artist. The picture of "the Boddles," "this animal screams and eats candles and soap "—is an awe-inspiring creation, while the somewhat plaintive " Booba"—" a funny little animal which makes no noise and runs "—wins us at once by its artlessness and innocence of demeanour. Mr. Andrew Lang has prefaced the book with some pleasant talk about infantile telepathy, for that we presume to be the explanation of the little grey woman who told the secrets of the nursery. Altogether, Animal Land is an exceptionally de- lightful picture-book, and, unless we are mistaken, it will be very popular with children. We know already of one nursery which it has taken by storm.
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