The Children's King Arthur (H. Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton,
is. 6d.) is a collection of stories retold from Malory and Tennyson. We could have done without Vivien and Merlin. —Various books about animals, all good in their way, have to be mentioned. In The Bird Book (same publishers, 2s. 6d. net) the coloured picturings by Mr. William Foster are particularly good, while Mrs. May Byron furnishes appropriate descriptions.— Babes and Birds, Verses by Jessie Peps, Drawings by Charles Robinson (Blackie and Son, 2s.), is suited for younger children. The verses are ingeniously instructive ; the babe recognises the bird from the coloured picture and supplies the missing word,—an exercise in natural history and literature.—The Twins, by Cecil Aldin (II. Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 68. net), is a comic account of the troubles of two puppies.--A Wonder-Book of Beasts, Edited by P. J. Harvey Dorton (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., 6s.), aims at showing the beasts through a human medium, not as they are in Nature, but as man has conceived them. This point of view is illustrated by the longest story in the book, " Reynard the Fox." The pictures by Miss Margaret Clayton are very geed. We have here a happy thought well carried out.— Doi/I:kin Dutch (H. Frowde and Hodder and Stoughton, 1s. 6d.), with its quaint pictures, should amuse the children.—Of periodical volumes we have received Cassell's Annual for Boys and Girls (Cassell and Co., 3s. 6d.), an excellent book for young children, and Bo Peep (same publishers, 2s. 6d.), which will suit children yet younger.
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