Friendly Glreetings. (R.T.S. 2s. Gd.)—This annual volume of a periodical
which we have before noticed in the Spectator is described as "Illustrated Readings for the People,"—i.e., these papers are not meant primarily for children, but are suitable for snore mature readers.
We have received new editions of the following gift-books, all of them published by Messrs. Blackie and Son :—The Lion,of St. Mark: a Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century, by G. A. lIenty (3s. 6d.) ; and by the same author, Through the Fray : a Story of the Luddite Riots (3s. 6d.); In Press Gang Days, by Edgar Pickering (2s. 6d.) ; The Golden Galleon, by Robert Leighton (3s.), a tale of adventure by sea in Elizabethan days; The Boys of IVynport College, by Frederick Harrison (35.) ; Thorndyke Manor : a Tote of Jacobite Times, by Mary C. Rowed' (2s.); Jack o' Lant horn, by Henry Frith (2s. 6d.); Gold, Gold in Cariboo, by C. Phillipps- Wolley (2s. 6d.); My Friend Kathleen, by Jennie Chappell (2s.) ; and The Girls of Banshee Castle, by Rosa Mulholland (3s. 6d.) Of volumes specially intended for the little ones we have to mention first Mr. Punch's Book for Children, Written and Illus- trated by Chas. Pears (Punch Office, 6s.), a capital collection of pictures of all sorts, ogres, fairies, humans, beasts,—the beasts are specially good ; Games and Gambols, Illustrated by Harry B. Neilson, with Verses by John Brymer (Blackie and Son, 23. 6d.); The Ten Travellers, and other Tales in Prose and Verse, Written by S. II. Haines, Illustrated. by Harry B. Neilson (Cassell and Co., Is. 6d.); Six-and-Twenty Boys and Girls, Pictured by John Hassell (Blackie and Son, 3s. 6d.) ; Leading Strings (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co., is. 6d.)—Mother's Story Book of Birds, (Same publishers. is.)—The stories, it should be under- stood, being connected with birds, we should have liked a little more liberty taken with them. Why should not the stork, for instance, have brought about the deliverance of Rolf, carrying a message under his wing, for storks return again and again to the same place F—Sunbeams (Blackie and Son, is. 6d.), with some good pictures.—My New Story-Book (same publishers, 2s. 6d.)—The Children's Treasury (Nelson and Sons, is.)
Of periodical publications for children we have Sunday Reading for the Young. Illustrated by Gordon Browne, Charles Sheldon, and others (Wells Gardner, Dayton, and Co., 3s.), an excellent volume, and worth the moderate price which is asked for it; and The Dawn of Day (S.P.C.K., Is.)
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