Queer Pets and their Doings. By Olive Thorne Miller. Illustrated
by J. C. Beard. (Griffith and Ferran.)—This is a book which comes to us from the other side of the Atlantic ; and the pets, which are supposed to belong to two children, Maria and Ralph, living in a village near New York, are each as would come in the way of American children, some, of course, being common to both countries. The first creature that is introduced to us is a parrot, whose funny ways are very pleasantly described ; the next is a Florida chameleon. A chameleon, too, is a queer, amusing creature ; but Mr. Wood has told us about him. Then comes the story of two foxes adopted by a eat, then the life-history of a dog, then the description of a squirrel. As we go on we hear of a great variety of animals, some of them hardly "pets," however "queer." The result is a most readable book, capitally illustrated.—Along with this may be mentioned Animal Stories, Old and New, told in pictures and prose by Harrison Weir (Sampson Low and Co.) The anecdotes are amusing, and the pictures are drawn with the artist's well-known skill, and set cif by -colours.
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