Pun and Frolic for Children.—A brilliantly coloured series of pic-
tures (Dean and Son).—Cielden Hours (same publishers) describes itself as a" Magazine for Girls," and seems to answer fairly well to the description, it being understood that the "girls " are of a tender age. There is interesting reading, and there are many pictures, some of them coloured, One noticeable feature is "Our Printing Page," in which a coloured drawing is duplicated without colour, the duplicate having to be coloured by the reader with as near an imitation of the original as he or she can manage. It is a good way of teaching delicacy of touch. This special object is the aim • of a volume from the same publishers, The Little Artist's Drawing and Painting Book. In this there are scores of examples to be copied, plain drawings to be reproduced on blank pages which are opposite to the model, and coloured drawings which have to be imitated.—Messrs. Dean also send us :—The Venetian-Blind Movable Picture-Book. The charm of this seems to be that by pulling what corresponds to a cord you change the picture, —turn, for instance, "Red Riding Hood and Her Granny" .(the wolf, we observe, has been banished altogether) into "The Babes in the Wood," from which we expect another year to see the Robin disappear.—We have also received Cracker Toy-Books (which can hardly be reckoned as litera- ture).—A "Special Christmas Double Part" of the Golden Hours magazine is accompanied by a packet of "relief scraps" which can be Used for ornamentatitm. — We have also to mention Various picture-books, as Well-Known Wild Animals, Dolly's Party, Railway A B C, A B C of Soldiers, and Clowniand, belonging to "Dean's Gold Medal Series."—The Children of the Wood, by Miss Corner and J. V. Barret, is a play, and, unless our memory deceives us, a very old friend indeed.
Previous page
