The Animals' Friend. Edited By G. S. Trist. (office, 20
Victoria Street.)—" This volume," writes the editor in his pre- face, "contains the first sixteen monthly issues of The Animals' Friend, and therefore represents the birth and......
Au The Prettiest Nursery-rhymes. (sunday School Union.)—...
"And Some New Ones." We must own that we have not cared to look for these. How is a grown—in fact, a grown-old—man to say whether a " nursery-rhyme " is good or bad ? The......
We Have Received A New Edition Of The Household Of
Sir Thomas More (J. C. Nimmo), a delightful book, which is also a careful study of manners and character. Mr. W. H. Hutton furnishes an introduction, in which he gives a......
A Nobody's Nonsense. (wells Gardner, Darton, And...
book of comic pictures and verses, fairly good, but hardly coming up to the high ideal which we cherish of " nonsense " proper ; for this nonsense is at least as good as sense.......
In The Series Of "illustrated Standard Novels" (macmillan...
we have Captain Marryat's Peter Simple. It is illus- trated by Mr. J. Ayton Symington, and Mr. David Hannay con- tributes an introduction in which, while observing that there is......
Matthew Furth. By Ida Lemon. (longmans.)—this Is A Very...
if not also a very cheerful story of love and misery in what is little better than a London slum. Matthew Furth, the hero, is a dock-labourer, who, at the time the story opens,......
Chums. (cassell And Co.)—this "illustrated Journal For...
out of its treasury " things new and old." It is an excellent idea, for instance, to give such a classic as " Treasure Island." Generations of boys and girls are growing up who......
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