14 MAY 1881, page 23

Songs Of Animal Life.*

IT was with true pleasure that we welcomed the new edition of Mary Howitt's Poems, published last Christmas by Messrs. Nelson and Sons. In 1871 they gave us our old favourites......

A Privateering Novel.*

Tits author of the much-admired Wreck of the '.(itrosvenor' has written another book. This is a series of sea-fights, ending with a fire at sea, and enliveuend by a ball and a......