We Give A Hearty Welcome To Miss Kate Greenaway's Very
pretty illustrations of Little Anne, and other Poems. By Jane and Aone Taylor. (Rontledge and Sons.)—" Little Anne" and its companions have held their place in many nurseries,......
The Truant Hares And Their Friends, By Arthur S. Gibson
(Griffith and Ferran), is another moderately successful book, the illustrations being, perhaps, better than the letterpress.......
0n/when's Chap-book . Chaplets (field And Tuer) Is A...
of the ballads, with their rude coloured engravings, which delighted an older generation. Of these ballads there are eight, " The Barkeshire Lady," Jemmy and Nancy, of......
Prince Pertinaz : A Fairy Tale. By Mrs. George Hooper.
Illus- trated by Margaret L. Hooper and Margery May. (Field and Tuer.) —Mrs. Hooper's tale, first published, though not quite in its present form, twenty years ago, in the......
The Maids Of Lee, Written By F. E. Weatherly, Illustrated
by W.I. Hodgson (Hildesheimer and Faulkner), is decidedly good. The various suitors are depicted with pleasant humour in some good drawings, to which the verso supplies a......
Polar Expeditions.* When The History Of The Nineteenth...
to be written by an impartial Lecky of the twenty-fifth century, it is a matter of curious speculation to think what he will say about Polar Expeditions. For they stand apart......
The Nodding Mandarin : A Tragedy In China, Edited By
Lewis F. Day (Simpkin and Marshall), is a tale in verse, somewhat after the manner of Hans Christian Anderson, of two china figures, a chimney-sweep and a shepherdess, that......
Three Blind Mice, With Music And Words From An Early
edition, illustrated by C. A. Doyle (George Waterston), sufficiently describes itself.......
Gray's Elegy, Artist's Edition. (j. B. Lippincott And...
delphia, U.S.; John Stark, London.)—This volume is adorned with some twenty illustrations of landscape and figures, not unworthy in design of the poem of which they are the......
From The Same Publishers We Also Get " Phiz's" Funny
Alphabet, " Phies " Funny Stories, and " Phiz's" Baby Sweethearts, the last not being much to our taste.......
When Is Your Birthday ? A Year Of Good Wishes.
A Set of Twelve Designs, by Edwin J. Ellis, with Sonnets by the Artist. (Field and Tuer.)—Mr. Ellis has given us twelve female heads, illustrating the months of the year,......
From Messrs. Routledge We Get R. Caldecott's...
tho four rhymes, " Where are you going, my Pretty Maid ?" "Hey, Diddle, Diddle," "The Fox Jumped over the Parson's Gate," and " Froggio's Wooing," illustrated in the style which......
Told In The Twilight. By F. E. Weatherly. Illustrated By
M. E. Edwards and J. C. Staples. (IIildesheimer and Faulkner.)—Both verses and illustrations are pleasing. " 31innie Counting her Chickens," on p. 27, and " The Unappreciative......
Poetry.—a Volume Of Poems:, By G. W. Bettany (londob...
Society), is perhaps beat criticised by an extract. Hero are two stanzas from the " Battle of Tel-ol-Kebir :"— " On they go to death or glory, Trampling on rebellions sand......
The Butterfly's Ball And The Grasshopper's Feast, By Mr....
; and The Elephant's Ball and Grand Fete Champotre, by "W. D." (Griffith and Farran), are fac-simile reproductions of the editions of 1808 and 1807, published by "J. Harris,......
Current Literature.
CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Illustrated by David Scott, R.S.A. With Life of the Artist, and Descriptive Notices of the Plates, by Rev. A. L. Simpson, D.D.......
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