21 DECEMBER 1861, page 23

Books For Young People.*

Ix the matter of books, most of us are ready to exclaim with the poet, "Oh, once again who would not be a boy !" To be free from that faculty, most undivine, of carping......

Norman Si1cla.i11.

IT is not very easy to discover why Mr. Aytoun's tales are so read- able. They show very little imagination, almost as little as his poetry, while they are wanting in that......