19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 49

Round Nature's Dial. By Helen M. Burnside. (Routledge and Sons.)—Miss

Burnside gives us sketches in prose and verse of various scenes connected with the four seasons of the year, and Mr. A. W. Cooper has illustrated them with various coloured drawings. These latter are pretty, and often show considerable spirit. The attitudes of the three girls in the frontispiece," Spring," are particularly good. From the others, we may select for mention the fishing scene on p. 21, and the "deserted neat" on p. 36. Sometimes the colouring might have been better. The hue of the rocks on p. 28, and that of the horse on p. 14 (where the colour is something like that of a white elephant), seems to us doubtful. We do not quite understand the proportions in the picture of the huntsman, hounds, and bridge.