19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 49

The Brownies their Book. By Palmer Cox. (T. Fisher Unwin.)

—Here we are told in verse which we cannot but think might have been conveniently exchanged for prose, how the Brownies imitate the occupations of human life. They ride on bicycles, they play at lawn- tennis, they play at base-ball. Here we must interject the questions —Are there any Brownies in America ? If so, how and when did they get there ? Did they sail in the ' Mayflower '? The raison (Vitra of the volume is in its illustrations, which are excellent in their way, though one may get a little tired of these quaint figures before reaching the end of the 140 pages, each of them with an average of, say, twenty figures.