Told by the Fireside. Stories by Mrs. Molesworth and others.
(Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—The " others " include a most dis- tinguished company of writers for the young. Mrs Emma Marshall, Mrs. L. T. Meade, G. Manville Fenn, and Edward Garrett are among them. Such a volume is, of course, a very difficult one to criticise, so many different styles are there, while it would certainly be invidious, when the things to be compared are so many, so various, and of necessity so slight, to give an award of superiority to this or that. Let it suffice to say that the little reader will not be disappointed, wherever he or she may look. The pictures are delightful, especially those that are not coloured, for the colours are sometimes a little too pronounced for our taste.
A very handsome volume, which would make an excellent
present for any one who has a turn for collecting, is The Book of Sundials. Collected by Mrs. Alfred Getty. A third edition. Edited by H. K. F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd. (Bell and Sons.)—The col- lection contains 738 mottoes, and in the addenda there are 129 more. Nevertheless, there is much yet to be done, it can hardly be doubted, in the way of collecting. Besides the mottoes and the places where they are (or, in some cases, have been), there is a, chapter on " Remarkable Sundials," in which the shape and con- struction are notable, apart from any significance of the motto ; and an appendix, from the pen of Mr. W. Richardson, on "The Construction of Dials."
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