26 NOVEMBER 1864, Page 24

Fun and Earnest; or, Rhymes with Reason. By Darcy W.

Thompson. (Griffith and Farran.)—Nursery rhymes Written, like the "Cookery Book" which Dr. Johnson projected, on philosophical principles, and illustrated with real humour by Mr. C. H. Bennett. Children who get hold of this book will be sure not to imitate Master Hard-to-Please, of whom we learn that "One day his mother made him a delicious apple pie; Good enough for a lord or a prince, But he turned up his nose so very, very high, That it's never, never gone down since."

Mr. Bennett's picture of Master Hard-to-Please's nose after this calamity will be a warning to ill-disposed youth.