Pleasant Work for Busy Fingers ; or, the Kindergarten at
Home. By Maggie Browne. (Cassell and Co.)—A certain Aunt Polly under- takes to instruct her nephews and nieces in the manufacture of paper toys, plaiting, artificial flowers, and other contrivances for making designs and ornaments out of paper with the aid of pins, needle and cotton ; also bead-work and clay-modelling. This is a capital book, and one that is certainly required. It possesses the great advantage of being clearly and copiously illustrated. We do not profess to be experts in paper toys, but have known from our childhood a more complete paper box than the one figured in the text. By making another pair of minor fastenings out of the pieces marked "a," the box can be opened and still retain its utility, and such small objects as beads, seeds, &c.
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