5 NOVEMBER 1898, Page 28

Tales and Rhymes for Happy Times. By Dorothy Arnold, (R.T.S.)—A

book of good illustrations and moderate rhymes, easy enough in their flow but wanting point. Critics have been saying for two thousand years or so that verses must be good or nothing. But the pictures are above the average.

The Surprising Travels and Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.) appears in a new edition, with a preface briefly describing the origin of the book.