There Are Few, If Any, English Periodicals That Owe Their
success so little to claptrap and so much to honest and careful management as the Leisure Hour (56 Paternoster Bow), the annual volume of which is again before us, and of which......
The Sewn Heroines Of Christendom (w. Swan Sonnenschein),...
Duke Yonge, is a very good example of the historico- biographical gift book, it being quite unnecessary to say that Mr. Yonge tells, in a way that is thoroughly suited to the......
Mr. Caldecoit's Picture Books.—we Do Not Think Mr....
picture-books very successful specimens this time. They are devoted to the two nursery rhymes, " Hey Diddle Diddle " and Baby Bunting,"—which, we believe, have not yet been dis-......
The Second Division Of The Holy Land (cassell And Co.),
from the original drawings by David Roberts, R.I., with historical descriptions by the Rev. Dr. George Croly, dealing with the Jordan and Bethlehem, will be found a very......
We Have Received The Christmas Numbers Of The Quiver, Time,
and London Society, Beeton's Christmas Annual, and Arrowsmith's Christ- etas Annual. They are all beneath the average, and we have placed them in what is conventionally known as......
Elfinland, With Rhymes, By Josephine Pollard, And Designs...
Sattorlee, and Christmas Rhymes and New Year's Chimes, by Mary D. Brine (James Clarke and Co.), are two American illustrated books, which, while produced nominally for children,......
Our Sketching Tour, By Two Of The Artists (griffith And
Ferran), has some pleasant touches in it, but it, is not altogether satisfac- tory. The illustrations depicting the adventures of a band of girls 'who have gone off on a......