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A Day At The Zoo. (s.p.c.k. 2s.)—this Is Not An

ordinary "day at the Zoo." We see actual cages, things which stand up, and have creatures inside them. It is true that these creatures— the rhinoceros, the vulture, and the......

Tramps Round The Mountains Of The Moon.

Tramps Bound the Mountains of the Moon. By T. Broadwood Johnson, M.A. (T. Fisher Unwin. 1613.)—Mr. Johnson is a Cam- bridge graduate who has been for some years past attached to......

The Fairchild Family, By Mrs. Sherwood, Related By Jeanie...

(T. C. and E. C. Jack, 2s. net), is one of the "Grandmother's Favourites" Series, not a little altered from The Fairchild Family that the writer remembers in far-off years, but......

All Things Considered.

All Things Considered. By G. K. Chesterton. (Methuen and Co. 5s.)—Mr. Chesterton " cannot understand the people who take literature seriously." There should be something......

The Pinafore Picture Book. By Sir W. S. Gilbert. (george

Bell and Sons. 5s. net.)—As " the opera on which this book is founded is, unhappily, not played in every town every night of the year "; as some children are not taken to see it......

Current Literature.

THE STORY OF THE WHITE HOUSE. The Story of the White House. By Esther Singleton. 2 vols. (Hodder and Stoughton. 21s. net.)—The " White House," we need hardly explain, is the......

'new Editions.—prom Powder Monkey To Admiral. By W. H. G.

Kingston. (H. Frowde, with Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.) —The Bending . of a. Twig. By Desmond Coke. (Same publishers. 5s.)—Alice in Wonderland. (Cassell and Co. 5s.) —A......

In Dwellers In The Pond, By The Rev. Theodore Wood

(T. C. and E. C. Jack, is. net), both t3xt and pictures are all that could be desired. We begin with "sticklebacks "—every boy begins with them ; sturdy little creatures that......