... ILLUSTRATED LITERATURE. r11e Abyssinian Expeditioe. With engravings from ' The Illustrated London News. Illus- trated London News Office. rhe Women -of the Old Testament. With Twelve Photographs. Seeley, ...

... ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. We have had occasion, in previous years, to pro- test against certain strange heresies in designing and wood engraving which have recently crept~up and we must renew that protest in connexion with the illustrations to ?? Posies: Or ...

... literature' of , the usual Christmas order. The' elds sand the Woodlaznds` (Longdo Ward, ILock,'and' Tyler) is a volumeof select poetry, illustrated by chromolithographs, not very good of their kind. In The Ivy, ' by Shirle Hibberd {London: Oroonbtidge and Sons) ...

... I ILLUSTRATED BOOKS. It seems rather too early to be thinking of Christmas, yet the accumulation of illustrated books on our table reminds us that the season of gifts and festivities is approaching. Some of our publishers are so very early in the production ...

... Mr. and Mrs. German Reed have accustomed the London public, and the country public, when it comes to London, with a species of amusement which is unique of its kind. Althouagh Inquire Within is not a new entertainment, there is sufficient change in ...

... we observe, bs great projects in store f or the new year, and wil1 commence with the January part a new serial story by Mrs. B Oliphaut, to lm called A Poor Qentle- s moan. The Fireside Annual, 1886, edited )f by the Reverend Charles Bullock, also ...

... THE NATIONAL GALLERY ILLUSTRATED. p Wc ?? rot long ago the first two volaimes of the important work which Messrs. CGiasell 1and Co. had projected upon the National Gallery. 'I'lle schemlle was to illustrate, in a manner worthy of the art to be cometmoriited ...

... eminently readable. A new 'editiont of Mr. William G. Kingston's Three Miidshipmen (London: Griffith and Farran), merits the welcome accorded to. his capital ,books for boys; while' the Playfellow, by Har- riet Martineau (London and New York: George Rloutledge ...

... CHRISTMAS BOOKS In the literature of the nursery, Mr. Caldecott jiice more takes prominent place by virtue of humour, the invention, and the refinement his illustrations in colours of Nursery Ballads Routledge). Quite new light is thrown on •ho legend ...

... on the new edition (Boston: Houghton and Co.; London: Sampson Low) of the poetical works of Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, a refined and graceful American poet, who is less known than lie deserves to be on this side of the Atlantic. The illustrations furnished ...

... womanhood and the brink of matrimony. The volume is illustrated and elegantly got up, with gilt edges to the pages. The New House that Jack Built, by Mrs. Willoughby Luxton (Routledge), is not a new version of a nursery rhyme, but a novelette of border ...

... Wzecan boast at least of being very unlike I his ordinary type of 'Christmas story-book. I ki this volume, which has a somsew'at foreign 1 r, both in its literary matter and illustrations, -keek, a Japanese, a Bawsian, a Montenegrin rL and so forth, relate ...