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    Messrs. Macmillaist & Co. I

    Tennyson The last ' s hexameter work of Randol version ph of Caldecott * Jack and was the the drawing Bean Stalk of . illustrations ' The sketches for the are Hon unfin Hal " iwrH l ^ 9

    i ¦ but The they volume show is the interesting care which on the this artist account must alone have . bestowed Collectors upon of work CaldecowS ing up works hjs draw Rh - ^ iM

    quickly become possessors of the volume . Messrs . Macmillan & Co . have done well ttitkaa ^ JH . . preparation \ Ji . KyUcXiXaiVx \ J ± i . ui of the u-iic book ukjkjj ^ , j j i . ts uo appearance appcaiciuuc being uciu ^ - iuuot most effective cucotivc . . • ^

    j says Mrs , the . Molesworth wind has many ' s new ; ¦ ways i story of , blowing Four , Winds . , ( and ... the Farm place , has had a singular ^ not come name by ; its but nam , ! ¦ as the e wit auth } . ™ ifl

    reason . ' ' It was a queer site , perhaps , to , have chosen , for a dwelling ¦ -place . Up among thM

    miles moors and , that miles stretched on all sides fopl I

    was on wa » sticn no iiu wonder wuuaer lofty ground the tne treps trees that t * itl M M

    was fused hard to at ai gro all work w hi . enoug gh , thinro th for h tol itl 1

    when and grow grow to , they keep an had , , done their poor poor so footing . ! ThevB mgs . , H

    did look battered about and ! storm ^ tossed—all except theB

    pines , who are used to thatl kind of life—and did theirl

    dut on y , man d full round y as sentinels the ! old ! brown guar house ¦ . Here little !

    to Gratian — — - — dream _ _ was - ^^^ - _ - ~— ^_ ^ = - born ^_ - ^ . his —^ - ^ , ^^^^^^ and ^^^ youthful ^ h ^ ^^ r lived ^ ! ^ ! ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ * ^^^^^^ H

    dreams , night and day , of ! the whispering wind sprites . I

    an The d story full is of a e prett arnestness y one . , ! I

    Sometimes we are of opinion ! | that Mrs . Moles worth is too

    serious a writer for young I rea a . ^^ ^ s * r d ^* r ^ ers - ^* ^ k Mi * ; a but »» - »¦ v » - ^ her i ^^ - ^ — tender - — — ! - ^^

    ness of expression ¦ and loving are sympath so i ^ v ^ y man towards ~~ ' ~~~ - ifest - ~ - 1 the that ^^^ -n young — the ! I

    sa «^ v ^ dness ^ s r ~ she n * ^ creates ^ p ** w is a I ^^_ ¦ grateful one onft of r ^ f the +, Vift sadness highest hiefhest . attributes attributes This ! is I

    of : a writer of stories . AI lows soothing the , re perusal flective mood of such ! fol-1

    | fanc F ies ' and as ' ' Four Us' Would Winds !

    arm . of that ha we lf the could serious say the stories samel I

    VJJL JIlCtXL U 11 U BWliVl * " ~ - H I fo that KJXIX lk . ! are JJUU But written we » C » VOilli cannot for *" ' * advise ynuiig ~— ! l

    imitation faculty is ; for gift , the and peculiar a very ! I n « n « -i » Yirn / -kTi aha Jk IVI 1 T \\ clltCr I

    Ull Or rine . \ sKJll . llM must -M . \ SM . lV . / ilV hav . e . ^ - ^ . had - no |

    little difficulty in illustrating Mrs . Molesworth ' s story , and yet the fine characteristics of M style are as distinct as of yore in this new volume .

    In the ranks of writers of fairylike stories have to number Miss Jessy

    Oreenwood Oo ( Jo . , Thfi The whose title t . ifln book is ih tha th , Thi . t t ot nf e the + Moon , Vjpi first first Maiden or r > f three + - it * pipi , stories H has +. oripia jus we which -w t ViioVi been appear nT ^ published r now > Psa . r in in the t . h p > b volum vnlnmfi y Messrs e tne the . Macmillan ot others nerH um l > t'ing & &

    called respectively ' Sposin and 'Prince Jasmine . ' Miss Greenwood has , an orig inal an p There leasant is skilful st y le , in construction which the in lessons the stories are , g and iven the with tone delica is admirable te subtlety . We and shall expressiveness look forwar .

    with i ) leasure to other books from this lady ' pen . ** « for When fishing Tom in the Touch par y t told of the Will river Wimble which that had ' Mr been . Such the -a- sceno one ' mi of gh some t ' take ang the ling | law . feats of , In " /

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    —^ H ¦ ; I 44 t 6 The Publishers' < . Circular ^ r ' ec > 6 i 88 H

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1886, page 1446, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121886/page/38/