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    R R*- &9i% George Cauldtorif*

    — . and skill , his wife and child were killed , and he himself died . The monument put over his grave bore the inscription' Deerfootthe friend of the white man . ' The character sketch of

    Deerfoot T ~ v *• i is * very beautiful "I j " /• 1 , and touching i 1 , , as is also 1 that iI j of the i t missionary • ' Griffiths s- > t n- » i i . This w-F * t is 4 an extremely readable and interesting book , and is sure to become a favourite with boys . i

    Printed in bold type , with large pictures on every other page of considerable artistic ! meritTittle Tattle Tales ^ ,

    and "Wandering- Ways are exactly the sort of books which children between the of

    five and ten are certain ages to preciate . There is a genial ap- ; healthv healtny tone tone a about bout them them both bnt . Ti

    and nothing in the least , ' degree — " » - - ^^ ^ m ^* ^~ ^~ ^^ ^ mawkish ™ *^<»^ « ^ w v ^ k ^ k «^*^^ ^^ v ^ or ^ bp ^ *^ m p senti ^ y *^^ ^ ^ ^ j a - ™ ! ental ¦ -i !

    m . Scrambles Mr . Hug and h Scrapes Raker , , has in , produced a most livelLook

    for 3 oung children . y Each ! brief story is illustrated with

    a full-page picture , either of an excitingamusingor a I

    , , pathetic nature * It is just the kind of book that children ,

    will want to put under their pillows and dream about . I

    So Peep—annual volume I for 1889—is called ' a Treasury I

    for the Little Ones / and a I ¦ veritable veri ¦ table treasury t . rfta . anrv it if ; is is . rull full

    from beginning to end of , in- I teresting and amusing tales . I

    One piece of poetry , called I ' Kittens at Play / is delight- I fuland the icture of the

    , pI little soft fluffy balls peeping I throug ~— ~ < " ^ - —^ v J *^ h ^^^^ the ^* ^ ^ b ^ mr banisters W ^ ^ r ^ r mm — ^ b ^ h ^ «^ ^^ « ib PN ^ requires Wto ^ a ^^ ^^ — — I ^^^|

    to be seen to be appreciated . I Any 1 itter child -pattering would ' after long them to be . I I

    p Both from a literary and an I artistic point of view this is a I

    most attractive book . Every I year ¦ this magazine seems to I

    improve irrrnrnvft . , and . tiH there f . liArft is is a wonder wonder- - I ful freshness as well as beauty I about the contents of the I

    present volume . I

    Tlie Rivers - of Great I

    Britain — descriptive , Bis- the torical Forth , Pictorial , the Tweed . This , the magnificentl Tyne , the Wear y illustrated , the Tees quarto , the volume Humber describes , and other the less Dee important , the Tay , I I

    rivers ot tne Ji . ast Uoast . The dinerent chapters have , in every case , been written by those who are — in — ^ a — ' — position ' m -w - — - — — — - *^ r — _ , _ fro — _ v — m — personal »_*¦ t ^ tr . & . r ^ r i ^ r ^ jm «^« f ^ - knowled ^ ^ J » ^ x «^ T ¥ Jk ^ ta / ^ - »» ge V ^ ^^ , to *^ V . ' speak »« iJ W -r T , - % > V A b .

    with and the authorit result y is on a valuable the subject and comprehensive allotted to them , as , well as most rf artistic fcF and beautiful fc bookNothing

    apparentl » V ^^ — ~^ » T »*^ ^ " ^ ^ y r »* , ** has ^ rmr !^^ ^» ^ been ^^ ^^ ^ m , ^^ ^^^ overlooked r ^ ^ ^*^ b T * -J ^^ ^^ # ^^ h ^^ A Jk ^^ % Jk and P ^^ ^ W ^^ J the ^^ . historical ^^» ^ X ^ ^/ JL Jb 1 JL J ^^ L , * allusions to the part which the , rivers of England

    have played in the growth and vicissitudes of the nation ^— ^— —— -- —— is — rw clearl -w — ^ r msw -V . — ¦ y traced v _ vw ^* f ^ J » * . The _«^ , ¦ . J | ^^ ^ illustrations JL * . » ^ IsJ % J JL C > V V A V ^ J 1 J 1 kj are C 4 / X \« ^ re X V- ' -

    markably good , and the artists have caughtwith aspects rare — — — — success ¦— of " ^ the ^ r , the - scenery r «^ - «»*¦ -w most j » pleasing The » at- k « h frontisp JL and p iece icturesque to , the

    j « - " ^ - ^ ^ ^ -. ^ *^ a j . ^ ^^ ^ V ^ M . JL f JL 1 ^ & ^ ^/^ J W ^ 4 ^ Jl JL T | 3 the volume Wharfe is a — delicate the romantic etching stream of Bolton which Abbey Turner on

    lovea .

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    155 8 lne i ^ ublisners Uircumr Dec . 6 , 188

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1558, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/24/