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    ! Japanese Tingles , written and illustrated by Kathleen Lucas . The pictures in this i elegant oblong volume are drawn with grace and humourand the scenes depicted are quaint

    C 3 « - » * - » , i J . and mirth-provoking . The ' jingles are good examples of nonsense verses , and the pretty ! book is droll and unconventional enough to charm the old as well as the young .

    ' Decidedly one of the most charming books of the season , for children , is the annual

    entitled Sunday Reading- for the IToungr , with upwards of two hundred and fifty original

    ilhistrations , by G . Montbard , A . Fores- tier , & c . It is impossible , in our limited space A , to g ive any % / idea of

    the multitudinous variety of its contents . Over and above the short bits in which children delightthere

    are several continuous stories , , one for a version children of the entitled 'Pilgrim ' Christiana s Progress ' '

    and another , by Ismay Thorn , en , - titled ' Geoff ' and Jim . ' This latter is a continuation of the story ' A

    Flock of Four , ' of which we give a notice in our present issue . The volume is beautifully boundand

    , will command , as it deserves , a hearty welcome from our young folk .

    ; The illustrations are excellent . The Prize for 1889 is , as usual , worthy of its name , and is certainly a marvel of

    cheap-, ness , enriched as it is with numerous coloured plates , in addition to other illustrations . Benediciteand other PoemsbRichard WiltonM . A . Rector of Londesboroughand

    , , y , , , Chaplain to the Earl of Londesborough . * Benedicite' is a poetic rendering of the Psalm which goes under that name . The ' other Poems ' consist of a number of sweet and pretty sonnets ,

    l ) allades , rondeaux , rondels , and hymns . There are also translations from Orashaw , George HerbertSpenserand others . The book is beautiful and neat in get-its tone is devout and

    religious , ; and it , is dedicated to the Archbishop of Canterbury . up ,

    Rig-nt Side Up , by Janie Brockman . A chatty , droll story of absorbing interest to

    juvenile readers . Dolls , dogs , cats , and good-natured *~* clildren are the principal characters ; but the leading sjDirit Jfi ^ is golden bod -haired , blue-eyed Lilian , who wins the affections of / zryt ^ M :

    every y , and who is a veritable heroine in socks and |( S ©^ gS fc p <» f inafore which . is Lil a narrow meets with escape many from adventures drowning , when the most attempting serious ^ £ ^ ^ \ 3 % %

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    worth . bright Chatterb within ox fairl Volume describes for 1889 this . Bri deservedl ght without popular and ^ ^ PJfe ^ ^ ^ ^ ! SRBIB M

    • p ¦ innual lentiful . The and striking pictures y , , and coloure the d articles and uncoloured y- , are - ^ ^ Z ^ - / ' * ^ g ^

    • ° . rief , entertaining , and instructive . l ^ 56 = |^» . ^^^ is a Quite touching Unexpected story for , by children Ismay Thorn . An , r - ^ ^ ^^ N ^ ^ ^ V ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ < ^ ^ - ^ ^ K ^

    < liiUlren ifieer in home India to sends Eng his land wife to his and sister four ; " ^ Vf ^ -mi * - — L """ - ^^^ ^ y ^ ^ ^ p - 58 " ^ | 1 "iJki < l two two brothers brotherswho who live live together toeether ..

    ¦ ; ''he wife dies , but , , before leaving Bombay the children proceed , and i ' " tMch the English home , ' quite unexpected . ' The boys , Jim and Geoff ,

    ; ' - nsive pintle great , the animal other sp is irits kind , and but get crust into y . all kinds The story of mischief of Geoff . One running of the away uncles to is join patient a circus and \ ( "uipanyof the bitter hardships and brutal flogging he undergoesof his escape from his

    , , i i Ji persecutor _ <> -. me .. w MHJiv and * to and ijyj forg X \ J wonderful 1 I H iveness V OIJLOOO , , JO is meeting told 1 / V ^ XV ... . l in JlJIJ . with a sty Ol ^_ / vx his ^ m . le ^ w > r own hi iitvu ch father «« will *» jlxx - ^ K greatl ^ tucvvxjr , and y of mxvj interest ^ V his ^ A \ jk ) i happy ^ M ; children wiiixui restoration vii , j and diAJIVA ill will n to . be w his ^ m \ j tu a

    ^ aiming to boys who are well off but discontented .

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    i I Dec . 6 , 1889 The Publishers' Circular I 5 6 3

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 6, 1889, page 1563, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_06121889/page/29/