, JOHN, and A.L. (A.) BARBAULD.
Eyes and No Eyes, and Other Stories.
Heath. 20

"Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Over the Teacups, says of the
story Eyes and No Eyes: I have never seen anything of the kind
half so good. I advise you, if you are a child anywhere under
forty-five, and do not yet wear glasses, to send at once for
Evenings at Home, and read that story. For myself, I am always
grateful to the writer of it for calling my attention to common
things."

Eyes and No Eyes, and Travellers' Wonders, from Aiken and Barbauld's
Evenings at Home, The Three Giants, by Mrs. Marcet, and A Curious (p. 70)
Instrument, by Jane Taylor, are the tales given. They all encourage a
child's powers of observation.

PARSONS, F.T. (S.) (formerly Mrs. W.S. Dana).
Plants and Their Children.
American Book. .65

While these elementary talks have been arranged to accompany the
school year, they give so much information about fruits and seeds,
young plants, roots and stems, flowers, et cetera, told in Mrs. Dana's
clear, informing way, that we shall all want our children to know the
book, and to learn the great lesson of how to see, which is taught
them. The many illustrations are helpful.

WEED, C.M.
Stories of Insect Life. Volume I.
Ginn. .25

The insects described are the more interesting common forms of Spring
and early Summer. The plain little volume contains twenty short, fully
illustrated chapters.

STORIES

The fiction which children first hear should be adapted in the
most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
PLATO.

AANRUD, HANS.
Lisbeth Longfrock.
Ginn. .65

A vivid description of Norwegian farm and saeter life. Little (p. 71)
Lisbeth loses her mother and goes to live with the good Kjersti, the
mistress of Hoel Farm, helping to take care of the cattle.

Hans Aanrud's short stories are considered by his own countrymen
as belonging to the most original and artistically finished life
pictures that have been produced by the younger literati of
Norway.--_Preface._

CAROVE, F.W.
The Story without an End.
With a preface by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
Heath. .25

There is a very delightful old story which used to be given t