ll seem as quaint as they."

The children of those days--our great-great-grandfathers--expected
didacticism. It was part of the game.... In the present collection
there is, I think, no example either of condescension or
showing-off--the two principal faults of books for children. All the
authors seem to me to be simple and single-minded: they wished
above all to be interesting.--_Introduction._

McINTYRE, M.A.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone.
Appleton. .40

Written in accordance with modern views of science, and
calculated to give children a good idea of prehistoric man and
his ways. What is more, the story is sufficiently interesting to
attract them.--_The Athenaeum._

OTIS, JAMES (Pseudonym of J.O. Kaler).
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus.
Harper. .60

Little freckled Toby runs away and joins a circus, where he makes a (p. 91)
friend of Mr. Stubbs, an old monkey. Before long, however, he is glad
to be welcomed home again by old Uncle Daniel. The tawdry life of the
ring is well drawn.

OUIDA (Pseudonym of Louise de la Rame).
Bimbi.
Lippincott. 1.50

Louise de la Rame wrote these stories in a way that charms alike grown
people and children. Little August and his beloved Hirschvogel the
great Nuernberg stove, Florentine Lolo and his faithful Moufflou,
Raphael the child of old Urbino, and others, are vividly pictured.

_TEN YEARS OF AGE_ (p. 92)

_There comes a voice that awakes my soul. It is the voice of
years that are gone, they roll before me with their deeds._
OSSIAN.

AMUSEMENTS AND HANDICRAFT

Where's the cook? is supper ready, the house trimmed, rushes
strewed, cobwebs swept?
SHAKSPERE.

BENTON, C.F.
A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl.
Estes. .75

"But Margaret said, 'I don't want to wait till I'm big; I want to cook
now; and I don't want to do cooking-school cooking, but little girl
cooking, all by myself.'"

So they gave her this simple cook-book on her birthday, and she
learned to make all the different dishes before another birthday came.

BENTON, C.F.
Saturday Mornings.
Estes. .75

Margaret loved housekeeping, an