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verj' natural one. Why the editors of the First Folio placed 

 in the front of that volume this wonderful ideal drama, 

 in which, as Coleridge remarks, Shakspeare " did not ap- 

 peal to any sensuous impression," it is not very easy to 

 determine ; but the act was a wise and loving one, for 

 The Tempest will ever rank among the most admired of 

 Shakspeare's wondrous Dramas ; andits selection for illus- 

 tration does credit to the judgment of our worthy pub- 

 lishers. The artists have done their spiriting gentlj', 

 and the book is so tastefully got up, that it might have 

 formed one of that library which Prospero speaks of as 

 " Dukedom large enough." 



Parables from Nature. By Mrs. Alfred Gattj% Author 

 of" Proverbs Illustrated" ^c. With Notes on the Nattiral 

 History, and Illustrations by C. W. Cope, H. Calderon, 

 W. Holman Hunt, W. Millafs, Otto Speckter, G. Thomas, 

 and E. Warren. (Bell & Daldy.) 



Mrs. Gatty's admirable Parables from Nature, rich in 

 high moralit}', and abounding in evidence of the imagin- 

 ative character of Mrs. Gatty's mind, is a work as ori- 

 ginal as it is instructive ; and at this season we have no 

 doubt many will rejoice at being enabled to place in the 

 hands of their children a book so excellent in itself, and 

 so beautifully illustrated as this is, by the accomplished 

 artists who are associated with Mrs. Gatty in the produc- 

 tion of this beautiful Christmas Book. 



Legends from Fairy Land : narrating the History of 

 Prince Glee and Princess Trill, the Cruel Persecutions and 

 Condign Punishment of Aunt Spite, the Adventures of the 

 Great Tuflongbo, and the Story of the Blackcap in the 

 Giant's Well. By Holme Lee. With Eight Illustrations 

 by H. Sanderson. (Smith & Elder.) 



Holme Lee is of a surety one of those described by 

 Drayton — 



" who will 



Be talking of the Fairies still. 

 Nor never can they have their fill, 

 As they were wedded to them ; 

 No tales of them their thirst can slake, 

 So much delight therein they take, 

 And some strange things they fain would make. 

 Knew they the way to do them." 

 But Holme Lee does know the way. These Legends 

 from Fairy Land are full of frolic and quaint conceits ; 

 and with Sanderson's fanciful Illustrations, will win the 

 hearts of hundreds of youthful readers, and of no few older 

 ones. 



Andersen's Tales for Children. Translated by Alfred 

 Wehnert, with One Hundred and Five Illustrations by E. 

 H. Wehnert, W. Thomas, and Others. (Bell & Daldy.) 



We did not think it possible that anything could add 

 to the popularity of Andersen's Danish Story Books, but 

 these 105 illustrations go far to malse us alter our opinion. 

 The pictures are every way worthy of the text, and we 

 do not think it possible to pay them a higher compli- 

 ment. 



The Boys' Book of Ballads, illustrated icith Sixteen En- 

 gravings on Wood, from Drawings by John Gilbert. (Bell 

 & Daldy.) 



There is nothing this Christmas in the way of illus- 

 tration more striking, forcible, or original, than these 

 sixteen designs by John Gilbert, illustrative of as many 

 of our best English ballads. Many a boy's heart will be 

 moved more than with the sound of a trumpet, as he 

 reads these time-honoured relics of our old poetrj', and 

 ponders over Gilbert's graphic renderings of them. 



The Play-Book of Metals, including Personal Narratives 

 of Visits to Coal, Lead, Copper, and Tin Mines, with a 

 large Number of interesting Experiments relating to Al- 

 chymy, and the Chemistry of the Fifty Metallic Elements. 

 By John Henry Pepper, (Routledge.) 



This is a Christmas book of a very different character 

 from any of the preceding, for it deals with facts, not fic- 

 tions. JBut Mr. Pepper is thoroughly master of his sub- 

 ject, and has moreover the gift of telling plainly what he 

 understands most clearly, so that the result is a book 

 alike amusing and instructive. In all schools where che- 

 mistry is studied, this volume will assuredly be often 

 found in the list of Prize Books. 



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Among other articlea of interest wJiicli we are compelled to postpone 

 until next week, we may mention one on Pope's Letters, 1 734 ; Was Macbeth 

 a Usurper? The Causidicade ; Ficher, an Unknown Poet; Mr. Keightley 

 on Blank Verse ; as also many Notes on Books, including those of Mr. 

 Wilkins' admirable Political Ballads; Blunt's Essays; The Greatest of 

 the Plantagenets ; Military Architecture in the Olden Time ; Dr. Hook's 

 Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, &c. 



We hope next '.week to announce for publication early in the ensuing 

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W. L. L. " N'o man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre," is a saying of 

 the Prince de Conde. 



Abhba. Giraldus Cambrensis's work, Topographia Hibernise, is 

 printed in M. jBo«o«e*'s Recueil des HistoriensdesGaules, fol. 1738, toni. 

 xiii. p. 209, as well as in Camden. His Expugnatio Ilibernias has been 

 printed in Latin by Camden, and in English in Holinshed's Chronicles. 



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TTALY IN TRANSITION: Public Scenes and 



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