CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & Co. present a most delightful novelty in The Little Folks' Painting-Book," in which many charming pictures by Kate Greenaway are presented in outline drawings, with one specimen page in colors, after which the others are to be filled in. With this book comes an ingenious palette-box of moist colors, which can be purchased at the low price of half a dollar, the two forming one of the prettiest presents for a child that can be imagined. Every one who has been a small boy or girl-and most of us have-can conjure up to himself or herself how a gift of this sort

study of nature by drawing them, through the delights of such books as these, to take interest in natural objects, is to give the first and most lasting part of an education in which too many grown people are deficient. "Little Hinges,' by Madeline B. Hunt, with illustrations by Miss Edwards, and "Three Brown Boys and Other Happy Children," by Ellen Haile, are original stories of distinctive interest, as well as pretty in illustration and binding. A number of new large-type books for children, with an excellent assortment of full-page pictures, manufactured in this country, and bound in

would have given just a bit more color even to childhood's bright and happy days. Our old friend, "Little Folks," appears in volume form this year, with a rich cover designed by Kappes, and also in a new style of cloth binding, with a new kind of inset, a Paris enamelled chromo curiously embossed with gilt ornamentation. The "Holiday Album for Little Folks," and the "Little Folks' Picture Gallery," are two other admirably illustrated quartos at low prices, and we may note also the pleasant series of "Field Friends and Forest Foes" and the companion-books of natural history, as very attractive and informing. To win children to the

striking designs, may also be mentioned-including "Pictures and Stories for Our Darlings," "Little Chatterer," "Sunny Days for Little People," "Little Playfellow," and "Childhood's Happy Hours." The pictures are accompanied by brief stories, sketches, and rhymes, based on the illustrations so as to make children think of what the pictures suggest. A series of "Bible Stories for Little Ones," at the low price of 25 cents each, although having many illustrations, may be further mentioned. But the number of excellent juveniles on this list is legion, and as all of them are good, it is difficult to discriminate further. There are few

homes into which some of them have not already found their way.

ROBERT CLARKE & Co. have just ready a book for children, "Insect Lives; or, Born in Prison," by Julia P. Ballard, a well-known writer for young folks, which should interest a great many little people who are forever asking questions about the little things that buzz about their ears; and those purchasing for children mustn't forget "Carl and Gretchen's Christmas," which a competent authority has called the "prettiest, sweetest and best Christmas story" he ever read.

THOMAS Y. CROWELL has ready for holiday buyers a number of attractive books, chief among which are "Sparkles for Bright Eyes," a fully illustrated quarto, with contributions from Miss Alcott, Mrs. Thaxter, and other popular writers, which is divided into two thinner volumes under the bright titles of "Meadow Blossoms" and "Water Cresses ;" and "Aunt Ethel's Picture Gallery," another attractive quarto, which is also divided into "Clover-top Story Book" and "Aunt Callie's Sunset Stories." Among pretty quartos at half a dollar or thereabouts are "Borrowed Trouble," " Pair of Pussy's Cousins," "Carrie's Picnic," and "How Nellie Saved the Money," "Barley's Christmas Dream," and "Our Little Newsboy."

DODD, MEAD & Co. present one of the most Christmasy books of the year in "Around the Yule Log," a story for boys and girls, embodying many pleasant shorter stories and like miscellany, by Richard Markham, full of illustrations and brilliant in binding-one of the most taking books of the year, of which further details and specimen illustrations are given elsewhere. The Eggleston series about "Famous American Indians," to which are added this season "Pocahontas" and "Brandt and Red Jacket," are vividly interesting to boys, and there are not a few older people who will not be unwilling to have a good time over these true stories of Indian adventure. The author of the Elsie books has a new volume in the Mildred series for older girls, under the title of "Mildred at Roselands." A fine large book is a collection of standard fairy tales, "Open Sesame," gorgeous with fullpage illustrations in gold and colors. "Sunshine and Rain" is another pretty book, with pictures at every opening. "A

Book for Every Little Jack and Jill," and "Go ing a-Maying," are other books in quarto, full and running over with pictures. And the new juveniles in sets, the Pinafore series, for very little people; the Cloth of Gold, May Flower, Holiday and Sunset series, are exceedingly attractive of their kind.

E. P. DUTTON & Co., whose Pussy Tiptoe series has been one of the hits for several seasons back, have just ready a sixth volume, by the same popular author, Mrs. D. P. Sanford, under the title of "The Captain's Children"-in which the little people who are the heroes and heroines, are taken a voyage to Brazil, and of course, have a great deal to tell their hosts of friends about that country and the voyage