ildren that cannot be found in
this book. The collection is particularly strong in ballads and
tales, which are apt to interest children more than poems of other
kinds; and Mr. Coates has shown good judgment in supplementing this
department with some of the best poems of that class that have been
written for grown people. A surer method of forming the taste of
children for good and pure literature than by reading to them from
any portion of this book can hardly be imagined. The volume is
richly illustrated and beautifully bound."--_Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin_.

"A more excellent volume cannot be found. We have found within the
covers of this handsome volume, and upon its fair pages, many of
the most exquisite poems which our language contains. It must
become a standard volume, and can never grow old or
obsolete."--_Episcopal Recorder_.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THOS. HOOD. With engravings on steel. 4 vols.,
12mo., tinted paper. Poetical Works; Up the Rhine; Miscellanies and
Hood's Own; Whimsicalities, Whims, and Oddities. Cloth, extra, black and
gold, $6.00; red cloth, paper label, gilt top, uncut edges, $6.00; half
calf, gilt, marbled edges, $14.00; half Russia, gilt top, $18.00.

Hood's verse, whether serious or comic--whether serene like a
cloudless autumn evening or sparkling with puns like a frosty
January midnight with stars--was ever pregnant with materials for
the thought. Like every author distinguished for true comic humor,
there was a deep vein of melancholy pathos running through his
mirth, and even when his sun shone brightly its light seemed often
reflected as if only over the rim of a cloud.

Well may we say, in the words of Tennyson, "Would he could have
stayed with us," for never could it be more truly recorded of any
one--in the words of Hamlet characterizing Yorick--that "he was a
fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." D.M. Moir.

THE ILIAD OF HOMER RENDERED INTO ENGLISH BLANK VERSE. By EDWARD, EARL OF
DERBY. From the latest London edition, with all the author's last
revisions and corrections, and with a Biographical Sketch of Lord Derby,
by R. SHELTON MACKENZIE, D.C.L. With twelve steel engravings from
Flaxman's celebrated designs. 2 vols., 12mo. Cloth, extra, bev. boards,
gilt top, $3.50; half calf, gilt, marbled edges, $7.00; half Turkey
morocco, gilt top, $7