ome of its
cleverest cultivators. But what distinguishes the drolleries in
this book is the inventiveness shown in the conception and the
characteristic ingenuity of the details. The designs for "Playing
Cards," in which the tray of spades is represented by the figures of
Johnson, Boswell and Gibbon, and a scene at "Dr. Birch's School" does
duty for the seven of hearts, are especially felicitous in this way;
while a different but not less familiar trait is exhibited in
some carefully-drawn "Initial Letters," embodying charming bits of
child-life and quaint allusions to well-known scenes in history and
romance. "Othello" in the form of "Dandy Jim of Souf Caroline," and
"The Little Assessor of Tuebingen"--a mysterious personage of whom
the author refused to reveal the secret--are equally amusing and
suggestive. There are some half hundred subjects of the same or
other kinds in the volume, which, as a mere picture-book, is full of
entertainment for readers of all ages, while for those with whom the
name of Thackeray is a dear household word it will have a still higher
charm, calling up as it does so many associations connected with the
author and the man, and seeming like a fragment of the biography which
has been vainly looked for.

_BOOKS RECEIVED_.

The Illustrated Annual Register of Rural Affairs for 1876. By J.J.
Thomas. Albany: Luther Tucker & Son.

The Chevalier Casse-Cou: The Red Camellia. By Fortune Du Boisgobey.
Translated from the French by Thos. Picton. New York: Robert M. De
Witt.

Household Elegancies. By Mrs. C.S. Jones and Henry T. Williams. New
York: Henry T. Williams.

The Children's Treasury of English Song. By Francis Turner Palgrave.
New York: Macmillan & Co.

Stories from the Lips of the Teacher. By O.B. Frothingham. New York:
G.P. Putnam's Sons.

Songs of Three Centuries. Edited by J.G. Whittier. Boston: James R.
Osgood & Co.

Roddy's Reality. By Helen Kendrick Johnson. New York: G.P. Putnam's
Sons.

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