"One of the most delightful and fascinating books that ever delighted a bird-loving reader."—Daily News.

"Dr. Sharpe is as learned as man need wish to be, and as entertaining as the most brilliant of conversationalists."—Country Life.

"The anonymous translation is the good old standard one, vastly superior to subsequent versions."—Times.

"Certain to engage the sympathies of an entirely new set of readers."—Daily Telegraph.

"Nothing could be more attractive than the form in which this excellent edition is sent forth."—Record.

"Miss Mary Macleod has performed a dangerous and difficult task with taste and discretion. It can have been no light labour to set forth in simple, equable prose the linked sweetness, long drawn out, of Spenser's Faerie Queene, and the latter-day child may well feel much the same gratitude to her as those of another generation must have felt towards Charles and Mary Lamb, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Kingsley."—Pall Mall Gazette.

"The book is beautifully produced, and ought to satisfy the most fastidious and exacting taste."—Leeds Mercury.

"Had any one ever been disinclined to believe in Mr. Crockett's genius, he must have recanted and repented in sackcloth and ashes after enjoying Sweetheart Travellers. It is the rarest of all rarities, and veritably a child's book for children, as well as for women and men. It is seldom, indeed, that the reviewer has the opportunity of bestowing unstinted praise, with the feeling that the laudation is, nevertheless, inadequate. Sweetheart Travellers is instinct with drollery; it continually strikes the softest notes of tenderest pathos, like some sweet, old-fashioned nursery melody, and it must make the most hardened bachelor feel something of the pleasures he has missed in living mateless and childless."—Times.

"A more delightful book for young, old, and middle aged it is scarcely possible to conceive."—Truth.

"It is distinctly the best Christmas book of the season."—Daily Mail.

"When we say it is one of the most delightful stories about children we have ever read, we are still short of the mark."—Daily Chronicle.

"In every way excellently got up."—Christian.

"In this excellent book for children, which the elders will enjoy, Mr. Crockett comes right away from kailyard into a kingdom of obstreperous fancy, and is purely, delightfully funny, and not too Scotch. The wit of this feat of fancy, which cannot be described, and does not belong to any order of juvenile literature, unless we take Mr. Crockett as the founder of one, is over the heads of children in many instances, but they do not know it.... Mr. Gordon Browne's illustrations are as good a treat as the story; they realize every thought and intention of the writer, and are full of a sly and characteristic drollery all the artist's own."—The World.

"No more acceptable edition of some of Grimm's Stories has been published."—Standard.

"Altogether delightful. The illustrations are full of charm and sympathy."—Saturday Review.

"A fairy book beyond reproach."—Graphic.

"Really good nonsense, not at all copied from Mr. Lewis Carroll. Admirably fresh and inspired by a quite delightful insouciance."—Spectator.

"Will charm the more qualified critical reader by its mingled gravity and whimsicality. It is not all sugar-plums; there are nice little bits of satire in which the Rev. Harry Jones is easily recognizable."—The World.

"The prettiest and most complete collection of the kind that we have seen."—Westminster Gazette.

"It is impossible to praise the volume too highly."—Black and White.

"Every conceivable nursery rhyme is herein gathered together, beautifully illustrated. The collection is certainly the most perfect that has ever been made."—School Guardian.

"No better book could be chosen to teach a boy some of the noblest years in our 'rough-and-tumble island story,' and it could hardly have been presented in a better form."—St. James's Gazette.

In the present volume Mr. Neufeld has attempted to give a picture of the exciting times during the Rebellion of Arabi Pasha. Starting from his University, the hero, George Helmar, goes out into the world to make a place in it for himself. From the commencement he meets with adventures: along the Danube and in Constantinople. He arrives in Alexandria just as Arabi's antagonism towards the Khedive has ripened into open revolt. He ultimately reaches Alexandria just after the bombardment, and gets engaged as interpreter to the British forces. He is taken prisoner whilst out on patrol, escapes, is recaptured, and finally escapes again in time to reach Tel-el-Kebir with important news which saves Cairo from destruction. The book is full of exciting and thrilling incidents and situations, many of which have been experienced by Mr. Neufeld himself.

Mr. MacIlwaine, the popular author of two novels dealing with Australian life, has produced an excellent book about a bush-born boy, the son of English parents who migrated to Australia at the time of the gold fever. After living some years in the bush they send their only son to the old country to be educated. The rough lad comes to England at the age of thirteen to find himself far behind other boys in learning, but after a while a match for them in other respects. The precipitate return of the boy and mother to Australia, in consequence of the receipt of a telegram and a paragraph in an Australian paper, leads to Rowley's famous ride on his father's old horse. The interest in Colonial life is awakened in the first chapter, and it is evident that both in the life in England and Australia the author has had living models before him.