"We conclude our too brief notice of the volume by saying that the child-lover will revel in it, whilst it may well turn the child-hater from the error of his ways. As we read, we were startled by coming upon a short paper on Charles Lamb, whose mantle, by the way, it seems to us, has fallen, in no slight degree, upon Mr. Maynard Smith; nor can we repress the thought that if the great essayist had had the privilege of reading these pages, he would never have perpetrated the atrocity, with which tradition charges him, of toasting the memory of Herod the Great."—Church Family Newspaper.