Consult the taste of your child in selecting or guiding his reading.... Let the boys and girls choose for themselves within certain limits, only trying to guide them to the best books upon the subject of their interest, whatever that may be. Mrs. G.R. FIELD. BURNETT, F.E. (H.). Little Lord Fauntleroy. Scribner. 1.25 Mrs. Burnett's well-known story of the little American boy who in the course of events becomes heir to an English earldom is included in this list because of the beautiful and kindly spirit shown by the child to those about him. DRUMMOND, HENRY. *The Monkey That Would Not Kill. Illustrated by Louis Wain. Dodd. 1.00 Professor Drummond wrote these two tales--his first attempt at fiction--while acting as temporary editor of a children's magazine. The first, that of Tricky, was so liked by children all over the world that the second, Gum, was written soon after. Mr. Wain's pictures are very good. JEWETT, S.O. Play Days. Houghton. 1.50 This little book for little girls has all the quiet charm of Miss Jewett's books for older people. The author has a great gift for making the fine and beautiful things which lie at the heart (p. 90) of every-day life stand forth in their true colors, and making simple pleasures seem very pleasant. PRENTICE AND POWER. LUCAS, E.V. (Editor). Old-Fashioned Tales. Illustrated by F.D. Bedford. Stokes. 1.50 Selections from the writings of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Lamb, Peter Parley, and others. "The children come, the children go; To-day grows quickly yesterday; And we, who quiz quaint fashions so, We soon shall seem as quaint as they." The children of those days--our great-great-grandfathers--expected didacticism. It was part of the game.... In the present collection there is, I think, no example either of condescension or showing-off--the two principal faults of books for children. All the authors seem to me to be simple and single-minded: they wished above all to be interesting.--_Introduction._ McINTYRE, M.A. The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone. Appleton. .40 Written in accordance with modern views of science, and calculated to give children a good idea of prehistoric man and his ways. What is more, the story is sufficiently interesting to attract them.--_The Athenæum._ OTIS, JAMES (Pseudonym of J.O. Kaler). Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus. Harper. .60 Little freckled Toby runs away and joins a circus, where he makes a (p. 91) friend of Mr. Stubbs, an old monkey. Before long, however, he is glad to be welcomed home again by old Uncle Daniel. The tawdry life of the ring is well drawn.