Reviews of religious biographies and children's books
A survey of modern religious literature notes Demaus’s Life of Latimer as well written and well-sourced. It praises John H. Thomson’s reprint of A Cloud of Witnesses for Protestant interest, and Hamley’s Our Poor Relations as a humane critique of animal treatment. The Hive and Hymns for Very Little Children receive endorsement for clarity and usefulness. Mary Howitt's Birds and their Nests is praised for accessible, humorous prose and strong engravings. The Circling Year is highlighted as a visually and literarily pleasing drawing-room book with fine illustrations.
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England
Demaus
Hugh
Hamley
Earth
Colonel Hamley
Griset
Religious Tract Society
Mary Howitt
Stoke Pogis
A Parcel of Children’s Books
A vivid ode to children’s literature praising modern abundance. It contrasts present charitable authors and publishers with earlier times, noting constant production of engaging works. The piece lauds imaginative tales and year round printing, urging that Christmas gifts foster joy.
Moonshine and Christmas Books Spark Holiday Cheer
A lively review lauds Mr Hugessen Moonshine and Mr MacDonald stories, praising goblin and fairy adventures, Aunt Judy tales, Carroll’s Looking Glass world, Tenniel illustrations, and other children’s books. It extols enduring value of books over toys and urges parental buying.
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Self
Lewis Carroll
Alice
Tweedledum
Tweedledee
Humpty- Dumpty
Red Queen
Earth
Mr. Tenniel
Kingsley
Mr. Frélich
Lucy
Miss Yonge
Tom Hood
Puss and Robin
Frélich
Fairy Stories and Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
Book notices review new children’s tales by BE. Knatchbull Huckssen and Lady Baker. Fairy Stories illustrated by William Brunton published by Macmillan. Also notice of Gronce MacDonald’s The Princes and the Goblin from Strahan and Co. and Ranald Bannerman.
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Amavonshine
BE. Knatchbull Huckssen, M.P
Wilam Brunton
Macanillan and Co
Gronce MacDonaud
Ranald Bannerman
C. Strahan and Co
Lady Bakker
A &E
Macmillan Ghd Ce
Magazines Review Highlighting Blackwood Contents
A critique notes Blackwood's non political charm with items such as Maid of Sker The Illustration and More Rubio de Roma essays French servants and children Cornelius O Dowd House of Lords and Fraser pieces Wanted a Religion for the Hindoos and Anglicans and their XXXIX Medical Formula Mary of Scots half of Aunt Judy’s Christmas Volume Looking glass and Alice Henry Kunarsky Lost Child illustrations Macmillan references and Cruikshank artwork.
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Blackwood
Sker
Cornelius O'Dowd
House of Lords
Fraser
Mary of Scots
Judy
Alyred GatTy
George Cruikshank
Ell
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Nursery
Mr. Hugessen
Fitzy
Mulligatawny
Fern
Grindmarsh
Wizard of Bockhanger
Mr. MacDonald
Jamaica
India
New Zealand
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