Unlucky will not be the little girl who reads the book with this name, by CAROLINE AUSTIN.

Everybody’s Business, by ISMAY THORN, nobody likes interference, but in this case it proved the friend in need.

Chivalry, by LEON GAUTIER, translated by HENRY FRITH, is a chronicle of knighthood, its rules, and its deeds.  To the scientific student, Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century, by ROBERT ROUTLEDGE, B.S., F.C.S., will be interesting, and help him to discover a lot he does not know.  Those who have not already read it, A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, will have a real treat in the myths related; Tanglewood Tales are included, and these are delightful for all. Rosebud, by Mrs. ADAMS ACTON, a tale for girls, who will love this bright little flower, bringing happiness all around.

Holly Leaves, the Special Number of The Sporting and Dramatic, is quite a seasonable decoration for the drawing-room table during the Christmas holidays.

My faithful “Co.” has been reading Jack’s Secret, by Mrs. LOVETT CAMERON, which, he says, has greatly pleased him.  It has an interesting story, and is full of clever sketches of character. Jack, himself, is rather a weak personage, and scarcely deserves the good fortune which ultimately falls to his lot.  After flirting with a born coquette, who treats him with a cruelty which is not altogether unmerited, he settles down with a thoroughly lovable little wife, and a seat in the House of Lords.  From this it will be gathered that all ends happily. Jack’s Secret will be let out by MUDIE’s, and will be kept, for a considerable time—­by the subscribers.

Girls will be the richer this year by Fifty-two more Stories for Girls, and boys will be delighted with Fifty-two more Stories for Boys, by many of the best authors:  both these books are edited by ALFRED MILES, and published by HUTCHISON & Co. Lion Jack, by P.T.  BARNUM, is an account of JACK’s perilous adventures in capturing wild animals.  If they weren’t, of course, all true, Lyin’ Jack would have been a better title.

Syd Belton, unlike most story-book boys, would not go to sea, but he was made to go, by the author, Mr. MANVILLE FENN.  Once launched, he proved himself a British salt of the first water. Dumps and I, by Mrs. PARR, is a particularly pretty book for girls, and quite on a par with, her other works.  METHUEN & CO. publish these.

Pictures and Stories from English History, and Royal Portrait Gallery, are two Royal Prize Books for the historical-minded child; they are published by T. NELSON AND SONS, as likewise “Fritz” of Prussia, Germany’s Second Emperor, by LUCY TAYLOR. Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases, by JAMES MAIN DIXON, M.A., F.R.S.E., which may prove a useful guide to benighted foreigners in assisting them to solve the usual British vagaries of speech; like the commencement of the Dictionary, it is quite an “A1” book.