IMITATIONS OF BABYLAND.  The great reputation won during the past eight years by D. Lothrop & Co.’s unique and charming illustrated magazine and annual, BABYLAND, has induced certain publishers to attempt imitations under similar titles.  The public should beware of these inferior imitations.  The publishers deem it proper to inform the public that the only genuine BABYLAND invariably bears the imprint of D. Lothrop & Co.  By noting this fact the dissatisfaction which follows the purchase of inferior imitations will be avoided.

DEAN STANLEY WITH THE CHILDREN.  By Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey.  Boston:  D. Lothrop & Co.  Price $1.00.  In this tastefully printed volume are brought together five sermons to children, preached by Dean Stanley, prefaced with a biographical sketch by Mrs. Humphrey and with an introduction by Canon Farrar.  Every reader knows what a charming man Dean Stanley was, and how ardently he loved children, and devoted himself to pleasing them.  The sermons here given are full of exquisite tenderness, and form admirable models for discourses of like character.  Canon Farrar says that there was not one sermon ever preached by Dean Stanley which did not contain at least some one bright, and fresh, and rememberable thing.  His metaphors, his anecdotes, the invariable felicity of his diction, his historical, literary and biographical illustrations, his invincible habit of taking men at their best and looking out for the good in everything, the large catholicity which rose above the mean, squabbling of religious parties, the calm of spirit which seemed habitually to breathe in the atmosphere of whatsoever things are true, and pure, and lovely, and of good report, made him a preacher to whom one would rather listen than to any other living man.  Mrs. Humphrey’s sketch not only gives us an excellent idea of the man himself, but also tells us many interesting things about the great English public schools.  The volume is well illustrated.

IT IS THE CHRISTMAS TIME.  By Miss Mulock, with Twelve Ideal Christmas Hymns and Poems.  Illustrated.  Boston:  D. Lothrop & Co.  Price, $2.50.  Nothing more exquisite in the way of a Christmas presentation book, or one better adapted to the spirit of the holiday season has yet been presented to the public than the volume before us.  Printed in large, clear type, on the heaviest of paper, with broad white margins, and a series of twenty illustrations by famous American and foreign artists, engraved in the highest style of art, it forms a book of exceptional beauty, and one of which the publishers may well be proud.  The opening poem, Miss Mulock’s “Hymn for Christmas Morning,” is followed by Naham Tate’s “While Shepherds watched their Flocks by Night,” a hymn which has held place in the hearts of the people for nearly two hundred years; Wesley’s stirring hymn, “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing;” Herrick’s “Star Song;” Bishop Heber’s “Epiphany”—­

  Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning;