BABYLAND.  The Boston Daily Globe says:  “One need not concern herself about the ‘Chatterbox,’ or any of the annuals made up in England for American youth, when there are better books, in adaptability of matter to age, in engravings, paper and press-work, close by her at home.  The mother may find a number of annuals published in this country which will suit her taste and purpose much better, and she ought always to give them the preference.  BABYLAND for 1884 is in all respects a desirable publication for the youngest readers.  Its songs and stories, its speaking pictures and its general attractiveness always win the smiles of little folks.”

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An interesting and suggestive little treatise on the “Care and Feeding of Infants,” has been published by Doliber, Goodale & Co., Boston, who will send a specimen copy free to any address.

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“AN ADMIRABLE BOOK.”

The Literary World, in a critical review of one of D. Lothrop & Co.’s recent publications, The Travelling Law School, says:—­“Mr. B.V.  Abbott’s object, in the second volume of the Business Boys’ Library, is to give a series of first lessons on forms of government and principles of law.  This is done by means of a very slight framework of imagination, a large amount of anecdote and illustration, a singularly lucid explanatory style, and a fullness of knowledge that ‘backs’ the narrative with manifest strength. The Travelling Law School is a fictitious body, taken about from place to place; all the objects and experiences encountered on the journey being examined in their legal aspects and relations, and their functions as such pointed out.  Things that one can own are discriminated from things that are common property; Boston, New York, and Washington are differentiated in their civil and political bearings; the laws of the streets and the railroads, of money and the banks, of wills, evidence, fraud, and so forth and so on, are expounded by means of ‘famous trials’ and otherwise in an ingenious, always entertaining, and thoroughly instructive manner.  We do not see why a course of instruction along the line of such topics as these would not be a wise feature in many schools of the higher grade, for which Mr. Abbott’s book would be an admirable text-book.  The study of such a book would be in the nature of a recreation, so full is it of matters of living interest, while of its practical value there could be only one opinion.  Structurally it is in two parts, the second of which, entitled ‘Famous Trials,’ is separately paged.” 12mo, $1.00.

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A STANDARD GIFT BOOK.