ALL THE YEAR ROUND By American Authors and Artists.  Illustrated.  Boston:  D. Lothrop & Co.  Price $1.50.  Of all the collections of stories for juvenile readers that have come under our notice the present season we have seen nothing to compare with this in point of variety, interest and abundance.  In its beautifully printed pages provision is made for every variety of taste; there are stories for the boys of hunting, and fishing, and camping out; stories of adventures on land and water; stories for the girls of school and play; stories of oldtime life of the days of our grandfathers and grandmothers; stories of eminent men and women, and mingled with choice poems by popular authors.  Altogether it is one of the most charming compilations of the year.

HOW THEY WENT TO EUROPE.  By Margaret Sidney.  Illustrated.  Boston:  D. Lothrop & Co.  Price $1.00.  Everything that Margaret Sidney writes is sure of an audience, and though most of her books are prepared for the delectation of the young, they have an equal charm for all classes of readers.  Some of her stories, in a household of children, have been literally “read to pieces,” and judging from the frequency with which the tattered leaves are brought out, some delightful sort of flavor hangs round them still.  The title of the present book might be aptly extended so as to read How They went to Europe, and yet didn’t, go to Europe, for the journey made by the little party of tourists is in plan something like The Voyage around My Room, which everybody has read.  Two or three bright girls, who are disappointed because they can’t go abroad with more fortunate relatives, determine to form a club in which they shall, to use a common phrase, “go through the motions” of going; that is, they shall at their regular meetings follow on the map, and by guide books and accounts of travel, the exact route taken by those who are really journeying.  The idea takes, and the club is organized; other members are taken in, and before the next season it has so increased in size as to include the best young people in town and render a change of place of meeting necessary from private parlors to a large public hall.  Lectures and stereopticon exhibitions are added, and some of the more enthusiastic members, after a course of French travel, form a supplementary club for the study of French.  The story is brightly and naturally told and in a way that will be certain to bear fruit in the way of other clubs of the kind, wherever it is read.  Margaret Sidney’s stories have this peculiarity, that aside from their fascinating qualities of dialogue and narrative they leave something to be remembered.  The aim of the author is not obtruded, but its spirit is there and the mind is roused to thought and action.  What child can ever forget that most delightful of juvenile stories, The Five Little Peppers, or the entertaining narrative of What the Seven Did, or the author’s latest of books for young readers, Who Told It to