. The recollections of a drummer-boy . f the most fantastic childrens stories that we ever rememberto have read. Mr. Carryl might easily have written what he has written if he had never read Alice inWonderland; he has the same whimsical cast of mind as Lewis Carroll, the same ready invention, if indeednot more of it; and an uncommon brightness of manner. There is nowhere the least strain on his inven-tion and imagination, which appear to be inexhaustible. Davy and the Goblin is a remarkable story,which in its way is the perfection of what childish fantastic writing should be. Thus speaks Richa
. The recollections of a drummer-boy . f the most fantastic childrens stories that we ever rememberto have read. Mr. Carryl might easily have written what he has written if he had never read Alice inWonderland; he has the same whimsical cast of mind as Lewis Carroll, the same ready invention, if indeednot more of it; and an uncommon brightness of manner. There is nowhere the least strain on his inven-tion and imagination, which appear to be inexhaustible. Davy and the Goblin is a remarkable story,which in its way is the perfection of what childish fantastic writing should be. Thus speaks RichardHenry Stoddard, in the J^. Y. 3Iail and Express. Davy and the Goblin is one of those examples of juvenile literature that make middle-aged peoplewish they had not been born —until twenty years later. Mr. Charles E. Carryl has given to his young ad-mirers a perfectly charming story. Wedded to language suited to the comprehension of young readers isfound subtle, brightest wit of an order to be enjoyed by children of a larger By LUCRETIA P. HALE. A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED, UNIFORM WITH DAVY AND THE GOBLIN. Square 4to. Illustrated. $ Sent, postpaid, on receipt of price. The Peterkiii Papers were received by the ])eople with great applause, which increased with eachnumber, until the unfortunate Mrs. Peterkin, who put salt in her coffee, and the benignant lady fromPhiladelphia, and the sapient Solomon John, and Agamemnon, and Elizabeth Eliza, and the two little boyswith rubber-boots became familiar characters in thousands of happy households. In 1880 these irresistiblyand demurely funny stories were brought out in book form; and they have since become a classic in alllibraries of merriment. In response to the continued demand, Ticknor & Co. have prepared a handsomenew edition, which takes a conspicuous place among the holiday books for children and lovers of cover is adorned with vivid representations of Mrs. Peterkin and her coffee, the strug
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