The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-04 00:00:00

A HATCH CHILDSLIEIeg BOOKV.

rho Story of Jack and toe Giants. With forty illustrations
by RICIIAILD Dorca. Enoraved by 0. and E. Dabiol.
Smell 4to. Caudell and Addeo.

A Troaturu of l'kasure Books fir Fanny mei Old. A New
B..ti•e. With thirtprix illustrations, by ECIWAILD H.
WEHNIRT and il•litlift/M Wilk. &Mll OCIATO. SM.
publi.b.rs.

Merry T ales for Lilt!. Edited by Madam De
CHATELAIN. Forty favourite tiles, with two hundred
pieturos. flax* p ablishors
Phonons, of the Country. BY Mn. BAItRIET MYaTLI.
With 8 illustrations, by Joan GILNCIIT. 4to. Bants
_ .

TAt Peacock at home. Ily Yrs. Dosawr. 11lutttatod with
12 alumina,. d loorders, printed by M. sad N. Ssahart.

New EAiti. n. S..rae puAliebare.
TAe Patent Indestreetiqe Aipaabet. Illustrated with 26
pie!urts, by Jottx AIISOLON. Arid TAe Patent Inisstruct-
liblePrimer. Idastraird with 40 pictures, by Drama/A.

(17111Ihtoseis prentsc.urenttitoousdaseed anes.iutilon sfrolimke Mr.
Punc RihebisatagenDeerellyky.
known) busy disseminating his rich (monis among children.
His Glustrations to 't Jack and the Giants," nig be accepted
ea
epee:nun. b ith of his fine ertiatie lading and hie command
WWI' the difficult materiel through the agency of which has
creation. are multiplied for popular distribution. His
tempts his been followed by Mr. Harrison Weir end Mr.
E. 11. Waheart; whose drawings of animals worthily
replete those rude conceptions which formerly defaced the
bar lie prepared for children. John Gi.bert's illuatrations to
Mr.. Harriet Myrtle's book, though gracefully penciled,
lack the vividnese and farcy of Mt. Doyle. The Peacock
et
Home," claims a word of areas., for the beatifies of its
typography and illsminations; whilst the " Indestructible"
books for children are noticeable for the care with
which they an printed upon linen' to resist the
&Weenies propensities of the students of A B C.
lite books foe children issued of late years must have
satonisbed those elderly people who remember the grotesque
horn books from which the children of thirty yeses ago
leant their elementary lessors. The curiously contrived
Berate who for centuries repiceented the letter B to child-
to d, the ill conditioned hone, that was described as "a
noble animal," the archer who stood for A, are characters
b which the adult, of Bugled are more familiar than are
their children. Children received thtir brat impreuiona of
art from ill-esectited drawing., the tendency of whin was
undoubtedly to deaden rather hen to torture that feeling
for the beautiful which forms lo important a concomitant
of sound m.ael training. It is only of late years that artists
of note have deigned to illustrate books of instruction ; it is
only of let.: years that the importance of cultivating in
children a sentiment for the beautiful has been recogaised—
with shit effect experience only may prove, bat certainly
the sensitive eye is linked more or less citsely with the sent-
, 'tee bean.

APOTUECASIBI? HALL.—Nemes of gentlemen who
pus d their ezmninati at in the science and practice of medi-
cine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
Jan. 2, 1851 :—Oliver Cooper Pollard, Chorley, Lse whirs ;
John Dozen Ward, Maccitester ; Charles Robert Thompson,
W. sterkam, Kent ; Henry Parke r, Sheffield, Yorkshire.