Of course there are baby flat-fish, and large fish too, along the shore.

' He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.

All are in Angelico's happiest manner, with plenty of gold; and the predella of the Coronation is the prettiest thing possible, with its blue saints gathered about a blue Mary and Joseph, who bend over the Baby.

The whole picture very charming and easy, with the pleasantest colouring imaginable and pretty details, such as the washing of the baby and the boy warming his hands, while of the two women in the foreground, that on the left, facing the spectator, is a portrait of Andrea's wife, Lucrezia.

He was the first to bring a tender humanity into the Church, the first to know that a mother's fingers, holding a baby, sink into its soft little body.

One learns quickly how bad modern mortuary architecture and sculpture can be, but I noticed one monument with some sincerity and unaffected grace: that to a charitable Marchesa, a friend of the poor, at the foot of whose pedestal are a girl and baby done simply and well.

Repeatedly attempts were made to remove the dead baby, but they were futile because Gertie either held it in her hands or sat close beside it ready to seize it at the slightest disturbance.

"Well," said Haines, "he was like a baby in the hands of Barry.

I think she must once have nursed children, for the words she knows are baby words; she always calls me "poor Missy baba" and strokes me!

When little Jean was born they were greatly interested in the first white baby they had seen, and Ronald said rapturously: "Oh, Mummy, aren't ladies darlings when they are babies?

" Their mother found them one day bending over the cradle, arguing as to why the baby cried.

Hilda is inclined to love the gay world, and finds Rika too quietthe baby aged six!

"Otter?" said I. "Yes," said Mr. Royle; "they are baby otters that the fisherman found at the side of the lake.

The Healthy Baby, Dennett, The Macmillan Co. $1.00.

The Care of the Baby, Holt.

"That is poor Agnes' baby.

" "Agnes' baby?

Why, I didn't know that Agnes had a baby.

"Oh, how beautiful!" said Camilla; "surely this can't be Agnes' baby.

Now, Pa, I don't want Agnes' baby to be a slave.

" The next day Camilla went again to the cabin of Miriam; but the overseer had set her to a task in the field, and Agnes' baby was left to the care of an aged woman who was too old to work in the fields, but not being entirely past service, she was appointed as one of the nurses for the babies and young children, while their mothers were working in the fields.

Agnes is dead; your husband is gone, and I want you to come and bring the baby to the house, and I am going to get him some beautiful dresses, and some lovely coral I saw in New Orleans, and I am going to dress him so handsomely, that I believe Pa will feel just as I do, and think it a shame that such a beautiful child should be a slave.

A baby, too, you said?" she asked coolly.

"Oh, my little brother," he said to the baby, on the morning of our departure, when he had insisted on taking him and seating him on his fat, dirty knee, "you will never come back to see your poor brother again!"

It seemed such a simple thing to us to take up an upright baby grand piano that we never thought we were doing anything out of the common, until we looked down over the railing and saw that no less than fifty boats had ranged themselves in front of our house-boat, with as much curiosity in our proceedings as if we were going to have a trained animal exhibit.