Jack, commonly called the giant-killer, and Thomas Thumb landed
in England from the very same keels and war-ships which conveyed
Hengist and Horsa, and Ebba the Saxon.
SCOTT.
BROOKE, L.L. (Illustrator).
The Golden Goose Book.
Warne. 2.00
Mr. Brooke has appropriately illustrated these old favorites: The
Golden Goose, The Story of the Three Bears, The Story of the Three
Little Pigs, and Tom Thumb. Of the four, the most popular is the tale
of the adventures of little Tom, the favorite dwarf of the Court of
King Arthur.
"Long time he lived in jollity,
Beloved of the Court,
And none like Tom was so esteemed
Amongst the better sort."
LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE.
Select Fables from La Fontaine.
Illustrated by L.M. Boutet de Monvel.
S.P.C.K.
Stechert. 1.80
This edition is chosen because of Monsieur Boutet de Monvel's charming
small illustrations in color. There are from two to eight pictures on
each page, accompanying the text, which is in verse. (p. 34)
As color appeals to the child before he has much notion of form,
his first picture-book should be colored, and as his ideas of
form develop slowly, his first pictures should be in outline, and
unencumbered with detail. The French illustrator, Boutet de
Monvel, has given us the ideal pictures for young children.
W.T. FIELD.
POETRY, COLLECTIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE, AND STORIES
ADAPTED FROM GREAT AUTHORS
Blind Homer and the chief singer of Israel and skalds and bards
and minnesingers are all gone, tradition is almost a byword, but
mothers still live, and children need not wait until they have
conquered the crabbed types before they begin to love literature.
Mrs. H.L. ELMENDORF.
ADELBORG, OTTILIA.
*Clean Peter and the Children of Grubbylea.
Longmans. 1.25
This large oblong book contains simple verses accompanying delightful
full-page pictures in delicate colors somewhat after the French
manner. It tells how Clean Peter brought tidiness to a little town.
"The children out in Grubbylea
Are all as clean as clean can be.
And Peter's living there to-day,
The children begged him so to stay."
BURGESS, GELETT. (p. 35)
*Goops and How To Be Them.
A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants.
Illustrated by the Author.
Stokes. 1.50
If there ever was anyone who could cover little pills with a thick
coating of sugar, it was Mr. Burgess when he wrote these clever verses
and drew these ninety original and always funny pictures. Children
delight in the Goops. It is almost worth while being one to have this
volume of warning thrust into our hands.
"I never knew a Goop to help his mother,
I never knew a Goop to help his dad,
And they never do a thing for one another;
They are actually, absolutely bad!
"If you ask a Goop to go and post a letter,
Or to run upon an errand, _how_ they act!
But somehow I imagine you are better,
And you _try_ to go, and _cry_ to go, in fact!"
BURGESS, GELETT.
*More Goops and How Not To Be Them.
A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants.
Illustrated by the Author.
Stokes. 1.50
A delightful companion volume of dreadful examples. With ninety-seven
illustrations.
"You who are the oldest,
You who are the tallest,
Don't you think you ought to help
The youngest and the smallest?
"You who are the strongest, (p. 36)
You who are the quickest,
Don't you think you ought to help
The weakest and the sickest?
"Never mind the trouble,
Help them all you can;
Be a little woman!
Be a little man!"
HEADLAND, I.T. (Translator).
Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes.
Revell. 1.00
Mr. Headland, who is a professor in the Imperial University at Peking,
tells us: "There is no language in the world, we venture to believe,
which contains children's songs expressive of more keen and tender
affection.... This fact, more than any other, has stimulated us in the
preparation of these rhymes.... The illustrations have all been
prepared by the translator specially for this work."
The Oriental atmosphere of the book and the many Chinese pictures lead
our children of the Western world most delightfully into this old
land.
"He climbed up the candlestick,
The little mousey brown,
To steal and eat tallow,
And he couldn't get down.
He called for his grandma,
But his grandma was in town,
So he doubled up into a wheel
And rolled himself down."
LEAR, EDWARD. (p. 37)
*Nonsense Books.
Little. 2.00
The nonsense classic, which should be among the first books secured
for a child's library. This edition contains all the Nonsense Books,
with all the original illustrations.
"'How pleasant to know Mr. Lear,'
Who has written such volumes of stuff!
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few think him pleasant enough."
NORTON, C.E. (Editor).
Heart of Oak Books. Volume I.
Rhymes, Jingles, and Fables.
Heath. .25
"Mother Goose is the best primer. No matter if the rhymes be
nonsense verses; many a poet might learn the lesson of good
versification from them, and the child in repeating them is
acquiring the accent of emphasis and of rhythmical
form."--_Preface._
SAGE, BETTY (Pseudonym of Mrs. E. (S.) Goodwin).
Rhymes of Real Children.
Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith.
Duffield. 1.50
These verses are written from the child's point of view, and are
delightful alike to young and old. Miss Smith never did better work
than in these beautiful sympathetic pictures and fascinating borders.
The book is a large square one.
"If you could see our Mother play (p. 38)
On the floor,
You'd never think she was as old
As twenty-four.
On Sunday, when she goes to church,
It might be,
But Tuesdays she is just the age
Of Joe and me."
UPTON, BERTHA.
*The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg.
Illustrated by Florence K. Upton.
Longmans. 2.00
Children will like the funny, brightly colored pictures in this large
oblong book, and will be fascinated by the Golliwogg. The verses are
not equal to the illustrations.