Consult the taste of your child in selecting or guiding his
reading.... Let the boys and girls choose for themselves within
certain limits, only trying to guide them to the best books upon
the subject of their interest, whatever that may be.
Mrs. G.R. FIELD.
BURNETT, F.E. (H.).
Little Lord Fauntleroy.
Scribner. 1.25
Mrs. Burnett's well-known story of the little American boy who in the
course of events becomes heir to an English earldom is included in
this list because of the beautiful and kindly spirit shown by the
child to those about him.
DRUMMOND, HENRY.
*The Monkey That Would Not Kill.
Illustrated by Louis Wain.
Dodd. 1.00
Professor Drummond wrote these two tales--his first attempt at
fiction--while acting as temporary editor of a children's magazine.
The first, that of Tricky, was so liked by children all over the world
that the second, Gum, was written soon after. Mr. Wain's pictures are
very good.
JEWETT, S.O.
Play Days.
Houghton. 1.50
This little book for little girls has all the quiet charm of Miss
Jewett's books for older people. The author has a great gift for
making the fine and beautiful things which lie at the heart (p. 90)
of every-day life stand forth in their true colors, and making
simple pleasures seem very pleasant.
PRENTICE AND POWER.
LUCAS, E.V. (Editor).
Old-Fashioned Tales.
Illustrated by F.D. Bedford.
Stokes. 1.50
Selections from the writings of Maria Edgeworth, Mary Lamb, Peter
Parley, and others.
"The children come, the children go;
To-day grows quickly yesterday;
And we, who quiz quaint fashions so,
We soon shall seem as quaint as they."
The children of those days--our great-great-grandfathers--expected
didacticism. It was part of the game.... In the present collection
there is, I think, no example either of condescension or
showing-off--the two principal faults of books for children. All the
authors seem to me to be simple and single-minded: they wished
above all to be interesting.--_Introduction._
McINTYRE, M.A.
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone.
Appleton. .40
Written in accordance with modern views of science, and
calculated to give children a good idea of prehistoric man and
his ways. What is more, the story is sufficiently interesting to
attract them.--_The Athenæum._
OTIS, JAMES (Pseudonym of J.O. Kaler).
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus.
Harper. .60
Little freckled Toby runs away and joins a circus, where he makes a (p. 91)
friend of Mr. Stubbs, an old monkey. Before long, however, he is glad
to be welcomed home again by old Uncle Daniel. The tawdry life of the
ring is well drawn.
OUIDA (Pseudonym of Louise de la Ramé).
Bimbi.
Lippincott. 1.50
Louise de la Ramé wrote these stories in a way that charms alike grown
people and children. Little August and his beloved Hirschvogel the
great Nürnberg stove, Florentine Lolo and his faithful Moufflou,
Raphael the child of old Urbino, and others, are vividly pictured.
_TEN YEARS OF AGE_ (p. 92)
_There comes a voice that awakes my soul. It is the voice of
years that are gone, they roll before me with their deeds._
OSSIAN.