Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck.
SHAKSPERE.
KIPLING, RUDYARD.
Puck of Pook's Hill.
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Doubleday. 1.50
To Dan and Una, sitting, on Midsummer's Eve, in the old fairy ring,
appears Puck. By his magic power on this and succeeding visits
incidents based on events in Old England's history are told to the
children by those who shared in them. A series of remarkable stories,
alternating with even more remarkable poems. The average child will
better enjoy hearing them read aloud, as they presuppose a fuller (p. 182)
knowledge of English history than most American children are likely
to possess. Mr. Rackham's pictures in color are fine work.
POETRY, COLLECTIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE, AND STORIES ADAPTED FROM
GREAT AUTHORS
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
EMERSON.
LANG, ANDREW.
The Blue Poetry Book.
Longmans. 2.00
The Editor trusts that this book may be a guide into romance and
fairy-land to many children.... By way of lending no aid to what
is called Education, very few notes have been added. The child
does not want everything to be explained; in the unexplained is
great pleasure. Nothing, perhaps, crushes the love of poetry more
surely and swiftly than the use of poems as
schoolbooks.--_Introduction._
This excellent collection, for the most part British verse, contains a
large proportion of Scotch songs and ballads. The productions of
contemporary poets are not included.
LANIER, SIDNEY.
The Boy's Percy.
Scribner. 2.00
Old Ballads of War, Adventure, and Love, from Bishop Thomas (p. 183)
Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry.--_Title-page._
But, passing far beyond the plans of these small antiquarian
pleasures, Percy's book immediately enriched our whole ordinary
existence by making common property of those golden figures which
the undying ballad-maker had enameled into the solid tissue of
English life.... Each ballad is given here exactly as it stands
in the original except that the spelling has been modernized and
such parts cut away as cleanliness required.--_Introduction._
NORTON, C.E. (Editor).
Heart of Oak Books. Volume VI.
Masterpieces of Literature.
Heath. .55
The worth of the masterpieces of any art increases with use and
familiarity of association. They grow fresher by custom; and the
love of them deepens in proportion to the time we have known
them, and to the memories with which they have become
invested.--_Preface._
REPPLIER, AGNES (Editor).
A Book of Famous Verse.
Houghton. 1.25
In selecting these few poems I have had no other motive than to
give pleasure to the children who may read them; and I have tried
to study their tastes, and feelings, and
desires.--_Introduction._
Though issued in 1892, Miss Repplier's excellent collection still
holds its own among the very best, because of the high quality and
interest of the poems chosen. The little book is of a most convenient
size to carry about with one.