An Illustrated Edition, set in old-faced type, with 10 full-page
Photogravures, Title-page, Tail-pieces, and Cover-design by Maxfield
Parrish. Sq. 8vo. $2.50 net.
_Dial._—‘One of the most delightful holiday books of
a season or two ago was the edition of Mr. Kenneth
Grahame’s “The Golden Age,” with illustrations by Mr.
Maxfield Parrish. Even more delightful is the companion
volume now issued containing the same author’s
“Dream Days.” It is hardly necessary to speak of Mr.
Grahame’s text. His two books hold a place apart in
the literature of childhood, and we can well envy the
reader who has yet to make their acquaintance.’
DR. GUY CARLETON LEE, _Baltimore Sun_.—‘Very few more
delightful books than “Dream Days” have ever seen the
light. If we were forced to make out a list of the
works of literature published during the last two
decades, that are, in our judgment, likely to be alive
two decades hence, in the very brief list we should
certainly include “Dream Days.”’
_Churchman._—‘To put yourself in a child’s place, to
think a boy’s thoughts about the happenings of everyday
life, is a rare quality in any writer. Still more rare
is it, perhaps, to dream the child’s dreams in literary
form, to preserve the evanescent glow of juvenile
fancy. In that art, as it seems to us, Kenneth Grahame
has no present rival.’
_Boston Evening Transcript._—‘Hardly since Robert Louis
Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” have we had
such imaginative presentation of the juvenile point of
view.’
_Brooklyn Eagle._—‘Mr. Grahame is one of those wizards
whose magic has created pictures of childlife exquisite
in humour, quaint in fancy, subtle in charm. In Mr.
Maxfield Parrish the author has an ideal illustrator.’
_New York Tribune._—‘Mr. Parrish is one of the most
original and effective draughtsmen that we have, and in
this series of illustrations he is at his best. A more
exquisitely decorated Christmas book than this it has
not been our fortune to see.’