Five Years of Age

How am I to sing your praise,

Happy chimney-corner days,

Sitting safe in nursery nooks,

Reading picture story-books?

Stevenson.

Geography, Travel, And Description

When the ice lets go the river,

When the wild-geese come again,

When the sugar-maple swells,

When the maple swells its buds,

Then the little blue birds come,

Then my little Blue Bird came.

Indian lullaby from The Childhood Of Ji-shib The Ojibwa.

Deming, T.O.

Indian Child-Life. Illustrated by E. W. Deming. Stokes. 2.00

Pleasant sketches of the children of different tribes, with many full-page color plates after paintings in water-color, and black and white illustrations. The big oblong pictures, with their primitive Indian coloring, are unusually attractive.

Mythology, Folk-lore, Legends, And Fairy Tales

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.

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.

*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, 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.

*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 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.

Stories

President Thwing says: "Children rarely have but one object in reading, and that is to amuse themselves"; and surely in this playtime of life this aim should be the chief one.

A. H. Wikel.

Craik, G.M.

(Mrs. G.M. (C.) May).

So-Fat and Mew-Mew. Heath. .20

An account of two little animal friends, a cat and dog, which will please small children who are outgrowing Mother Goose.

Hopkins, W.J.

The Sandman: His Farm Stories. Page. 1.50

Very simple and delightful narratives of the life of a little boy on a farm seventy-five years ago. The atmosphere of the sketches is redolent of wholesome country life. They were used as bedtime stories at home for several years before publication.

Potter, Beatrix.

The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. Illustrated by the Author. Warne. .50

The story of little Benjamin Bunny's visit to his cousin Peter Rabbit. A companion volume to The Tale of Peter Rabbit. These colored pictures of the small bunnies seem to the compiler the cunningest of this charming series.

Potter, Beatrix.

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin. Illustrated by the Author. Warne. .50

Telling how bad little Nutkin was rude and saucy to Old Brown the owl, and what came of it. Very exciting, but not harrowing, even for tiny listeners. The pictures are in color.