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BLANCHE (Editor and Illustrator). Old Songs for Young America. Music
arranged by Clarence Forsyth. Doubleday. 2.00
The familiar songs, set to the music of the old tunes, and charmingly illustrated,--the

costumes those of olden days. Some of the pictures are in color and some in black and
white. The Monkey's Wedding, Bobby Shafto, and Old Dan Tucker, are included in the
contents.
OUR CHILDREN'S SONGS. Harper. 1.25
This carefully chosen collection--in which American poets are well represented--although
made over thirty years ago, still holds its (p. 46) own as a standard. One of the divisions
is devoted to hymns.
TAYLOR, JANE and ANN. Little Ann, and Other Poems. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway.
Warne. 1.00
It is a good thing for children to learn from these quaint verses, with their charming
illustrations, the sort of reading which pleased the small folks of long ago. The Taylors
seldom struck so happy a vein as in the poem called The Field Daisy, which begins:
"I'm a pretty little thing, Always coming with the Spring; In the meadows green I'm
found, Peeping just above the ground, And my stalk is covered flat With a white and
yellow hat."
I prefer the little girls and boys ... that come as you call them, fair or dark, in green
ribbons or blue. I like making cowslip fields grow and apple-trees bloom at a moment's
notice. That is what it is, you see, to have gone through life with an enchanted land ever
beside you.--Kate Greenaway to Ruskin.

RELIGION AND ETHICS
Little Jesus, wast Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be
Out of Heaven, and just like me? Didst Thou sometimes think of there,
And ask where all the angels were? (p. 47) I should think that I would cry For my house
all made of sky; I would look about the air, And wonder where the angels were; And at
waking 'twould distress me-- Not an angel there to dress me!
Hadst Thou ever any toys, Like us little girls and boys? And didst Thou play in Heaven
with all The angels, that were not too tall, With stars for marbles? Did the things Play
Can you see me? through their wings? FRANCIS THOMPSON.
THE BIBLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Century. 1.50
This careful chronological arrangement of Bible history, from the King James version, is
very satisfactory. The book is a large one, with full-page illustrations from the Old
Masters.

STORIES
It is enough fame for any author to be loved by children, generation after generation, long
after he himself has left the scene. W.A. JONES. 1844.
ABBOTT, JACOB. A Boy on a Farm. Edited by Clifton Johnson. From Rollo at Work
and Rollo at Play. Introduction by Dr. Lyman Abbott. American Book. .45
Few books axe remembered with greater affection by persons (p. 48) who were children
in the middle of the last century than those written by Jacob Abbott.... The educational
effect of Jacob Abbott's stories, both mental and moral, was very great.... The insistence,
however, with which these virtues were proclaimed and emphasized, constitutes a
weakness in the books as we view them now.--Preface.
Here we have the very saturnalia of common-sense.... These works are invaluable to
fathers; by keeping always one volume in advance of his oldest son, a man can stand
before the household, an encyclopædia of every practical art. THOMAS WENTWORTH
HIGGINSON.
CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator). Goody Two Shoes. Lane. .25
The text of this famous tale, attributed to Oliver Goldsmith, is perhaps somewhat beyond
the easy comprehension of children of six years, but they will enjoy the interesting
pictures of Margery and her animal friends.
SCUDDER, H.E. (Editor). The Children's Book. Houghton. 2.50
If a child could have but one story-book, a better choice could scarcely be made than this
storehouse of fables, wonder tales, myths, songs, and ballads. Selections from Andersen,
The Arabian Nights, Gulliver, and Munchausen, are included. There are many
illustrations.
TRIMMER, S. (K). (p. 49) The History of the Robins. Edited by E.E. Hale. Heath. .20
Small people like to hear about this father and mother robin and their four babies.
Mrs. Sarah Trimmer ... was a woman of more than the average education and
accomplishment of her day, and enjoyed the friendship of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Sir
Joshua Reynolds, and nearly all of the more celebrated English authors and painters of
that time. She wrote a great many books.... They are now nearly all of them dead and
forgotten; but one of them at least has lived, and has been the delight of thousands of
children for over three-quarters of a century.--Introduction.
WIGGIN, K.D. (S.), and N.A. SMITH. The Story Hour. Houghton. 1.00
These fourteen little stories include some about children and some about animals. They
are