The Fairy Doll. By Netta Syrett. (lane. Bs. 6d. Net.)
These gentleand amusing fairy plays could be understood by the smallest children. They are easy to act and their mild morality will do no harm.......
The Latest Children's Book By The Author Of The "peter
Rabbit" books. It contains eight nursery rhymes illustrated by pleasant pictures of animals.......
Pierrot And Harlequin. By Plumerau. (duck- Worth. 2s. 6d....
An amusing picture book. The drawings have humour and pleasant colour. But why can we not have something in England of the quality of Giro giro tondo ?......
Three Naughty Children. By Orb O Williams. (duckworth....
net.) A laboured fantasy of a typical fairy-story Court, in which most of the characters are named after musical terms. The illustrations seem designed for the Worst kind of......
The Land Of Funny Folks And Rhymes. (blackie And Son.
is. 6d. net.) A small book, in which animals are anthropomorphized in facile limericks and other verse-forms. The illustrations are probably too childish to appeal to any normal......
Long Ago In Galilee. By Muriel Clark. (the Carey Press,
19 Furnival Street, E.C. 4. 2s. 6d. net.) These religious stories record events in the life of Christ as seen by children in Galilee in those days. Quotations from the Bible are......
One Of Those Fairy Stories Which Might Bring The Thought
of the country and green lanes pleasurably before a London child at Christmas. Its effect would be pleasantly soothing, read before bedtime.......
The Wonder Book. (ward, Lock And Co. 6s. Net.) The
eighteenth issue of this annual shows no falling oft in quality or variety. There are twelve colour-plates, each of which might well have been from an annual of last century.......
A Delightful Book With Large, Ample, Satisfying Drawings,...
the Caldicott tradition. Mr. Brooke, author of Johnnie Crow's Garden, is, of course, something of a nursery celebrity.......
Meg Of The Brownies. By Margaret Stuart Lane. (milford. 2s.
6d. net.) The woods and fields of Sussex make a pleasant back- ground to this story of the Brownies, the younger sisters of the Girl Guides. There is a most attractive motif for......
Arnot, A Knight Of Africa. By Ernest Baker. (seeley, Service
and Co. 3s. 6d. net.) A good present for a child interested in missionary work. The accounts of native life are misleading and biased ; but the book, if inaccurate, is exciting.......
Nursery Rhymes. With 12 Coloured Plates And 50...
the text by Maud Tindal Atkinson. (Daniel O'Connor. 7s. 6d.) A well selected and comprehensive book. The illustrations are strictly in the dull tradition of such work.......
Lady Strachey's Verses Have A Pleasant Flavour Of...
without sentimentality. The variations on the themes of well-known nursery rhymes are the best things in an agreeable book.......
The Little Rhodesian. By Margaret Batchelor. (milford....
of those stories for nice mild little girls. There is no plot, but the incidents in the life of a lonely little girl in Rhodesia are sympathetically described. There are some......
Simple Fairy _stories Told Simply And Conversationally....
Cat " of the title, a cat with a violet nose, indigo eyes, pale 'blue ears, a front legs, a yellow body, orange back legs, and Ei red tail, is the hero of four of the stories.......
Boys' Books.
A FEW decades ago G. A. Henty and Jules Verne represented the archetypal adventure book, just as Marryat and Fenimore Cooper did before them. Henty gave his heroes minor parts......
This New Edition Of A Most Justly Popular Children's Story
is illustrated by clearly drawn and attractively coloured pictures.......
Hawthorne's Wonder Book. Illustrated By Arthur Racklaorn....
20s. net.) Mr. Rackham goes on for ever, but he never makes a sudden sally and never sparkles anywhere. The memory cannot - distinguish one book that he has illustrated from......
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