The Silver Trumpet. By Owen Barfield. (faber And Gwyer. 7s.
6d.) A PLEASANTLY written fairy tale of twin Princesses who were as like as peas outside and remarkably unlike in character. It is fantastic, yet gravely plausible.......
A New Story By E. Nesbit. In The Old Delightful
formula of The Treasure Seekers and The Would-be-Goods. One of a type of book that has delighted generations of children from seven, to fourteen.......
A Select- List Of Children's Books
THE CAT, THE DOG, AND THE DORMOUSE. By Alice Hall. (Blackie. 6s.) PARTICULARLY attractive fairy "stories; the first of which is told from the point of view of a beautiful: black......
Tim Companion Annual Is Designed To Please Both Boys And
girls, between, WE should suppose, the ages of six and ten. It is what used to be called " a pretty book," a little - old- fashioned in tone—made up of pleasant stories and......
Star. Stories. By Muriel Kinney Basil. (blackwell: 2s....
rimasArrr book which gives the legends of the COnStellaiions. It is illustrated with excellent and decorative charts and several line-drawings.......
The Scout. Founded By Sir Robert Baden-powell. (pearson.
lOw. - 13d.) - Tax twentieth volume consists of over a thousand closely printed pages and innumerable illustrations. There -is a " Cub's Corner," making the letterpress suitable......
Most Growing-up Girls Would Find, This A Very Handy Book
to have by them. It gives excellent advice on many subjects. For instance, how best to give a young people's garden party in a small garden, how to do the most fashionable kind......
Reprinted Nature-stories In Mr. Seton's...
boys and girls of ten or twelve.......
The Adventure Club. By Rose Fyleman. (-methuen., The...
the possible, if not quite probable, adventures • that befell a large family of children at the seaside. It is a pity that the book is not printed in better type. If it were, it......
Every Boy's Open Air Book. By N. Thurston Hopkins. (cecil
Palmer. Price 6s.) How to play imaginative games out-of-doors is something well worth teaching. In this very original children's book it is, we think, well taught and charmingly......
A Pleasantly Instructive Book Is A Boon To Parents Tired
of reading aloud school stories in mild imitation of detective novels and impossible adventures with wild men and beasts in the Colonies. Really well-illustrated and......
Tine Is A Great Deal Of Reading In This Book
for the money. Hair's-breadth escapes and great doings by juvenile heroes are related and strikingly illustrated.......
The Quoks. By Luxor Price.. (w. R. Chambers. 135. Net.)
THE strange. tory of an imaginary country,Still more strangely illustrated by exceedingly elaborate drawings. A picture book that is likely to foster imagination in a practical......
The Games, The School Exploits, The Domesticities And...
herein deseribed will be to English boys a little strange and therefore a little more interesting to read of than the familiar possibilities and impossibilities of everyday life......
The - Boy's Own Annual : Xlvii. (boy's Own Paper Office T ,
Bouverie Street. Price 12s. 6d.) . _ The fortY-seventh volume of The Roy's Own Annual contains much, 1pesides the regulation stories. Under the heading " When I leave School,"......
The Girl's Own Is, As Its Second Title Tells Us,
in reality a magaiine for women. It is in no sense a children's book. It contains articles and stories by well-known writers, and in the present volume are two long serial......
Timuon The Drawing Is Undistinguished, These . Panoramas Arc
printed in gay colours and are almost indestrUctible. They would delight a toddling child.......
The Boy's Wireless Annual. (newnes., 3s. 6d.) Cour.n Any...
costing only 3s. 6d. be more acceptable to a big boy ? A really practical illustrated manual explains the installation of wireless in a way that would - delight' any boy already......
Children Of The Mountain And Plain. Chil- Dren Of The
FIELD AND FOREST. By Unc13 Robert s (Black. ls. 6d. each.) . Two unusually pleasant little books about the children of remote countries, illustrated with drawings and......
Annuals -
This would make a delightful present for any girl between the ages of ten and fifteen. Many of the stories and articles are quite charming, notably " Behind the -Scenes at the......
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