The Golden Staircase Bonus for Children. Chosen by Loney Chisholm.
(T. ,C. and E. C. Jack.)—This admirable anthology, to which we had the pleasure of giving some well-deserved praise some little time ago, is now reprinted in a cheap form, nine parts costing Is. 6d. in all. One part may be had for a ninth of that sum, or, to descend to particulars, from twelve to eighteen poems for a penny. Take the first part,—there is one by Tennyson (" Little Birdie"); five by R. L. Stevenson; the tragic tale of Augustus who cried "Take that nasty soup away," and the almost equally tragic story of "Little Suck-a-Thumb" ; Mr. Eric Parker's charming "My Garden"; and twenty-eight others. The other parts are, as far as We can judge, equally good, though the poems are, as one might expect, somewhat longer. Miss Chisholm, we see, has been more than usually fortunate in getting permission to include in her collection poems still in copyright. —With this we may mention Lousy Chisholzres Fairy Book (same publishers, 6d.)
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