We have one more children's book, which we did not
review in our Christmas Book Supplement, which we should like to recommend heartily to all mothers and friends of children from between the ages of five and ten ; it is Mrs. John Buchan's Jim and the Dragon (Hodder and Stoughton, 5s.), illustrated by George Morrow. Jim is feeling dull one day, and wishes he could go away somewhere " where toys are not broken and there isn't any noise." As it happens in fairy stories, his wish is fulfilled. He finds himself in a noiseless elfin kingdom, where there are lovely meals and a most endearing cockney dragon (in life, one of Carter Paterson's best horses who once "was given an 'eavenly fort- night in Cheapside "). Mrs. Buchan's story is original and amusing—a strange mixture of fantasy and realism, and Mr. Morrow's illustrations are delightful. Every nursery would be enriched by this book.
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