Among the miscellaneous books for children we must mention as
particularly good Grant Richards' Children's Annual for 1905, edited by T. W. H. Crosland and W. Collinge (Grant Richards, 5s.) The editors have enlisted the services of some skilful penmen and artists. Miss Edith Farmiloe's "Little Girl Stolen," reminding us strongly of Phil May, and Mr. George Morrow's "Punch and Judy" may be specially mentioned. Mr. Patten Wilson's work also is notably good. His pencil can give us pretty things, and comic, and terrible. Possibly his hunting scenes, with their toybox men, horses, and dogs, are the best. Here a practical joke has been played on the author of the letter- press, who evidently intended serious pictures. —Sea and Sand, a Picture-book by Ruth Cobb, with Verses by Edward Shirley (T. Nelson and Sons, 35. 6d.), is sufficiently amusing.— We have also received No End of Fun (same publishers, 6d.) ; The Wonderful Story of Henny-Penny, Pictured by W. D. Adams (W. Heinemann, is. net); The Story of Little Jack Sprat, Pictured by Frank Adams (Methuen and Co., 2s.) Both verses
By D. Gwyn Jeffreys. (Same publishers. 28.
6d.)—Ths
Tale of Benjamin Bunny.
By Beatrix Potter. (F. Warne and
Co. Is. and Is. 6d.)—Very charming little pictures of a comically humanised rabbit. —Billy Ruddytocks, an Ancient British Boy, by Lily Schofield (Swan Sonnenschein and Co., Is. net), can hardly compete with a pen that has made prehistoric man its own.—The Motor Car Dumpy Book, by T. W. H. Crosland, Drawn in Colours by J. R. Monsen (Grant Richards, is. Gd.), ought to be amusing, but it requires a critic who has a ear to appreciate the fun.
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