Some Flowers from Mr. E. L. Stevenson's "A Child's Garden
of Verses." Set to Music by Katharine M. Ramsay. (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—Mr. S. R. Crockett writes a pleasant little in- troduction to the sixteen songs from Mr. Stevenson's volume, and Mr. Gordon Browne furnishes some admirable illustrations which fit the words and what Mr. Crockett calls the "sweet rippling child-music" to which Miss Ramsay has set them. What could be better, for instance, than the soldier laddie of p. 15 ? Here is one of these charming little things :— " Summer fading, winter comes— Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Winter robins, winter rooks, And the picture story-books.
Water now is turned to stone Nurse and I can walk upon ; Still we fled the flowing brooks In the picture story-books.
All the pretty things put by, Wait upon the children's eye, Sheep and shepherds, trees and brooks, In the picture story-baoks.
We may see how all things are Seas and cities, near and far, And the flying fairies' looks lathe picture story-books.
How am I to sing your praise, Happy chimney corner days, Sitting safe in nursery nooks, Reading picture story-books "
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