Children's Books.
FOLK-LORE, MYTHS AND FAIRY TALES. THE savage who believes the sun to be an extremely fine pomegranate was wholly in the right ; the philosopher who taught that the sun was five......
Theocritus, Dion And Moschus. Rendered Into English Prose...
Lang. Illustrated by W. Russel Flint. 2 vols. (The Riccardi Press. £8 18s. 6d.) These beautiful books do an excellentservice to the dilettante who delights in such things. They......
The Christmas Stories Of Charles Dickens (jonathan Cape....
Charles Dickens's Christmas Stories do not all belong, we venture to think, to the immortal part of Charles Dickens. Every age has its own sentimentality. Sentimentality should......
A Fascinating Collection Of Coaching Stories, Full Of The...
that they will always have until railways . disappear. The illustrations from old prints and pictures are excellent.......
The History Of Don Quixote. Illustrated By Jean De...
(Constable and Co. 21s. net.) Many people will welcome this carefully-abridged edition of Don Quixote, that formidable romance. The illustrations are attractive and always in......
The Bric-a-brac Collector. By H. W. Lewer, F.s.a., And...
Percival. (Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d. net.) All who have the collector's temperament will find themselves very pleasantly tempted and encouraged by the reading of this little......
Rubaivat Of Omar Khayyam. Rendered Into "eng- Lish Verse By
Edward Fitzgerald. With Decorations by "Fish." (John Lane. 21s. net.) Christmas without a new illustrated edition of the Rubiliyat is as unlikely as a man without sin. But there......
Galloping Shoes Is Illustrated By Mr. Lionel Edwards,...
is well known to readers of Country Life. The atmosphere of heartiness and energy breathed by the verse is somewhat exhausting, but taken individually the poems are not bad......
In Lotus-land Japan. By Herbert G. Ponting. (dent. 18s....
The book of which this is a revised edition was originally published twelve years ago. It is a book well worth reissue. Mr. Ponting's style is undistinguished and he often, more......
Maui). By Alfred Lord Tennyson. Illustrated By Edmund J....
(Macmillan. 10s. net.) A white cover spattered with silver stars and drops that may be ear-rings. Inside is a picture of a coy young woman hold- ing a lily in on hand and a rose......
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