ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
MISS ELELHOR Biases in As the Water Flows (Grant Richards, 26s. net) describes whimsically and somewhat rhetorically her adventurous journeys in a Canadian canoe on little Southern rivers like the Arun and Rother, the Mole, the Salisbury Avon, and the Dorset and Kentish Stows. The slender text is lavishly Illustrated with clever and amusing water-colour drawings by Miss Helen Stratton and with many excellent photographs. Wise fishermen know the charms of these little rivers ; canoeing on them is to be commended only to adventurous spirits who do not mind an upset or two. But Mims Barnes has made a most attractive book.
Messrs. Wells Gardner, Dalton, and Co. publish as usual their engaging annuals. Everyday (Is. 6d. net) is now in its forty- eighth volume ; it is a capital children's magazine, with plenty of good stories and pictures.—Chatterbox Newsbox (2a. net), Leading Strings (2s. 6d. net), and The Prize (2s. 6d. net)—now in its fifty-eighth year—are also very pleasant volumes for young children. The large, clear type is to be noted with approval.— Ward, Lock, and Co.'s W ender Book, edited by Harry Golding (Ward, Lock, Os. net), is another good volume of a popular series.
Herbert Strang's Annual (Milford, Is. 6d. net) is a collection of entertaining stories of war and sport, adventure and school life, which may be heartily commended to boys and girls.— Mrs. Strang's Annual for Girls (Milford, 7s. 6d. net) is another agreeable collection of stories and articles ; it includes a comical poem by Mr. de la Mare, and is well illustrated.—The Oxford Annual for Scouts (Milford, 7s. 6d. net) includes some stories of adventure and also a number of articles on topic's dear to scouts—such as the Morse code, woodcraft, boxing, and the like.
Mr. William J. Long's Wood-Folk Comedies (Harper, 3 dollars net) deals conscientiously with "the play of wild animal life on a natural stage " and, like all the author's works, shows close observation of the wild creatures in the Canadian forests and prairies, It is very readable.—Numbers of Things, written and drawn by Lilian Price Hacker (Milford, 21s. net), is a pretty book with coloured pictures of small girls and verses to match. The colour-printing is exceptionally good.
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