Robertson call his little essays " stories " for children?
An author presumably knows what meaning he wishes to convey to the reader, but people who wish for a story-book will not find exactly what they expect here. These papers will, however, attract and hold the attention of the thoughtful, imaginative child, and will be welcome to those of us who are not afraid of admitting the fallibility of grown-up knowledge on such a subject as the beginning and the end of the Universe. We can here =ad about light and heat waves, microbes, malaria,
and mosquitos, make acquaintance with the " missing link " and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Anthropoid Ape (this chapter, we admit, might be called a story), and consider the ways of the ant. The book is well and plentifully illustrated in black-
and-white and in colour by Miss K. Clausen.
We can do no more than call our readers' attention to The Tale of Pigling Bland (F. Warne and Co., la. net), in which Miss Potter again delights her little readers in her well-known charming and fanciful manner.—From the same publishers we have The Old Fairy Tales (2a. 6d. net) of " Puss in Boots " and "Jack and the Beanstalk," capitally illustrated by Mr. H. M. Brock in colour and black-and-white. They are also issued separately in attractive paper covers at ls. net each. —These publishers have sent us A Nursery Rhyme Book (2s. 6d. net.), with drawings in colour and black-and-white by Mr. Leslie Brooke. Among other delightful pictures he shows us " Goosey Gander " starting on his mission and fulfilling it with conscious rectitude. These rhymes and pictures are also published in two pretty little paper-covered volumes at ls. net each.
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