MRS. STRANG'S ANNUAL FOR CHILDREN. (Milford. 5s. net.)
Mrs. Strang's Annual for Children is a delightful collec- tion of stories, verses and pictures. Some of the stories are of the present day and relate the holiday and school adventures of people of about the age of the" Upper Fourth," while others take us to the land of talking animals and high-spirited, if not naughty, princesses. The illustrations are on the same level as the text, and we have no doubt will give great satisfaction.
Blackie's Children's Annual (5s. net) is as good as ever, and consists of long and short stories, verses and articles, describing various nursery crafts, besides being fully illustrated in black- and-white and colour.
The Child's Companion (R.T.S., 2s. 6d. net) comes as the ninety-ninth volume of an excellent little illustrated annual, containing pleasantly instructive articles and pictures about some of those many things of which the mere variety, as Stevenson says, "ought to make us all as happy as kings." There is an interesting serial of which one of the characters is a large and independent cat.
Our Little Dots (R.T.S., 2s. 6d. net) and The Child's Own Magazine (Sunday School Union, 2s. net) are both of a slightly more serious nature than some of the other annuals. The latter contains, among other things, Bible stories and Natural History pages, as well as puzzles and letters to the editor.
Blackie's Little Ones' Annual (3s. 6d. net) contains stories about the things that happen in a child's world, and also of such things as talking rabbits, or a fairy housemaid, that children like to think of as only very slightly removed from the world of their actual experience. The book is full of pretty pictures.
The Tiny Folks' Annual, edited by Mrs. Strang and pub- lished by Mr. Humphrey Milford at 4s. 6d. net is for children just past babyhood and is as good as ever this year.
Of Mrs. Strang's Annual for Baby (Humphrey Milford, 4s. net) there is no need to say more than that it is as well suited to its purpose of pleasing very little children as it always has been.
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