A Doorway In Fairyland. By Laurence Housman. (jonathan...
net.)—MOONSHINE AND CLOVER. (Same author, publisher, and price.) In these two volumes Mr. Laurence Housman has reprinted fairy-tales from four previous volumes ; but the tales......
Brown De Braeten. By Flora Forster. (oxford Basil...
6d. net.) There is little story in most modern fairy tales and these are no exception to the rule. All the same, the slight stories are pretty and would amuse a child of five or......
This Is A Dream Story. We Are Tired Of Them.
Sending a child to sleep at the beginning and waking him up at the end is a favourite device to cover clumsy scene-shifting and inconsequent talk. In the present instance the......
Young Children Will Like This Book. The Child-heroine...
an aunt who was the caretaker of an old manor-house, and she used to roam about the deserted rooms with a feeling of awe and w I I • er. Then she came to know the family, who......
The City Of Wishes. By J. A. Bentham. (cape. 5s.net.)
Mr. Cape has conspired to publish all the most delightful story books. In The City of Wishes we read of how Johnny Crane and Ethel were waiting in the nursery for an unpleasant......
Guides To London.
WE have learnt to be shy of attempts to combine instruction and entertainment in books for children but Miss Netta Syrett is unusually successful in Magic London (Thornton......
The Summer Days' Story Book. (ward, Lock And Co. As.
6d. net.) This is one of the more " old-fashioned" children's books : its price is low, its contents indeterminately varied and there are all manner of illustrations. Mr. Heath......
The Cave Twins, The Scotch Twins, The Irish Twins, The
ESKIMO TWINS. By Lucy Fitch Perkins. (Jonathan Cape. Os. each.) The Cave Twins is the fourth and latest volume of the charm- ing" Twin Series," of which half a million copies......
The Princess Of Everywhere And The Fairies. By Lily Hall.
(John Ball and Son. Bs. 6d. net.) "An allegory of life with fairy interludes" is the author's description of her book. Children like " good " books. They have an instinctive......
Doctor Dolittle. Written And Illustrated By Hugh Lofting....
net.) A more delightfully fantastic book cannot be imagined. Both in the story and the illustrations Mr. Lofting walks in that perilous region just within the borders of the......
The Bower Book. By Lucy And Ursula Littlewood. (daniel...
7s. 6d.) A pretty little anthology of poems and verses for children, illustrated by bright-coloured pictures whose only merit is that they may please. It is a little startling......
Alice In Wonderland. By Lewis Carroll. (hodder And...
net.) The original illustrations of Alice in Wonderland so took our hearts and have, through familiarity, become so insepar- able from the tale, that it is with great......
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