The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-05-23

Cinderella" Then comes the Robin Hood
series s,sw With "RRobI9son crqsoe" .ycTSyJ Vs., Tnch B
"%%HiiSSdSiSn.." All BaSS. and aJack, the Giant
s SiISst with IT'D ! Dame ms ' Trst and J Her sHS cat."a hI.siS
FIVE FR,ef TiP9ile piSslsn.E " z SG %S,S he sGi S6ss, and The rSS
OLE, woman who lived in a shoe" These stories
in tho books IL in the elaboration of the stories
and pictures. AB the price OF books grows higher
a Enc d shc / G9osf io ARE iSfes SSs Tor fooS o5dS sIa GniaarSl1
Illustrated In beautiful colors and the text Is
given in full. Grimm and Hans Christian An;
their stories are made. Then, OF course, there
are the nqm6erless animal. books, tho stories
little rhymes and stories that please the children
when they have laid aside for a while their fairy
tales and Mother Goose"
gave some information concerning the books 70
asuM reporter. Tho most popular book of al.
Of time, e ",Cindoroiia.," About a, hundred dif.
t sooss "G and @hit 81 i Rsd RE Riain %ad Hood rdM Ioflow
closely after, although few hiRh.grade Mother
Goose" books are made, because by the time tho
S S@i'a 'p "a SaS 'P SogSad io his hPSSi MotHcr Goose 9os "0G aay %S
Stories, OF the Three Bears" tho Three
lar; These animals always appeal to the child,
and countless numbers OF variations on those
thie@eS is are q Pn %S on tnG msf fsSor StSh a ySdHt the 1 poem
Twas the Night Before Christmas" goes out
In twenty or thirty different costumes. Speak
ing of the tastes of children Mr.. Rigney said:
day want about the same things they did twenty.
timc:honorcd stories. occasionally some new
child's book is put on the market and enjoys n
f%p !Mo @ SsqF aio 56Sn j y and u t fUss sd Z fsIr Sf tales ss %Svcf
die. The sales of these books increase every
year,, at least IN proportion to, the, growth of tho
population. The child of to-day is not very DIFF
fairies, the COLLINS, the brownies, and the ami.
Nor has their taste in pictures ehangei ma
tcrially. The child is full OF barbaric instinct
p plenty w Of red in il Ir catches his eye. He doesn't
care for the pale, washed-out colors, of modern
art. or course, the pictures OF to-day are in
In high.grade books are found hnc specimens
OF lithogrsphing and color 3r p5int ing but to make
are The s@ Chief pSH thing, and as The, children grow
and then dispIace the pictures. As the child
grows older his. pictures are softened IN color
until in the high,gradiS Dc books sSd;s,O very y I n',hIis h, re,
the old stories we must put, out every year nov
elites that are up to date just at present we
! which the wheel is the most important factor in
the story or rhyme. They are very popular now
and will continue to be SO until the popularity
Ne ideas of high art of the yellow book dc.
s sThpfiSne sr Sa ali be eeny N MSI' IN t laGiF T ths same o%1 oG Il
true OF many other publishers. that children do
not care for them very much. However much
the taste OF adults has advanced, the child is the
same as he always was, and wants the
same things his father and grandfather did.
Whatever change of taste there is from
year to, year is In not the subject OF the
book but In the makeup. That OF
course plays a very important part in our bust.
ness, and we must be prepared constantly ia
meet with an unexpected call on some one line.
That is the uncertain part OF the business. and
it compels us to keep on hand a very large stock
OF everything.
Il do not think any one need worry about the
oyersophistication OF the American child. He
10 the same as he ever was. and ] doubt the time
the old stories and the old rhymes"