The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-17

and the cover design is striking.
Child Verse" Poems grave and gay,
by John B. Tabb. Cloth $100 Pub
lished by Small, Maynard q Co., Bos-
ton.
1t is out right and proper at this holi-
day time and in this festal paper to
give particular attention to the = oks
for young readers. This is such an
exquisite specimen of the art of print
ing, the selections are so admirable in
every way, that we are tempted to
quote pretty freely. There are rs pages
each given to separate title.
A CAVALCADE.
Thistle Down, Thistle Down, whittier
away?
Will you not longer abide?
Nay, we have welded the winds today,
And home with rovers we ride.
SLEEP.
When he is a little chap
We call him Nap;
When he somewhat older grows
We call him Doze
When his age by hours we number,
We call him Slumber.
THE FREELY.
Are you flying through the night
Looking where to find me?
Nay, travel with a light
For the folks behind me.
A SPY (NOT THE DAILY.
Sighed the languid moon to the morn
ing star (not the "Only")
20 little maid how late you are!'
81 Couldn't rise from my couch" quoth
she,
while the Man-in-t the Moon was look
ing at me-"
A LAMENT.
20, Lady Cloud, why are you weeping?"
1 said.
| Because" she made answer, my rain
beau is dead
The lullaby, which the author entities
''Slumber Song is a gem:
Lo, in the west
A cloud at rest;
A babe upon its mothers breast
Is sleeping now.
| Above it beams
A star that seems
To shed the light of holy dreams.
Upon it's brow.
But cloud and star,
Tho nearer far,
They seem, my Babe, more distant
are
From heaven than thou
Then we like the catchy little verse
called the "Tryst."
Potato was deep in the dark under
ground,
Tomato, above in the light;
The little tomato was rudy and round,
The little potato was white.
| And redder and redder she rounded
above,
And paler and paler he grew;
And neither suspected mutual love,
Till they met in Brunswick stew.
The Following will be read with in
terest by the gunners or the Worcester
Fur Club:
THE END OF IT.
A whole tail dog and half-tail dog
And dog without tail
Went all three out on an autumn day,
To follow a red-fox tram.
But the dogs that carried their tails
along
Fell out, it is said. by the way;
And the loss of q tail-and -a-half at the
end
OF the dogs put an end to the fray.
When each, as a morsel sweet, gulped
down
What had late been neighbours
PRIZE.
you've kept your tails laughed the
no-tail dog,
But you wear them now inside"
The children and young people can
have no monopoly of this thoroughly
delightful verse most original and pi-
quaint. All ages delight in this sort of
thing.
'Our Country in Poem and Prose-" ar
ranged for collateral and supplement-
airy reading, by Eleanor A. Perkins
teacher Of history, Yonkers public
schools. Published by the American
Book Co.
This book presents one Of the best
collections of purely American poems
on patriotic subjects yet published Tt
is one of the Eclectic school reading
books, and seems to us an admirable
book for the use of schools 1t is brought
down TO date with Havana Harbor -
by Oliver; "A Ballad of Manila Bay"
by Roberts; THE Men Behind the
Guns by Shea; Wheeler at SANTA
60" by Gordon; Don't Cheer, the Poor
Devils are Dying" by Hubbell;
Boundaries of the United States" by
Fiske; The Schoolhouse Stands by the
Flag" by Butterworth.
philip Nolan's Friends" a story of the
change of western empire, by Edward
Everett Hale. Sold by Sanford, Saw
telle Co. Cloth. Published by Little,
Brown & Co, Boston.
1t is delight to the friends of DR..
Hale to know that his works are being
issued III a uniform series by Little,
Brown & Co. There are old friends
and new ones are coming in this series.
To one who knows DR.. Hale's droll hui
NOR and vivacious narrative, it is given
to predict that his books belong in the
list of American classics. Massachu-
sets give Lowell, Hawthorne Whitti- |
err, Holmes, Longfellow To this COM |
pany Hale must sooner or later belong. |
These are the men who have made Bos- |
ton and Cambridge and in some ways
our state the centre of education and |
learning.
Philip Nolan's Friends" was written
in 1876. This edition has a new pre-
face by the author. Philip Nolan |
played an important part in the history |
of the United States at the time of |
the annexation of Louisiana He was
murdered by the Spanish govern |
ment.
Twelve English Poets" by Blanche
Wilder Bellamy. Published by CHM |
& Co. Boston.
The sketches collected in this volume
originally appeared in Outlook Their |
aim was to show to young readers the !