New-York tribune., 1901-12-07

auusement but what we may call comic side
lights on American history. Daddy Cancer
CF'rancis z. Mason Publishing Company Is
written by Francis E. Mason and illustrated oy
Spedon. Both rhymes and pictures are cruoe
and are hardly likely TO instruct or please chill
dren From the "Goody Two Ghoes Picture
Rook" fJohn Lane). on the other hand, a child
could not help but derive enjoyment. ana peneht
to it's taste into the bargain. The three stories
are exactly what they ought to be, the eighteen
coIored pictures provided by Walter Crane are
delightful examples of that distinguished artists
stvle and they are, besides. really beautfui
specimens of color reproduction
Florence K. Upton and Bertha Upton are
never at loss for new situations in which 10
represent their renowned hero. This year. In
'aThe Golliwogg's Auto-Go-Cart' Nongnans.
Green G. Coz, they send him off in a vehicle
the character of which can easily be guessed
The Golliwogg always a darling. and he
is as dear a now as ever "Urchins at the
Pole" QTrederick A Stokes Company. by Marie
Corbin ana Charles B. Going. with drawings
by F. l. Bennett, reintroduces other ole friends
Fopsy and Pudgy and Jimmy have lost none
of their good looks and none OF their capacity
to bs amusing Another Arctic book is The
Snow Baby" Frederick A. Stokes Company,
In which Josephine D. Peary tells Interestingly
| true story and illustrates it with true pict-
ures," which is to say, with a lot Of good
| photographs taken in the region Of snow and
ice These will surely pique the curiosity of chill
| dren when they one of themselves placed
| In surroundings TO practically all OF them so
strange. THE Chinese Boy and Girl Fleming
H. Revell Company. by Isaac Taylor Headland,
| of Picking University, is a companion volume to
his successful Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes.
| He discourses entertainingly on Oriental chill
dren their toys and their games; gives some
| of the stories that told to them, and scat
| ters through his text number of Photographic
| and other illustrations. The decorative borders
are printed on different pages in different tints.
| The chapter that will perhaps appeal most to
| boys in their teens is the one on juvenile jug
| Cling in China "Jingles from Japan, Set
| Forth by the Chinks' (San Francisco: A. NJ.
| Robertson). is not very comforting as TO the
| iingles but the illustrations good fun and
| the book has been artistcally manufactured in
| strictly Eastern form. Mr.. Henry Mayer writes
| and illustrates THE Adventures Of Japanese
| Doll" CE. P. Dutton & Coz. He tells good
| story for children, and his colored pictures. if
| lacking In Oriental atmosphere, not for that
| reason likely to win any less admiration in the
| nursery, where, indeed, we fancy, they will be
| voted altogether satisfactory. Though we would
| prefer to see a more delicate touch in the draw
| ings made for kids of Many Colors' Chicago:
| Jameson Higgins Company by Grace D. Boy
Ian and Ike Morgan, there is no denying that a
good idea is worked out in this book. The chill
dren of all the nations in the world have here
| their rhymes and their pictures, and the latter
| are not simply portraits but show the models
| in attitudes and situations which ought GER
tainly to catch the Juvenile eye. An excellent
| book, though 1t might have been made better
| one A deal of instruction is likewise packed
| between the covers of History in Rhymes and
| Jingles" CAkron: The Saalheld Publishing Com
| pany), by A. C. Flick and c. P. Hawley, author
| and illustrator respectively. These gentlemen
| are professors in Syracuse University, but they
| have unbent their task with perfect flexibil-
ity and their work should well serve its pur-
| pose which is to teach while seeming merely
| to amuse-
| The author Of Guess QI. NJ. Caldwell Com
| pany) L. ]. Bridgman, asks her little readers
| to set their wits to work, but none of her
| problems severe, and, moreover. one has only
to turn the page to find the solution. On all the
| pages there pictures in bright coors.
| Merry Jngles" Zimmerman is composed Of
| rhymed information with Illustrations drawn
by Harry Webster or photographed by Helen
| Nichols; it is a mildly interesting production.
! "Clean Peter and the Children Of Grubbylea'
| Q1ongmans. Green & Coz Is supposed to in
culcate cleanliness: but doubt if children
| will pay much attention to the sermon-they
| will be too absorbed in the pictures. Jingle
| man jack (Akron: The Saalield Publishing
/ Company is for children of practical turn Of
| mind. The author, James ODea, makes his
| rhymes about the callings. the crafts and the
| trades of the time He Is sklful enough and 40
| is the illustrator Harry Kennedy, whose work
| is printed in colors. Between them they have
made a book that is to be cordially noted. With
| "Old King Coles Book Of Nursery Rhymes,
cThe Macmillan Company we are hack In III.
| world where one has to learn anything hut