New-York tribune., 1902-12-10
PICTURE BOOKS.
Holidoy Cheer IN Rhyme and Prose
rcifh Embellishments Mostly
m CoI0rs.
IN Color,s.

In fhe yankee Mother Goose fJanieson-H
gins Company Benjamin f Cobb gives the
children none too brilliant series of variations
On old themes and new The illustrations OF
Ella s. Brison are done with more sureness than
IS the verse through which they interspersed.
THE Mother Goose Paint Book (Saalield Pub
fishing Company furnishes outline drawings OF
the familiar jingles which should be interesting
10 nursery painters. though that the arrange
ment of letting water color cakes into the ex-
tended margin OF the cover will prove satIs-
factory in use is questionable Many of the same
rhymes, and no new tangled ones, are delight
fully presented in the full page designs, done
with Imagination and humoT. by Harry Otis
Kennedy for "Old Mother Hubbard Jameson
Higgins Company. The pages are Of various
tints Of paper over which impressions of col
ored inks are often most successful when done
broadly, as in the perspective OF distant land
scape. Such figure as Mother Hubbard's dog
dressed in his clothes has an engaging per-
sonality. More sleeful and uniformly jocund in
tone are w. w. Denslow's illustrations, on a
ground Of deep blue, 10 Clement c. Moore S
Night Before Christmas &c. w. Dillingham;
Company. In a book which in substance and
dress is essentially for children the Introduction
supplied is peculiarly out Of place The author
ship OF such a poem viii not interest the little
people Of the future" nor will reflections on
Denslow's whimsical humor'' and the prac-
tice Of writing down to them
The Jackdav of Rheims Eyre and spottis-
woodel. makes p new appearance in elaborately
ernbellished pages with cursve lettering, rubri-
osted initials and wash illustrations in the text.
done by Ernest Maurice Jessop. It is bound
ike portfolio, tied with tape and makes an
odd edition without the dignity Of a book Guy
wetrnore CarryIs Grimm Tales Made Gay
tIoughton Mifffin & Coz is verbally clever
inversion of most of the points in the fairy tales
done in Jolly metres. Gflberts trick. the cumu-
1ative adjective is at times well used. as IN the
revised Jack the Giantkiller:" but the tales
could be witty without much slang. and 1t
would have been more pleasing to the eye had
there been no departures from pen and ink work
,n the illustrating We find Mother Goose again
In magical eIfn environment in Laura Day
ton Fessenden's Moon Children (Jamieson-
Higgins Company. The good old matron once
took fight on her goose to the moon, and there
she is visited by Patsy. conducted by the Moon
Princess and the King Of Dreamland, IN an easy
running fairy tale the sort of yarn that might
he spun at bedtime before the open hre- Inc
book is bright with the color of pictures by K j.
s,aupbell and several of the songs that are
sung in the moon have the music printed WIN
them.
the eroup of miraculous beasts and beings that
grows with each succeeding season In the
..T,banornenonal Fauna (R- H Russell), Miss
.~arnlvn Wells has recorded the ways Of num-
her of prodigies that never entered the ark and
Oliver Herford has amusingly depicted many
of them, with sepia ink and black The Hum
bug the Tomahawk, the Flying Buttress ana
tho Pigeon Toad are representative coneeits- L.
j. Bridgman has set Lernuel Gulliver travelling
xBin in ''GuIlfver's Bird Book" a. c Page &
Cd Extravagant fancies Of curious absurdities
such as the cork foot duck that sheds its boots
in lien Of rnoulting, furnish a series of adven-
lures. and are shown in sharp, vigorous margi-
nal pictures Of vivid color By the same hand
are the "Kewts'' Oh. NJ Caldwell Company.
party OF little fellows that show some family
lation both TO the once famous tribe Of Brownies
and the yellow Kid They visit the States Of
the Union, after the fashion Of a royal party,
and their observations are pleasantly set down
in eight line stanzas. Further removed from
any reality, but very funny, are the articulated
wooden dolls that sail in The Golliwoggs Air
ship Gongmans. Green & Coz. The gay col
ored drawings by Florence K Upton are splr-
ited and the verses by Bertha Upton tell a tri-
umphant story. There is a stamp of greater au-
thenticty about The Bogey Book eyre &
spottiswoodel. The pictures by r. J. s. have
much character. and in the by E. s there is
81 simple fRaIity of statement. together with
considerable control of metres. and often an
sIliterative and assonant Interviewing that lifts
1t above the too frequent quality of such verse,
mere compliance with foot measurement and end
rhymes We observe with regret that the
Brownie has lost his mischievous communal ac-
tivity and is living life Of n1isanthropic isola-
fion.
Turning from the uncouth and mythical,
,TF,,-- f,-Tar oC- nT
youngsters by celebrating the fortunes of actual
animals usually in personifcation. Jimmy
Crow Dana Estes & CoD by Edith Francis
Foster is a reading book with rebus pictures
recounting the pranks of q boys pet In The
Adventures of Admiral Frog" Or H RusselD
John w Harrington relates the deep sea eX-
periences of a fresh water egotist with charm
ing matter Of fact gravity and unobtrusive
hunlor. The pen drawings Of Willard Bertram
Price. reproduced ground of light green.
page bv page with the text. are quite good
as the story. An unfiagging succession of mis-
haps and escapes. in a setting of greater reality
IS afforded by Frances Trego Montgomery's
fluent story. Billy whiskers. the Autobiogra-
rhy Of a Goat CThe Saaldeld Publishing Com
panyl. The illustrations by W. II. Fry
trihe wooden. though the color. where used, is
pleasantly clear and fat Harry B. Nelson
draws gayly sportive animals at their Games
and Gambols' lCharles Scribner's Sons i'm
ported for the passable Of John Brymer.
The Illustrations in line and single colors,
with free OF uncovered ground. Indian
folk lore stories used for Red Folk and
Wild Folk CFrederick A Stokes Company by
Therese o. DeTning. The full page colored
plates from paintings by Edwin Willard Dening
are bold and intense in tone. Robert W. Cham
bers supplies batch Of interviews with insects,
fish and birds. intended to be hiologically in