New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-12

a number of similar booklets by the same au-
! thor ami from the publisher are 10 be
commended. There ire twelve of these picture
books In ALL devoted variously TO Humpty
Dumpty Tom Thumb The House that Jack
Built and other immortal themes. They are
funny. and the boldly colored illustrations are
worthy Of the text a first rate batch Of juve-
! nlia is this. In Childhood's Land" Crhe Saal-
field Publishing Company. book of verses by
Margaret Page. is chiefly be praised for the
Illustration in fainty tints by Katharine II.
! Greenland. "Picka back Songs &c. 7. Putnam's
sons is made up of lively rhymes by Myrtle
Reed set to music by Eva Cruzen Hart and
enbellished with clever sketches by Ike Nor
gan. All manner of good things is crowded
Into "McClure's Childrens Annual for 1907
(McClure. Phillips & Coz. which has been edited
with a true perception of what children want In
prose and verse by Mr. T. W. H. Crosland. The
colored pictures are by various hands. With
It we may group a book carried out less am
bitiorsly. but still acceptable, "Dutton's Holiday
Annual for 1904 (E. P. DUtton & Coz. filed
with stories. verses. pictures and riddles. all
assembled by Mr. Alfred c. Playne, and third
anthology, which is richer than either or the
others in artistic illustrations, BABY Days
CThe Century Company. for which the Editor
of st. Nicholas" has written the rhymed in
PRODUCTION. Finally. may mention In this
category the and enlarged euluoh oI W III
lam Wells Neweus Games and Songs of Ameri-
can children (Harper & Bros), an indispensa-
BILE collection of odds and ends
We take up Peter Piper's Practical Principles
of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation Scott
Thaw Company and we know at once what Is
in store for the tongues of little boys and girls
They will stumble over the tests In this book,
hut they will laugh increasingly, and the draw
ings as we'll as the text will contribute 70 their
rnfrth "Bilberry Wood OBrentano's) tells OF
the wanderines of some very sweet faced Gnu
dren The pictures by Elsa Beskow are given IN
charming tints our Mother Goose National
Publishing Company, by Newton II. Jones, VIII
try the ingenuity of its readers. Here and there
in the text pictures take the place OF words CIV
ing children puzzles to work out "A Bunch OF
KEYS (E P button e Coz, by Margaret Jonn-
son is the same kind of book, save that The
illustrations are in black and white instead OF IN
colors More Goops and How Not To Be Them
Frederick A. Stokes Company. by Geiett
BURGESS somehow fails TO strike us as amusing
and the Coop is an ugly little phenomenon. very
vivid colors go to make Mister Sharptooth' 90.
w Dillingham; Company by Joe Kerr, an at
tractive picture book. "Old Nursery Rhymes
Dug Up at the Pyramids Gil. NJ. Caldwell Conn
pany) by Stanley l.. Adamson, claims Afternoon
Nv virtue Of the humor with which the draughts-
man has given to his comic designs touch OF
the archaic We may close our rapid survey or
the pictorial illustrated books for children with
an allusiou to The Model Book of Soldiers th.
p. Dutton & co.. and The Model Book of Dolls
(same publishers, in which figures and cos
tunes are printed upon thick paper, 70 be cut
out by def little fingers.