New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17

an Up to Date Collection of VoI-
unoes for Goth Century Children.

| UHC6S IOF KUN L GHtUTY CH3tOF6n.
This years picture books are generally as dis
tinctly up to date as the youngsters for whom
/ they are designed. Those that are humorous
/ are often subtly so than it was formerly
| considered would be appreciated by little folk,
| but are issued with full confidence that
they will awaken a responsive chord in many,
while their more obvious merits of story and
drawing will be likely to tickle the fancy of all.
The older authors are not entirely given the
go-by, however. and the book OF Fairy Tales
by Dumas" edited and translated by Harry A.
Spur frederick A. Stokes Company, will
tainly have the charm of novelty to American
readers The volume contains two stories
when Pierrot Young" and THE Countess
Bertha's Honey Feast" They full of
Knights in armor and adventure. and are as
funny as they are romantic both characteristics
being captally brought out in Harry Rountrees
pen and ink Illustrations. II Tales from Long
fellow" raphael Tuck & Sons, Doris Hayman
retells In prose some of the more noted poems,
such as "Hiawatha,' "Evangeline," and THE
Courtship of Miles Standish" There are full
page colored Autographs of the various heroines
by Frances Brundage. and many drawings in
wash and pen and ink by NJ. Bowley- To 90
for the longer poems what Charles and Mary
Lamb did so admirably for the plays of Shake
speare may we'll serve to stimulate an interest in
Longfellows works, but there seems to be little
reason for giving a prose version OF the VII
| age Blacksmith" an excuse for Miss
| Brundages dainty picture of the blacksmith
| daughter Babies Classics" Oongmans Green
| & Coz, a collection of chdrens poems
| begun by the late Leila Scott Macdonald and
| completed by her sister Winifred Troup, pre-
| serves some of the most delightful verses
written for or appreciate by children, by some
of the most famous English writer's Shake
| speare is represented by three poems, Tenny-
| son by his Baby Song" Browning by "Plppa's
| Morning Song and "David's Song and WattsS
| Busy Bee" and Let Dogs Delight are not
| forgotten The many drawings by Arthur
| Hughes though not notable for accuracy OF
| misunderstanding, are marked by charm and
| delicacy.
| Travel and adventure are represented by
| small group of books that make up variety by
| what they lack in numbers The famous
| Arctic explorer. Robert E. Peary, writes Of
Esquimaus little and big, bears, cubs, dogs. pup
pies, baby musk oxen. and other strange den1-
zens of the frozen North, in "Snowland Folk
| Frederick A Stokes Company, which is illus
trated with many interesting photographs OF
| Arctic scenes and several drawings by a. Operti.
| Quite different in character is r. F. Outcalt s
Buster Brown Abroad" issued by the same
| house, in which our young friend and old IA
vorite Buster gives his impression of for
eign travel Tige, of course, goes with him,
and between them they find as many occasions
for making good resolutions as they make
moves, and they are always on the move. Incl
| dentally the volume imparts some information in
regard to ocean steamers and European customs,
which is as amusing as Mr.. Outcalts pictures.
| a magic automobile, which has the same
| vellous power as the magic carpet in the Ara
| bian Nights" is the means by which Marion V.
Loud personally conducts her readers to "a Pic
mic on a Pyramid" (The Saalfed Publishing
| Company. From Egypt we jump to Madeira,
to enjoy coastng in the summer time and then
are whisked away to visit the harem Of the
! Sultan in Constantinople-a very magic auto
mobile indeed The volume is illustrated with
| numerous pen drawings by the author. Start
ling impressions of possessions are
| given by Palmer Cox in THE Brownies in the
Philippines" (The Century Company. The
Brownies visit every important island in the
! group and meet with characteristic adventures,
| enccuntering ants on Sulu. tigers Leyte, a
| typhoon in AIbay and excitement everywhere.
| Some picturesque impressions of life in the
West are ingeniously conveyed by Frances Trego
! Montgomery in BILLY Whiskers. Jr." (The Saal-
field Publishing Company. Billy is goat Of
an enterprisirg disposition, who wanders from
/ home and gets mixed up with Indians cowboys,
| firemen a Christmas tree and eventually winds
up in China. There are number of full page
illustrations in coors and many pen and ink
| sketches by w H. Fry.
OF the purely fanciful twentieth century fairy
tales three are suggestive of the theatre.
Babes in Toyland" COX, Dufied & Coz, by
! Glen Marlborough and Anna Alice Chaplin, tells
the story of the successful musical play of the
| same name. The illustrations. by Ethel Frank
lin Belts many of them full pages in colors are
dainty pictures Of child life. and wisely do not
suggest the characters in the play, where of
necessity the children were enacted by grown
| ups. In THE Scarecrow and the Tinman, and
Other Stories" &C. w. Dillingham; Company, w.
| w. Denslow tells some further adventures OF
these two original geniuses of THE Wizard of
o. who escape from the theatre and come to
| grief on a stolen ride in automobile Among
the "other stories" some of the old Mother
Goose" rhymes. with Denslow's clever drawings
| and the six parts of the book also issued
separately in cardboard covers. Dillingham;
| likewise publishes THE Pearl and the Pump
| kim" by Mr. Denslow and Paul West, with the
the characters are the Ancient Mariner. the
| Pumpkin, the Pieman, the Corndodger. the
| Gamer and other eccentric personages. used to
| unfold "a fairy story linking a fantastic past
| with the present day" 1t will undoubtedly be
| dramatized as ii is full of action and pictu-
| rescue suggestions. "A Messenger from Santa
| Claus and Other Christmas Stories" by Harvey
| Scribner (Frankin Printing and Engraving
| Company, Toledo. both in text and in the il
| Illustrations by L. Bang David L. Slime and
| Thomas S. Parkhurst. recalls some of the old
time tales and legends OF German origin.
| Natural history in form or another fur
nishes the subject for a. large proportion of the
| illustrated holiday books. and indicates perhaps