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

mails with whom he is on friendly terms In TINS
way we learn many interesting secrets of
animal life and enjoy Mr. Herford's many
charming illustrations. Twenty-Five attractive
pictures in color and in black and white Illus
trate the stories in Monkey Shines" by Bolton
Hall "a. Vessels Company The stories are
| largely about animals and serve to impart few
facts in regard to them and to point many
morals applicable to child life. Bishop Hunt
ington of Central New York contributes a
serious commendatory preface.
| Those who like dogs will delight in THE Book
OF the Dog" Frederick A. Stokes Company.
with it's many full page pictures of all kinds Of
| CANNES and the Illuminated borders by Eliza
beth B. Bonsan. illustrating the clever stories
and verses by Alice Calhoun Haines. From
Stokes also comes another similar book of verses
and stories by Miss Hanes with illustrations
| by Louis Rhead. 1t is entitled Pets" and has
a corresponding range of subjects. Father
Tucks Animal Friends Raphae Tuck &
sons is a picture book. pure and simple, show
! ing coored drawings of such diverse geological
friends weasels, pigs, tigers dogs, hyenas.
i kittens, alligators. hens and many others, with
! a brief descriptive line under each. Under a
picture OF sheep learn that they give US
wool to make clothes and their flesh. which is
good to eat, is called mutton in spite of the
fact that in most restaurants it is called spring
lamb
-Four very funny animal books are imported
! by Charles Scribner's Sons. In two the draw
ings, reproduced in colOrs. are by Harry B.
Nelson, who shows great cleverness in his rep
resentation OF humaniZed animals engaging in
all sorts of games and adventures. THE Ami
mails Academy" in which the descriptive verses
! are by Clifton Bingham shows how the eler h1nt,
''Dr. Peter Zoo" keeps school, and "Droll Doings''
is book of illustrated jingles full of comic &C
IN he Ter tUo
Spinach" and Two Merry Mariners both with
colored pictures by Stewart Orr and with verses
by John Brymer the Illustrations repro
duced in fiat colors and decorative in effect.
There is attempt made in these four books
to impart information. They aim only to amuse.
and admirably succeed. Mr.. Nelson's work is
also seen in the first of the two little companion
volumes, Christmas at the Zoo and The
Story of Little Jack Sprat" issued together. in
box. by A. c. Armstrong. Frank Adams draws
the pictures in the Jack Sprat' book. which
tells In rhyme OF the further adventures of that
economical gentleman, his wife and their one
cared cat. The colOred printing of Mr.: Adams's
! pictures is especially attractive. For frank alb
surdity nothing could be more delicious than
Catherine A. Janvier's nonsense book of cats,
! entitled London News Harper & Bros). With
the names of various news in London. such
| Horse Guards News. Royal News, Crawley
/
vier has invented rhymes and pictures to fit,
! and dedicated the resulting volume to t. A. J.
! Qn which we detect the identity of Thomas A
! Janvierl. "a lover of cats" $3.50,
The books of verses in which the pictures
serve as Illustrations to the rhymes are few In
! comparison with those in which the jingles are
merely descriptive of the pictures One in which
| both pleasantly balance the one the other, is
Katharine Pyle's Childhood" e.. P. Dutton "a
|
colors. by Sarah S. Stlwell. There is a fine sim
plicity about Miss Pyles verses that invests
them with much the same charm that distin-
guished Robert Louis Stevenson's "ChiId's Gar
den of Verses and Miss StilwelTs illustrations
are altogether delightful. Sandman Rhymes"
| by Willard Bonte Oh. NJ. Caldwell Company is
a collection of very funny jingIes and pictures.
in which the actors are all sorts of household
articles. Thus the Spool says to the Thimble In
TWINS
There go the Scissor Twins.
! Cutting as ever:
Some think them sharp.
But few think them clever. - o.
Two volumes are devoted to the doings of our
colored fellow citizens. -. B. c. in Dixie" by
Louise Quarles Boute and George Willard Bonte
! (E. P. Dutton & Coz, shows humorousy va
rious types of darby character with descrip-
/ tive jingles: and "Mammy's Lii Chiuns."
! written anu Illustrated DIV cara Andrews Will
Jams Frederick A. Stokes Company. exhibits
comically but alphabetically the happy child
life of the Southern pickaninny. The verses,
although in dialect, are bright and not at all
blind"
Dolls and other quantity imaginative creations
of authors and artists seem to fall naturally
! into a class by themselves and The Story Of
! the Five Rebellious Dolls" by E. Nesbit, illus
trated by E. Stuart Hard &C. P. Dutton & Coz.
will entrance the girls, and even the boys will
! be amused the exciting adventures of the
runaways. Mr. Hardy has been wonderfully
successful in imparting humorously Ifelike
expressions to his stiff jonted characters. Our
old friend. the Goiwogg. pops up again in
| another volume: this time it is THE Golliwogg
| in Holland Qongmans Green & Coz, with
| Florence K. Uptons clever pictures and Bertha
| Upton's verses. Not all the storie. in I'm the
| N1iz." by Grace z. Ward. pictures by Clara
| E. Atwood little. Brown g. Coz. fall under the
| mead of doll adventures. but the "Arkonautic
| Expedition and some others do. Gelett Burgess
| puts forth volume of Coop Tales Alpha beti-
calIy Told" Frederick a. Stokes Company.
with his curiously curlicued drawings and NOR
ais; and Virginia Gerson. in THE Happy Heart
! Family" COX, Duffield & Coz. relates and de-
| pcts the life and adventures of family of
heart shaped parents and children who make the
! best of everything. The poster is adapted to
| the illustration of chds book by Augustus L.
Jannson in Hobby Horse Fair CHI. NJ Cald-
! well Company. with It's stuffy formal designs in
| fiat colors, each descriptive verse forming an
| acrostic Easy puzzles also form feature of
| "Puss in the Corner" Dana Estes & Coz by
! Edith Francis Foster. most of the nouns in the
! story being indicated by drawings instead of
words: while in The Mother Goose Puzzle