New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-12-02

science, has planned series of vol
umes on the fauna of South Africa.
Educational In more general way
is Julia Ellen Rogers's wild Anil
mails Every Child Should Know"
Doubleday Page & Coz, with its Illus
trations largely taken from the New
York Geological Garden. The book
consists OF a series Of '1ife stories and
other true stories of the wild cousins
OF domestic animals and other warm
blooded quadrupeds," the relationships
being carefully traced in simple lists of
the orders OF living mammals and their
families, all the way from the primates
to the duckbil and the echidna
Quite useful and boon to animals
is Constance Johnston's when Mother
Lets Us Keep Pets" Mohat. Yard &
Coz. The life Of a pet animal among
children is not always a pleasant one.
Impetuous but ignorant petting is an
uncomfortable and dangerous thing for
it. This book teaches the proper treat
ment, the rights and welfare Of dogs,
cats. rabbits, guinea pigs birds, ponies.
| goats, mice, fishes and other living pos
! sessions OF children, the author wisely
appealing to parents for collaboration
| in her work.
THE Book Of Baby Beasts Hodder
& Stoughton) is primarily one of large
colored plates by E. j. Detmold, which
vary greatly in drawing and coloring.
I The descriptive text is by Florence z.
Dugdale and is confined to simple facts.
From the same publishers we have
a delightfully."- playful volume OF col
ored drawings Of domestic animals,
Cecil Alden's Happy Family" with a
cleverly rhymed chronicle by May
Byron of the daily doings and advent
ures Of Hungry Peter, the pig; RUFUS
| the cat; Rags, the dog; Forager, the
puppy; Humpty and Dumpty. the rab-
bits. and Master Quack, the ducklinG'
Saddest of all is the tale of hunger OF
the growing pig;
/ But as time went ON there were other
/ folk that had to be petted ana I leo peta ~
/ or stroked his head. His milk thaI useH
/ to be a quart was now but a pint a meal;
lie said, Can the food De ru rum SnS gin.
| on, dear, how famished | feel! MY dlh-
/ ners are getting less and less, ana an
! 81 hungry. boo-hoo, ] shall 80 TO some
/ kinder people-yes--I shall bolt, that's what
/ ] will do!'
OF course. here are "H1sop's Fables in
still another new edition (The Century
Company, with forty headpieces by Mr.
Z. BOYD Smith and the text set in tinted
| borders. OF A1sop and his fables moth
ing remains to be said; It Will sufhce,
therefore, to state here that this is a
sensible edition, made for reading
printed In an attractive, large font Of
type and simply bound.-Y Youngsters
In search of information about the
father Of all animal fabulists Of the west
may find it in Mrs. Kate Douglas wig
gins introduction 10 The Talking
Beasts: A Book Of Fable wisdom
Doubleday. Page & CO... which she and
her sister, Miss Nora Archibald Smith,
have compiled from Hsop, Bidpai, the
Hitopadesa, and from Malay, Moorish.
African, Chinese, Spanish, English ana
Russian sources, not forgetting OF
course. the Frenchman La Fontaine.---
A mention may be made here, on ac-
count Of the rats, of a most welcome re-
issue of Browning's pied Piper of Ham
elm" with Kate Greenaway's inustra-
tons. whose delicious grace and quaint
ness seem to gain rather than to lose
with the passing Of the years. Cred
erick Warne G. Cola second series
Of "Grimm's Animal Stories translated
by Lucy Crane, and with pictures by
John Rae Duf1eld & Coz, requires only
baro announcement Of It's publication.
Mr.. Rae's friezes of running animals at
the top Of the pages are most attractive.