The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-27

in the House CA. G. McClurg and
company, C~hicago); 1t has colored pic
lures. n humorous book that il prob
ably intended for older readers as well
has been concocted with pictures and
text By Frank Wing in THE Fotygraft
Album" CThe Reilly and Britton Conn.,
pany. Chicago. In this a small girl
describes candidly the pictures In the
ramiiy album. which are hardly ex-
aggerated.
or stories in which animals are the
actors there Is n fat volume Of Uncle
Wiggily Longears" Or. r. Fenno and
Company. New York;. In which How
ard Il. CARTS relates and Edward
Bloomfield illustrates the doings OF
the rabbit hero and other beasts dur
ing the ffty-two weeks Of the year.
Verse !s employed by Ada NJ. Skinner
to sing THE Tale Of libby and Tabby"
IDuftield and Company and many
animals besides, for which Katherine
Francis Sleffel has made very pretty
and appropriate pictures. Verse is also
the vehicle for Grace May North's
THE Bylow Squirrel Boys" (R. j..
Fenno and Company. for which two
illustrators provide pictures. Two
more very youthful tales enlarge C..
+. Kilbourne's menagerie, Baby Os-
trich and Mr.. Wise Owl" and Baby
Zebra and the Friendly R%hinoceros''
tThe Penn Publishing Company. Phil.
adelphia): for these Hattie Long
street has drawn excellent pictures.
The large picture quartos for small
children are o lacking. The art and
the humor of Frank Yer Beck will be
appreciated fully as much by grown
up people In "Ver Beck's Bears in
Mother Goose Land" George II. Do
ran Company. for which Hanna Rion
supplies the jingles missing in the
original. The grotesques of II. Dewitt,
Welsh are helped along by Charles
Hanson Towne's rhymes in Jolly
Jaunts With Jim" George II. Doran
Company. a modern stage eytrava-
CANA fairy tale. Three annual MS
%celianies Of British origin supply read
ers of different ages with stories. in
formation, verse and pictures: This
Years Book for Boys" with much war
matter and fine colored pictures; This
Years Book for Children in which!
the subject matter is well selected,
and This Years Book for Tiny Tots
in words of n syllable CHodder anc
Stoughton: George II. Doran Com.
pany). An extraordinary family Of
which small children seem TO be fond
and Of which Chloe Preston is the Gre
ator meets with three series OF ad-
ventures in volumes Of different sizes
the largest IL THE Peek-a-boo's Des-
ert Island" for which Zoe Hoyle pro-
vides the text; the neX is THE Peek
a-boos at the Zoo" by May Byron
the smallest IL Barbara Pcek-a-Boo's
Holiday" by the same. This is in sub
stance a bunny book and the artist
has called in the assistance of G.
Howard Vyse for the capital colored
pictures tHodder and Stoughton
George II. Doran Company.
a few more books for older children
have come to hand. Lucille. the
Torchbearer," by Elizabeth NJ. Dufield
,Sully and Kleinteich. New York;. re-
lates the doings OF a group of camp
| Are girls on their summer outing
"Arlo," by Bertha b. and Ernest Cobb
fThe Riverdale Press, Brookline
Mass.), tells OF the wanderings OF a
| small boy with a vagabond companion
| in a legendary land. and while recall
Ing earlier tales, is pretty. The SEN
| timental heroine Of carrier stories by
| Ella W. peattie has grown up In
"Azalea's Silver Web" (The Reilly and
| Britton Company. Chicago and meets
her fate at the end, the corresponds
nee form Of narration gives fun
| scope to her ~effusiveness. a great
| deal of interesting information about
Mexican people and habits is sup
piled in story form by Lucy Fitch
Perkins in THE Mexican Twins
| GHoughton MiHiin Company. Her
admirable drawings are even more
descriptive than her story.