Evening star., 1923-11-11
GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES. Edited by
Frances Jenkins Olcott. Illustrat-
ed by Rie Cramer Philadelphia ::

FTdHceS JtIhlUS o1Cotl.
ed by RE Cramer. Philadelphia: !:
The Penn Publishing Company.
"o be sure, you already know
Grimms Fairy Tales-"The
Six Swans" "Hansel and
Grethel," The Queen Bee"
"The Golden Goose" ''The Frog-King'
and many and many besides these.
If you do not know them yet, your
father and mother do, your sisters
and brothers. Here is the chance to
read the rev ones and to reread the
old ones out of quite beautiful
book. A big and roomy book. book
to fill the eye with pleasure, to give
to the hand the gentle touch of care.
A hook for pride in its many kinds
of beauty. \ gifted Dutch artist.
Mrs. Rie Cramer. at the top of each
new story and at the end has made
little pictures in black and white
talking pictures; and besides these,
there are more than twenty pictures
in ccIors that glow and shine and
move and act and speak. A most
beautiful book to lead you further
than you, perhaps have yet gone into
the magic fairyiand created by the
in story telling.
A WONDER BOOK. BY Nathaniel
Hawthorne. illustrated by Arthur
Rackharl. New York: George H.
Doran Company.
Another book of old stories-the
Sort of old story that remains for
ever new. that grows dearer with its
many tellinga. These are stories that
have been told the world over by
npQnlas in Ia
cred UP by one of our own beloved
writer's and made over, n shade here.
line there, in the magic of his own
gift of seeing all things new. they
stand here in the quite hcguiling
form of a new and beautiful book
for fortunate children to see and
handle and read-just possibly. too.
for them to posSess-their very own.
A book big enough to let its print
march clear and tall and to give
room to beautiful pictures, but not SO
big as to overflow the lap nor TO
prove too much for one pair of hands.
Only six of these old stories retold
here-among them the familiar The
Golden Touch" The Miraculous
Pitcher The Three Golden Apples s..
ST. NICHOLAS BOOK OF VERSE.
Edited by Mary Budd Skinner and
Joseph osmun Skinner. 1llustrat-
ed by w. Q. Berger. New York:
The Century Company.
A book for all of you-for the
whole family from eraybearl down
to the baby For half hundred
years now the good st. Nicholas has
been storing away in his own maZa-
zine the verses that have now
trooped out and banded themselves
together to make this book for you.
That is one of his ways of celebrat-
ing the fifticth tiIthIay of the famous
and beloved magazine. Verses and
songs and gay little rhymes are
= r.I..
and to sing uron your lips. and to
settle. quiet like. into your hearts
when the twilight comes a-creeping
and the fire shine dances around the
walls. A word of news about your
book. Children themselves ONE of
full pockets of st. Nicholas own
magazine just the verses that they
liked hest for the making of this
book. Sure were they that these
would be the ones that YOU too would
like best. With winter just around
the corner. huddle in close around
the fire, all of you-from graybeali
to the hahy-to read and chant and
sinS these verses made for you. And
when the freight is at its brightest.
take look at the pictures. These
will st You a-singing all over
again.
RILEY FAIRY TALES. James Whit
comb Riley. illustrations by Will
tawter Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
When l was 'est. a little bit o
weenty-teenty kid. :.
] naked up a fairy-tale all by my
self, l did"
all made In verse, in part turned out
by the 'weenty-teenty kid and in
other part sung by the good poet
himself in the home-spun phrase
-s+I + t<h I, i
us-still does delight us. The old
friends are here. Jack, the giant
killer" and Little Red Riding Hood"
and many another. And they run
along in rhymes and caper about
much stories do when you and 1
try to tell them. Lovely, though
You will like them
Hail! Ho.
Sail. H0,
Alloy! Alloy, Alloy,
Who calls to me,
So far at sea?
Only a little boy.
Sail. Ho.
Hail, Ho,
The sailor he sails the sea-
1 wish he would capture
little Sea-horse
And send him home to me-"
BUSTER BEARS TWINS. By Thorn
ton w. Burgess. illustrations by
Harrison Cady. Boston. Little,
Brown & Co.
Here we Washington boys and girls
are right at home To tell you the
truth, we cannot go to bed till we
have looked after those twin bears.
And what their mother forgets to tell
US about their doings of the day the
twins themselves report. And if they.
so busy, fail to remember here and
there, their pictures make up for their
forgettlngs and their crowded day.
time hours. So droll, so human. so
knowing, so endlessly interesting
and here they are in the safe keeping
of a book where, hitherto. we had to
trust them to the uncertainties of
daily appearances and daily disap-
pearances by way of the newspapers
Words can add nothing at all to the
royal friend of households and field
folks-those of the green forests and
smiling meadows.
THE FILIPINO TWINS. BY Luch
Fitch Perkins. illustrated by the
author. Boston,: Houghton Milf
ain Company.
Great fun to get away from home,
sometimes (Greater fun to get back
again). To find Ramon and Rita
the Filipino twinS-we have to cross
the ocean and, once landed. go out to
where the children live with their
father. He is a farmer and a fisher
man. A rice farm, which, unless we
live in the south, seems a queer sort
of farm to us. But the two children
are not at all queer. They ae just
play and play with them-not
games that we know, nor playthings
such as ours. All the better for that.
Nobody wants to do the same thing