Evening star., 1924-12-21

He said, Everything grows steady
an and she gets frisky." Not true.
Certainly not true. Or,sat least, so
thought and should have gone
straight on so thinking had it not
been for Mother Goose herself. And
LII have to own up that 1t was this
very old woman who made me stop
for a minute to wonder if there
might not be a little speck of truth
in the fiippant say-so of this pertly
smart male. For. old and old as she
surely is, Mother Goose never did
before in all her long life frisk about
in rhyme and jingle and song rs she
is doing this very Christmas time of
1924. All the old rhymes are here.
oh, to be sure. All the old friends,
not one a missing. Little Miss Muf-
fet, old King Cole. Mother Hubbard,
Tahy the Welshman. Taffy the thief
Everybody among the old compan-
ions accounted for And there are
crowds of other folks besides-ani-
NAL folks and Just plain folks-as If
Mother Goose had held back some in
the past years so that the broods of
new children might find brand-new
friends to slip in amongst the old
ones that have been coming for
years and years And here, new and
old together, they cvne--come troop
ing, come laughing. come singing
in
MOTHER GOOSE NURSE v
RHYMES. (Edited by L. Edna Walter
The Children's Classics" The Mac
MILAN Coz Tripping light toes and
kicking up sturdy heels they play
and dance and sing along their way
10 the JOY of your heart and mine as
we hold out glad hands to the big
company that good old Mother Goose
has bidden for our Christmas time.
Charles Folkard's pictures. all life
and saietY just like little looking
glasses frolic alongside this big and
happy crowd still bigger and still
happier. And here is, too
ROUND THE YEAR IN PUDDING
LANE. (Sarah Addington; Little
Brown & Coz That's where Mother
Goose lived-in Pudding Lane And
many of her famous folks lived there,
too. Once into this book you will
find out many of the things that
YOU SO much want to know. For in
stance, how Bumbo, the bear. came
TO play with Humpty- -Dumpty. laid
up with his great fall: how Boy
Blue hid the Sandman's bucket of
sand so that little boys could sit UP
late without getting sleepy: how Taf-
~, dear Taffy. came to be thief A
story for each of the IL months in a
year-but you'll read them all the
first day-Christmas Day, or the next
day after.
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THE RED FAIRY BOOK (edited
by Andrew Lang; David Mckay Coz
is, OF course, very special book Of
fairy tales. For Andrew Lang knows
the fairy lore of every country, so,
choosing here and there from all over
hA
book of beautiful stories, with pic
lures that tell all manner of things
by Gustaf Teuggren.
GooDY TWO SHOES. (Oliver
Goldsmith: The Macmillan Coz Here
is an old friend, so very old that chill
dren were reading this story $50
years ago in the same Joy that you
and I are having with il today. A
little book that fits a small hand in
comfort and ease.
THE ADVENTURES OF A
BROWNIE. (Dinah Marie Mulock;
The Macmillan Coz Here is another
story that has stood the weathers of
many year without losing a mite of
its first luster. Your fathers and
mothers read it and will read 1t again
as II comes into your Christmas pack
Of books
TONY SARG's BOOK FOR CHILL
DREN. (Greenberg Coz A broad,
thin, fiat book, made to fit the pic
lures that &c racing along beside
each gay story that in its turn helps
to round out the whole great story
itself. Tony Sarg says that his chill
dren and the neighbor's helped to
make this book, and l guess they did.
It feels SO.
PORRIDGE POETRY. Hugh Loft
ing; Frederick A Stokes Coz This
poetry is cooked, ornamented and
served by Hugh Lofting" A savory
and tasty mess that you will like,
no end.
PUSSY WILLOWS NAUGHTY KIT
TENS. Gillian e. Young; Funk &
Wagnalls Coz That is the mother
cats name-Pussy Willow. And this
is the story of her naughty children.
Fluffy" and "Scamper" and "Purr."
The great joy Of the whole matter is
that, as you read, you are able to
open the doors of Pussy Willows cot
tage and to see just what those kit
tens are doing. Every picture has
one Of these doors for you to unlock
for yourself. Great fun.
THE KELPIEs. (Ella Austin
Blaisdell; Little. Brown & Coz All
about the doings of the kelpies that
live at the bottom of the sea-more'n
q million of 'em. At their head the
oldest kelpies OF them all, old as
Noah, maybe. In this story you will
find out what they do o. nights as
they frisk and shine In the great
waters and tell, so some folks say,
what is going to happen to man
who goes a-sailing.
THE GOBLIN's GLEN. tHarold
Gage; Little, Brown & Coz A fear
some spot, where goblins and pixies
1iVe hV Iay and from which thew
come out at night to do things so
strange that, after reading about
them, boys and girls will step lightly
and sing low as they pass the friendly
looking glen just beyond the pleasure
pasture
THE MUSHROOM BOY. (Theodore
a. Harper; The Penn Publishing Coz
II you sit down under a mushroom,
or even on top of II, you can at once
tell whether or not you are a mush-
room boy. If you are, the oldest
things will begin to happen. You
will see the strangest sights and will
hear the queerest sounds. If you are
not, nothing at all will happen. Just
boy here and a mushroom there
quite apart from each other. Now
David, in this story, was a mushroom
boy. No doubt about It. Read to see
what happened to him, sitting under
the fat little umbrella Of the fields.
THE VALLEY OF CoLoR-DAYs.
(EIelen B. Sandwen: Little, Brown &
Coz Burr, a new fairy, lived in this
valley. A very busy fairy, this,
whose job it was to chase away the
troubles that seemed to follow the
animals about--the lost puppy, the
strayed cat, the little bird fallen
from the nest, the hunted fox. You
would better get acquainted with Burr