where the yellow
lupins grow, and in the mossy deeps of the pine forest. We feel we
have made another friend, one who sees life with gentle, smiling
eyes and from a deliciously humorous point of view."--_Recreation._

"A garden of absorbing interest to its owner, a library full of
books to comfort rainy days, a hamlet of German peasants, three
delightful babies, and a 'man of wrath' who by no means merits the
title,--these are the simple elements from which a bright woman,
too cosmopolitan to be thought wholly German, as she calls herself,
has evolved a charming little book."--_The Nation._

"She has a depth of feeling, a sense of humor, and an impetuous and
ardent manner that make her chronicles thoroughly alive. Beside
this lovable book other feminine essays on nature, literature, and
life seem only tame and artificial performances."--_New York
Tribune._

The April Baby's Book of Tunes

WITH THE STORY OF HOW THEY CAME TO BE WRITTEN

Illustrated by KATE GREENAWAY

A running commentary in the quaintly humorous style characteristic of
the writer, describes the teaching of a dozen or more popular nursery
songs to the author's three little maids, the April, May, and June Baby
respectively. The music for each is given, and charming illustrations in
color complete an unusually attractive holiday book.

Full of the sayings of three of the most delightfully amusing and
original children in the book world--the June Baby who loudly sings "The
King of Love My Shepherd is," swinging her kitten around by its tail to
emphasize the rhythm,--the loving little May Baby who says, "Directly
you comes home, the fun begins," sitting very close to her mother,--and
the quaint April Baby, concerning whom there are fears that she may turn
out a genius and thus disgrace her parents, Elizabeth and "The Man of
Wrath."

Readers of the charming companion volumes whose authorship has been the
subject of so much recent discussion will delight in this little sequel,
which will make a most appropriate gift during the coming season to many
a mother of little ones who has had at some time to meet the problem of
how the babies can be saved from corners when there are no lessons, and
storms have forbidden exercise for them and their nurses, too. Its
pictures of a German nursery and the delicious discussions of these
toddlers over the various songs are extremely bright and ente