Select Fables from La Fontaine.
Illustrated by L.M. Boutet de Monvel.
S.P.C.K.
Stechert. 1.80

This edition is chosen because of Monsieur Boutet de Monvel's charming
small illustrations in color. There are from two to eight pictures on
each page, accompanying the text, which is in verse. (p. 34)

As color appeals to the child before he has much notion of form,
his first picture-book should be colored, and as his ideas of
form develop slowly, his first pictures should be in outline, and
unencumbered with detail. The French illustrator, Boutet de
Monvel, has given us the ideal pictures for young children.
W.T. FIELD.

POETRY, COLLECTIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE, AND STORIES
ADAPTED FROM GREAT AUTHORS

Blind Homer and the chief singer of Israel and skalds and bards
and minnesingers are all gone, tradition is almost a byword, but
mothers still live, and children need not wait until they have
conquered the crabbed types before they begin to love literature.
Mrs. H.L. ELMENDORF.

ADELBORG, OTTILIA.
*Clean Peter and the Children of Grubbylea.
Longmans. 1.25

This large oblong book contains simple verses accompanying delightful
full-page pictures in delicate colors somewhat after the French
manner. It tells how Clean Peter brought tidiness to a little town.

"The children out in Grubbylea
Are all as clean as clean can be.
And Peter's living there to-day,
The children begged him so to stay."

BURGESS, GELETT. (p. 35)
*Goops and How To Be Them.
A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants.
Illustrated by the Author.
Stokes. 1.50

If there ever was anyone who could cover little pills with a thick
coating of sugar, it was Mr. Burgess when he wrote these clever verses
and drew these ninety original and always funny pictures. Children
delight in the Goops. It is almost worth while being one to have this
volume of warning thrust into our hands.

"I never knew a Goop to help his mother,
I never knew a Goop to help his dad,
And they never do a thing for one another;
They are actually, absolutely bad!

"If you ask a Goop to go and post a letter,
Or to run upon an e