II. A List of Selected Books for Children.
PICTURE-BOOKS AND PICTURES
(The Nister Picture-Books are sold in this country by Dutton.)
Bedford, Frances D.—Book of Shops. (Verses by E. V. Lucas.) Dutton, $2.50.
Bradley, Will—Peter Poodle, Toy Maker to the King. Dodd, $1.50 net.
Caldecott, Randolph—Toy Books. Warne, (4 vols.) $1.25 each. The separate stories are sold at $0.25 each, and comprise, among a large number, the following: The Farmer’s Boy; A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go; Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting; The House That Jack Built; The Milk Maid; The Queen of Hearts; Ride a Cock Horse; Sing a Song of Sixpence; John Gilpin.
Cox, Palmer—The Brownie Books. Century, $1.50 each.
Crane, Walter—Mother Hubbard’s Picture Book. Lane, $1.25.
This Little Pig’s Picture Book. Lane, $1.25. [There are other volumes. Crane also ill. Lamb’s fanciful essay, “The Masque of Days.” Cassell, $2.50.]
Mother Hubbard; This Little Pig; Aladdin; Beauty and the Beast; Bluebeard; The Forty Thieves; The Frog Prince; Goody Two Shoes; Sleeping Beauty; The Fairy Ship; Baby’s A B C. Lane, $0.25 each.
De Monvel, Boutet—Filles et Garçons. (Stories by Anatole France.) Hachette; Brentano, $2.35.
Chansons de France pour les petits Français. Hachette; Plon, $2.50.
La Civilité puérile et honnête. Plon; Brentano, $2.35.
Nos Enfants. (Text by Anatole France.) Hachette; Brentano, $1.25.
Fables de La Fontaine, choisies pour les enfants. S. P. C. K.; Brentano, $2.35.
Gerson, Virginia—Happy Heart Family. Duffield, $1.00. (There is a second volume.)
Greenaway, Kate—A Day in a Child’s Life. (Music, verse, pictures.) Warne, $1.50.
Marigold Garden. Routledge (Warne, $1.50), $2.00.
Under the Window. (Pictures and Rhymes.) Warne, $1.50.
A Apple Pie, etc. Warne, $0.75.
Mother Goose. Warne, $0.75.
Mavor’s Spelling Book. Warne, $0.40.
Guigou, P. et Vimar, A.—L’illustre Dompteur. (The French Circus Book.) Plon; Brentano, $2.35.
Hoffmann, Heinrich—Slovenly Peter. Coates, $1.50. [German editions are preferable.]
Perkins, Lucy Fitch—Adventures of Robin Hood. Stokes, $1.50.
Whitcomb, Ida P.—Young People’s Story of Art. Dodd, $2.00. [Sarah Tytler is the author of “The Old Masters and their Pictures”; “Modern Painters and Their Paintings.” Little, Brown, $1.50 each. Vide Poetry; also German section, Richter, etc. The French are here included since they are so familiar to English readers.]
MYTHS, FOLK-LORE, LEGENDS, FAIRY TALES, AND HERO TALES
Æsop—Fables. (Tr., Joseph Jacobs.) Macmillan, $1.50.
A Hundred Fables of Æsop. (Tr., Sir Roger L’Estrange; intro., Kenneth Grahame.) Lane, $1.50 net.
The Babies’ Own. (Ill., Walter Crane.) Warne, $1.50.
Andersen, H. C.—Fairy Tales. (Tr., H. L. Braekstad; ill., Tegner; 2 vols.) Century, $5.00. Fairy Tales. (Tr., Mrs. Edgar Lucas.) Macmillan, $0.50; Dent, $2.50. [Ill., the Robinsons. Vide also Contes Choisis, Bibliothèque Rose.]
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments—(Ed., Andrew Lang.) Longmans, $2.00.
Fairy Tales From. (Ed., E. Dixon.) Dent, 2 vols., 7s. 6d. net each.
Asbjörnsen, P. C.—Fairy Tales From the Far North. Armstrong, $2.00; Burt, $1.00. [Folk and Fairy Tales. Tr., H. L. Braekstad; intro., E. W. Gosse.]
Baldwin, James—The Story of Siegfried. (Ill., Pyle.) Scribner, $1.50.
The Story of Roland. (Ill., Birch.) Scribner, $1.50.
Brown, Abbie Farwell—The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts. Houghton, $1.25.
In the Days of Giants. Houghton, $1.10 net.
Bulfinch, Thomas—The Age of Fable. Lothrop, Lee, $1.50. [Cheaper editions, Altemus, Crowell, etc.]
Cantor, William—True Annals of Fairyland. Reign of King Herla. (Ill., Charles Robinson.) Dent, 4s. 6d. net.
Carroll, Lewis—Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. (Ill., Sir John Tenniel.) Macmillan, $1.00. [There is also an edition, Harper, ill., by Peter Newell, $3.00 net. The reader is advised to consult Mr. Dodgson’s Life and Letters.]
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. (Ill., Sir John Tenniel. Sequel to the above.) Macmillan, $1.00.
Chapin, A. A.—Story of the Rhinegold. Harper, $1.25. [Vide also “Wonder Tales from Wagner.” She is the author of “Masters of Music.” Dodd, $1.50.]
Church, A. J.—Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France. Macmillan, $1.75.
Cruikshank, George—The Cruikshank Fairy Book. Putnam, $1.25; $2.00.
Francillon, R. E.—Gods and Heroes. Ginn, $0.40.
Gibbon, J. M. (Ed.)—True Annals of Fairyland. Reign of King Cole. (Ill., Charles Robinson.) Macmillan, $2.00.
Grimm, J. L. and W. K.—Fairy Tales of the Brothers. (Tr., Mrs. Edgar Lucas; ill., Arthur Rackham.) Lippincott, $2.50; $1.50. [Editions also ill., Cruikshank; intro., Ruskin,—Chatto and Windus, 6s.; Macmillan, ill., Walter Crane, $1.50; Contes Choisis; Bibliothèque Rose; vide German section.]
Harris, Joel Chandler—Uncle Remus and His Friends. (Ill., Frost.) Houghton, $1.50.
Nights with Uncle Remus. (Ill., Church.) Houghton, $1.50.
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. (Ill., Frost.) Appleton, $2.00.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel—A Wonderbook for Girls and Boys. (Ill., Walter Crane.) Houghton, $3.00.
Tanglewood Tales. (Ill., G. W. Edwards.) Houghton, $1.00; $2.50.
Horne, Richard Hengist—The Good-Natured Bear. [Out of print, but re-publication is strongly recommended by librarians.]
Ingelow, Jean—Mopsa, the Fairy. Little, Brown, $1.25.
Irving, Washington—Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Macmillan, $1.50. [Expensive illustrated editions issued by Putnam and Doubleday.]
Jacobs, Joseph—English Fairy Tales. Putnam, $1.25.
The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox. Macmillan, $1.50.
Book of Wonder Voyages. Macmillan, $1.50.
Celtic Fairy Tales. Putnam, $1.25.
Kingsley, Charles—The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children. (Ill., T. H. Robinson.) Dutton, $2.50. [Vide also editions Crowell; Harper, $2.50.]
The Water Babies. Macmillan, $1.25. [Cheaper Editions.]
Kipling, Rudyard—Just-So Stories. Doubleday, $1.20 net. [There is also a “Just-So Song Book,” $1.20 net.]
Jungle Book. (First and second series.) Century, $1.50 each.
Puck of Pook’s Hill. (Ill., Arthur Rackham.) Doubleday, $1.50.
Laboulaye, E. R. L. de—Fairy Tales. Routledge, $1.25; Harper, $2.00.
The Last Fairy Tales. Harper, $2.00.
La Fontaine—Selected Fables. (Ill., Boutet de Monvel.) Young, $2.50.
Lang, Andrew (Ed.)—The Red Fairy Book. Longmans, $2.00.
The Blue Fairy Book. Longmans, $2.00.
The Book of Romance. Longmans, $1.60 net.
Lanier, Sidney—The Boy’s King Arthur. Scribner, $2.00. [Lanier bases his narrative on Mallory. Vide Howard Pyle’s “Story of King Arthur and His Knights.” Scribner, $2.50.]
The Boy’s Froissart. Scribner, $2.00.
Knightly Tales of Wales; or, The Boy’s Mabinogion. Scribner, $2.00.
The Boy’s Percy. [Full introduction and the ballads based on original.] Scribner, $2.00.
Mabie, H. W.—Norse Stories. Dodd, $1.80 net.
MacDonald, George—At the Back of the North Wind. Routledge, $1.25; Burt, $1.00.
Mulock-Craik, Dinah M.—The Fairy Book. Macmillan, $1.00.
The Adventures of a Brownie. Harper, $0.60; Page, $0.50.
The Little Lame Prince. Harper, $0.60.
Musset, Paul de—Mr. Wind and Madam Rain. Putnam, $2.00. [Vide Petite Bibliothèque Blanche.]
Perrault, Charles—Fairy Tales. Macmillan, $0.40 net. [Vide p. 36.]
Pyle, Howard—Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Scribner, $3.00. [An excellent version of the ballad has been issued by Stokes, ill., Lucy Fitch Perkins.]
Ruskin, John—King of the Golden River. Ginn, $0.25; Page, $0.50.
Scudder, Horace E. (Compiler.)—Book of Legends. Houghton, $0.50.
Stockton, Frank R.—The Queen’s Museum and Other Fanciful Tales. Scribner, $2.50. [Vide former edition, “Clocks of Rondaine and other stories.” Scribner, $1.50.]
Thackeray, W. M.—The Rose and the Ring. Putnam, $0.50, $1.00. [Vide other editions.]
POETRY AND VERSE
Allingham, William—The Ballad Book. Macmillan, $1.00.
Blake, William—Songs of Innocence. (Ill., Geraldine Morris.) Lane, $0.50 net.
Browning, Robert—The Pied Piper of Hamelin. (Ill., Kate Greenaway.) Warne, $1.50.
Burgess, Gelett—Goops and How to be Them. (Several volumes.) Stokes, $1.50.
Cary, Alice and Phœbe—Ballads for Little Folks. Houghton, $1.50.
Child, Lydia Maria—Flowers for Children; New Flowers for Children. [Out of print, but re-publication is strongly recommended by librarians.]
Dodge, Mary Mapes (Ed.)—Baby Days. Century, $1.50.
English and Scottish Popular Ballads. (Ed., Sargent-Kittredge, from Francis James Child’s collection, Cambridge edition.) Houghton, $3.00.
Field, Eugene—Poems of Childhood. (Ill., Maxfield Parrish.) Scribner, $2.50.
Goldsmith, Oliver—The Deserted Village. (Ill., E. A. Abbey.) Harper, $3.00. [Abbey also illustrated “She Stoops to Conquer,” $5.00.]
Henley, W. E. (Compiler)—Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verses for Boys. Scribner, $1.25.
Holmes, Oliver W.—Poems. (Complete ed., Cambridge.) Houghton, $2.00, $1.50. [Vide “The One Hoss Shay,” ill., Howard Pyle, $1.50.]
Jerrold, Walter (Ed.)—The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. Dutton, $3.00.
Lamb, Charles and Mary—Poetry for Children. (Ill., Winifred Green; pref., I. Gollancz.) Dent, 2s. 6d. net. [Vide in same edition “Mrs. Leicester’s School,” 5s. net.]
Lang, Andrew (Ed.)—The Blue Poetry Book. Longmans, $2.00.
Lear, Edward—Nonsense Books. Little, Brown, $2.00. [Vide also Warne edition.]
Longfellow, Henry W.—Poems. (Complete ed., Cambridge.) Houghton, $2.00. [Vide also “Hiawatha,” ill., Remington, $4.00.]
Lowell, James R.—The Vision of Sir Launfal. Houghton, $1.50.
Lucas, E. V. (Ed.)—A Book of Verses for Children. Holt, $2.00. [There is a school edition.]
Macaulay, T. B.—Lays of Ancient Rome. Longmans, $1.25. [Vide editions Houghton, Putnam.]
Matthews, Brander—Poems of American Patriotism. Scribner, $1.50. [Vide “English History Told by English Poets.” Ed., Bates and Coman. Macmillan, $0.60 net.]
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes (Ill., Tenniel, Crane, etc.)—Dutton, $1.50. [Vide Nister ed., Routledge, etc.]
Mother Goose’s Melodies—Houghton, $1.50.
Norton, C. E. (Ed.)—Heart of Oak Books. Heath, 7 vols., from $0.25 to $0.60. [Collection of Rhymes, Poems, Stories, etc.]
Palgrave, F. T.—The Children’s Treasury of English Song. Macmillan, $1.00.
Patmore, Coventry (Ed.)—Children’s Garland from the Best Poets. Macmillan, $1.00.
Repplier, Agnes (Ed.)—Book of Famous Verse. Houghton, $0.75 and $1.25.
Riley, James Whitcomb—Rhymes of Childhood. Bobbs-Merrill, $1.25.
Rossetti, Christina G.—Sing-Song. Macmillan, $1.50.
Scott, Sir Walter—Marmion; The Lay of the Last Minstrel. (Ed., W. J. Rolfe.) Houghton, $0.75 each.
Shute, Katharine H. and Dunton, Larkin (Compilers)—The Land of Song. Silver, 3 vols., $0.36 to $0.54.
Stevenson, Robert L.—A Child’s Garden of Verses. Scribner. (Ill., Robinson, $1.50; ill., Jessie W. Smith, $2.50.) [An excellent, inexpensive edition, Rand, McNally, $0.75.]
Taylor, Jane and Ann—Little Ann and Other Poems. (Ill., Kate Greenaway). Warne, $1.00. [Vide also edition, ed., E. V. Lucas. Stokes, $1.50. Including verses of Adelaide O’Keeffe; ill., F. D. Bedford. Vide “Greedy Dick and Other Stories in Verse,” by the Taylors, $0.50.]
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord—Selected Poems for Young People. (Ed., W. J. Rolfe.) Houghton, $0.75. [Children should be made acquainted with parts of the “Idylls of the King.”]
Watts, Isaac—Childhood Songs of Long Ago. Wessels, $0.75. [Vide English editions.]
Welsh, Charles—Book of Nursery Rhymes. (Edited and graded.) Heath, $0.30. [In Home and School Classics.]
Wiggin, K. D., and Smith, N. A. (Eds.)—Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth. McClure, $2.00 net.
Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children. McClure, $1.25 net. [The same editors have gathered together a book of nursery rhymes.]
CLASSICS
Cervantes, Miguel de—Don Quixote of the Mancha. (Retold by Judge E. A. Parry; ill., Walter Crane.) Lane, $1.50.
Chaucer, Geoffrey—Canterbury Tales. (Retold by Percy MacKaye; ill., W. Appleton Clark.) Duffield, $2.50.
Canterbury Chimes; or, Chaucer Tales Retold to Children. Storr, Frances and Turner, Hawes. Kegan, Paul, 3s. 6d.
Chaucer for Children. Mrs. H. R. Haweis. Scribner, $1.25.
Church, A. H.—Lords of the World. (Pictures from Roman Life and Story). Appleton, $1.50.
Herodotus—Wonder Stories from. Told by Boden, G. H., and D’Almeida, W. B. Harper, $2.50.
Homer—Iliad. (Tr., W. C. Bryant.) Houghton, $1.00 to $9.00. [Vide also tr., Lang, Leaf, Myers.]
Lamb, Charles—The Adventures of Ulysses. Harper, $2.50. [Vide also ed., E. V. Lucas, Putnam.]
Odysseus, Adventures of—(Retold by Marvin, F. S., and others; ill., Charles Robinson.) Dutton, $1.50. [Vide also ed., G. H. Palmer and W. C. Perry.]
Plutarch—Lives. [Full ed.; also J. S. White’s “Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch.” Putnam, $1.75.]
Shakespeare—Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines. Mary Cowden Clarke. (Ill., Sir John Gilbert.) Scribner, $3.00.
Tales from. Charles and Mary Lamb. Macmillan, $1.00. (Ed., Ainger.) [Vide also ed., E. V. Lucas, Putnam; ed. ill., Norman M. Price, Scribner; ed. Nister. Quiller Couch has treated the historical tales in the same manner. Scribner.]
Swift, Jonathan—Gulliver’s Travels. Macmillan, $1.25 net.
Towry, M. H.—Spenser for Children. Scribner, $1.25.
“HOW TO DO THINGS”—AMUSEMENTS
Alcott, L. M.—Little Women Play. (Adapted from the story by E. L. Gould.) Little, Brown, $0.50.
Beard, Dan—The Field and Forest Handy Book. Scribner, $2.00.
The Jack of All Trades. Scribner, $2.00.
The American Boy’s Handy Book. Scribner, $2.00.
Beard, L. and A.—Things Worth Doing and How to Do Them. Scribner, $2.00.
Handicraft and Recreation for Girls. Scribner. $2.00.
Black, Alexander—Photography Indoors and Out. Houghton, $1.25.
Boys, C. V.—Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Made Them. Gorham, $0.75.
Cutter, Mrs. S. J. (Compiler.)—Conundrums, Riddles, Puzzles, and Games. Hansauer.
Games Book for Boys and Girls. Dutton, $2.50. (Vide Nister.)
Kelley, L. E.—Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do. Estes, $1.75.
King, G. G.—Comedies and Legends for Marionettes. Macmillan, $1.50.
Lewis, A. J. (Prof. Hoffman.)—Magic at Home. Cassell, $1.25. [Vide also “Modern Magic.” Routledge, $1.50.]
Lucas, E. V. and Elizabeth—What Shall We Do Now? Stokes, $2.00.
Newell, Peter—Topsys and Turvys. Century, $1.00 net.
Seton, Ernest Thompson—The Wild Animal Play. Doubleday, $0.50.
Syrett, Netta—Six Fairy Plays for Children. Lane, $1.00 net.
White, Mary—How to Make Baskets. Doubleday, $1.00 net. [The same author has written a second volume. Many workers prefer “Cane Basket Work.” Annie Firth. London: Gill; New York: Milton Bradley.]
MUSIC
In the preparation of this music bibliography, it is a rare privilege to be able to include a list which was compiled by the late Miss Mary L. Avery, of the music department of the Lenox Library, New York; and which was used in a lecture delivered by her before the Pratt Institute Library School on January 12, 1900. To this, the following supplementary list, based upon recommendation, may be added. Prices vary.
Brainard, H. L. (music), and Sage, Betty (words)—Four Childhood Rhymes. Schirmer; The Boston Music Co.
Coolidge, Elizabeth—Fifteen Mother Goose Melodies. Schirmer. (Music somewhat difficult.)
Fisher, William Armes—Posies from A Child’s Garden of Verses. Ditson.
Gaynor, Jessie L. (music), and Riley, C. (words)—Songs of the Child World. Nos. 1, 2. The John Church Co.
Jenks, Harriet S., and Rust, Mabel—Song Echoes from Child Land. Ditson.
Jordan, Jules—A Life Lesson. (Words by Riley.) Schmidt.
McLaughlin, James M., and Gilchrist, W. W.—Educational Music Course. Teachers’ Edition for Elementary Grades. Ginn.
Mother Goose Set to Music. (Elliott, J. W.) Novello. [An edition is published by Houghton, $1.50.]
Riley, Gaynor, Beale—Songs for Children. John Church Co.
Taubert, Wilhelm—Klänge aus der Kinderwelt. Schirmer.
In addition, such names as Eleanor Smith and Harvey Worthington Loomis should not be omitted, as composers who recognise successfully the requirements of children’s voices. These requirements cannot be too often reiterated. In a letter to the author, the following was underscored: “A child’s song must be written almost entirely in the middle register of the voice—neither too high nor too low. Then there must be a distinct melody for the child’s ear to catch readily. And the words must interest the child’s mind.” In this last respect music-teachers are most emphatic. They appeal for verses that stimulate the imagination, they wish words carefully chosen; in the teaching, they seek for purity of diction, for proper valuation of vowels, consonants, and word-endings.
Miss Avery’s Music List. Music in Children’s Libraries
Breitkopf Edition Catalogue—Breitkopf and Hartel. New York.
Musical, The, Interests [tastes] of Children—Fanny B. Gates. West. Springfield, Mass., 1898. [Reprinted from the Journal of Pedagogy, October, 1898.]
Novello’s School Music Catalogue (Operettas, etc.)—[Descriptive.] London.
Scribner’s Musical Literature List—New York.
Literature of Music
Letters from Great Musicians to Young People—Alathea E. Crawford and Alice Chapin. New York, 1897.
Musicians in Rhyme for Childhood’s Time—Crawford and Sill. New York, Schirmer.
Story of Major C and his Relatives: Lessons in Harmony—Grace S. Duff. New York, 1894.
Story of Music and Musicians—Lucy C. Lillie. New York.
Story of the Rhinegold—Chapin.
Wagner Story-Book—William Henry Frost. New York.
Vocal Music
Baby’s Bouquet—(Old songs.) Ill., Walter Crane. Routledge.
Baby’s Opera—(Old songs.) Ill., Walter Crane. Routledge; Warne.
Book of Rhymes and Tunes—Compiled by Margaret P. Osgood [from German and English]. Boston, 1880.
Book of Old Rhymes Set to Music—Walter Crane. Warne, $1.20.
Child’s Garden of Song—Arranged by Wm. L. Tomlins. Chicago, 1895.
Child’s Garden of Verses—12 Songs by Stevenson. Music by Mary Carmichael. London.
Child’s Garland of Songs [From a Child’s Garden of Verses.]—R. L. Stevenson. Music by C. Villiers Stanford. London, 1892.
Children’s Singing Games—Eleanor Withey Willard. Grand Rapids, 1895.
Children’s Souvenir Song Book—Arranged by Wm. L. Tomlins. New York, 1893.
Christmas (A) Dream—School Operetta—Moffat. London, Novello.
Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern—Wm. L. Tomlins. New York, 1897.
Christmas Carols New and Old—Bramley and Sir John Stainer. Novello; Routledge.
Garland of Country Song—(English folk songs.) Arranged by S. Baring Gould and H. F. Sheppard. London, 1895.
Kindergarten Chimes—Kate Douglas Wiggin. Boston (cop.), 1887.
Kinderlieder—Von Carl Reinecke. Leipzig; New York, Schirmer.
Kinder- und Jugend-lieder (50)—Von Hoffman, V. Stuttgart.
Kinderlieder (24)—Gustav Fischer. New York.
Kinderlieder-Album—Amalie Felsenthal. Leipzig.
May-day Revels (Operetta, Old English style.)—Hawkins and West. London.
Musik-Beilage zu Kinderfest—J. Fischer. Berlin, Bloch.
National, Patriotic, and Typical Airs of All Lands, with Copious Notes—John Philip Sousa. Philadelphia, 1890.
Old May Day (Operetta.)—Shapcott Wensley and F. C. Wood. London.
Olde Englyshe Pastimes—F. W. Galpin. (Dances and sports, old music.) London.
Singing (A) Quadrille, Set to Nursery Rhymes, for Pianoforte and Voices—Cotsford Dick.
Singing Verses for Children—Lydia Coonley and others. New York, 1897.
Small Songs for Small Singers—W. H. Neidlinger. (Coloured ill., Bobbett.) New York, Schirmer.
St. Nicholas Operettas. Century.
St. Nicholas Songs. Century.
Songs of Childhood—Eugene Field. Music by Reginald de Koven and others. New York, 1896.
Stevenson Song Book—Music by various composers. New York, 1897.
Three Operettas (Three Little Kittens; Seven Old Ladies of Lavender Town; Bobby Shaftoe)—H. C. Bunner and Oscar Weil. New York, 1897.
Instrumental Music
Haydn’s Kinder-symphonie—For Piano and Violin and Toy Instruments.
Our Favorites (Unsere Lieblinge). [Piano gems arranged by Carl Reinecke.] New York, Breitkopf and Hartel.
Schumann, Robert—Album for Young Pianists. Op. 68.
Kinderball. (Dances, four hands, for Piano.) Op. 130.
Kinderscenen. (Piano.) Op. 15.
SCIENCE AND INVENTION
Baker, Ray Stannard—Boy’s Book of Inventions. McClure, $2.00. [There is a second volume, $1.60.]
Ball, Sir Robert Stawell—Starland. Ginn, $1.00.
Darwin, Charles R.—What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship “Beagle.” Harper, $3.00.
Iles, George—Flame, Electricity, and the Camera. Doubleday, $2.00 net.
Meadowcroft, W. H.—A B C of Electricity. Empire Publishing Co., $0.50.
Newcomb, Simon—Astronomy for Everybody. McClure, $2.00 net.
Santos-Dumont, Alberto—My Air-Ships. Century, $1.40 net.
Scientific American Boy: or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island—A. Russell Bond. Munn and Co., $2.00.
Serviss, Garrett P.—Astronomy with an Opera-Glass. Appleton, $1.50. [This book has been challenged.]
Sloane, T. O’C.—Electric Toy-making.—Henley, $1.00. (Vide also St. John, T. M.—Three books on electricity. Scribner.)
TRAVEL
Boyesen, H. H.—Boyhood in Norway. Scribner, $1.25.
The Modern Vikings. Scribner, $1.25.
Brassey, Lady A. (A.)—Around the World in the Yacht “Sunbeam.” Holt, $2.00; Longmans (condensed), $0.75; Burt.
Du Chaillu, P. B.—The Land of the Long Night. Scribner, $2.00.
Land of the Midnight Sun. Harper, 2 vols., $5.00.
Janvier, Thomas A.—The Aztec Treasure House. (Narrative.) Harper, $1.50.
Jenks, Tudor—Boys’ Book of Explorations. Doubleday, $2.00.
Kennan, George—Tent Life in Siberia. Putnam, $0.50 to $1.25.
Knox, Thomas W.—Boy Travellers in Russia. Harper, $2.00.
Boy Travellers in South America. Harper. $2.00. [In these volumes there is a large amount of information which would have been more graphic, relieved of the artificial conversational style.]
Lummis, Charles F.—Some Strange Corners of Our Country. Century, $1.50.
Nansen, Fridtjof—Farthest North: Record of a Voyage of the Ship “Fram.” Harper, 2 vols., $4.00.
Peary, Mrs. J. D. and M. A.—Children of the Arctic. Stokes, $1.20 net.
Snow Baby. Stokes, $1.20 net.
Slocum, Joshua—Sailing Alone Around the World in the Sloop “Spray.” Whole edition, Century, $2.00; school edition, Scribner, $0.50.
Stanley, Henry M.—In Darkest Africa. Scribner, 2 vols., $7.50. [Vide also “My Dark Companions, and Their Strange Stories.” Scribner, $2.00.]
Taylor, Bayard—Boys of Other Countries. Putnam, $1.25.
FRENCH
“The collection of books which we call ‘Bibliothèque Rose’ (the paper bound edition has a pink cover; perhaps that is the reason why we call it Bibliothèque Rose) includes the most charming stories a child can wish for, especially those of Mme. de Ségur’s and Zénaïde Fleuriot’s. In this collection as well as in the Bibliothèque des Petits Enfants, and in the large illustrated albums, much will be found of interest to children of from six to ten years.
“For older boys and girls (10–15), I would recommend Bibliothèque des Mères de Famille. At the present time the only thing I remember about this collection is that there were in it a number of books translated from the German by Emmeline Raymond, and which used to give me much pleasure.
“As far as I can judge, girls and boys of this age enjoy Jules Verne,* Charles Wagner, H. Gréville, H. Malot, E. About, Erckmann-Chatrian,* Anatole France, Daudet, and La Fontaine, the two I have starred being special favourites with boys. Of course, I would not recommend for children everything by these authors. I have suggested many books in the Bibliothèque Rose; there are other writers in that collection, such, for example, as Mme. Cazin, Mlle. J. Gouraud, Maistre, Mayne-Reid, Mme. Pape-Carpantier, Mme. de Stolz, and Mme. de Witt,—all of whom have done some excellent juvenile work. But a parent should not be satisfied with a recommendation; personal judgment is the surest test.
“Regarding poetry, there are many short pieces by Mme. Tastu, well adapted for very young children. In the anthologies which are published you are most likely to find such pieces as Victor Hugo’s ‘L’enfant,’ ‘Pour les pauvres,’ ‘Après la bataille’; Lamartine’s ‘L’automne,’ ‘Milly’; extracts from Corneille and Racine; and Chateaubriand’s well-known ‘Combien j’ai douce souvenance.’ Then there are a number of Coppée’s poems; Bérenger’s ‘Les souvenirs du peuple,’ and ‘A mon habit’; André Chénier’s ‘La jeune Captive’; Hégésippe Moreau’s ‘La Voulzie’; Brizeux’s ‘La pauvre fille’; Theuriet’s ‘La Chanson du Vannier’; and poems of Mme. Desborde-Valmore. This will give some idea of how rich the field of poetry is, which, with La Fontaine alone, would supply children with untold enjoyment.
“The educational value in most of the books which I have suggested consists chiefly in the attractive manner in which they are written; there is no ‘leçon de morale’ in disguise in the style, yet such books are more than well-written stories. Children read Mme. de Ségur’s books with much more pleasure than they do the old-fashioned Berquin’s, which are ‘ennuyeux.’ Such stories as Mme. de Ségur writes make a deep impression, since they teach agreeably to love the qualities which we grown-ups wish to see in children, and to dislike those faults which we would blame in them, even if, sometimes, the naughty child in the story is made attractive.
“You will see, we have no special books of animal stories, such as you publish in England and in America—unless you consider, of course, La Fontaine’s fables, which do not give any practical knowledge of animal life. Books which appeal to the heart, or to the imagination, are very popular with French children, who are naturally sensitive and imaginative; but, after all, is it not so with every child, French or English or American?
“It has been my experience that American children (the very young ones), if they were able to read the French books French children of the same age read, enjoyed them quite as much. The difference in national temperament develops later on. The American boy or girl grows up more rapidly than the French boy or girl; acquires the practical sense sooner; has a more real view of life. Perhaps this is due largely to the fact that the French child has little independence, and hence is unpractical. But there is a compensation somewhere, for the French child’s mind is subtler, and his imagination more vivid. I do not think we have any library system at present where children’s work is a specialty; in fact, our public libraries are mostly frequented by grown-up people. I have never seen children, as far as I can recollect, in any of our libraries.”—Mlle. Emilie Michel, in a letter to the author.
Both Brentano and Dryrsen & Pfeiffer (successors to Christern), as well as W. R. Jenkins Co., New York, issue complete catalogues, French and German, in which illustrated books, magazines, and series of special volumes are suggested. They differ so markedly in prices, that no uniformity can be reached. But except in the case of illustrated albums, it may be claimed, generally, that the prices are reasonable.
About, Edmond—Le Roi des Montagnes.
L’Homme à l’oreille Cassée.
Carraud, Mme.—La petite Jeanne. Bibliothèque Rose.
Daudet, Alphonse—Tartarin de Tarascon.
Tartarin sur les Alpes.
Lettres de Mon Moulin. (Contes.)
Le Petit Chose.
DeFoe—La Vie et les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé. Bibliothèque Rose. [Vide also in Bibl. des petits enfants, with “Gulliver’s Travels.”]
Dombre, Roger—Tante Rabat Joie.
Erckmann-Chatrian—Le conscrit de 1813.
L’Ami Fritz.
Fleuriot, Mlle. Z.—Le petit chef de famille. Bibliothèque Rose.
Florian—Fables Illustrées par Vimar. Brentano, $2.70.
France, Anatole—Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard. [Crowned by the French Academy.]
Le Livre de Mon Ami. [For adults.]
Genlis, Madame de—Bibliothèque Rose. Contes Moraux. Vide p. 66.
Gréville, Henry (pseud. of Mme. Alice Durant)—Perdue. [Vide entire list.]
Grimm—Contes Choisis. Bibliothèque Rose.
Job—Le grand Napoléon des Petits Enfants. (Ill. coloured.) Brentano, $3.00.
La Fontaine—Vide Boutet de Monvel. Picture-Book section.
La Motte-Fouque, Baron de.—Undine and Sintram. [Vide English version. Houghton.]
Malot, Hector—En famille.
Sans famille.
Perrault, Charles; Mmes. D’Aulnoy et Le Prince de Beaumont—Contes de Fées. Bibliothèque Rose. [Vide also Petite Bibliothèque Blanche, et ed. Perrault, ill. by many artists. Brentano, $2.70. Vide p. 36.]
Pressensé, Mme. E. de—La Maison Blanche et Histoire pour les écoliers. Bibliothèque Rose. [Vide also Bibl. des Petits Enfants.]
Sandeau, Jules—La Maison de Penarvan.
Ségur, Mme. de—L’Auberge de l’Ange-Gardien. Bibliothèque Rose.
Un Bon Petit Diable.
Le Général Dourakine.
Mémoires d’un Ane.
Les Bons Enfants.
Verne, Jules—Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant.
Cinq Semaines en Ballon.
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers.
Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours.
[All in the Bibliothèque Rose.]
Wagner, Charles—Jeunesse.
Vaillance.
GERMAN
In the preparation of the following German list, the author begs to acknowledge in a general way his indebtedness to many sources. An authority on the subject is Wolgast, who is the author of “Vom Kinderbuch” (Leipzig, Teubner). One of the committee recommends the inclusion of all the stories by Johanna Spyri; another emphasises the importance of the work done by Ottilie Wildermuth, and appends the following interesting account in a letter: “‘She was the wife of a professor in Tübingen, Swabia, and was born in 1817. She died in 1877. Long before she thought of writing for publication, she charmed a wide circle of friends and acquaintances with her talent for narrating the simple events, memories, and experiences of Swabian life. Most of her works must be considered, not as mere fiction, but as true pictures of the culture of that time, and as such will be of permanent value.’ The same may be said of her children’s books, although these are more fanciful and varied in their subject-matter, and appeal strongly to the imagination.”
The Germans illustrate their A-B-C Bücher, their Nursery Rhymes, their Bilderbücher, and their Erzählungen in the most attractive fashion. Reference is particularly made to Herr Richter. Fairy Tales are read extensively by German children—and also by adults. Grimm, Hauff, Musäus, are about the best. Schmitt’s Geschichten u. Erzählungen (of which there are perhaps from one to two hundred volumes) are excellent for boys and girls between ten and fifteen years. The Germans have paid such special attention to the selection and grading of juvenile literature, that their library lists are recommended to readers. The volumes here mentioned are not presented with any intention of making them definitive. Brentano will send, on application, “Verzeichnis einer Auswahl Vorzüglicher Bücher—Miniatur-Katalog.—Stilke, Berlin.”
The reader is further referred to “Verzeichnis empfehlenswerter Jugendlektüre. Herausgegeben vom Wiener Volksbildungs-Verein, 1904.”
Äsop—Fabeln. Mit 6 Buntbildern. Löwe.
Aus dem Leben der Zwerge—Humorist. Bilderbuch.
Bilderbücher. (Löwensohn.)
Der D-Zug Kommt. Eisenbahnbilderb. auf Papyrolin; auf Papier.
Für unsere A B C-Schützen.
Grimms Märchen.
Hänsel und Gretel.
Heerschau üb. d. Kriegsvölker Europas.
Hertwig, R., Eduard und Ferdinand. [Vide Catalogues.]
Bilderbücher. (Scholz.)
Liebe Märchen.
Dornröschen; Marienkind.
Aschenputtel; Rotkäppchen.
Hänsel und Gretel; Schneewittchen.
Hey-Speckter, W.—Fünfzig Fabeln f. Kinder. Jub.-Ausg.
Noch fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder. Jub.-Ausg.
Fabeln. 2 Bde. Schul-Ausgabe; 2 Bde. Feine Ausgabe.
Thumann, P.—Für Mutter und Kind. Alte Reime mit neuen Bildern.
Wiedemann, F.—Hundert Geschichten für eine Mutter und ihre Kinder.
Wildermuth, O.—Aus der Kinderwelt.
Anders, H.—Gesammelte Märchen von Rübezahl.
Andersen, H. C.—Sämtl. Märchen. Pr.-A. (Abel & Müller); V.-Ausg. (Abel & Müller); Pr.-Ausg. (Wartig).
Märchen. (Hendel); Löwe; Billige Ausgabe. (Weise.)
Ausgewählte Märchen. (Abel & Müller); Hrsg. v. Hamb. Jugendschr.-Ausschuss.
Arndt, P.—Es war einmal. Märchen, Sagen u. Schwänke.
Im Märchenwalde.
Für brave Knaben.
Rübezahl. (Löwe); V.-Aug, (Löwe).
Bechstein, L.—Märchenbuch. (Hendel).
Beeg, M.—Schulmädelgeschichten.
Beetz, K. O.—Urd.; Deutsche Volksmärchen.
Blüthgen, V.—Hesperiden. Märchen für jung und alt. Vollst. Ausg.
Lebensfrühling. Vier Erzählungen für Mädchen.
Der Märchenquell.
Der Weg zum Glück. Fünf Erzähl. f. Knaben.
Campe, J. H.—Robinson Krusoe von J. Hoffmann.
Emmy, Tante—Märchen für grosse und kleine Kinder.
Grimm, J. u. W.—Sämtl. Kinder- u. Hausmärchen. Mit Bildern v. L. Richter usw.
Gumpert, Th. v.—Herzblättchens Zeitvertreib.
Hauff, W.—Märchen. Ausw. f. d. Jugend. (Löwe).
Hoffmann, Frz.—Ausgew. Erzählungen. Bd. 1, 2, 3.
Das bunte Buch. Neue 150 moral. Erzählungen.
150 moralische Erzählungen.
Die Grossmutter.
Neuer deutscher Jugendfreund.
Märchen und Fabeln.
Müller, K. A.—Rübezahl, der Herr des Riesengebirges.
Musäus, J. K. A.—Märchen. Von K. A. Müller.
Nibelungenlied—Für die Jugend, von A. Bacmeister.
Otto, H.—Ilias, für die Jugend.
Nibelunge, für die Jugend. 2 Bdchn.
Sagen und Märchen für Achtjährige.
Reichenbach—Buch der Tierwelt. Erzähl. u. Schildergn. a. d. Leben der Tiere. 2 Bde.
Rosegger, P.—Als ich noch der Waldbauernbub war. 3 Teile.
Waldferien.
Schanz, Fr.—Heidefriedel.
Das Komtesschen und andere Erzählungen.
Rottraut u. Ilse.
Schulkindergeschichten.
Bunter Strauss. Märchen u. Erzählungen.
Unter der Tanne.
Schanz, P.—In der Pension u. anderes.
Schott, Cl.—Im Feenreich. Mit Bildern.
Stein, A.—Mariens Tagebuch.
52 Sonntage.
Tagebuch dreier Kinder.
Villamaria.—Elfenreigen. Nordische Märchen.
Wildermuth, O.—Aus Nord und Süd.
Aus Schloss und Hütte.
Jugendschriften. V.-A.; Inhalt s. Abt. Schriften für die reifere weibl. Jugend.
Kindergruss.
Cervantes—Don Quichote. Für d. Jugend v. Frz. Hoffmann; für Schule und Haus bearbeitet von Höller. (Schaffstein). Illustriert; Für die Jugend von P. Moritz. V.-Ausg.; (Weise).
Cooper, J. F.—Conanchet. Von Frz. Hoffmann.
Der rote Freibeuter. Von P. O. Höcker. (Löwe).
Lederstrumpf-Erzählgn. F. d. Jugend v. Kl. Bernhard; Für die Jugend v. O. Höcker. (Löwe); v. Frz. Hoffmann; v. Fr. Meister. Pr.-A.; Einzeln: Der Wildtöter; Der letzte der Mohikaner; Der Pfadfinder; Lederstrumpf; Der alte Trapper; v. P. Moritz. Gesamt-Ausg.; Einzeln: Der letzte Mohikaner; Der Pfadfinder; Lederstrumpf od. die Ansiedler; Der Wildsteller od. die Prärie; Der Wildtöter.
Die Prärie. Für die Jugend. (Weise.)
Der Spion. Für die Jugend von E. Benseler.
Dahn, F. u. Th.—Walhall. Germanische Götter-u. Heldensagen. Ausgabe mit Bildern.
Hauff, W.—Lichtenstein. Für die Jugend. (Weise.)
Liliencron, D. v.—Gedichte. Auswahl für die Jugend.
Ebner-Eschenbach, M. v.—Die arme Kleine.
Gumpert, Th. v.—Töchter-Album.
Hartner, E. (E. E. H. v. Twardowska.)—Pension und Elternhaus.
Heinz, T. v. (Henny von Tempelhoff.)—Goldköpfchen.
Pension Velden.
Tante Sybille.
Heldern, T. (Toni Lindner.)—Die Backfischpension.
Rhoden, E. v. (Emma Friedrich-Friedrich.)—Der Trotzkopf. Mit Bildern; Billige Ausgabe.
Trotzkopfs Brautzeit. Mit Bildern; Billige Ausgabe.
(Wildhagen), Aus Trotzkopfs Ehe. Mit Bildern; Billige Ausgabe.
(S. la Chapelle-Roobol), Trotzkopf als Grossmutter.
Der Trotzkopf. 3 Bde. Feine Ausg. in hell. Damastlnw. geb., in eleg. Hülse.
Rosegger, P.—Ernst u. heiter. Volksausg. f. Österreich.
Schmidt, H.—In Backfischchens Kaffeekränzchen.
Wildermuth, O.—Jugendschriften. Volks-Ausg. 22 Bde.
1. Ein einsam Kind. Die Wasser im Jahre 1824; 2. Drei Schulkameraden. Der Spiegel der Zwerglein; 3. Eine seltsame Schule. Bärbeles Weihnachten; 4. Eine Königin. Der Kinder Gebet; 5. Spätes Glück. Die drei Schwestern vom Walde; 6. Die Ferien auf Schloss Bärensprung. Der Sandbub oder Wer hat’s am besten?; 7. Cherubino u. Zephirine. Kann sein, ’s ist auch so recht; 8. Brüderchen und Schwesterchen. Der Einsiedler im Walde; 9. Der Peterli von Emmenthal. Zwei Märchen für die Kleinsten; 10. Krieg und Frieden. Emmas Pilgerfahrt; 11. Das braune Lenchen. Des Königs Patenkind; 12. Nach Regen Sonnenschein. Frau Luna. Das Bäumlein im Walde; 13. Die Nachbarskinder. Kordulas erste Reise. Balthasars Apfelbäume; 14. Die wunderbare Höhle. Das Steinkreuz. Unsere alte Marie; 15. Der kluge Bruno. Eine alte Schuld. Heb’ auf, was Gott dir vor die Türe legt; 16. Elisabeth. Die drei Christbäume. Klärchens Genesung. Das Feental; 17. Vom armen Unstern; 18. Es ging ein Engel durch das Haus. Des Herrn Pfarrers Kuh. Die erste Seefahrt; 19. Schwarze Treue; 20. Das Osterlied. Die Kinder der Heide; 21. Hinauf und Hinab; 22. Der rote Hof.
NATURE
Arnold, A. F.—The Sea-Beach at Ebb-Tide. Century, $2.40 net.
Bostock, F. C.—The Training of Wild Animals. Century, $1.00 net.
Burroughs, John—Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers. (Ill. after Audubon.) Houghton, $1.00.
Wake Robin. Houghton, $1.00 net.
Chapman, Frank R.—Bird-Life: A Guide to the Study of Our Common Birds. (Ill., Seton.) Appleton, $2.00.
Doubleday, Mrs. F. N. (pseud., Neltje Blanchan)—Bird Neighbors. Doubleday, $2.00. [American and local. Vide same author’s “Birds that Hunt and Are Hunted,” $2.00.]
Nature’s Garden. Doubleday, $3.00 net.
Dugmore, A. Radclyffe—Nature and the Camera. Doubleday, $1.35 net.
Gibson, W. H.—Blossom Hosts and Insect Guests. Newson, $0.80.
Eye Spy. Harper, $2.50.
Sharp Eyes. Harper, $2.50.
Holland, W. J.—Butterfly Book. Doubleday, $3.00 net. [Vide same author’s “Moth Book,” $4.00 net.]
Hornaday, William T.—American Natural History. Scribner, $3.50 net. [Vide same author’s “Two Years in a Jungle,” $2.50.]
Keeler, Harriet L.—Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them. Scribner, $2.00 net. [Vide also the “Tree Book.” Julia E. Rogers. Doubleday, $4.00 net.]
Miller, Olive Thorne—The First Book of Birds. Houghton, $1.00. [There is a second book.]
Morley, Margaret W.—The Bee People. McClurg, $1.25.
Parsons, Frances Theodora (formerly Mrs. Dana)—How to Know Wild Flowers. Scribner, $2.00 net. [Vide also same author’s “According to the Seasons.” Scribner, $1.75 net.]
Seton, Ernest Thompson—Biography of a Grizzly. Century, $1.50.
Wild Animals I have Known. Scribner, $2.00. [Vide also same author’s “Lives of the Hunted.”]
Shaler, Nathaniel S.—Story of the Continent. Ginn, $0.75.
First Book in Geology. Heath, $0.60.
Sharp, Dallas L.—Wild Life Near Home. Century, $2.00. [Vide also same author’s “A Watcher in the Woods.” Century, $0.84.]
Thoreau, Henry D.—Walden. Houghton, $1.50 to $3.00.
Torrey, Bradford—Every-day Birds. (Ill. after Thoreau.) Houghton, $1.00.
Wright, Mabel Osgood—Citizen Bird. Macmillan, $1.50 net.
BIOGRAPHY
Abbott, J. S. C.—Daniel Boone, and the Early Settlement of Kentucky. Dodd, $0.75.
David Crockett and Early Texan History. Dodd, $0.75.
Kit Carson, the Pioneer of the Far West. Dodd, $0.75.
Alcott, Louisa May—Life, Letters, and Journals. (Ed., E. D. Cheney.) Little, Brown, $1.50.
Barnes, James—Midshipman Farragut. Appleton, $1.00.
Bolton, Mrs. S. K.—Poor Boys Who Became Famous. Crowell, $1.50. [This author has written many books of a similar character for boys and girls.]
Brooks, E. S.—Historic Boys. Putnam, $1.25.
Historic Girls. Putnam, $1.25. [Same author wrote “Historic Dwarfs” for St. Nicholas Magazine. His facts have been challenged.]
Chivalric Days. Putnam, $1.25.
Butterworth, Hezekiah—The Boys of Greenway Court. [The Early Days of Washington. Many librarians would challenge this.] Appleton, $1.50.
Franklin, Benjamin—Autobiography. Houghton, $0.75.
Garland, Hamlin—Ulysses S. Grant. McClure, $2.50.
Joan of Arc—Vide Boutet de Monvel. [Picture-book section.]
Keller, Helen—The Story of My Life. Doubleday, $1.50 net.
Lee, Robert E.—Vide Beacon Biographies. Trent, W. P. [The Lives of Lee, J. E. B. Stuart, and Stonewall Jackson have yet to be treated satisfactorily for young people.]
Nicolay, Helen—Boys’ Life of Lincoln. Century, $1.50.
Ober, Frederick A.—Columbus; Pizarro; DeSoto. Harper, $1.00 net each. [This author’s style is picturesque.]
Riis, Jacob A.—The Making of an American: An Autobiography. Macmillan, $1.50 net.
Scudder, Horace E.—George Washington. Houghton, $0.75. [Vide also E. E. Hale’s “Life of Washington.” Putnam, $1.75.]
Seawell, M. E.—Decatur and Somers. Appleton, $1.00.
Twelve Naval Captains. Scribner, $1.25.
Paul Jones. Appleton, $1.00.
Seelye, Elizabeth E.—The Story of Columbus. Appleton, $1.75.
Southey, Robert—Life of Nelson. [Vide ed., Macmillan, Warne, Crowell, Dutton, Lothrop, etc.]
Wister, Owen—U. S. Grant. (Beacon Biography.) Small, $0.75 net. [This is the same series as referred to under Lee, in which Norman Hapgood has written on Daniel Webster.]
HISTORY
Alton, E. (pseud, of Edmund Bailey)—Among the Law Makers. Scribner, $1.50.
Barnes, James—Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors. Macmillan, $1.50.
Callcott, M. (D.)—Little Arthur’s History of England. Crowell, $0.60.
Little Arthur’s History of France. Crowell, $0.60. [Both volumes have a certain value in the history of children’s books.]
Coffin, C. C.—Boys of ’76. Harper, $2.00. [Same author wrote “Boys of ’61.” Estes, $2.00.]
Creasy, E. S.—Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World. Harper, $1.00.
Dickens, Charles—Child’s History of England. Houghton, $1.00 to $2.50.
Dole, C. F.—The Young Citizen. Heath, $0.45.
Eggleston, E. and Seelye (Mrs.), E. E.—Brant and Red Jacket. Dodd, $0.75.
Fiske, John—He has written a United States History. (Houghton.) His larger contributions on periods are so excellent in their narrative style as to recommend themselves for young readers of high-school age. [Vide also Edward Eggleston’s “Household History of the United States.” Appleton, $2.50.]
Griffis, W. E.—Brave Little Holland and What She Taught Us. Houghton, $1.25.
Greenwood, Grace—Merrie England; Bonnie Scotland. [Out of print, but re-publication strongly advised by librarians. Miss Burnite, of the Cleveland Public Library, recently edited the “Ballads Retold.” Ginn, $0.50.]
Stories and Legends; Stories and Sights of France and Italy. [Also out of print.]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel—Grandfather’s Chair. Containing also Biographical Stories. Houghton, $1.25.
Jenks, Tudor—Our Army for Our Boys. (Ill. Ogden.) Moffat, Yard, $2.00 net. [Mr. Jenks is also the author of the lives of John Smith and Miles Standish (Century); of a series of historical and social studies for children, the first volume called “When America Was New” (Crowell.); and of another series, Lives of Great Writers (Barnes.).]
Kieffer, H. M.—Recollections of a Drummer Boy. (A Civil War biographical story.) Houghton, $1.50.
Marshall, Helen—An Island Story. [A history of England, written by an Australian. The book is in sumptuous format.] Stokes, $2.50 net.
McDougall, Isabel—Little Royalties. Revell, $1.25.
Parkman, Francis—The Oregon Trail. (Ill., Remington.) Little, Brown, $4.00; $2.00.
The Conspiracy of Pontiac. (2 vols.) Little, Brown, $3.00.
Roosevelt, Theodore, and Lodge, Henry Cabot—Hero Tales from American History. Century, $1.50.
Scott, Sir Walter—Tales of a Grandfather. Macmillan, $2.00.
Stockton, Frank R.—Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coast. Macmillan, $1.50.
Tarbell, Ida M.—He Knew Lincoln. McClure, $0.50 net.
Yonge, Charlotte M.—Young Folk’s History of England. Lothrop, $1.50. [Vide Miss Yonge’s “Book of Golden Deeds.” Macmillan, $1.00.]
HISTORICAL STORIES
Aguilar, Grace—The Days of Bruce. Appleton, $1.00. [She also wrote “A Mother’s Recompense” and “Home Influence.”]
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman—The Perfect Tribute. (A Story of Lincoln.) Scribner, $0.50.
Barnes, James—For King or Country. Harper, $1.50.
Bennett, John—Master Skylark. (A Story of Shakespeare’s Time.) Century, $1.50.
Barnaby Lee. Century, $1.50.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward—Harold, the Last of the Saxons. (2 vols.) Little, Brown, $1.25 each.
Last Days of Pompeii. Little, Brown, $1.25.
Last of the Barons. (A Story of the Earl of Warwick.) [2 vols.] Little, Brown, $1.25 each.
Davis, M. E. M.—In War Times at La Rose Blanche. Lothrop, $1.25.
Doyle, A. Conan—White Company. (A 14th-century story.) Harper, $1.75.
Micah Clarke. (A 17th-century story.) Harper, $1.75.
Eggleston, George Cary—Signal Boys. Putnam, $1.25.
Southern Soldier Stories. Macmillan, $1.50.
Strange Stories from History. Harper, $0.60.
Hale, Edward E.—A Man Without a Country. Little, Brown, $0.50 to $1.25.
Henty, G. A.—Lion of the North. (A Tale of Gustavus Adolphus.) Scribner, $1.50.
St. George for England. (A Tale of Cressy and Poitiers.) Scribner, $1.50.
With Clive in India. Scribner, $1 .50.
With Wolfe in Canada. Scribner, $1.50. [When one is read, the formula for all is discovered.]
Keary, Annie—A York and Lancaster Rose. Macmillan, $1.00.
Kingsley, Charles—Westward Ho! Macmillan, $0.50 to $2.00. [This book, a tale of the 16th century, was recently debarred from one of the library centres in England.]
Knapp, Adeline—The Boy and the Baron. (Germany of feudal times.) Century, $1.00.
Marshall, Beatrice—The Siege of York. (In the days of Thomas, Lord Fairfax.) Dutton, $1.50. [For older girls.]
Matthews, Brander—Tom Paulding. (A story of New York and a treasure.) Century, $1.50.
Page, Thomas Nelson—Two Little Confederates. Scribner, $1.50.
Among the Camps. Scribner, $1.50.
Porter, Jane—The Scottish Chiefs. Dutton, $2.50. (Ill., T. H. Robinson. A Story of William Wallace. Miss Aguilar’s book, “In the Days of Bruce,” is considered a sequel.)
Thaddeus of Warsaw. [Various editions: Coates, Burt, Routledge, Warne.]
Pyle, Howard—Men of Iron. (A 14th-century story.) Harper, $2.00.
Scott, Sir Walter—Ivanhoe. Macmillan, $1.25.
The Talisman. Macmillan, $1.25.
Quentin Durward. Macmillan, $1.25.
Rob Roy. Macmillan, $1.25. [As an introduction, these should lead the way to others.]
Seawell, M. E.—Little Jarvis. Appleton, $1.00.
Stowe, Harriet B.—Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Houghton, $1.00. (Ill., Kemble, $4.00.) [This is reluctantly included; many are strongly in favor of keeping from children such partisan writing; the cause for sectional feeling has been removed to an extent.]
Tomlinson, E. T.—Boy Officers of 1812. Lothrop, Lee, $1.25.
Search for Andrew Field. Lothrop, Lee, $1.25.
Twain, Mark (pseud, of Samuel L. Clemens)—The Prince and the Pauper. (16th century.) Harper, $1.75.
Wallace, Lew—Ben Hur. (A Tale of the Christ.) Harper, $1.50 to $10.00.
Yonge, Charlotte M.—The Lances of Lynwood, Lothrop, Lee, $1.00. [Miss Yonge on children’s reading is seen to great advantage.]
INDIAN STORIES
Baylor, Frances C. (Mrs. F. C. [B.] Belger.)—Juan and Juanita. Houghton, $1.50.
Brooks, Noah—The Boy Emigrants. Scribner, $1.25.
The Boy Settlers. (Early times in Kansas.) Scribner, $1.25.
Catherwood, Mary Hartwell—Heroes of the Middle West. Ginn, $0.50.
Cooper, James Fenimore—Deerslayer. Houghton, $1.00.
The Spy. Houghton, $1.00; Appleton, $1.50. [The entire Leatherstocking series should be read.]
The Last of the Mohicans. Houghton, $1.00.
Custer, Mrs. E. B.—Boots and Saddles. Harper, $1.50. [An account of life in camp out West, and of her husband’s career. Campaigns against the Indians are described. A second book is called “Tenting on the Plains.” Harper, $1.50.]
Deming, E. W.—Little Indian-Folk. Stokes, $1.25.
Little Red People. Stokes, $1.25. [Vide the same author’s “Indian Child Life.” Stokes, $2.00.]
Drake, F. S.—Indian History for Young Folks. Harper, $3.00.
Eastman, Charles A.—Indian Boyhood. McClure, $1.60 net.
Munroe, Kirk—The Flamingo Feather. (A tale of Huguenots and Spaniards.) Harper, $0.60.
Stoddard, W. O.—Little Smoke. (A tale of the Sioux.) Appleton, $1.50.
Red Mustang. Harper, $0.60.
Two Arrows. Harper, $0.60.
STORIES
Abbot, Alice Balch—A Frigate’s Namesake. Century, $1.00.
Alcott, Louisa May—Eight Cousins. Little, Brown, $1.50.
Little Women. Ibid.
Little Men. Ibid.
Old Fashioned Girl. Ibid.
Alden, W. L.—Cruise of the Canoe Club. Harper, $0.60.
Andrews, Jane—The Seven Little Sisters who Lived on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air. Lothrop, Lee, $1.00.
Ten Boys who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now. Lothrop, Lee, $1.00.
Barbour, Ralph—The Crimson Sweater. Century, $1.50. [The same author wrote “Captain of the Crew”; “For the Honor of the School.”]
Barrie, James M.—Peter Pan. (Ill., Arthur Rackham.) Scribner, $5.00.
Blackmore, R. D.—Lorna Doone. [For older readers.] Harper, $2.00.
Burnett, F. H.—Little Lord Fauntleroy. Scribner, $1.25.
The Little Princess. [An enlarged “Sara Crew.”] Scribner, $2.00.
Champney, E. W.—Howling Wolf. Lothrop, $1.25.
Pierre and his Poodle. Dodd, $1.00.
Paddy O’Leary and his Learned Pig. Dodd, $1.00.
Coolidge, Susan (pseud., S. C. Woolsey.)—Eyebright. Little, Brown, $1.25.
Dana, Richard H., Jr.—Two Years Before the Mast. Houghton, $1.00.
De Amicis, Edmondo—Cuore: an Italian Schoolboy’s Journal. Crowell, $1.00.
DeFoe, Daniel—Robinson Crusoe. (Ill., Rheid Brothers.) Russell, Harper, $1.50.
Dickens, Charles—David Copperfield. Houghton, 2 vols., $3.00.
Tale of Two Cities. Houghton, $1.50. [Vide also “Christmas Carol.” These should encourage the children to follow up one work with another.]
Dodge, Mary Mapes—Donald and Dorothy. Century, $1.50. [Vide her “Baby-Days.”]
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates. (New Amsterdam edition.) Scribner, $1.50.
Duncan, Norman—Adventures of Billy Topsail. Revell, $1.50. [This is a good example of an adventurous story, well told.]
Edgeworth, Maria—Waste Not, Want Not. Heath, $0.20.
Popular Tales. Macmillan, $1.50.
Tales. (Ed., Austin Dobson.) Stokes, $1.50.
Early Lessons. Routledge, $1.00. [The Macmillans also publish “Moral Tales,” $1.00; Routledge, “Parent’s Assistant,” $1.00.]
Eggleston, George Cary—Big Brother. Putnam, $1.25.
Captain Sam. Putnam, $1.25.
Ewing, Mrs. J. H.—Jackanapes. Little, Brown, $0.50; Crowell, $0.60.
Story of a Short Life. Dutton, $1.00; Crowell, $0.75.
Timothy Shoes. [Short story.]
The Brownies. Young, $1.00; Burt, $0.75.
Fairstar, Mrs. (pseud. of Richard Hengist Horne).—Memoirs of a London Doll. Brentano, $1.25.
Fletcher, R. H.—Marjory and Her Papa. Century, $1.00.
French, Allen—The Junior Cup. Century, $1.50. [Vide the same author’s excellent legendary-historical tale, “Sir Marrok.” Century, $1.00.]
Gaskell, E. C. (S.)—Cranford. (For older readers.) Macmillan, $1.50.
Gates, Eleanor (Mrs. Richard Walton Tully.)—Biography of a Prairie Girl. Century, $1.50.
Gilson, Roy Rolfe—Katrina. (For older readers.) Baker and Taylor, $1.50.
Goldsmith, Oliver—The Vicar of Wakefield. [Ill., Hugh Thomson. Vide also Caldecott.] Macmillan, $1.50.
Goody Two Shoes. (Ed., Welsh.) Heath, $0.20. [Vide also edition, Macmillan.]
Goulding, Frank—The Young Marooners. Dodd. No price stated. [There is a companion volume, “Marooner’s Island.” This Southern writer is little known.]
Hale, Lucretia P.—The Peterkin Papers. Houghton, $1.50. [There is another volume, “The Last of the Peterkins, with Others of Their Kin.”]
Harker, L. Allen—Concerning Paul and Fiametta. Scribner, $1.25. [This book is delightfully human; some would consider it more a story about children than for children.]
Higginson, Thomas W.—Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic. Macmillan, $1.50.
Hill, C. T.—Fighting a Fire. [Stories of real life.] Century, $1.50.
Hughes, Rupert—The Lakerim Athletic Club. Century, $1.50.
The Dozen from Lakerim. Century, $1.50.
Hughes, Thomas—Tom Brown’s School Days at Rugby. Macmillan, $1.50; Houghton, $1.00. [For older readers, there is “Tom Brown at Oxford.”]
Irving, Washington—Bracebridge Hall. (Ill., Caldecott.) Macmillan, $1.50.
Old Christmas. (Ill., Caldecott.) Macmillan, $1.50.
Jackson, Helen Hunt—Ramona. Little, Brown, $1.50.
Nelly’s Silver Mine. (A Story of Colorado life.) Little, Brown, $1.50.
Cat Stories. Little, Brown, $2.00.
Jamison, Mrs. C. V.—Lady Jane. Century, $1 .50.
Toinette’s Philip. Century, $1.50. [Descriptions of early New-Orleans life.]
Jewett, Sarah Orne—Betty Leicester. Houghton, $1.25.
Johnson, Rossiter—Phaeton Rogers. Scribner, $1.50.
King, Capt. Charles—Cadet Days. Harper, $1.25.
Kipling, Rudyard—“Captains Courageous.” (A tale of the Gloucester fishermen.) Century, $1.50.
Lamb, Charles and Mary—Mrs. Leicester’s School. Dent (ill., Winifred Green, in Kate Greenaway style). Macmillan, $2.25.
La Ramée, Louise de (Ouida)—Dog of Flanders. Lippincott, $1.50.
Lucas, E. V. (Ed.)—Old-Fashioned Tales. Stokes, $1.50.
(Ed.) Forgotten Tales of Long Ago. Stokes, $1.50.
Marryatt, Frederick—Masterman Ready. Macmillan, $1.50; Routledge, $1.25. [Some librarians would reject Marryatt as they would Ballentyne; others would include him as they would Ballentyne.]
Martineau, Harriet—The Crofton Boys. Routledge, $0.75; Heath, $0.30.
Mathews, Margaret H.—Dr. Gilbert’s Daughters. Coates, $0.75.
Moffett, Cleveland—Careers of Danger and Daring. [Stories of real life.] Century, $1.50.
Molesworth, Mrs.—Two Little Waifs. Macmillan, $1.00.
Carrots. Macmillan, $1.50; Crowell, $0.75.
Munroe, Kirk—Cab and Caboose. Tale published in St. Nicholas.
Derrick Sterling. Harper, $0.60.
Myrtle, Harriet—Country Scenes.
Man of Snow. [Out of print, but re-publication strongly advised by librarians.]
Ollivant, Alfred—Bob, Son of Battle. Doubleday, $1.50. [Strongly recommended for its vigour and its vividness.]
Otis, James (pseud, of J. O. Kaler)—Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus. Harper, $0.60.
Mr. Stubbs’s Brother. Harper, $0.60.
Paull, Mrs. H. B.—Only a Cat. Whitaker, $1.25. [An excellent story.]
Pier, Arthur S.—Boys of St. Timothy’s. Houghton, $1.50.
Pyle, Howard—Jack Ballister’s Fortunes. Century, $2.00.
Richards, Laura E.—Captain January. Estes, $0.50.
Sandford, Mrs. D. P.—The Little Brown House and the Children who Lived in It. Dutton, $2.00.
Saunders, Marshall—Beautiful Joe. Am. Bap., $0.25.
Scudder, Horace E.—Bodley Books. Houghton, 8 vols., $12.00 set; $1.50 each.
The Children’s Book. (Edited.) Houghton, $2.50.
Ségur, Mme. S. (R.) de—The Story of a Donkey. Heath, $0.20.
Sewell, Anna—Black Beauty. Page, $1.25.
Sharp, Evelyn—The Youngest Girl in School. Macmillan, $1.50.
Sherwood, M. M. (B.)—The Fairchild Family. Stokes, $1.50. [Recommended for historic value.]
Shaw, F. L.—Castle Blair. Little, Brown, $1.00.
Spyri, J.—Story of Heidi. DeWolfe Fiske, $1.50; Ginn, $0.40.
Stevenson, Robert Louis—Treasure Island. Scribner, $1.00. [“Kidnapped” is a sequel.]
Black Arrow. Scribner, $1.00. [A good “penny-dreadful.”]
Stockton, Frank R.—A Jolly Fellowship. Scribner, $1.50.
Stuart, Ruth McEnery—The Story of Babette. Harper, $1.50. [Vide the same author’s “Solomon Crow’s Christmas Pocket.” Harper, $1.25.]
Taggart, Marion Ames—The Little Gray House. McClure, $1.25. [The author has unfortunately been persuaded to continue her story in a second volume.]
Trimmer, Sarah K.—History of the Robins. Heath, $0.25. [Historic interest.]
Trowbridge, John T.—The Tinkham Brothers’ Tide-Mill. Lothrop, Lee, $1.25.
His Own Master. Lothrop, Lee, $1.25.
Jack Hazard and His Fortunes. Coates, $1.25. (In a series.)
Twain, Mark (pseud. of Samuel L. Clemens.)—Huckleberry Finn. Harper, $1.75.
Tom Sawyer. Harper, $1.75.
Van Dyke, Henry—The First Christmas Tree. (Ill., Pyle.) Scribner, $1.50.
The Story of the Other Wise Man. Harper, $1.00.
Verne, Jules—A Tour of the World in Eighty Days. [Vide various editions.]
Twenty Thousand leagues under the Sea. Coates, $0.75. [Vide various editions.]
Wiggin, Kate Douglas—Half a Dozen House Keepers. Altemus, $0.75.
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Houghton, $1.25.
The Bird’s Christmas Carol. Houghton, $0.50.
Timothy’s Quest. (Ill., Oliver Herford.) Houghton, $1.50.
Polly Oliver’s Problem. Houghton, $1.00.
Wyss, J. R. v. and Montolieu, Baronne de—Swiss Family Robinson. Warne, $2.50; Dutton, $2.50. [Cheaper editions.]
BOOKS ABOUT CHILDREN
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey—Story of a Bad Boy. (Ill., Frost.) Houghton, $2.00; $1.25.
Eggleston, Edward—The Hoosier School-Boy. Scribner, $1.00.
Ewald, Carl (Tr., DeMattos.)—My Little Boy. Scribner, $1.00.
Gilson, Roy Rolfe—Mother and Father. Harper, $1.25.
Howells, William Dean—A Boy’s Town. (Told for Harper’s Young People.) Harper, $1.25.
Hutton, Laurence—A Boy I knew and Four Dogs. Harper, $1.25.
Larcom, Lucy—New England Girlhood. Houghton, $0.75. [Vide various editions.]
Martin, Edward S.—The Luxury of Children. Harper, $1.75 net.
Richards, Laura E.—When I Was Your Age. Estes, $1.25.
Warner, Charles Dudley—Being a Boy. Houghton, $1.25.
Whittier, John G. (Ed.)—Child-Life in Prose. Houghton, $2.00.
ETHICS AND RELIGION
Bible for Young People (Ed., Mrs. Joseph Gilder; Bishop Potter.)—Century, $1.50; ed. de luxe, $3.00.
Bunyan, John—Pilgrim’s Progress. Century (Ill., Brothers Rhead.), $1.50; Scribner (Ill., Byam Shaw), $2.50 net.
Field, Eugene—A Little Book of Profitable Tales. Scribner, $1.25.
Gatty, Mrs.—Parables from Nature. Bell (2 vols.); Macmillan, $1.50; Dutton (Everyman’s Library.).
Houghton, Louise Seymour—Telling Bible Stories. Scribner, $1.25. [R. G. Moulton has edited for Macmillan a Children’s Scries of Bible Stories.]
Psalms of David (Ill., Brothers Rhead.)—Revell, $2.50.
Ruskin, John—Sesame and Lilies. [Vide editions, McClurg, Mosher, Crowell, etc.]