A Mother's List of Books for Children

by Gertrude Weld Arnold

Haweis, M. E. (Mrs. H.R. Haweis).

Chaucer for Children.
Illustrated by the Author.
Scribner. 1.25

Mrs. Haweis begins with an account of Chaucer's life and the London of his day. Portions of a number of the Tales follow, the original and the modern text being given in parallel columns, with prose abridgments connecting the selections. There are eight full-page colored pictures and a number of small woodcuts. Though possibly only an exceptional child will enjoy the book, it helps to bring the youthful reader closer to the time of Chaucer than any other version for children.

Raspé, R. E.

*Tales from the Travels of Baron Munchausen.
Edited by E.E. Hale.
Heath. .20

"Some travellers are apt to advance more than is strictly true; if any of the company entertain a doubt of my veracity, I shall only say to such, I pity their want of faith."

Raspé was scholar enough to mix up with the real Munchausen's amusing burlesques, exaggerations and fancies which are centuries older, and which can be cited now from the crabbed language of the Middle Ages.--Note.