Holmes, O. W.
*The One Hoss Shay, and Companion Poems.
Illustrated by Howard Pyle.
Houghton. 1.50
How the Old Horse Won the Bet, and The Broomstick Train, are the other poems.
"You see, of course, if you're not a dunce,
How it went to pieces all at once--
All at once, and nothing first--
Just as bubbles do when they burst."
MacLeod, Mary.
Stories from the Faerie Queene.
Illustrated by A. G. Walker.
Stokes. 1.50
Do we not most of us belong to the group "who at present know nothing or next to nothing of what is certainly one of the masterpieces of English literature"?
The tale of Spenser's great poem is simply related in acceptable prose.