A Mother's List of Books for Children

by Gertrude Weld Arnold

Stevenson, R. L.

A Child's Garden of Verses.
Illustrated by Charles Robinson. Scribner. 1.50

There are some who will prefer this small edition, beautifully illustrated in black and white.

Welsh, Charles (Editor).
A Book of Nursery Rhymes. Heath. .30

Mr. Welsh has arranged this excellent collection of Mother Goose in accordance with the child's development, placing the rhymes in four divisions: Mother Play, Mother Stories, Child Play, and Child Stories.

Stories

To Master John the English maid
A hornbook gives, of gingerbread;
And that the child may learn the better,
As he can name, he eats each letter.
Proceeding thus with vast delight,
He spells and gnaws from left to right.

Prior. 1718.