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.
*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 errand, how they act!
But somehow I imagine you are better,
And you try to go, and cry to go, in fact!"