Through the Year with the Poets. Edited by Oscar Fay Adams. 12 bijou books of the months, of about 130 pages each. 75 cents each. D. Lothrop Company, Boston.
Is it possible? Is there enough sweet singing ringing lustrous verse between heaven and earth to make twelve such books? There is indeed; and heaven and earth are in it!
Ginx’s Baby, a burlesque book of most serious purpose, made a stir in England some years ago; and, what is of more account, went far to accomplish the author’s object.
Evolution of Dodd. By William Hawley Smith. 153 pages. $1. D. Lothrop Company, Boston.
Dodd is the terrible schoolboy. How he became so; who is responsible; what is the remedy—such is the gist of the book.
As bright as Ginx’s Baby. A bookful of managing wisdom for parents as well as teachers.
Questions such as practical boys and girls are asking their mothers all the year round about things that come up. Not one in ten of the mothers can answer one in ten of the questions.
Household Notes and Queries, A Family Reference-Book. By the Wise Blackbird. 115 pages. 60 cents.