DREAM DAYS
16mo. $1.00 net. Fourth Edition.
DREAM DAYS
An Illustrated Edition, set in old-faced type, with 10 full-page Photogravures, Title-page, Tail-pieces, and Cover-design by Maxfield Parrish. Sq. 8vo. $2.50 net.
Dial.—‘One of the most delightful holiday books of a season or two ago was the edition of Mr. Kenneth Grahame’s “The Golden Age,” with illustrations by Mr. Maxfield Parrish. Even more delightful is the companion volume now issued containing the same author’s “Dream Days.” It is hardly necessary to speak of Mr. Grahame’s text. His two books hold a place apart in the literature of childhood, and we can well envy the reader who has yet to make their acquaintance.’
Dr. Guy Carleton Lee, Baltimore Sun.—‘Very few more delightful books than “Dream Days” have ever seen the light. If we were forced to make out a list of the works of literature published during the last two decades, that are, in our judgment, likely to be alive two decades hence, in the very brief list we should certainly include “Dream Days.”’
Churchman.—‘To put yourself in a child’s place, to think a boy’s thoughts about the happenings of everyday life, is a rare quality in any writer. Still more rare is it, perhaps, to dream the child’s dreams in literary form, to preserve the evanescent glow of juvenile fancy. In that art, as it seems to us, Kenneth Grahame has no present rival.’
Boston Evening Transcript.—‘Hardly since Robert Louis Stevenson’s “A Child’s Garden of Verses” have we had such imaginative presentation of the juvenile point of view.’
Brooklyn Eagle.—‘Mr. Grahame is one of those wizards whose magic has created pictures of childlife exquisite in humour, quaint in fancy, subtle in charm. In Mr. Maxfield Parrish the author has an ideal illustrator.’