°Chansons de France. Nursery and folk songs and singing games. Schirmer. Illus. $3.00. Traditional games, with directions for playing. French words only. Illustrated in quaint colored pictures by Boutet de Monvel.
Weld, H. P. Mechanism of the Voice and its Hygiene. Ped. Sem. 1910. pp. 143-59. Illus. Bibl. A thorough brief treatise, and invaluable reference list.
Quigley, Margery C. and others. Index to Kindergarten Songs. Amer. Library Assn., Chicago. 1915. 286 p. $1.50. Indices by subject, title, first line, author, composer; lists for special occasions. Covers all the sixty standard collections.
Scobey, Katherine L., and Horne, Olive B. Stories of Great Musicians. A. B. Co. 1905. 182 p. Illus. $.40. Incidents in the lives of musicians of interest to children.
Phonograph records for children should be light, happy rhythmic music, such as that of Mendelssohn’s Spring Song, the light music of Schubert, Haydn, Weber, Gilbert and Sullivan; not heavy, tragic, complex music of the masters and moderns or the ordinary light opera or ballad.
B. Art.
1. History and Appreciation.
Hurll, Esther M. How to Show Pictures to Children. Houghton. 1914. 138 p. Illus. Bibl. $1.50. The kinds of pictures that interest children; practical suggestions for education in appreciation; classified lists of pictures. Many illustrations of famous pictures.
Whitcomb, Ida Prentice. Young People’s Story of Art. Dodd. 1906. 380 p. $2.00. Includes sculpture, architecture and painting; Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Mediæval, Modern except American. Many illustrations of famous buildings, statues, pictures.
Barstow, Charles L. Famous Buildings. Century. 1915. 246 p. $.60. From Egyptian to modern times. List of representative buildings in over twenty American cities.