"At the Back of the North Wind." Illustrated in colour by Frank C. Papé and in black-and-white by Arthur Hughes. Large crown 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. Caldwell.
"At the Back of the North Wind." Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. Dutton.
*"At the Back of the North Wind." With the original illustrations by Arthur Hughes and plates in colour by Maria L. Kirk. Large 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. Lippincott.
"At the Back of the North Wind." Illustrated in colour. 8vo. Cloth, 3s. 6d. Blackie.
FOUR WORTHIES
"Æsop's Fables"
P—This enduring form of literature may be read in almost any grade. The edition is to be determined largely by the grade for which it is designed. In point of effectiveness in showing human experiences and weaknesses by means of animal action, the classic fable has never been equalled by any other form of literature. He would be a rash man who would claim that Lincoln owed to Euclid more of his power to think out a question and carry his point than he did to Æsop. Fables are imaginative literature, and in that lies their power rather than in their didactic assertion that later became attached as a moral to be pointed. They need but one moral, as G. K. Chesterton so aptly observes; for nothing in this world has more than one moral.
*"The Fables of Æsop." Selected and told anew by Joseph Jacobs. Illustrated by Richard Heighway. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. In the New Cranford Series. Macmillan. Good for younger children, but should be printed without notes and advertisements.
*"Æsop's Fables." Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, in colour-plates. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50. Doubleday. An attractive edition, except the poor binding, for older children. The introduction by G. K. Chesterton is very readable for grown-ups.
*"A Hundred Fables of Æsop." From the English version of Sir Roger L'Estrange with an introduction by Kenneth Grahame and illustrations by Percy J. Billinghurst. Square 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. Lane. Good in its quaint English.