THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
NEW BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
The Kingdom of the Winding Road
By CORNELIA MEIGS
With illustrations in color and in black and white by Frances White
Cloth, 12mo
A fanciful story relating the experiences of a beggar as he travels the country over in his tattered red cloak and playing his penny flute—in reality a wonderful magical pipe. He always knows the best thing to be done and he comes to the aid of the hero when he is in the worst distress. In his own fashion he helps the bad and the good alike. The book is part fairy tale, part romance, part allegory, but always literature. In a very human way the beggar stands for the soundness and sweetness of life and there are lessons that may be drawn from his adventures. But whether one bothers with the moral and the metaphors or not, there is an inescapable charm to the narrative and an interest and appeal that increases the further one goes on the beggar's highway.
A Maid of '76