“But he writes well and picturesquely and his characterization, although totally devoid of subtlety, abounds in cleverness.”
| + | Sat. R. 100: 442. S. 30, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin. Peter Newell Mother Goose. [†]$1.50. Holt.
A prose Mother Goose which contains some of the old rhymes as Debby, “a real little girl with gingham aprons and stubby shoes and sunbonnets,” hears them in her wanderings among the Gooselanders. She meets the same old people of Gooseland: Dame Trot; Wee Willie Winkie; Jack Horner; Bo Peep; Simple Simon; and all the rest, but they are modernized and made almost too commonplace for imaginative children. There are twenty-two illustrations by Peter Newell.
[*] “The text rings so true in spirit that one cannot tell which way first to look, at the printed pages or at the woodcuts. All in all the combination forms a most happy volume for children.”
| + + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] “Altogether a very excellent Peter Newell book with a good story to picture.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 795. N. 25, ‘05. 540w. |
Bailey, Liberty Hyde. Outlook to nature. [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
“The outlook to nature is, of course, the outlook to optimism, for nature is our governing condition and is beyond the power of man to modify or to correct.... The outlook to nature is the outlook to what is real and hearty and spontaneous.” The author applies the foregoing text to the four essays: The realm of the commonplace, Country and city, The school of the future, and Evolution: the quest of truth.