Part 14

A LIST OF BOOKS RECOMMENDED FOR A CHILDREN’S LIBRARY--Compiled for the Iowa Library Commission by Annie Carroll Moore, Supervisor of Children’s Rooms in the New York City Public Library. Another excellent and practical guide.

BOOKS FOR BOYS--Special Bulletin No. 6. January, 1906. The Chicago Public Library. A generous selection for boys from twelve to eighteen; an inclusive list, marked more by vigour than by refinement of a fastidious nature.

FINGERPOSTS TO CHILDREN’S READING--Walter Taylor Field. McClurg, $1.00. The book contains some practical suggestions about children and their reading. The lists in the Appendix are open to criticism.

THE RIGHT READING FOR CHILDREN--Compiled by Charles Welsh. Heath. Referring chiefly to Heath’s Home and School Classics.

STORY TELLING TO CHILDREN FROM NORSE MYTHOLOGY AND THE NIBELUNGENLIED--References to Material on Selected Stories, Together with an Annotated Reading List. Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. $0.20. Excellent.

STORY HOUR COURSES FOR CHILDREN FROM GREEK MYTHS, THE ILIAD, AND THE ODYSSEY, as Conducted by the Children’s Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. $0.05. An excellent guide.

A LIST OF GOOD STORIES TO TELL TO CHILDREN UNDER TWELVE YEARS OF AGE, with a Brief Account of the Story Hour Conducted by the Children’s Department, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. $0.05. The same Library has issued:

ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF BOOKS USED IN THE HOME LIBRARIES AND READING CLUBS, conducted by the Children’s Department. $0.25.

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN--A List Compiled by Gertrude Wild Arnold. The Marion Press, New York. 1905.

READING FOR THE YOUNG--Sargent. Houghton.

A CHILDREN’S LIBRARY--Selected by May H. Prentice and Effie L. Power, in behalf of the Cleveland Normal School.

CATALOGUE OF BOOKS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL LIBRARIES IN NEW YORK--Compiled by Claude G. Leland. Marked by educational requirements, and graded.

A LIST OF BOOKS ON BIRDS for the General Reader and Students. Audubon Society of the State of New York. Recommended by Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the New York Museum of Natural History. _Vide_ “Bird-Lore,” a magazine which Mr. Chapman edits.

CHILDREN’S REFERENCE LISTS--Cleveland Public Library. English History for the Sixth Grade. The system here adopted is excellent, and might be followed with advantage in other lines.

CHILDREN, SCHOOLS, AND LIBRARIES--A list, with abstracts, of some of the more important contributions to the subject. Compiled by Marion Dickinson in 1897; revised by Mary Medlicott in 1899. Springfield Public Library. Springfield, Massachusetts. A very serviceable pamphlet.

FIVE HUNDRED BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG--George E. Hardy. Scribner.

SOME ENGLISH CATALOGUES recommended by Miss Isabel Chadburn:

_a._ Catalogue of Books for Secondary Schools.

_b._ Prize List, Education Committee, London County Council. Graded.

_c._ Buckingham Palace Road Library. Mr. Pacy.

_d._ Cable Street, Stepney, E., Library. Mr. Roebuck.

_e._ Descriptive Handbook to Juvenile Literature. Finsbury Public Libraries, Mr. Cannons.

_f._ Group of Books for Schools. Librarian of the Cardiff Library. Mr. Ballinger.

As far as nature books are concerned, it will be found that local differences have to be observed; yet, though the British and American writers are bound to these limitations, they are none the less alike in their scope--to furnish the juvenile readers with a ready reference guide to objects around them. In the present instance, the list which has been compiled, voted upon, and arranged, may suit the English child as well as the American child, although certain local inclusions need to be balanced by the substitution of English counterparts. The American school story, _per se_, will never supplant its English predecessor in “Tom Brown at Rugby,” or even “The Crofton Boys.” The American library shelves are stacked with the English make of book. And it must be acknowledged that, in point of scholarship, the English classics, given a library and literary _format_, surpass the school-book shape in every way. In this connection, it is well to heed the warning of Miss Moore:

“The choice of editions is not based upon extended comparative work. [What is said of her list applies as well to the present one.] It represents merely the editions which have come to my notice, some of them being quite unsatisfactory. This is an era of educational publications and, while many of these are admirably adapted to their purpose, we have need to be constantly on our guard not to overstock children’s libraries with books which have no artistic merit as to cover or general make-up, and which therefore fail to make a definite individual impression on the mind of the child and give to a children’s library the general appearance of book-shelves devoted to supplementary reading.”

Were this intended to be an exclusive list, many very rigourous omissions would have been the result; but it is better to err upon the generous side than to appeal to an exceptional taste. “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp” is the Browning philosophy, but in the climb upward the intermediate tendrils are necessary for holding on; nor must they be removed until something is assured to take their place. The removal of inferior books from the shelves will not remedy the matter, unless existing circumstances are such as to meet the case.

Where it is possible, the least expensive edition has been adopted; although it is often a fact that no choice has been given. A good edition for a library is the most desirable, and those committees are unwise which sacrifice quality for quantity. On the other hand, it is unfortunate that a more suitable arrangement cannot exist, whereby the artistic books, which, by reason of their decorative character, are perforce expensive, could be offered at less exorbitant rates to an institution of such social importance as a library.

II. A LIST OF SELECTED BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.

PICTURE-BOOKS AND PICTURES

(The NISTER PICTURE-BOOKS are sold in this country by DUTTON.)

BEDFORD, FRANCES D.--Book of Shops. (Verses by E. V. Lucas.) Dutton, $2.50.

BRADLEY, WILL--Peter Poodle, Toy Maker to the King. Dodd, $1.50 net.

CALDECOTT, RANDOLPH--Toy Books. Warne, (4 vols.) $1.25 each. The separate stories are sold at $0.25 each, and comprise, among a large number, the following: The Farmer’s Boy; A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go; Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting; The House That Jack Built; The Milk Maid; The Queen of Hearts; Ride a Cock Horse; Sing a Song of Sixpence; John Gilpin.

COX, PALMER--The Brownie Books. Century, $1.50 each.

CRANE, WALTER--Mother Hubbard’s Picture Book. Lane, $1.25.

This Little Pig’s Picture Book. Lane, $1.25. [There are other volumes. Crane also ill. Lamb’s fanciful essay, “The Masque of Days.” Cassell, $2.50.]

Mother Hubbard; This Little Pig; Aladdin; Beauty and the Beast; Bluebeard; The Forty Thieves; The Frog Prince; Goody Two Shoes; Sleeping Beauty; The Fairy Ship; Baby’s A B C. Lane, $0.25 each.

DE MONVEL, BOUTET--Filles et Garçons. (Stories by Anatole France.) Hachette; Brentano, $2.35.

Chansons de France pour les petits Français. Hachette; Plon, $2.50.

La Civilité puérile et honnête. Plon; Brentano, $2.35.

Nos Enfants. (Text by Anatole France.) Hachette; Brentano, $1.25.

Fables de La Fontaine, choisies pour les enfants. S. P. C. K.; Brentano, $2.35.

GERSON, VIRGINIA--Happy Heart Family. Duffield, $1.00. (There is a second volume.)

GREENAWAY, KATE--A Day in a Child’s Life. (Music, verse, pictures.) Warne, $1.50.

Marigold Garden. Routledge (Warne, $1.50), $2.00.

Under the Window. (Pictures and Rhymes.) Warne, $1.50.

A Apple Pie, etc. Warne, $0.75.

Mother Goose. Warne, $0.75.

Mavor’s Spelling Book. Warne, $0.40.

GUIGOU, P. ET VIMAR, A.--L’illustre Dompteur. (The French Circus Book.) Plon; Brentano, $2.35.

HOFFMANN, HEINRICH--Slovenly Peter. Coates, $1.50. [German editions are preferable.]

PERKINS, LUCY FITCH--Adventures of Robin Hood. Stokes, $1.50.

WHITCOMB, IDA P.--Young People’s Story of Art. Dodd, $2.00. [Sarah Tytler is the author of “The Old Masters and their Pictures”; “Modern Painters and Their Paintings.” Little, Brown, $1.50 each. _Vide_ Poetry; also German section, Richter, etc. The French are here included since they are so familiar to English readers.]

MYTHS, FOLK-LORE, LEGENDS, FAIRY TALES, AND HERO TALES

ÆSOP--Fables. (Tr., Joseph Jacobs.) Macmillan, $1.50.

A Hundred Fables of Æsop. (Tr., Sir Roger L’Estrange; intro., Kenneth Grahame.) Lane, $1.50 net.

The Babies’ Own. (Ill., Walter Crane.) Warne, $1.50.

ANDERSEN, H. C.--Fairy Tales. (Tr., H. L. Braekstad; ill., Tegner; 2 vols.) Century, $5.00. Fairy Tales. (Tr., Mrs. Edgar Lucas.) Macmillan, $0.50; Dent, $2.50. [Ill., the Robinsons. _Vide_ also Contes Choisis, Bibliothèque Rose.]

ARABIAN NIGHTS’ ENTERTAINMENTS--(Ed., Andrew Lang.) Longmans, $2.00.

Fairy Tales From. (Ed., E. Dixon.) Dent, 2 vols., 7s. 6d. net each.

ASBJÖRNSEN, P. C.--Fairy Tales From the Far North. Armstrong, $2.00; Burt, $1.00. [Folk and Fairy Tales. Tr., H. L. Braekstad; intro., E. W. Gosse.]

BALDWIN, JAMES--The Story of Siegfried. (Ill., Pyle.) Scribner, $1.50.

The Story of Roland. (Ill., Birch.) Scribner, $1.50.

BROWN, ABBIE FARWELL--The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts. Houghton, $1.25.

In the Days of Giants. Houghton, $1.10 net.

BULFINCH, THOMAS--The Age of Fable. Lothrop, Lee, $1.50. [Cheaper editions, Altemus, Crowell, etc.]

CANTOR, WILLIAM--True Annals of Fairyland. Reign of King Herla. (Ill., Charles Robinson.) Dent, 4s. 6d. net.

CARROLL, LEWIS--Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. (Ill., Sir John Tenniel.) Macmillan, $1.00. [There is also an edition, Harper, ill., by Peter Newell, $3.00 net. The reader is advised to consult Mr. Dodgson’s Life and Letters.]

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. (Ill., Sir John Tenniel. Sequel to the above.) Macmillan, $1.00.

CHAPIN, A. A.--Story of the Rhinegold. Harper, $1.25. [_Vide_ also “Wonder Tales from Wagner.” She is the author of “Masters of Music.” Dodd, $1.50.]

CHURCH, A. J.--Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France. Macmillan, $1.75.

CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE--The Cruikshank Fairy Book. Putnam, $1.25; $2.00.

FRANCILLON, R. E.--Gods and Heroes. Ginn, $0.40.

GIBBON, J. M. (ED.)--True Annals of Fairyland. Reign of King Cole. (Ill., Charles Robinson.) Macmillan, $2.00.

GRIMM, J. L. AND W. K.--Fairy Tales of the Brothers. (Tr., Mrs. Edgar Lucas; ill., Arthur Rackham.) Lippincott, $2.50; $1.50. [Editions also ill., Cruikshank; intro., Ruskin,--Chatto and Windus, 6s.; Macmillan, ill., Walter Crane, $1.50; Contes Choisis; Bibliothèque Rose; _vide_ German section.]

HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER--Uncle Remus and His Friends. (Ill., Frost.) Houghton, $1.50.

Nights with Uncle Remus. (Ill., Church.) Houghton, $1.50.

Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. (Ill., Frost.) Appleton, $2.00.

HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL--A Wonderbook for Girls and Boys. (Ill., Walter Crane.) Houghton, $3.00.

Tanglewood Tales. (Ill., G. W. Edwards.) Houghton, $1.00; $2.50.

HORNE, RICHARD HENGIST--The Good-Natured Bear. [Out of print, but re-publication is strongly recommended by librarians.]

INGELOW, JEAN--Mopsa, the Fairy. Little, Brown, $1.25.

IRVING, WASHINGTON--Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Macmillan, $1.50. [Expensive illustrated editions issued by Putnam and Doubleday.]

JACOBS, JOSEPH--English Fairy Tales. Putnam, $1.25.

The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox. Macmillan, $1.50.

Book of Wonder Voyages. Macmillan, $1.50.

Celtic Fairy Tales. Putnam, $1.25.

KINGSLEY, CHARLES--The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children. (Ill., T. H. Robinson.) Dutton, $2.50. [_Vide_ also editions Crowell; Harper, $2.50.]

The Water Babies. Macmillan, $1.25. [Cheaper Editions.]

KIPLING, RUDYARD--Just-So Stories. Doubleday, $1.20 net. [There is also a “Just-So Song Book,” $1.20 net.]

Jungle Book. (First and second series.) Century, $1.50 each.

Puck of Pook’s Hill. (Ill., Arthur Rackham.) Doubleday, $1.50.

LABOULAYE, E. R. L. DE--Fairy Tales. Routledge, $1.25; Harper, $2.00.

The Last Fairy Tales. Harper, $2.00.

LA FONTAINE--Selected Fables. (Ill., Boutet de Monvel.) Young, $2.50.

LANG, ANDREW (ED.)--The Red Fairy Book. Longmans, $2.00.

The Blue Fairy Book. Longmans, $2.00.

The Book of Romance. Longmans, $1.60 net.

LANIER, SIDNEY--The Boy’s King Arthur. Scribner, $2.00. [Lanier bases his narrative on Mallory. _Vide_ Howard Pyle’s “Story of King Arthur and His Knights.” Scribner, $2.50.]

The Boy’s Froissart. Scribner, $2.00.

Knightly Tales of Wales; or, The Boy’s Mabinogion. Scribner, $2.00.

The Boy’s Percy. [Full introduction and the ballads based on original.] Scribner, $2.00.

MABIE, H. W.--Norse Stories. Dodd, $1.80 net.

MACDONALD, GEORGE--At the Back of the North Wind. Routledge, $1.25; Burt, $1.00.

MULOCK-CRAIK, DINAH M.--The Fairy Book. Macmillan, $1.00.

The Adventures of a Brownie. Harper, $0.60; Page, $0.50.

The Little Lame Prince. Harper, $0.60.

MUSSET, PAUL DE--Mr. Wind and Madam Rain. Putnam, $2.00. [_Vide_ Petite Bibliothèque Blanche.]

PERRAULT, CHARLES--Fairy Tales. Macmillan, $0.40 net. [_Vide_ p. 36.]

PYLE, HOWARD--Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Scribner, $3.00. [An excellent version of the ballad has been issued by Stokes, ill., Lucy Fitch Perkins.]

RUSKIN, JOHN--King of the Golden River. Ginn, $0.25; Page, $0.50.

SCUDDER, HORACE E. (COMPILER.)--Book of Legends. Houghton, $0.50.

STOCKTON, FRANK R.--The Queen’s Museum and Other Fanciful Tales. Scribner, $2.50. [_Vide_ former edition, “Clocks of Rondaine and other stories.” Scribner, $1.50.]

THACKERAY, W. M.--The Rose and the Ring. Putnam, $0.50, $1.00. [_Vide_ other editions.]

POETRY AND VERSE

ALLINGHAM, WILLIAM--The Ballad Book. Macmillan, $1.00.

BLAKE, WILLIAM--Songs of Innocence. (Ill., Geraldine Morris.) Lane, $0.50 net.

BROWNING, ROBERT--The Pied Piper of Hamelin. (Ill., Kate Greenaway.) Warne, $1.50.

BURGESS, GELETT--Goops and How to be Them. (Several volumes.) Stokes, $1.50.

CARY, ALICE AND PHŒBE--Ballads for Little Folks. Houghton, $1.50.

CHILD, LYDIA MARIA--Flowers for Children; New Flowers for Children. [Out of print, but re-publication is strongly recommended by librarians.]

DODGE, MARY MAPES (ED.)--Baby Days. Century, $1.50.

ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS. (Ed., Sargent-Kittredge, from Francis James Child’s collection, Cambridge edition.) Houghton, $3.00.

FIELD, EUGENE--Poems of Childhood. (Ill., Maxfield Parrish.) Scribner, $2.50.

GOLDSMITH, OLIVER--The Deserted Village. (Ill., E. A. Abbey.) Harper, $3.00. [Abbey also illustrated “She Stoops to Conquer,” $5.00.]

HENLEY, W. E. (COMPILER)--Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verses for Boys. Scribner, $1.25.

HOLMES, OLIVER W.--Poems. (Complete ed., Cambridge.) Houghton, $2.00, $1.50. [_Vide_ “The One Hoss Shay,” ill., Howard Pyle, $1.50.]

JERROLD, WALTER (ED.)--The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. Dutton, $3.00.

LAMB, CHARLES AND MARY--Poetry for Children. (Ill., Winifred Green; pref., I. Gollancz.) Dent, 2s. 6d. net. [_Vide_ in same edition “Mrs. Leicester’s School,” 5s. net.]

LANG, ANDREW (ED.)--The Blue Poetry Book. Longmans, $2.00.

LEAR, EDWARD--Nonsense Books. Little, Brown, $2.00. [_Vide_ also Warne edition.]

LONGFELLOW, HENRY W.--Poems. (Complete ed., Cambridge.) Houghton, $2.00. [_Vide_ also “Hiawatha,” ill., Remington, $4.00.]

LOWELL, JAMES R.--The Vision of Sir Launfal. Houghton, $1.50.

LUCAS, E. V. (ED.)--A Book of Verses for Children. Holt, $2.00. [There is a school edition.]

MACAULAY, T. B.--Lays of Ancient Rome. Longmans, $1.25. [_Vide_ editions Houghton, Putnam.]

MATTHEWS, BRANDER--Poems of American Patriotism. Scribner, $1.50. [_Vide_ “English History Told by English Poets.” Ed., Bates and Coman. Macmillan, $0.60 net.]

MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY RHYMES (Ill., Tenniel, Crane, etc.)--Dutton, $1.50. [_Vide_ Nister ed., Routledge, etc.]

MOTHER GOOSE’S MELODIES--Houghton, $1.50.

NORTON, C. E. (ED.)--Heart of Oak Books. Heath, 7 vols., from $0.25 to $0.60. [Collection of Rhymes, Poems, Stories, etc.]

PALGRAVE, F. T.--The Children’s Treasury of English Song. Macmillan, $1.00.

PATMORE, COVENTRY (ED.)--Children’s Garland from the Best Poets. Macmillan, $1.00.

REPPLIER, AGNES (ED.)--Book of Famous Verse. Houghton, $0.75 and $1.25.

RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB--Rhymes of Childhood. Bobbs-Merrill, $1.25.

ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA G.--Sing-Song. Macmillan, $1.50.

SCOTT, SIR WALTER--Marmion; The Lay of the Last Minstrel. (Ed., W. J. Rolfe.) Houghton, $0.75 each.

SHUTE, KATHARINE H. AND DUNTON, LARKIN (COMPILERS)--The Land of Song. Silver, 3 vols., $0.36 to $0.54.

STEVENSON, ROBERT L.--A Child’s Garden of Verses. Scribner. (Ill., Robinson, $1.50; ill., Jessie W. Smith, $2.50.) [An excellent, inexpensive edition, Rand, McNally, $0.75.]

TAYLOR, JANE AND ANN--Little Ann and Other Poems. (Ill., Kate Greenaway). Warne, $1.00. [_Vide_ also edition, ed., E. V. Lucas. Stokes, $1.50. Including verses of Adelaide O’Keeffe; ill., F. D. Bedford. _Vide_ “Greedy Dick and Other Stories in Verse,” by the Taylors, $0.50.]

TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD--Selected Poems for Young People. (Ed., W. J. Rolfe.) Houghton, $0.75. [Children should be made acquainted with parts of the “Idylls of the King.”]

WATTS, ISAAC--Childhood Songs of Long Ago. Wessels, $0.75. [_Vide_ English editions.]

WELSH, CHARLES--Book of Nursery Rhymes. (Edited and graded.) Heath, $0.30. [In Home and School Classics.]

WIGGIN, K. D., AND SMITH, N. A. (EDS.)--Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth. McClure, $2.00 net.

Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children. McClure, $1.25 net. [The same editors have gathered together a book of nursery rhymes.]

CLASSICS

CERVANTES, MIGUEL DE--Don Quixote of the Mancha. (Retold by Judge E. A. Parry; ill., Walter Crane.) Lane, $1.50.

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY--Canterbury Tales. (Retold by Percy MacKaye; ill., W. Appleton Clark.) Duffield, $2.50.

Canterbury Chimes; or, Chaucer Tales Retold to Children. Storr, Frances and Turner, Hawes. Kegan, Paul, 3s. 6d.

Chaucer for Children. Mrs. H. R. Haweis. Scribner, $1.25.

CHURCH, A. H.--Lords of the World. (Pictures from Roman Life and Story). Appleton, $1.50.

HERODOTUS--Wonder Stories from. Told by Boden, G. H., and D’Almeida, W. B. Harper, $2.50.

HOMER--Iliad. (Tr., W. C. Bryant.) Houghton, $1.00 to $9.00. [_Vide_ also tr., Lang, Leaf, Myers.]

LAMB, CHARLES--The Adventures of Ulysses. Harper, $2.50. [_Vide_ also ed., E. V. Lucas, Putnam.]

ODYSSEUS, ADVENTURES OF--(Retold by Marvin, F. S., and others; ill., Charles Robinson.) Dutton, $1.50. [_Vide_ also ed., G. H. Palmer and W. C. Perry.]

PLUTARCH--Lives. [Full ed.; also J. S. White’s “Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch.” Putnam, $1.75.]

SHAKESPEARE--Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines. Mary Cowden Clarke. (Ill., Sir John Gilbert.) Scribner, $3.00.

Tales from. Charles and Mary Lamb. Macmillan, $1.00. (Ed., Ainger.) [_Vide_ also ed., E. V. Lucas, Putnam; ed. ill., Norman M. Price, Scribner; ed. Nister. Quiller Couch has treated the historical tales in the same manner. Scribner.]

SWIFT, JONATHAN--Gulliver’s Travels. Macmillan, $1.25 net.

TOWRY, M. H.--Spenser for Children. Scribner, $1.25.

“HOW TO DO THINGS”--AMUSEMENTS

ALCOTT, L. M.--Little Women Play. (Adapted from the story by E. L. Gould.) Little, Brown, $0.50.

BEARD, DAN--The Field and Forest Handy Book. Scribner, $2.00.

The Jack of All Trades. Scribner, $2.00.

The American Boy’s Handy Book. Scribner, $2.00.

BEARD, L. AND A.--Things Worth Doing and How to Do Them. Scribner, $2.00.

Handicraft and Recreation for Girls. Scribner. $2.00.

BLACK, ALEXANDER--Photography Indoors and Out. Houghton, $1.25.

BOYS, C. V.--Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Made Them. Gorham, $0.75.

CUTTER, MRS. S. J. (COMPILER.)--Conundrums, Riddles, Puzzles, and Games. Hansauer.

GAMES BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. Dutton, $2.50. (_Vide_ Nister.)

KELLEY, L. E.--Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do. Estes, $1.75.

KING, G. G.--Comedies and Legends for Marionettes. Macmillan, $1.50.

LEWIS, A. J. (Prof. Hoffman.)--Magic at Home. Cassell, $1.25. [_Vide_ also “Modern Magic.” Routledge, $1.50.]

LUCAS, E. V. AND ELIZABETH--What Shall We Do Now? Stokes, $2.00.

NEWELL, PETER--Topsys and Turvys. Century, $1.00 net.

SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON--The Wild Animal Play. Doubleday, $0.50.

SYRETT, NETTA--Six Fairy Plays for Children. Lane, $1.00 net.

WHITE, MARY--How to Make Baskets. Doubleday, $1.00 net. [The same author has written a second volume. Many workers prefer “Cane Basket Work.” Annie Firth. London: Gill; New York: Milton Bradley.]

MUSIC

In the preparation of this music bibliography, it is a rare privilege to be able to include a list which was compiled by the late Miss Mary L. Avery, of the music department of the Lenox Library, New York; and which was used in a lecture delivered by her before the Pratt Institute Library School on January 12, 1900. To this, the following supplementary list, based upon recommendation, may be added. Prices vary.

BRAINARD, H. L. (music), AND SAGE, BETTY (words)--Four Childhood Rhymes. Schirmer; The Boston Music Co.

COOLIDGE, ELIZABETH--Fifteen Mother Goose Melodies. Schirmer. (Music somewhat difficult.)

FISHER, WILLIAM ARMES--Posies from A Child’s Garden of Verses. Ditson.

GAYNOR, JESSIE L. (music), AND RILEY, C. (words)--Songs of the Child World. Nos. 1, 2. The John Church Co.

JENKS, HARRIET S., AND RUST, MABEL--Song Echoes from Child Land. Ditson.

JORDAN, JULES--A Life Lesson. (Words by Riley.) Schmidt.

MCLAUGHLIN, JAMES M., AND GILCHRIST, W. W.--Educational Music Course. Teachers’ Edition for Elementary Grades. Ginn.

MOTHER GOOSE SET TO MUSIC. (Elliott, J. W.) Novello. [An edition is published by Houghton, $1.50.]

RILEY, GAYNOR, BEALE--Songs for Children. John Church Co.

TAUBERT, WILHELM--Klänge aus der Kinderwelt. Schirmer.

In addition, such names as Eleanor Smith and Harvey Worthington Loomis should not be omitted, as composers who recognise successfully the requirements of children’s voices. These requirements cannot be too often reiterated. In a letter to the author, the following was underscored: “A child’s song must be written almost entirely in the middle register of the voice--neither too high nor too low. Then there must be a distinct melody for the child’s ear to catch readily. And the words must interest the child’s mind.” In this last respect music-teachers are most emphatic. They appeal for verses that stimulate the imagination, they wish words carefully chosen; in the teaching, they seek for purity of diction, for proper valuation of vowels, consonants, and word-endings.

_Miss Avery’s Music List. Music in Children’s Libraries_

BREITKOPF EDITION CATALOGUE--Breitkopf and Hartel. New York.

MUSICAL, THE, INTERESTS [tastes] OF CHILDREN--Fanny B. Gates. West. Springfield, Mass., 1898. [Reprinted from the _Journal of Pedagogy_, October, 1898.]

NOVELLO’S SCHOOL MUSIC CATALOGUE (OPERETTAS, ETC.)--[Descriptive.] London.

SCRIBNER’S MUSICAL LITERATURE LIST--New York.

_Literature of Music_

LETTERS FROM GREAT MUSICIANS TO YOUNG PEOPLE--Alathea E. Crawford and Alice Chapin. New York, 1897.

MUSICIANS IN RHYME FOR CHILDHOOD’S TIME--Crawford and Sill. New York, Schirmer.

STORY OF MAJOR C AND HIS RELATIVES: LESSONS IN HARMONY--Grace S. Duff. New York, 1894.

STORY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS--Lucy C. Lillie. New York.