. Review of reviews and world's work. Illustration (reduced) from ThePhoenix and the Carpet. ^J/ Illustration (reduced) from Twoin a Zoo. The Pedlars Pack, by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin (Lip-pincott), has some slight but effective colored illustra-tions by Charles Pears. The stories, however, are atrifle heavy, and lack in convincing quality, though there is abundant witin their telling. The name of OliverHerford as co-author(with Curtis Dun-ham) and sole illus-trator of Two in aZoo (Bobbs-Merrill)is a token that prom-ises the book will beneither dull nor stu-pid, but unfortunate-ly, though most plea

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. Review of reviews and world's work. Illustration (reduced) from ThePhoenix and the Carpet. ^J/ Illustration (reduced) from Twoin a Zoo. The Pedlars Pack, by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin (Lip-pincott), has some slight but effective colored illustra-tions by Charles Pears. The stories, however, are atrifle heavy, and lack in convincing quality, though there is abundant witin their telling. The name of OliverHerford as co-author(with Curtis Dun-ham) and sole illus-trator of Two in aZoo (Bobbs-Merrill)is a token that prom-ises the book will beneither dull nor stu-pid, but unfortunate-ly, though most pleas-ing in narration, thematter of the .tales isvery slight and a de-cided echo of Thomp-son-Seton and Kip-ling. The full-pagepictures in wash arerather flat, being bad-ly printed, but thepen drawings are inMr. Herfords verybest the Miz, by Grace E. Ward, illustrated by ClaraE. Atwood (Little, Brown), is entirely lacking in origi-nality and very verbose in narration, a pun a page seem-ing to be the authors average of humorous p

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