. Review of reviews and world's work. eries ; and yet, so familiar are they that it seems as ifall children of the nineteenth century must have knownthe Brownies. The pictures appear to greater advan-tage in the book, given in black and white, than theydid when printed in the gaudy colors of the daily news-paper. At times, the draughting of some of the pic-tures is far from being correct, and the decorativeelement, which such inventions need to make themart, is entirely missing ; but the pictures are certainlylively, and the text equally vivacious. Whatever the student of juvenile ethics may t
. Review of reviews and world's work. eries ; and yet, so familiar are they that it seems as ifall children of the nineteenth century must have knownthe Brownies. The pictures appear to greater advan-tage in the book, given in black and white, than theydid when printed in the gaudy colors of the daily news-paper. At times, the draughting of some of the pic-tures is far from being correct, and the decorativeelement, which such inventions need to make themart, is entirely missing ; but the pictures are certainlylively, and the text equally vivacious. Whatever the student of juvenile ethics may thinkof the influence of the Buster Brown pictures uponthe morals of the small boy, there can be no doubt asto the popularity of the chronicles of this arch-mis-chief-makers doings. His pranks for the past year havebeen practised upon the natives of Paris, and thosewho have missed their record in the pages of the NewYork Herald may find them all nicely collected in abound volume entitled Buster Brown Abroad, byR. F. Outcault (Stokes).. Illustration (reduced) from The Golliwogg in Holland. 704 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
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