. The Argonaut . nothesitate to say that in feeling, in charm, andin technical excellence she has herein sur-passed her previous best. These drawingsare real masterpieces. In them are felt andexpressed, with delicacy and wistfulness allthe poetry of childhood, its questionings, itswonderings, and its dreams. The otherdrawings in black-and-white and the deco-rated end-papers are alike in of Stevenson, of children, of art,and of good book-making will find thisedition of A Childs Garden of Verseswholly charming. Published by Charles Scribners Sons;$ _ A Very Presentable Pop
. The Argonaut . nothesitate to say that in feeling, in charm, andin technical excellence she has herein sur-passed her previous best. These drawingsare real masterpieces. In them are felt andexpressed, with delicacy and wistfulness allthe poetry of childhood, its questionings, itswonderings, and its dreams. The otherdrawings in black-and-white and the deco-rated end-papers are alike in of Stevenson, of children, of art,and of good book-making will find thisedition of A Childs Garden of Verseswholly charming. Published by Charles Scribners Sons;$ _ A Very Presentable Popular Oliver Wendell Holmess One HossShay we have one of the lesser classics ofAmerican literature. It is now presented inattractive form with two companion pieces. How the Old Horse Won the Bet and The Broomstick Train, the whole il-lustrated with colored drawings by HowardPyle. The volume is a reprint of an editionput out some fifteen years ago. The draw-ings in black-and-white of the earlier edition. Hitherto unpublished portrait from Henry VanDykes Poems of Tennyson. Pub-lished by Ginn & Co. have been especially colored by the artistfor this one, which, with good paper andexcellent printing, make of the Auto-crats stories in rhyme a pleasing holidaybook. The manner of Pyles drawings willbe seen to belong to an earlier period. Sincethen he has evinced higher capability in adifferent medium and a more serious genre,but his essays, such as these in humor andpen-and-ink, unquestionably have the meritof the artistic touch. Published by Houghton, Mifflin & Co.; Bret Hartes Her Letter in Charming plate paper, a perfect impressionfrom large type, finely executed decora-tions, and illustrations of exquisite graceand charm, mark the new edition de luxe of Bret Hartes rough but gentle poems, HerLetter and His Answer to Her this attractive volume is a third poem,written by Harte late in life, and, there-fore, not generally known, particularly inCaliforni
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