. Review of reviews and world's work . From The Goblin Gobblers THE SEASONS BOOKS FORCHILDREN Books for children and rarly youth have become liteniliire, pictures fortheir illustrations have become art. ?. From A Childs History ofEngland npiIE juveniles forthis year are of thevery highest of it—two newbooks by recipients ofthe Nobel Prize: Kip-ling and Lagerlof! We must of courseconsider A ChildsHistory of England,by Rudyard Kiplingand C. R. L. Fletcher(Doubleday, Page), asthe leading juvenile ofthe season. No dry-as-dust chronology here,but vivid pen picturesof the building up oft
. Review of reviews and world's work . From The Goblin Gobblers THE SEASONS BOOKS FORCHILDREN Books for children and rarly youth have become liteniliire, pictures fortheir illustrations have become art. ?. From A Childs History ofEngland npiIE juveniles forthis year are of thevery highest of it—two newbooks by recipients ofthe Nobel Prize: Kip-ling and Lagerlof! We must of courseconsider A ChildsHistory of England,by Rudyard Kiplingand C. R. L. Fletcher(Doubleday, Page), asthe leading juvenile ofthe season. No dry-as-dust chronology here,but vivid pen picturesof the building up ofthe British Empire, ofwhich Kipling hasalways been no overmodest prophet. How truethe history may be? Well, thats another story!We elders, who have been brought up on DickensChilds History of England, will not begrudgethe young folk this new history by their genera-tions master of fiction. Then there is a beautiful new fairy story, whichwe might rather call an animal story, by SelmaLagerlof, Further Adventures of Nils, the boywho was turned into a pigmy, called Thumbietot,and learned the language of the animals and hadfellowship with them (Doubleday, Page). This isa masterpiece of mellifluous simp
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