By his magic power on this and succeeding visits
incidents based on events in Old England's history are told to the
children by those who shared in them. A series of remarkable stories,
alternating with even more remarkable poems. The average child will
better enjoy hearing them read aloud, as they presuppose a fuller (p. 182)
knowledge of English history than most American children are likely
to possess. Mr. Rackham's pictures in color are fine work.
POETRY, COLLECTIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE, AND STORIES ADAPTED FROM
GREAT AUTHORS
Olympian bards who sung
Divine ideas below,
Which always find us young
And always keep us so.
EMERSON.
LANG, ANDREW.
The Blue Poetry Book.
Longmans. 2.00
The Editor trusts that this book may be a guide into romance and
fairy-land to many children.... By way of lending no aid to what
is called Education, very few notes have been added. The child
does not want everything to be explained; in the unexplained is
great pleasure. Nothing, perhaps, crushes the love of poetry more
surely and swiftly than the use of poems as
schoolbooks.--_Introduction._
This excellent collection, for the most part British verse, contains a
large proportion of Scotch songs and ballads.
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