ssumes formidable
proportions--especially to the uncle or aunt who is seized
by the juvenile press-gang and coerced into reading aloud.
But this 'Dumpy Book' is quite perfect from that point of
view, for it is no bigger than a prayer-book. All three
tales are capital fun, and admirably suited to children....
We have unreserved praise for this child's book, dainty and
attractive in what it contains and in the way in which it is
produced."

TOM, UNLIMITED

_A STORY FOR CHILDREN_

BY

MARTIN LEACH WARBOROUGH

_Globe 8vo. Cloth. 5s._

[Illustration: LITTLE CAIUS.]

_With over Fifty Illustrations by Gertrude Bradley_

A CHILD'S ANTHOLOGY

* * * * *

A BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN

COMPILED BY

EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS

_With Cover, Title-Page, and End Paper designed in colours by F. D.
Bedford_

Crown 8vo. Cloth Gilt. 6s.

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_The Globe._--"Is, we think, the best of its kind--partly
because it is so comprehensive and so catholic, partly
because it consists so largely of matter not too hackneyed,
partly because that matter is so pleasantly arranged. The
verse here brought together is full of agreeable variety, it
is from many sources, some hitherto not drawn upon; and it
has been grouped in sections with a happy sense of congruity
and freshness."

A BOOK OF VERSES--

(_Continued_)

PREFACE (ADDRESSED TO CHILDREN)

Unless you are very keenly set upon reading to yourself, I think I
should advise you to ask some one to read these pieces aloud, not too
many at a time. And I want you to understand that there is a kind of
poetry that is finer far than anything here: poetry to which this book
is, in the old-fashioned phrase, simply a "stepping-stone." When you
feel, as I hope some day you will feel, that these pages no longer
satisfy, then you must turn to the better thing.

E. V. L.

The following are the various headings under which the Contents are
grouped:--

Two Thoughts--The Open Air--The Year--Christmas--The Country
Life--Blossoms from Herrick and Blake--Birds--Dogs and
Horses--Compressed Natural History--Unnatural History--Poets
at Play--Counsel--Old-Fashioned Girls--Marjorie Fleming,
Poetess--Old-Fashioned Boys--Looking Forward--From
"Hiawatha"--Good Fellows