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By Jonathan Swift.
Edited by Padraic Colum
Decorated cloth, 12mo.
That Swift’s tales offer untold possibilities to the artist with imagination is very apparent. And Mr. Pogany demonstrates in this new edition of the classic that he is indeed the man for the task. He has achieved in full measure that quality of weird fascination, which is perhaps the chief charm of Swift’s text. His pictures, whether they be the full page plates in color or the little decorations used as headings and tail pieces, really illustrate the story, at the same time supplying the touches of beauty with which a masterpiece such as this should be adorned. This new. edition of Gulliver’s Travels not only answers the purposes of a gift book but fulfills the requirement long felt for an adequate rendering of the work.
With a frontispiece in colors and decorations throughout.
A beautiful gift book is this new work from the pen of Mr. Maher, a book in which the wonderful story of the first Christmas finds appropriate setting. The various incidents from the Annunciation to the birth of Christ are retold with deep religious feeling and insight. The theme, the volume s literary charm and its attractiveness throughout, with its designs and headings and borders, combine to make it a most acceptable remembrance for any season of the year, but particularly for the Christmas season.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Abridged from Malory’s “Morte d'Arthur”
With illustrations and decorations in color and in black and white by Arthur Rackham.
Probably never before has a large and elaborate Arthur Rackham book been published in the first instance at the price at which this one is offered. Its publication, then, will serve to introduce the artist to a much wider circle of people, many of whom doubtless have long heard of Rackham’s work—admired it, too, perhaps—but have been unable themselves to own one of his more pretentious volumes because of the price which they commanded. “The Romance of King Arthur” shows Rackham at his best. The numerous plates in color, the black and white decorations, headings and drawings, combined with the excellent paper and printing, make a very beautiful volume which will be a valuable edition to any library. It has been edited by Mr. Pollard of the British Museum Library, whose scholarship and literary appreciation are reflected throughout.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
NEW BOOKS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Elizabeth Bess: A Little Girl of the Sixties
- By E. C. Scott. With illustrations by Alice Beard.
- Decorated cloth, 12mo.
Here is told the very human story of a little girl in the period immediately following the Civil War. There is something decidedly real about her experiences, the way in which she gets lost or goes visiting or celebrates the Fourth; there is something intimate in the presentation of the characters, father, mother, brother, playmates and the neighbors. Through it all, too, there runs the quality of suspense in the search for the brother who was reported missing after Gettysburg and whose romantic re-union with his folks furnishes an incident of tremendous charm and appeal. Elizabeth Bess is a story that young people will enjoy and from which they will get at the same time an accurate picture of life in history making days in this country.
- By Alden A. Knipe and Emile Benson Knipe, Authors of “A Maid of ’76.” With illustrations by Mrs. Knipe. Decorated cloth, 12mo.
This is a story of New York when it was New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant ruled with a high hand. Annetje, the “maid” of the title, is a little girl who through a series of misfortunes has become separated from her people and is brought up for a time by the Indians and later by a good Dutch “Vrouw.” Her unusual adventures, her services to her governor—“His High Mightiness” Peter Stuyvesant—and the finding of her family through the discovery of insignia which the old Indians had woven in the doe-skin clothes which she wore when she left their encampment as a little girl, are all charmingly set forth, while the beginning of a romance between Annetje and the governor’s son is sketched. Annetje’s loyal Indian guards, her pet raccoon and the mysterious peddler who plays an important part in the solution of the mystery of Annetje’s parentage, add interest to an altogether enjoyable tale.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York
By Edna Turpin,
Author of “Honey Sweet” and “Happy Acres.”
With illustrations by Alice Beard
Readers of Miss Turpin’s previous books for girls doubtless remember the Callahan family, among the more picturesque of all the characterizations in these delightful volumes. Peggy is a Callahan and this is her story, a story in which Anne Lewis of Honey Sweet fame and some of the people from Happy Acres also figure. It all has to do with the way in which Peggy rises gloriously to an emergency—how she cares for the home while her mother is recovering from a severe illness, brings order out of chaos, and even though she does lose the scholarship prize in school, upon which she has set her heart, wins something even greater and is very happy in her choice and in that which it brings.
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Publishers 64-66 Fifth Avenue New York