If there ever was anyone who could cover little pills with a thick coating of sugar, it was Mr. Burgess when he wrote these clever verses and drew these ninety original and always funny pictures. Children delight in the Goops. It is almost worth while being one to have this volume of warning thrust into our hands. "I never knew a Goop to help his mother, I never knew a Goop to help his dad, And they never do a thing for one another; They are actually, absolutely bad! "If you ask a Goop to go and post a letter, Or to run upon an errand, _how_ they act! But somehow I imagine you are better, And you _try_ to go, and _cry_ to go, in fact!" BURGESS, GELETT. *More Goops and How Not To Be Them. A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants. Illustrated by the Author. Stokes. 1.50 A delightful companion volume of dreadful examples. With ninety-seven illustrations. "You who are the oldest, You who are the tallest, Don't you think you ought to help The youngest and the smallest? "You who are the strongest, (p. 36) You who are the quickest, Don't you think you ought to help The weakest and the sickest? "Never mind the trouble, Help them all you can; Be a little woman! Be a little man!" HEADLAND, I.T. (Translator). Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes. Revell. 1.00 Mr. Headland, who is a professor in the Imperial University at Peking, tells us: "There is no language in the world, we venture to believe, which contains children's songs expressive of more keen and tender affection.... This fact, more than any other, has stimulated us in the preparation of these rhymes.... The illustrations have all been prepared by the translator specially for this work." The Oriental atmosphere of the book and the many Chinese pictures lead our children of the Western world most delightfully into this old land. "He climbed up the candlestick, The little mousey brown, To steal and eat tallow, And he couldn't get down. He called for his grandma, But his grandma was in town, So he doubled up into a wheel And rolled himself down." LEAR, EDWARD. (p. 37) *Nonsense Books. Little. 2.00 The nonsense classic, which should be among the first books secured for a child's library. This edition contains all the Nonsense Books, with all the original illustrations. "'How pleasant to know Mr. Lear,' Who has written such volumes of stuff! Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few think him pleasant enough." NORTON, C.E. (Editor). Heart of Oak Books. Volume I. Rhymes, Jingles, and Fables. Heath. .25