CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator). Aladdin. Lane. .25 These richly colored Eastern pictures will give even little children a suggestion of the splendor of the Orient. Let us hope that they will never be too ready to answer the call of "New lamps for old ones." Walter Crane is the serious apostle of art for the nursery, who strove to beautify its ideal, to decorate its legends with a real knowledge of architecture and costume, and to mount the fairy stories with a certain archæological splendor.... As a maker of children's books, no one ever attempted the task he fulfilled so gayly, and no one since has beaten him on his own ground. GLEESON WHITE. CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator). Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Lane. .25 It seems hardly right to omit this edition of so celebrated a tale pictured by so celebrated an artist, yet Mr. Crane's work breathes mystery and Oriental cunning from every page, and should be given to our youngsters only after examination, as a highly-strung child might be frightened by it. The picture of the resourceful Morgiana filling the oil-jars, while a dreadful robber with saucer-like eyes peers (p. 43) from one of them, is awful indeed. CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator). Beauty and the Beast. Lane. .25 Charming illustrations accompany this prose version of the ancient favorite which will long endure because of the great truth underlying the grotesque tale. CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator). Cinderella. Lane. .25 May every little girl find the fairy prince of her imagination! CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator). The Frog Prince. Lane. .25 The story of the frog who was transformed into the handsome prince is as immortal as childhood. May we all remember the King's command to his daughter: "He who helped you in the time of your trouble must not now be despised." CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator). Jack and the Bean-Stalk. Lane. .25 Ogre-like indeed is the giant, and we breathe a sigh of relief when verses as well as pictures make it quite certain that Jack has escaped for the third time with his golden treasure. The beans of King (p. 44) Alfred's day seem to have closely resembled the wild oats of our own. CRANE, WALTER (Illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty. Lane. .25 "So sweet a face, so fair--was never beauty such as this; He stands--he stoops to gaze--he kneels-- he wakes her with a kiss. He leads her forth; the magic sleep of all the Court is o'er-- They wake, they move, they talk, they laugh, just as they did of yore A hundred years ago." POETRY, COLLECTIONS OF POETRY AND PROSE, AND STORIES ADAPTED FROM GREAT AUTHORS