SYRETT, NETTA--Six Fairy Plays for Children. Lane, $1.00 net. WHITE, MARY--How to Make Baskets. Doubleday, $1.00 net. [The same author has written a second volume. Many workers prefer “Cane Basket Work.” Annie Firth. London: Gill; New York: Milton Bradley.] MUSIC In the preparation of this music bibliography, it is a rare privilege to be able to include a list which was compiled by the late Miss Mary L. Avery, of the music department of the Lenox Library, New York; and which was used in a lecture delivered by her before the Pratt Institute Library School on January 12, 1900. To this, the following supplementary list, based upon recommendation, may be added. Prices vary. BRAINARD, H. L. (music), AND SAGE, BETTY (words)--Four Childhood Rhymes. Schirmer; The Boston Music Co. COOLIDGE, ELIZABETH--Fifteen Mother Goose Melodies. Schirmer. (Music somewhat difficult.) FISHER, WILLIAM ARMES--Posies from A Child’s Garden of Verses. Ditson. GAYNOR, JESSIE L. (music), AND RILEY, C. (words)--Songs of the Child World. Nos. 1, 2. The John Church Co. JENKS, HARRIET S., AND RUST, MABEL--Song Echoes from Child Land. Ditson. JORDAN, JULES--A Life Lesson. (Words by Riley.) Schmidt. MCLAUGHLIN, JAMES M., AND GILCHRIST, W. W.--Educational Music Course. Teachers’ Edition for Elementary Grades. Ginn. MOTHER GOOSE SET TO MUSIC. (Elliott, J. W.) Novello. [An edition is published by Houghton, $1.50.] RILEY, GAYNOR, BEALE--Songs for Children. John Church Co. TAUBERT, WILHELM--Klänge aus der Kinderwelt. Schirmer. In addition, such names as Eleanor Smith and Harvey Worthington Loomis should not be omitted, as composers who recognise successfully the requirements of children’s voices. These requirements cannot be too often reiterated. In a letter to the author, the following was underscored: “A child’s song must be written almost entirely in the middle register of the voice--neither too high nor too low. Then there must be a distinct melody for the child’s ear to catch readily. And the words must interest the child’s mind.” In this last respect music-teachers are most emphatic. They appeal for verses that stimulate the imagination, they wish words carefully chosen; in the teaching, they seek for purity of diction, for proper valuation of vowels, consonants, and word-endings. _Miss Avery’s Music List. Music in Children’s Libraries_ BREITKOPF EDITION CATALOGUE--Breitkopf and Hartel. New York. MUSICAL, THE, INTERESTS [tastes] OF CHILDREN--Fanny B. Gates. West. Springfield, Mass., 1898. [Reprinted from the _Journal of Pedagogy_, October, 1898.] NOVELLO’S SCHOOL MUSIC CATALOGUE (OPERETTAS, ETC.)--[Descriptive.] London. SCRIBNER’S MUSICAL LITERATURE LIST--New York. _Literature of Music_ LETTERS FROM GREAT MUSICIANS TO YOUNG PEOPLE--Alathea E. Crawford and Alice Chapin. New York, 1897. MUSICIANS IN RHYME FOR CHILDHOOD’S TIME--Crawford and Sill. New York, Schirmer.