VI. APPENDIX
What principle of selection shall one adopt in making a book-list? No hard and fast rules can be framed, for what I may consider best may be rejected as second best by you. There is not a book-list issued that does not differ from the others in many essentials; in classification, in titles, and in purpose. Most of these lists are marked by a sincere effort on the part of librarians to direct a child’s reading along the best lines. But even though they may be suggestive and helpful, at the most they are passive and need to be supplemented by a personal knowledge of the books recommended. For, in the lists of history and biography, a compiler finds it necessary to adopt many volumes that are far from literary in the style of writing or in the manner of treatment. To-morrow these books may give place to others far superior and far more permanent in value.
The agreement between the lists, however, does show that there are numberless stories, legends, and the like, which are generally acceded to be desirable,as much because of their inherent freshness as because of the fact that they have stood the test of time. Rarely do the lists fail to mention them.
Notwithstanding, the recommendations issued by the libraries usually are sent forth, hedged around by exceptions and by indirect warnings. This is a healthful sign; it indicates that, however intent the maker of book-lists may be to offer the best, human nature is not all of the same calibre, and excellence is of an illusive character.
It is with some peculiar pleasure that I offer the list of books in this Appendix, protecting myself, and the committee that aided me, with excuses, and forestalling criticism by claiming that while the recommendations have been made to the best of several abilities, and in accord with no mean standards of selection—at the same time much has been included of necessity which will pass away in the years to come. This is not an exclusive list; the attempt has been made to have it a practical, workable list, for parents and teachers and librarians to consult, bringing to it their own personal judgment as to individual taste and development of the child under consideration. Such a term as “the child” has been used reluctantly, since there is no other term, more human, less mechanical, to take its place. Because of this dislike for a stereotyped grading of childhood, the reader will here find no indication as to age demands. The books have beenmentioned with a generous range of from six to fifteen years.
Other lists will be found to include a fuller division of subjects. Notably in the historical sections, they will contain many more references than are here given. Our histories smack largely of the school-room; they do not differ so very much from each other as to excellence; they are very apt to agree in the zealousness with which they follow fact. If we decide to seek for general literary merit, we should avoid, as far as possible, the inclusion of what we know is not the case; of what we know is intended for the class-room.
And so, in order to supplement our method, which may be considered too narrow or too broad, the following table of available lists, which have been brought to my notice, is included:
A. L. A. Annotated Lists—Books for Boys and Girls. A Selected List Compiled by Caroline M. Hewins, Librarian of the Hartford Public Library. 1904. $0.15. A most judicious and literary standard.
A List of Books Recommended for a Children’s Library—Compiled for the Iowa Library Commission by Annie Carroll Moore, Supervisorof Children’s Rooms in the New York City Public Library. Another excellent and practical guide.
Books for Boys—Special Bulletin No. 6. January, 1906. The Chicago Public Library. A generous selection for boys from twelve to eighteen; an inclusive list, marked more by vigour than by refinement of a fastidious nature.
Fingerposts to Children’s Reading—Walter Taylor Field. McClurg, $1.00. The book contains some practical suggestions about children and their reading. The lists in the Appendix are open to criticism.
The Right Reading for Children—Compiled by Charles Welsh. Heath. Referring chiefly to Heath’s Home and School Classics.
Story telling to Children from Norse Mythology and the Nibelungenlied—References to Material on Selected Stories, Together with an Annotated Reading List. Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. $0.20. Excellent.
Story Hour Courses for Children from Greek Myths, the Iliad, and the Odyssey, as Conducted by the Children’s Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. $0.05. An excellent guide.
A List of Good Stories to Tell to Children under Twelve Years of Age, with a Brief Account of the Story Hour Conducted by the Children’s Department, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. $0.05. The same Library has issued:
Annotated Catalogue of Books Used in the Home Libraries and Reading Clubs, conducted by the Children’s Department. $0.25.
Books for Children—A List Compiled by Gertrude Wild Arnold. The Marion Press, New York. 1905.
Reading for the Young—Sargent. Houghton.
A Children’s Library—Selected by May H. Prentice and Effie L. Power, in behalf of the Cleveland Normal School.
Catalogue of Books for Public School Libraries in New York—Compiled by Claude G. Leland. Marked by educational requirements, and graded.
A List of Books on Birdsfor the General Reader and Students. Audubon Society of the State of New York. Recommended by Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the New York Museum of Natural History.Vide“Bird-Lore,” a magazine which Mr. Chapman edits.
Children’s Reference Lists—Cleveland PublicLibrary. English History for the Sixth Grade. The system here adopted is excellent, and might be followed with advantage in other lines.
Children, Schools, and Libraries—A list, with abstracts, of some of the more important contributions to the subject. Compiled by Marion Dickinson in 1897; revised by Mary Medlicott in 1899. Springfield Public Library. Springfield, Massachusetts. A very serviceable pamphlet.
Five Hundred Books for the Young—George E. Hardy. Scribner.
Some English Cataloguesrecommended by Miss Isabel Chadburn:
As far as nature books are concerned, it will be found that local differences have to be observed;yet, though the British and American writers are bound to these limitations, they are none the less alike in their scope—to furnish the juvenile readers with a ready reference guide to objects around them. In the present instance, the list which has been compiled, voted upon, and arranged, may suit the English child as well as the American child, although certain local inclusions need to be balanced by the substitution of English counterparts. The American school story,per se, will never supplant its English predecessor in “Tom Brown at Rugby,” or even “The Crofton Boys.” The American library shelves are stacked with the English make of book. And it must be acknowledged that, in point of scholarship, the English classics, given a library and literaryformat, surpass the school-book shape in every way. In this connection, it is well to heed the warning of Miss Moore:
“The choice of editions is not based upon extended comparative work. [What is said of her list applies as well to the present one.] It represents merely the editions which have come to my notice, some of them being quite unsatisfactory. This is an era of educational publications and, while many of these are admirably adapted to their purpose, we have need to be constantly on our guard not to overstock children’s libraries with books which have no artistic merit as to cover or general make-up, and which therefore fail to make a definiteindividual impression on the mind of the child and give to a children’s library the general appearance of book-shelves devoted to supplementary reading.”
Were this intended to be an exclusive list, many very rigourous omissions would have been the result; but it is better to err upon the generous side than to appeal to an exceptional taste. “A man’s reach should exceed his grasp” is the Browning philosophy, but in the climb upward the intermediate tendrils are necessary for holding on; nor must they be removed until something is assured to take their place. The removal of inferior books from the shelves will not remedy the matter, unless existing circumstances are such as to meet the case.
Where it is possible, the least expensive edition has been adopted; although it is often a fact that no choice has been given. A good edition for a library is the most desirable, and those committees are unwise which sacrifice quality for quantity. On the other hand, it is unfortunate that a more suitable arrangement cannot exist, whereby the artistic books, which, by reason of their decorative character, are perforce expensive, could be offered at less exorbitant rates to an institution of such social importance as a library.
(TheNister Picture-Booksare sold in this country byDutton.)
Bedford, Frances D.—Book of Shops. (Verses by E. V. Lucas.) Dutton, $2.50.
Bradley, Will—Peter Poodle, Toy Maker to the King. Dodd, $1.50 net.
Caldecott, Randolph—Toy Books. Warne, (4 vols.) $1.25 each. The separate stories are sold at $0.25 each, and comprise, among a large number, the following: The Farmer’s Boy; A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go; Hey Diddle Diddle and Baby Bunting; The House That Jack Built; The Milk Maid; The Queen of Hearts; Ride a Cock Horse; Sing a Song of Sixpence; John Gilpin.
Cox, Palmer—The Brownie Books. Century, $1.50 each.
Crane, Walter—Mother Hubbard’s Picture Book. Lane, $1.25.
This Little Pig’s Picture Book. Lane, $1.25. [There are other volumes. Crane also ill. Lamb’s fanciful essay, “The Masque of Days.” Cassell, $2.50.]
Mother Hubbard; This Little Pig; Aladdin; Beauty and the Beast; Bluebeard; The Forty Thieves; The Frog Prince; Goody Two Shoes; Sleeping Beauty; The Fairy Ship; Baby’s A B C. Lane, $0.25 each.
De Monvel, Boutet—Filles et Garçons. (Stories by Anatole France.) Hachette; Brentano, $2.35.
Chansons de France pour les petits Français. Hachette; Plon, $2.50.
La Civilité puérile et honnête. Plon; Brentano, $2.35.
Nos Enfants. (Text by Anatole France.) Hachette; Brentano, $1.25.
Fables de La Fontaine, choisies pour les enfants. S. P. C. K.; Brentano, $2.35.
Gerson, Virginia—Happy Heart Family. Duffield, $1.00. (There is a second volume.)
Greenaway, Kate—A Day in a Child’s Life. (Music, verse, pictures.) Warne, $1.50.
Marigold Garden. Routledge (Warne, $1.50), $2.00.
Under the Window. (Pictures and Rhymes.) Warne, $1.50.
A Apple Pie, etc. Warne, $0.75.
Mother Goose. Warne, $0.75.
Mavor’s Spelling Book. Warne, $0.40.
Guigou, P. et Vimar, A.—L’illustre Dompteur. (The French Circus Book.) Plon; Brentano, $2.35.
Hoffmann, Heinrich—Slovenly Peter. Coates, $1.50. [German editions are preferable.]
Perkins, Lucy Fitch—Adventures of Robin Hood. Stokes, $1.50.
Whitcomb, Ida P.—Young People’s Story of Art. Dodd, $2.00. [Sarah Tytler is the author of “The Old Masters and their Pictures”; “Modern Painters and Their Paintings.” Little, Brown, $1.50 each.VidePoetry; also German section, Richter, etc. The French are here included since they are so familiar to English readers.]
Æsop—Fables. (Tr., Joseph Jacobs.) Macmillan, $1.50.
A Hundred Fables of Æsop. (Tr., Sir Roger L’Estrange; intro., Kenneth Grahame.) Lane, $1.50 net.
The Babies’ Own. (Ill., Walter Crane.) Warne, $1.50.
Andersen, H. C.—Fairy Tales. (Tr., H. L. Braekstad; ill., Tegner; 2 vols.) Century, $5.00. Fairy Tales. (Tr., Mrs. Edgar Lucas.) Macmillan,$0.50; Dent, $2.50. [Ill., the Robinsons.Videalso Contes Choisis, Bibliothèque Rose.]
Arabian Nights’ Entertainments—(Ed., Andrew Lang.) Longmans, $2.00.
Fairy Tales From. (Ed., E. Dixon.) Dent, 2 vols., 7s. 6d. net each.
Asbjörnsen, P. C.—Fairy Tales From the Far North. Armstrong, $2.00; Burt, $1.00. [Folk and Fairy Tales. Tr., H. L. Braekstad; intro., E. W. Gosse.]
Baldwin, James—The Story of Siegfried. (Ill., Pyle.) Scribner, $1.50.
The Story of Roland. (Ill., Birch.) Scribner, $1.50.
Brown, Abbie Farwell—The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts. Houghton, $1.25.
In the Days of Giants. Houghton, $1.10 net.
Bulfinch, Thomas—The Age of Fable. Lothrop, Lee, $1.50. [Cheaper editions, Altemus, Crowell, etc.]
Cantor, William—True Annals of Fairyland. Reign of King Herla. (Ill., Charles Robinson.) Dent, 4s. 6d. net.
Carroll, Lewis—Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.(Ill., Sir John Tenniel.) Macmillan, $1.00. [There is also an edition, Harper, ill., by Peter Newell, $3.00 net. The reader is advised to consult Mr. Dodgson’s Life and Letters.]
Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. (Ill., Sir John Tenniel. Sequel to the above.) Macmillan, $1.00.
Chapin, A. A.—Story of the Rhinegold. Harper, $1.25. [Videalso “Wonder Tales from Wagner.” She is the author of “Masters of Music.” Dodd, $1.50.]
Church, A. J.—Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France. Macmillan, $1.75.
Cruikshank, George—The Cruikshank Fairy Book. Putnam, $1.25; $2.00.
Francillon, R. E.—Gods and Heroes. Ginn, $0.40.
Gibbon, J. M. (Ed.)—True Annals of Fairyland. Reign of King Cole. (Ill., Charles Robinson.) Macmillan, $2.00.
Grimm, J. L. and W. K.—Fairy Tales of the Brothers. (Tr., Mrs. Edgar Lucas; ill., Arthur Rackham.) Lippincott, $2.50; $1.50. [Editions also ill., Cruikshank; intro., Ruskin,—Chatto and Windus, 6s.; Macmillan, ill., Walter Crane, $1.50; Contes Choisis; Bibliothèque Rose;videGerman section.]
Harris, Joel Chandler—Uncle Remus and His Friends. (Ill., Frost.) Houghton, $1.50.
Nights with Uncle Remus. (Ill., Church.) Houghton, $1.50.
Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings. (Ill., Frost.) Appleton, $2.00.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel—A Wonderbook for Girls and Boys. (Ill., Walter Crane.) Houghton, $3.00.
Tanglewood Tales. (Ill., G. W. Edwards.) Houghton, $1.00; $2.50.
Horne, Richard Hengist—The Good-Natured Bear. [Out of print, but re-publication is strongly recommended by librarians.]
Ingelow, Jean—Mopsa, the Fairy. Little, Brown, $1.25.
Irving, Washington—Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Macmillan, $1.50. [Expensive illustrated editions issued by Putnam and Doubleday.]
Jacobs, Joseph—English Fairy Tales. Putnam, $1.25.
The Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox. Macmillan, $1.50.
Book of Wonder Voyages. Macmillan, $1.50.
Celtic Fairy Tales. Putnam, $1.25.
Kingsley, Charles—The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children. (Ill., T. H. Robinson.) Dutton, $2.50. [Videalso editions Crowell; Harper, $2.50.]
The Water Babies. Macmillan, $1.25. [Cheaper Editions.]
Kipling, Rudyard—Just-So Stories. Doubleday, $1.20 net. [There is also a “Just-So Song Book,” $1.20 net.]
Jungle Book. (First and second series.) Century, $1.50 each.
Puck of Pook’s Hill. (Ill., Arthur Rackham.) Doubleday, $1.50.
Laboulaye, E. R. L. de—Fairy Tales. Routledge, $1.25; Harper, $2.00.
The Last Fairy Tales. Harper, $2.00.
La Fontaine—Selected Fables. (Ill., Boutet de Monvel.) Young, $2.50.
Lang, Andrew (Ed.)—The Red Fairy Book. Longmans, $2.00.
The Blue Fairy Book. Longmans, $2.00.
The Book of Romance. Longmans, $1.60 net.
Lanier, Sidney—The Boy’s King Arthur. Scribner, $2.00. [Lanier bases his narrative on Mallory.VideHoward Pyle’s “Story of King Arthur and His Knights.” Scribner, $2.50.]
The Boy’s Froissart. Scribner, $2.00.
Knightly Tales of Wales; or, The Boy’s Mabinogion. Scribner, $2.00.
The Boy’s Percy. [Full introduction and the ballads based on original.] Scribner, $2.00.
Mabie, H. W.—Norse Stories. Dodd, $1.80 net.
MacDonald, George—At the Back of the North Wind. Routledge, $1.25; Burt, $1.00.
Mulock-Craik, Dinah M.—The Fairy Book. Macmillan, $1.00.
The Adventures of a Brownie. Harper, $0.60; Page, $0.50.
The Little Lame Prince. Harper, $0.60.
Musset, Paul de—Mr. Wind and Madam Rain. Putnam, $2.00. [VidePetite Bibliothèque Blanche.]
Perrault, Charles—Fairy Tales. Macmillan, $0.40 net. [Videp. 36.]
Pyle, Howard—Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Scribner, $3.00. [An excellent version of the ballad has been issued by Stokes, ill., Lucy Fitch Perkins.]
Ruskin, John—King of the Golden River. Ginn, $0.25; Page, $0.50.
Scudder, Horace E. (Compiler.)—Book of Legends. Houghton, $0.50.
Stockton, Frank R.—The Queen’s Museum and Other Fanciful Tales. Scribner, $2.50. [Videformer edition, “Clocks of Rondaine and other stories.” Scribner, $1.50.]
Thackeray, W. M.—The Rose and the Ring. Putnam, $0.50, $1.00. [Videother editions.]
Allingham, William—The Ballad Book. Macmillan, $1.00.
Blake, William—Songs of Innocence. (Ill., Geraldine Morris.) Lane, $0.50 net.
Browning, Robert—The Pied Piper of Hamelin. (Ill., Kate Greenaway.) Warne, $1.50.
Burgess, Gelett—Goops and How to be Them. (Several volumes.) Stokes, $1.50.
Cary, Alice and Phœbe—Ballads for Little Folks. Houghton, $1.50.
Child, Lydia Maria—Flowers for Children; New Flowers for Children. [Out of print, but re-publication is strongly recommended by librarians.]
Dodge, Mary Mapes (Ed.)—Baby Days. Century, $1.50.
English and Scottish Popular Ballads.(Ed., Sargent-Kittredge, from Francis James Child’s collection, Cambridge edition.) Houghton, $3.00.
Field, Eugene—Poems of Childhood. (Ill., Maxfield Parrish.) Scribner, $2.50.
Goldsmith, Oliver—The Deserted Village. (Ill., E. A. Abbey.) Harper, $3.00. [Abbey also illustrated “She Stoops to Conquer,” $5.00.]
Henley, W. E. (Compiler)—Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verses for Boys. Scribner, $1.25.
Holmes, Oliver W.—Poems. (Complete ed., Cambridge.) Houghton, $2.00, $1.50. [Vide“The One Hoss Shay,” ill., Howard Pyle, $1.50.]
Jerrold, Walter (Ed.)—The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. Dutton, $3.00.
Lamb, Charles and Mary—Poetry for Children. (Ill., Winifred Green; pref., I. Gollancz.) Dent, 2s. 6d. net. [Videin same edition “Mrs. Leicester’s School,” 5s. net.]
Lang, Andrew (Ed.)—The Blue Poetry Book. Longmans, $2.00.
Lear, Edward—Nonsense Books. Little, Brown, $2.00. [Videalso Warne edition.]
Longfellow, Henry W.—Poems. (Complete ed., Cambridge.) Houghton, $2.00. [Videalso “Hiawatha,” ill., Remington, $4.00.]
Lowell, James R.—The Vision of Sir Launfal. Houghton, $1.50.
Lucas, E. V. (Ed.)—A Book of Verses for Children. Holt, $2.00. [There is a school edition.]
Macaulay, T. B.—Lays of Ancient Rome. Longmans, $1.25. [Videeditions Houghton, Putnam.]
Matthews, Brander—Poems of American Patriotism. Scribner, $1.50. [Vide“English History Told by English Poets.” Ed., Bates and Coman. Macmillan, $0.60 net.]
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes(Ill., Tenniel, Crane, etc.)—Dutton, $1.50. [VideNister ed., Routledge, etc.]
Mother Goose’s Melodies—Houghton, $1.50.
Norton, C. E. (Ed.)—Heart of Oak Books. Heath, 7 vols., from $0.25 to $0.60. [Collection of Rhymes, Poems, Stories, etc.]
Palgrave, F. T.—The Children’s Treasury of English Song. Macmillan, $1.00.
Patmore, Coventry (Ed.)—Children’s Garland from the Best Poets. Macmillan, $1.00.
Repplier, Agnes (Ed.)—Book of Famous Verse. Houghton, $0.75 and $1.25.
Riley, James Whitcomb—Rhymes of Childhood. Bobbs-Merrill, $1.25.
Rossetti, Christina G.—Sing-Song. Macmillan, $1.50.
Scott, Sir Walter—Marmion; The Lay of the Last Minstrel. (Ed., W. J. Rolfe.) Houghton, $0.75 each.
Shute, Katharine H. and Dunton, Larkin (Compilers)—The Land of Song. Silver, 3 vols., $0.36 to $0.54.
Stevenson, Robert L.—A Child’s Garden of Verses. Scribner. (Ill., Robinson, $1.50; ill., Jessie W. Smith, $2.50.) [An excellent, inexpensive edition, Rand, McNally, $0.75.]
Taylor, Jane and Ann—Little Ann and Other Poems. (Ill., Kate Greenaway). Warne, $1.00. [Videalso edition, ed., E. V. Lucas. Stokes, $1.50. Including verses of AdelaideO’Keeffe; ill., F. D. Bedford.Vide“Greedy Dick and Other Stories in Verse,” by the Taylors, $0.50.]
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord—Selected Poems for Young People. (Ed., W. J. Rolfe.) Houghton, $0.75. [Children should be made acquainted with parts of the “Idylls of the King.”]
Watts, Isaac—Childhood Songs of Long Ago. Wessels, $0.75. [VideEnglish editions.]
Welsh, Charles—Book of Nursery Rhymes. (Edited and graded.) Heath, $0.30. [In Home and School Classics.]
Wiggin, K. D., and Smith, N. A. (Eds.)—GoldenNumbers: A Book of Verse for Youth. McClure, $2.00 net.
Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children. McClure, $1.25 net. [The same editors have gathered together a book of nursery rhymes.]
Cervantes, Miguel de—Don Quixote of the Mancha. (Retold by Judge E. A. Parry; ill., Walter Crane.) Lane, $1.50.
Chaucer, Geoffrey—Canterbury Tales. (Retold by Percy MacKaye; ill., W. Appleton Clark.) Duffield, $2.50.
Canterbury Chimes; or, Chaucer Tales Retold to Children. Storr, Frances and Turner, Hawes. Kegan, Paul, 3s. 6d.
Chaucer for Children. Mrs. H. R. Haweis. Scribner, $1.25.
Church, A. H.—Lords of the World. (Pictures from Roman Life and Story). Appleton, $1.50.
Herodotus—Wonder Stories from. Told by Boden, G. H., and D’Almeida, W. B. Harper, $2.50.
Homer—Iliad. (Tr., W. C. Bryant.) Houghton, $1.00 to $9.00. [Videalso tr., Lang, Leaf, Myers.]
Lamb, Charles—The Adventures of Ulysses. Harper, $2.50. [Videalso ed., E. V. Lucas, Putnam.]
Odysseus, Adventures of—(Retold by Marvin, F. S., and others; ill., Charles Robinson.) Dutton, $1.50. [Videalso ed., G. H. Palmer and W. C. Perry.]
Plutarch—Lives. [Full ed.; also J. S. White’s “Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch.” Putnam, $1.75.]
Shakespeare—Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines. Mary Cowden Clarke. (Ill., Sir John Gilbert.) Scribner, $3.00.
Tales from. Charles and Mary Lamb. Macmillan, $1.00. (Ed., Ainger.) [Videalso ed., E. V. Lucas, Putnam; ed. ill., Norman M. Price, Scribner; ed. Nister. Quiller Couch has treated the historical tales in the same manner. Scribner.]
Swift, Jonathan—Gulliver’s Travels. Macmillan, $1.25 net.
Towry, M. H.—Spenser for Children. Scribner, $1.25.
Alcott, L. M.—Little Women Play. (Adapted from the story by E. L. Gould.) Little, Brown, $0.50.
Beard, Dan—The Field and Forest Handy Book. Scribner, $2.00.
The Jack of All Trades. Scribner, $2.00.
The American Boy’s Handy Book. Scribner, $2.00.
Beard, L. and A.—Things Worth Doing and How to Do Them. Scribner, $2.00.
Handicraft and Recreation for Girls. Scribner. $2.00.
Black, Alexander—Photography Indoors and Out. Houghton, $1.25.
Boys, C. V.—Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Made Them. Gorham, $0.75.
Cutter, Mrs. S. J. (Compiler.)—Conundrums, Riddles, Puzzles, and Games. Hansauer.
Games Book for Boys and Girls.Dutton, $2.50. (VideNister.)
Kelley, L. E.—Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do. Estes, $1.75.
King, G. G.—Comedies and Legends for Marionettes. Macmillan, $1.50.
Lewis, A. J.(Prof. Hoffman.)—Magic at Home. Cassell, $1.25. [Videalso “Modern Magic.” Routledge, $1.50.]
Lucas, E. V. and Elizabeth—What Shall We Do Now? Stokes, $2.00.
Newell, Peter—Topsys and Turvys. Century, $1.00 net.
Seton, Ernest Thompson—The Wild Animal Play. Doubleday, $0.50.
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.]
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 middleregister 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.
Breitkopf Edition Catalogue—Breitkopf and Hartel. New York.
Musical, The, Interests[tastes]of Children—Fanny B. Gates. West. Springfield, Mass., 1898. [Reprinted from theJournal of Pedagogy, October, 1898.]
Novello’s School Music Catalogue (Operettas, etc.)—[Descriptive.] London.
Scribner’s Musical Literature List—New York.
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.
Story of Major C and his Relatives: Lessons in Harmony—Grace S. Duff. New York, 1894.
Story of Music and Musicians—Lucy C. Lillie. New York.
Story of the Rhinegold—Chapin.
Wagner Story-Book—William Henry Frost. New York.
Baby’s Bouquet—(Old songs.) Ill., Walter Crane. Routledge.
Baby’s Opera—(Old songs.) Ill., Walter Crane. Routledge; Warne.
Book of Rhymes and Tunes—Compiled by Margaret P. Osgood [from German and English]. Boston, 1880.
Book of Old Rhymes Set to Music—Walter Crane. Warne, $1.20.
Child’s Garden of Song—Arranged by Wm. L. Tomlins. Chicago, 1895.
Child’s Garden of Verses—12 Songs by Stevenson. Music by Mary Carmichael. London.
Child’s Garland of Songs[From a Child’s Garden of Verses.]—R. L. Stevenson. Music by C. Villiers Stanford. London, 1892.
Children’s Singing Games—Eleanor Withey Willard. Grand Rapids, 1895.
Children’s Souvenir Song Book—Arranged by Wm. L. Tomlins. New York, 1893.
Christmas (A) Dream—School Operetta—Moffat. London, Novello.
Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern—Wm. L. Tomlins. New York, 1897.
Christmas Carols New and Old—Bramley and Sir John Stainer. Novello; Routledge.
Garland of Country Song—(English folk songs.) Arranged by S. Baring Gould and H. F. Sheppard. London, 1895.
Kindergarten Chimes—Kate Douglas Wiggin. Boston (cop.), 1887.
Kinderlieder—Von Carl Reinecke. Leipzig; New York, Schirmer.
Kinder- und Jugend-lieder(50)—Von Hoffman, V. Stuttgart.
Kinderlieder(24)—Gustav Fischer. New York.
Kinderlieder-Album—Amalie Felsenthal. Leipzig.
May-day Revels(Operetta, Old English style.)—Hawkins and West. London.
Musik-Beilage zu Kinderfest—J. Fischer. Berlin, Bloch.
National, Patriotic, and Typical Airs of All Lands, with Copious Notes—John Philip Sousa. Philadelphia, 1890.
Old May Day(Operetta.)—Shapcott Wensley and F. C. Wood. London.
Olde Englyshe Pastimes—F. W. Galpin. (Dances and sports, old music.) London.
Singing (A) Quadrille, Set to Nursery Rhymes, for Pianoforte and Voices—Cotsford Dick.
Singing Verses for Children—Lydia Coonley and others. New York, 1897.
Small Songs for Small Singers—W. H. Neidlinger. (Coloured ill., Bobbett.) New York, Schirmer.
St. Nicholas Operettas.Century.
St. Nicholas Songs.Century.
Songs of Childhood—Eugene Field. Music by Reginald de Koven and others. New York, 1896.
Stevenson Song Book—Music by various composers. New York, 1897.
Three Operettas (Three Little Kittens; Seven Old Ladies of Lavender Town; Bobby Shaftoe)—H. C. Bunner and Oscar Weil. New York, 1897.
Haydn’s Kinder-symphonie—For Piano and Violin and Toy Instruments.
Our Favorites (Unsere Lieblinge).[Piano gems arranged by Carl Reinecke.] New York, Breitkopf and Hartel.
Schumann, Robert—Album for Young Pianists. Op. 68.
Kinderball. (Dances, four hands, for Piano.) Op. 130.
Kinderscenen. (Piano.) Op. 15.
Baker, Ray Stannard—Boy’s Book of Inventions. McClure, $2.00. [There is a second volume, $1.60.]
Ball, Sir Robert Stawell—Starland. Ginn, $1.00.
Darwin, Charles R.—What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship “Beagle.” Harper, $3.00.
Iles, George—Flame,Electricity, and the Camera. Doubleday, $2.00 net.
Meadowcroft, W. H.—A B C of Electricity. Empire Publishing Co., $0.50.
Newcomb, Simon—Astronomy for Everybody. McClure, $2.00 net.
Santos-Dumont, Alberto—My Air-Ships. Century, $1.40 net.
Scientific American Boy: or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island—A. Russell Bond. Munn and Co., $2.00.
Serviss, Garrett P.—Astronomy with an Opera-Glass. Appleton, $1.50. [This book has been challenged.]
Sloane, T. O’C.—Electric Toy-making.—Henley, $1.00. (Videalso St. John, T. M.—Three books on electricity. Scribner.)
Boyesen, H. H.—Boyhood in Norway. Scribner, $1.25.
The Modern Vikings. Scribner, $1.25.
Brassey, Lady A. (A.)—Around the World in the Yacht “Sunbeam.” Holt, $2.00; Longmans (condensed), $0.75; Burt.
Du Chaillu, P. B.—The Land of the Long Night. Scribner, $2.00.
Land of the Midnight Sun. Harper, 2 vols., $5.00.
Janvier, Thomas A.—The Aztec Treasure House. (Narrative.) Harper, $1.50.
Jenks, Tudor—Boys’ Book of Explorations. Doubleday, $2.00.
Kennan, George—Tent Life in Siberia. Putnam, $0.50 to $1.25.
Knox, Thomas W.—Boy Travellers in Russia. Harper, $2.00.
Boy Travellers in South America. Harper. $2.00. [In these volumes there is a large amount of information which would have been more graphic, relieved of the artificial conversational style.]
Lummis, Charles F.—Some Strange Corners of Our Country. Century, $1.50.
Nansen, Fridtjof—Farthest North: Record of a Voyage of the Ship “Fram.” Harper, 2 vols., $4.00.
Peary, Mrs. J. D. and M. A.—Children of the Arctic. Stokes, $1.20 net.
Snow Baby. Stokes, $1.20 net.
Slocum, Joshua—Sailing Alone Around the World in the Sloop “Spray.” Whole edition, Century, $2.00; school edition, Scribner, $0.50.
Stanley, Henry M.—In Darkest Africa. Scribner, 2 vols., $7.50. [Videalso “My Dark Companions, and Their Strange Stories.” Scribner, $2.00.]
Taylor, Bayard—Boys of Other Countries. Putnam, $1.25.
“The collection of books which we call ‘Bibliothèque Rose’ (the paper bound edition has a pink cover; perhaps that is the reason why we call it Bibliothèque Rose) includes the most charming stories a child can wish for, especially those of Mme. de Ségur’s and Zénaïde Fleuriot’s. In this collection as well as in the Bibliothèque des Petits Enfants, and in the large illustrated albums, much will be found of interest to children of from six to ten years.
“For older boys and girls (10–15), I would recommend Bibliothèque des Mères de Famille. At the present time the only thing I remember about this collection is that there were in it a number of books translated from the German by Emmeline Raymond, and which used to give me much pleasure.
“As far as I can judge, girls and boys of this age enjoy Jules Verne,* Charles Wagner, H. Gréville, H. Malot, E. About, Erckmann-Chatrian,* AnatoleFrance, Daudet, and La Fontaine, the two I have starred being special favourites with boys. Of course, I would not recommend for children everything by these authors. I have suggested many books in the Bibliothèque Rose; there are other writers in that collection, such, for example, as Mme. Cazin, Mlle. J. Gouraud, Maistre, Mayne-Reid, Mme. Pape-Carpantier, Mme. de Stolz, and Mme. de Witt,—all of whom have done some excellent juvenile work. But a parent should not be satisfied with a recommendation; personal judgment is the surest test.
“Regarding poetry, there are many short pieces by Mme. Tastu, well adapted for very young children. In the anthologies which are published you are most likely to find such pieces as Victor Hugo’s ‘L’enfant,’ ‘Pour les pauvres,’ ‘Après la bataille’; Lamartine’s ‘L’automne,’ ‘Milly’; extracts from Corneille and Racine; and Chateaubriand’s well-known ‘Combien j’ai douce souvenance.’ Then there are a number of Coppée’s poems; Bérenger’s ‘Les souvenirs du peuple,’ and ‘A mon habit’; André Chénier’s ‘La jeune Captive’; Hégésippe Moreau’s ‘La Voulzie’; Brizeux’s ‘La pauvre fille’; Theuriet’s ‘La Chanson du Vannier’; and poems of Mme. Desborde-Valmore. This will give some idea of how rich the field of poetry is, which, with La Fontaine alone, would supply children with untold enjoyment.
“The educational value in most of the books which I have suggested consists chiefly in the attractive manner in which they are written; there is no ‘leçon de morale’ in disguise in the style, yet such books are more than well-written stories. Children read Mme. de Ségur’s books with much more pleasure than they do the old-fashioned Berquin’s, which are ‘ennuyeux.’ Such stories as Mme. de Ségur writes make a deep impression, since they teach agreeably to love the qualities which we grown-ups wish to see in children, and to dislike those faults which we would blame in them, even if, sometimes, the naughty child in the storyismade attractive.
“You will see, we have no special books of animal stories, such as you publish in England and in America—unless you consider, of course, La Fontaine’s fables, which do not give any practical knowledge of animal life. Books which appeal to the heart, or to the imagination, are very popular with French children, who are naturally sensitive and imaginative; but, after all, is it not so with every child, French or English or American?
“It has been my experience that American children (the very young ones), if they were able to read the French books French children of the same age read, enjoyed them quite as much. The difference in national temperament develops later on. The American boy or girl grows up more rapidly than the French boy or girl; acquires the practical sensesooner; has a more real view of life. Perhaps this is due largely to the fact that the French child has little independence, and hence is unpractical. But there is a compensation somewhere, for the French child’s mind is subtler, and his imagination more vivid. I do not think we have any library system at present where children’s work is a specialty; in fact, our public libraries are mostly frequented by grown-up people. I have never seen children, as far as I can recollect, in any of our libraries.”—Mlle. Emilie Michel, in a letter to the author.
Both Brentano and Dryrsen & Pfeiffer (successors to Christern), as well as W. R. Jenkins Co., New York, issue complete catalogues, French and German, in which illustrated books, magazines, and series of special volumes are suggested. They differ so markedly in prices, that no uniformity can be reached. But except in the case of illustrated albums, it may be claimed, generally, that the prices are reasonable.
About, Edmond—Le Roi des Montagnes.
L’Homme à l’oreille Cassée.
Carraud, Mme.—La petite Jeanne. Bibliothèque Rose.
Daudet, Alphonse—Tartarin de Tarascon.
Tartarin sur les Alpes.
Lettres de Mon Moulin. (Contes.)
Le Petit Chose.
DeFoe—La Vie et les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé. Bibliothèque Rose. [Videalso in Bibl. des petits enfants, with “Gulliver’s Travels.”]
Dombre, Roger—Tante Rabat Joie.
Erckmann-Chatrian—Le conscrit de 1813.
L’Ami Fritz.
Fleuriot, Mlle. Z.—Le petit chef de famille. Bibliothèque Rose.
Florian—Fables Illustrées par Vimar. Brentano, $2.70.
France, Anatole—Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard. [Crowned by the French Academy.]
Le Livre de Mon Ami. [For adults.]
Genlis, Madame de—Bibliothèque Rose. Contes Moraux.Videp. 66.
Gréville, Henry(pseud. of Mme. Alice Durant)—Perdue. [Videentire list.]
Grimm—Contes Choisis. Bibliothèque Rose.
Job—Le grand Napoléon des Petits Enfants. (Ill. coloured.) Brentano, $3.00.
La Fontaine—VideBoutet de Monvel. Picture-Book section.
La Motte-Fouque, Baron de.—Undine and Sintram. [VideEnglish version. Houghton.]
Malot, Hector—En famille.
Sans famille.
Perrault, Charles; Mmes. D’Aulnoy et Le Prince de Beaumont—Contes de Fées. Bibliothèque Rose. [Videalso Petite Bibliothèque Blanche, et ed. Perrault, ill. by many artists. Brentano, $2.70.Videp. 36.]
Pressensé, Mme. E. de—La Maison Blanche et Histoire pour les écoliers. Bibliothèque Rose. [Videalso Bibl. des Petits Enfants.]
Sandeau, Jules—La Maison de Penarvan.
Ségur, Mme. de—L’Auberge de l’Ange-Gardien. Bibliothèque Rose.
Un Bon Petit Diable.
Le Général Dourakine.
Mémoires d’un Ane.
Les Bons Enfants.
Verne, Jules—Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant.
Cinq Semaines en Ballon.
Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers.
Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours.
[All in the Bibliothèque Rose.]
Wagner, Charles—Jeunesse.
Vaillance.
In the preparation of the following German list, the author begs to acknowledge in a general way his indebtedness to many sources. An authority on the subject is Wolgast, who is the author of “Vom Kinderbuch” (Leipzig, Teubner). One of the committee recommends the inclusion of all the stories by Johanna Spyri; another emphasises the importance of the work done by Ottilie Wildermuth, and appends the following interesting account in a letter: “‘She was the wife of a professor in Tübingen, Swabia, and was born in 1817. She died in 1877. Long before she thought of writing for publication, she charmed a wide circle of friends and acquaintances with her talent for narrating the simple events, memories, and experiences of Swabian life. Most of her works must be considered, not as mere fiction, but as true pictures of the culture of that time, and as such will be of permanent value.’ The same may be said of her children’s books, although these are more fanciful and varied in their subject-matter, and appeal strongly to the imagination.”
The Germans illustrate their A-B-C Bücher, their Nursery Rhymes, their Bilderbücher, and their Erzählungen in the most attractive fashion. Reference is particularly made to Herr Richter. Fairy Tales are read extensively by German children—andalso by adults. Grimm, Hauff, Musäus, are about the best. Schmitt’s Geschichten u. Erzählungen (of which there are perhaps from one to two hundred volumes) are excellent for boys and girls between ten and fifteen years. The Germans have paid such special attention to the selection and grading of juvenile literature, that their library lists are recommended to readers. The volumes here mentioned are not presented with any intention of making them definitive. Brentano will send, on application, “Verzeichnis einer Auswahl Vorzüglicher Bücher—Miniatur-Katalog.—Stilke, Berlin.”
The reader is further referred to “Verzeichnis empfehlenswerter Jugendlektüre. Herausgegeben vom Wiener Volksbildungs-Verein, 1904.”
Äsop—Fabeln. Mit 6 Buntbildern. Löwe.
Aus dem Leben der Zwerge—Humorist. Bilderbuch.
Bilderbücher.(Löwensohn.)
Der D-Zug Kommt. Eisenbahnbilderb. auf Papyrolin; auf Papier.
Für unsere A B C-Schützen.
Grimms Märchen.
Hänsel und Gretel.
Heerschau üb. d. Kriegsvölker Europas.
Hertwig, R., Eduard und Ferdinand. [VideCatalogues.]
Bilderbücher.(Scholz.)
Liebe Märchen.
Dornröschen; Marienkind.
Aschenputtel; Rotkäppchen.
Hänsel und Gretel; Schneewittchen.
Hey-Speckter, W.—Fünfzig Fabeln f. Kinder. Jub.-Ausg.
Noch fünfzig Fabeln für Kinder. Jub.-Ausg.
Fabeln. 2 Bde. Schul-Ausgabe; 2 Bde. Feine Ausgabe.
Thumann, P.—Für Mutter und Kind. Alte Reime mit neuen Bildern.
Wiedemann, F.—Hundert Geschichten für eine Mutter und ihre Kinder.
Wildermuth, O.—Aus der Kinderwelt.
Anders, H.—Gesammelte Märchen von Rübezahl.
Andersen, H. C.—Sämtl. Märchen. Pr.-A. (Abel & Müller); V.-Ausg. (Abel & Müller); Pr.-Ausg. (Wartig).
Märchen. (Hendel); Löwe; Billige Ausgabe. (Weise.)
Ausgewählte Märchen. (Abel & Müller); Hrsg. v. Hamb. Jugendschr.-Ausschuss.
Arndt, P.—Es war einmal. Märchen, Sagen u. Schwänke.
Im Märchenwalde.
Für brave Knaben.
Rübezahl. (Löwe); V.-Aug, (Löwe).
Bechstein, L.—Märchenbuch. (Hendel).
Beeg, M.—Schulmädelgeschichten.
Beetz, K. O.—Urd.; Deutsche Volksmärchen.
Blüthgen, V.—Hesperiden. Märchen für jung und alt. Vollst. Ausg.
Lebensfrühling. Vier Erzählungen für Mädchen.
Der Märchenquell.
Der Weg zum Glück. Fünf Erzähl. f. Knaben.
Campe, J. H.—Robinson Krusoe von J. Hoffmann.
Emmy, Tante—Märchen für grosse und kleine Kinder.
Grimm, J. u. W.—Sämtl. Kinder- u. Hausmärchen. Mit Bildern v. L. Richter usw.
Gumpert, Th. v.—Herzblättchens Zeitvertreib.
Hauff, W.—Märchen. Ausw. f. d. Jugend. (Löwe).
Hoffmann, Frz.—Ausgew. Erzählungen. Bd. 1, 2, 3.
Das bunte Buch. Neue 150 moral. Erzählungen.
150 moralische Erzählungen.
Die Grossmutter.
Neuer deutscher Jugendfreund.
Märchen und Fabeln.
Müller, K. A.—Rübezahl, der Herr des Riesengebirges.
Musäus, J. K. A.—Märchen. Von K. A. Müller.
Nibelungenlied—Für die Jugend, von A. Bacmeister.
Otto, H.—Ilias, für die Jugend.
Nibelunge, für die Jugend. 2 Bdchn.
Sagen und Märchen für Achtjährige.
Reichenbach—Buch der Tierwelt. Erzähl. u. Schildergn. a. d. Leben der Tiere. 2 Bde.
Rosegger, P.—Als ich noch der Waldbauernbub war. 3 Teile.
Waldferien.
Schanz, Fr.—Heidefriedel.
Das Komtesschen und andere Erzählungen.
Rottraut u. Ilse.
Schulkindergeschichten.
Bunter Strauss. Märchen u. Erzählungen.
Unter der Tanne.
Schanz, P.—In der Pension u. anderes.
Schott, Cl.—Im Feenreich. Mit Bildern.
Stein, A.—Mariens Tagebuch.
52 Sonntage.
Tagebuch dreier Kinder.
Villamaria.—Elfenreigen. Nordische Märchen.
Wildermuth, O.—Aus Nord und Süd.
Aus Schloss und Hütte.
Jugendschriften. V.-A.; Inhalt s. Abt. Schriften für die reifere weibl. Jugend.
Kindergruss.
Cervantes—Don Quichote. Für d. Jugend v. Frz. Hoffmann; für Schule und Haus bearbeitet von Höller. (Schaffstein). Illustriert; Für die Jugend von P. Moritz. V.-Ausg.; (Weise).
Cooper, J. F.—Conanchet. Von Frz. Hoffmann.
Der rote Freibeuter. Von P. O. Höcker. (Löwe).
Lederstrumpf-Erzählgn. F. d. Jugend v. Kl. Bernhard; Für die Jugend v. O. Höcker. (Löwe); v. Frz. Hoffmann; v. Fr. Meister. Pr.-A.; Einzeln: Der Wildtöter; Der letzte der Mohikaner; Der Pfadfinder; Lederstrumpf; Der alte Trapper; v. P. Moritz. Gesamt-Ausg.; Einzeln: Der letzte Mohikaner; Der Pfadfinder; Lederstrumpf od. die Ansiedler; Der Wildsteller od. die Prärie; Der Wildtöter.
Die Prärie. Für die Jugend. (Weise.)
Der Spion. Für die Jugend von E. Benseler.
Dahn, F. u. Th.—Walhall. Germanische Götter-u. Heldensagen. Ausgabe mit Bildern.
Hauff, W.—Lichtenstein. Für die Jugend. (Weise.)
Liliencron, D. v.—Gedichte. Auswahl für die Jugend.
Ebner-Eschenbach, M. v.—Die arme Kleine.
Gumpert, Th. v.—Töchter-Album.
Hartner, E.(E. E. H. v. Twardowska.)—Pension und Elternhaus.