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8 THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1926. METHUEN'S NEW BOOKS THE LITTLE ANGEL By ROBERT LYND. A now volume of essays dealing with a variety nf snlrjpcts in Mr. Li aagucious manner. TRAVELLERS' TALES.

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His grownups are adorably pompous, his children adorably ii nullity. Alt Mcp, for in-stance, was so naughty that the only way to keep him from bad actions was to give him permission to do them Th.it's ripht, little ilarlinn, fill papa's brims vvith lioji toads nnd imi.lily terr.i-pins, that will make papa happy. Mr. Chrisman. has the sort of humour that is one with imagination.

1 must not go on quotingbut do just meet the gentleman who, having been by his honourable parents christened Ma Tzu, which means Face Rather Ugly," changed his name to Chueh Chim, which means Absolutely IleaulifuJ." Mr. Albert has illustrated Jason and the Prim ess with a floral formality all his own the letterpress is of a lower order nf invention. In children's books you must not he sophisticated; and cruelty should he the jolly, necessary, mat ler-of-fact cruelty of giants and witches and wolves; it is unpleasant to read about a man who picked up a tiny kitten and flovvly strangle. it to death. Ilul probably Miss Colvile is writing for children old" enough to have obdurate stomachs; her central idea, of a Princess who disguises herself in rags and becomes a stowaway, is obviously excellent; and there are lots of adventures.

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Voltaire, of course, seizes Uon everything in our country that he can use as a political reproach to his own. In literature, on the contrary, he asserts French supremacy, and though he allows us tine talent in the lesser ways, we reatl again with a relish that would have infuriated hint, his celebrated contention that Shakespeare was an enthusiastic disordered barbarian bv comparison with the civilised sovereignty of Baeine. Shakespeare boasted a strong fruitful Genius He was natural and sublime, but had not so much as a single Spark of good Taste, or knew one Iiule ot the Drama. Hut he praises Pope and Congreve and Addison. He writes about Presbyterians, Unitarians the thirty religions and only one sauce about Bacon and Locke and Newton; about Whigs and Tories.

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An Adventure at tho Back of Beyond for Ei and Uttls Children by Wiiliarn GrretL "Will turn Alio1 el W-iudrJunil fnt-n uith r-nvv Thiw (switch inp hook." JWsft Times. Will cerlnluly he tlinivriiirhly ri-linhod in ilw inirscry." Bookman. "Will pl'-a-i1 fhildi-fii nU many of tliulr ehlrjra." HVart-rH Scu-t. Price 6- net. Numeroui Ulustrationa.

JAIIROT.D3 I'r HUSH HU l.DMJON f.TIi. fill (HI Mt'M'IL lt ILIlll Wit). 1 i permits. It adds much to the value of an edition which will give the right Epicurean feeling to thoughtful minds. New apparel for The Odes of Horace in the, Latin text alone without preface or apparatus sounds rather audacious for a Christmas book.

The experiment justifies itself in a volume which is a masterpiece of delicate typographical beauty. The purple cover is charming in the manner of the Bodley Head in the early 'nineties when all the world was young. Miss Vera Willoughby lias made the coloured ornaments with her piquant touch. Above all, far above iill, the Odes are set in a new and exquisite italic type designed by Mr. Rudolf Koch with the effect of perfect manuscript.

These are high praises, but we can say no less. It is book that any lover of the Odes might wisb to keep near to his hand. 1 "nuv aim iwo bent nn.k,,- hur lord and Out 7t Si (Continued from preceding column.) and the lobsters solemnly say to each other She hasn't got worm This is not an Alice book, but it would make a pleasant present for a small girl. What an imposing volume is Hans It contains lots of coloured pictures, admirably reproduced; and it is about Hollno.l Mv onlv dollht. is In Christahel's Fairyland we find the right mingling of day-by-day doings HE hadn't read GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES," the humor-oris book the whole World is reading and talking about WRITTEN IN SAND Hy HELEN V.

SAVILE. Wyndham. lb, i.n,tliiib (to make vmi teel its all true) and ex tiaordinariness (lo make you feel it's all luoiiuaiu.i wnn uia Lliurn.n. Henry L.i thrilhiiLJ Its model would seem to bej whether there may not prove to be too iiiiL-rri'ni's. i-juia ami a b.

f.nne a unlo Jnt Outi 7.6Luel. 'Cest the Low Cost par Tesult of Classified Jldverlisements. the Alice books: the Wonderful Shop 1 BRENT ANO'S, 2 Powshotjth St, Kd.cswat.W.C.2 mucli information in it, in proportion to the story. is not, anyway, meant for small children. And the volume is very handaomsv JOHN tONG, London.

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