'The Dolittle books are fast becoming a fixture on the nursery bookshelves in America and Hugh Lofting's latest, which deser ventures of "Dr. Dolittle' as amusing and Hlustrated as illustrator, who by the way is the brother of Mr. John Lofting of] Shanghai, in 1922 won the Newbery'
medal for the most " distinguished contribution to American literature for children. Hugh Walpole says of the fest book in this deliel lation, Another iden which had occurred to us was that of a bell which should ring like a burglar alarm, if we started to.draw on the dress the wrong way. Thee should be something by way of warning, for it is most disconcerting to a coiffure to be joggled about.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.