The Archive · 1939

Rain Clouds

Of his Letters, then, enough, for mention must be made' of the poetry This is one of those thrilling and delightfid volumes which make one wish for childhood again so that one could get the full benefit out of them. There are twenty-four excellently coloured plates, just the sort of thing that illustrates the average romantic boy's vision of the Buffalo Bill days when people used ty say "Ride em Cowboy" instead of, as now, "Step fon the gas." In addition to the coloured pictures there is plenty of Interesting and simply" "prepared reading matter, combining much fact with much picturesque -deseription, {suitable to the mind of the youn, Feeder. These tales and explanations: une printed in large, bold type, and are amply interspersed with tine and heft-tone illustrations of points of ition within them. All the tates and explanations. are short, hardly. one exceeding a half page of the largest type. And most of them, with appro-Driate Christmas spirit, end happily. This reviewer has not. previously. come across it volume for children—interesting but not elaborate; instructive without. being wearisome: legible without. being too infantile. A happy medium for children between eight and ten years

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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