The Golden Age Part 12

BOOKS BY KENNETH GRAHAME

DREAM DAYS

THE OUTLOOK.--'n.o.body with a sense of what is rare and humorous and true can afford to miss this volume.'

LITERATURE.--'In "Dream Days" we are conscious of the same magic touch which charmed us in "The Golden Age." There is magic in all the sketches, but it is perhaps in "Its Walls were as of Jasper"--the beautiful t.i.tle of a beautiful story--that Mr. Grahame stands confessed as a veritable wizard.'

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH.--'Happy Mr. Grahame, who can weave romances so well.'

THE WORLD.--'Could only have been written by a poet full of happy imaginings, quaint conceits, and a certain winsome waywardness which has a charm of its own. . . . The closing chapter is full of a tenderness and reticent pathos far above anything the author has yet achieved. It is certainly a book to be read, for it would be a pity to miss the many exquisite pa.s.sages it contains.'

THE DAILY MAIL.--'Mr. Grahame's book will bring youth and joy into many a jaded heart.'

THE HEADSWOMAN

THE BOOKMAN.--'Mr. Grahame's cleverness does not forsake him when he attempts satire. "The Headswoman" is a pretty bit of foolery.'

THE LITERARY WORLD.--'A delightful little tale with a tinge of satire in it. For gracefulness of style and charm in the telling of a story it is in the front rank, and that is saying a great deal.'

MR. W. L. COURTNEY IN DAILY TELEGRAPH.--'Well, we are more than a trifle dull, _nous autres_; and we should be grateful to Mr. Kenneth Grahame for throwing in a story or two of his own as often as he can. Happy Mr. Grahame, who can weave romances so well.'

THE DUNDEE ADVERTISER.--'Humour is not dead amongst us, for Kenneth Grahame's witty little romance of "The Headswoman" brims over with it.'

THE SCOTSMAN.--'Mr. Grahame has written a most charming book, which cannot fail to delight all who were once children.'

THE GOLDEN AGE

MR. I. ZANGWILL IN PALL MALL MAGAZINE.--'No more enjoyable interpretation of the child's mind has been accorded us since Stevenson's "Child's Garden of Verses."

MR. A. C. SWINBURNE IN THE DAILY CHRONICLE SAYS,--'The art of writing adequately and acceptively about children is among the rarest and most precious of all arts. . . . "The Golden Age" is one of the few books which are well-nigh too praiseworthy for praise.'

THE NATIONAL OBSERVER.--'If there is a man or woman living who cannot read this book with delight, to him or her we offer our pity and compa.s.sion.'

PROFESSOR J. SULLY.--'Quite lately more than one serious attempt has been made to give childhood its due in fiction. A notable instance is Mr.

Kenneth Grahame's pictures from child-life.'

PAGAN PAPERS

THE ACADEMY.--'Rarely does one meet with an author whose wit is so apt, whose touches of sentiment are so genuine. His paper on tobacco is good reading, though one remembers Calverley and the Arcadian mixture; the eulogy on the loafer is second only to Mr. Stevenson's praise of "The Idler." There is too a distinct flavour of poetry in much of Mr. Grahame's works. One could have wished "White Poppies" had been written in verse, were not the prose of it so delicate and adequate.'

THE DAILY CHRONICLE.--'Mr. Kenneth Grahame's accomplishment is astounding. . . . His style is a delight, so high is its vitality, so cool its colours, so nimble and various its rhythms. He has read and a.s.similated Browne Burton. He has a pretty poetic fancy and is apt at a quaint a.n.a.logy. Many forms of beauty--existent and non-existent--he loves with a deep and discriminating love.'

P.J. BILLINGHURST'S FABLE-BOOKS

A HUNDRED FABLES OF aeSOP

With 101 full-page ill.u.s.trations by PERCY J.

BILLINGHURST, and a fifteen-page introduction including two new and original fables by KENNETH GRAHAME.

A HUNDRED FABLES OF LA FONTAINE

With 101 full-page ill.u.s.trations by PERCY J. BILLINGHURST.

In _La Fontaine's Fables_, Mr. Billinghurst's delightful animals pose and strut and swagger in the same powerful and moral-mending manner that they did in his aesop.--KENNETH GRAHAME in _Daily Mail_.

A HUNDRED ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS

With 102 full-page ill.u.s.trations by PERCY J. BILLINGHURST.

It is a treasure-house of natural history anecdotes, sumptuously ill.u.s.trated in black and white, and serves both to arouse and stimulate interest in the subject in children of a knowledgeable age.