PROLOGUE
0545 Hours, Sunday, March 27, 1938
Aboard the Steamship Postale, En route to Naples, Italy
The disembarkation announcement startled his cabinmates, ruining what seemed to him a deep sleep, given the raucous snoring the two men had emitted during most of the voyage from Palermo. But for him, sleep did not come. He may have looked like sleep had overcome him, with his shut eyes, lying in his berth, coiled tightly like a child in the womb. That peaceful image clashed with the battle taking place inside his head. His overwhelming desire to end his torment sparred with his previous acceptance of the church’s teachings that to do so, he would be proclaiming sovereignty over God’s creation, himself. His failure to carry out the plan the night before, which he had spent so long devising—the plan to let the Tyrrhenian Sea take him—produced pangs of confusion that were heightened by not knowing what he was supposed to do next. But there had been one moment of clarity—he knew he could not return to his past life.
Before his cabinmates could toss off their blankets, he was already out of his berth and had slipped into his iron-gray overcoat. Then he snatched his suitcase from under his berth and opened the cabin door. He looked back as the door shut and glimpsed the two men looking at one another, one scratching his head, the other wiping the sleep from his eyes.
He waited midship on the port side while four deckhands wrestled the gangway into place. Several other people waited with him, but no one spoke. They focused on the movements of the deckhands, all seemingly eager to find themselves on firm ground. The sun had not yet risen, but the sky, with its growing yellowish tint, hinted that soon the morning sun would arrive and another day in his tormented life would be set upon him.
Some measure of time passed after stepping off the gangway. He didn’t know how long it was, but he found himself standing in the middle of a piazza. The light was much brighter now, though he remembered little of
his walk from the ship. Not his surroundings, his thoughts, or if he’d passed by people along the route. His head was in a thick fog that seemed to smother any attempts to focus on the details of his environs. He closed his eyes, a minute later—maybe it was longer—swaying as if he were being buffeted by a stiff wind. He put out his hands to brace his fall, but one still held his suitcase, so his chin hit the cobblestones hard, causing his vision to short circuit. He rubbed his jaw while his vision returned, and then he rose and looked around the expansive piazza. It was devoid of people except for a moonfaced, timeworn man stooped over a broom, sweeping the trash in front of a large baroque-style building—the Church of San Ferdinando. He was standing in the Piazza Trieste e Trento. Nearby was the Royal Palace, as was the Gran Caffè Gambrinus, a place that he and his friend and superior, Professor Carrelli, frequented before the martial prefect decided to close it due to its reputation for attracting antifascists.
He looked at his watch. It was approaching seven. He picked up his suitcase and headed toward the church, kneading his aching jaw along the way. The old man, his sweeping motion slow and weak, watched him as he passed by and climbed five steps. As he grabbed the door’s tarnished brass handle, he could feel the old man’s eyes on him. But before he pulled it open, the old man spoke.
“No, no, no. It is too early. Two more hours. Come back then.” He turned and saw the old man shaking his head and then resume his sweeping, leaving him standing there, not sure what he should do. A drenching disappointment washed over him. Not because of the closed church, but because of his weakness, his failure to carry out his suicide.
He took in the piazza. There were more people now, some on bicycles, a few walking, some with faces raised toward the rising sun. He descended the steps and headed across the square in the direction he thought he’d come from. He moved slowly, head down, thinking about where he should go. He had determined he would never return to teaching, so making his way to the Institute of Physics in Naples was out of the question, and he couldn’t go back to his hotel room at Albergo Bologna. He was just passing the opera house when someone rushed past him. A moment later, he heard his name.
“Ettore?”
He stopped and turned toward the voice. He recognized the woman. She was a nurse who had helped him with his stomach ulcers several months
before. She was kind and patient. He liked her. Anna. That was her name.
“It is you,” she said as she moved closer. She was dressed in her nurse’s uniform, but the white outfit was dingy, wrinkled, and spotted. She was most likely headed home. “How are you feeling, young man? Have your ulcers calmed down?”
“I am…well. Thank you for asking, Anna.”
She reached up to touch his chin.
The move startled him, and he backed away.
“I…I just wanted… What happened? Did you fall? Your chin is bruised. You didn’t get into a fight, did you? You don’t seem the type, Ettore.”
Her questions surprised him. He rubbed his chin and felt a bruise. Did I fall, he asked himself. “No, no. Not a fight. I slipped and fell. But I am fine.”
Anna looked at his suitcase. “You are traveling, I see. Where are you headed? To Rome to see your family?”
His family. The letter to his family, in which he’d written: I have a single wish: that you do not wear black for me. If you want to bow to custom, then bear some sign of mourning, but for no more than three days. After that, remember me, if you can, in your hearts, and forgive me. Anna tugged on the sleeve of his coat. He flinched at her touch. “Ettore?
Are you all right?”
He turned and hurried away, leaving her standing in the piazza, calling out his name.
CHAPTER ONE
1430 Hours, Thursday, November 5, 1942
MI6 Headquarters, No. 54 Broadway, London
Miles Stoker, at first, was surprised, but that surprise slowly turned to anger. As Kim Philby’s deputy, he had grown used to being at the man’s beck and call. Some days, he lamented he was just an errand boy. It shocked him that Philby summoned him by sending a lowlife, pock-faced courier who he didn’t recognize but who had no problem identifying him in his favorite hangout: the Arts and Battledress. Stoker had been keen to keep his sexual activities well out from under the microscope. He knew there were others in MI6 who felt the same as he. Homosexuality was a long way from being accepted as a way of life in the hallways and offices of the Secret Intelligence Service or Scotland Yard.
Stoker finished his gin martini and passed his phone number to the BBC presenter he had just met. The young man, whose startling good looks captured the attention of nearly all the club’s patrons when he entered, was a new face at the Arts and Battledress. Stoker had wasted no time in being the first to introduce himself. Now, he bid the man farewell, grabbed his Burberry trench coat and black fedora, and exited the bar.
On the taxi ride from Orange Street back to No. 54, Stoker mentally prepared himself for his meeting with Philby. He hadn’t seen Philby since Monday, and he had heard that he was in a deeply foul mood ever since his widely reported run-in with Conor Thorn at a party at Ian Fleming’s. Philby had been a no-show at No. 54 since it had taken place. Stoker hopped in the undersized elevator in the lobby, punched the button with the faded B, and headed down to the basement bar. The elevator door screeched as it opened, revealing a spacious, weakly lit room filled with cigarette, pipe, and cigar smoke. At least fifteen men gathered around several tables, hunched over in quiet conversations, sharing state secrets they couldn’t breathe a word of to anyone outside the long-standing spy institution. A bar in a spy agency. A
very British touch, thought Stoker as he walked over to a table in the far corner of the room where a lone figure sat. Philby, a cigarette dangling from his lips, held up an empty tumbler, signaling Stoker to not join him emptyhanded. Miles Stoker, errand boy.
A minute later, Stoker joined the sour-looking Philby with a tumbler of cognac and a gin martini in his hands. Stoker noticed Philby’s blackened eye and swollen nose. A little annoyed at having to fetch his drink, he decided to poke the slightly flushed spymaster, asking, “So, was it a tripped and fell or was it—”
“Don’t push it, Miles,” Philby said. “You’ll find me in no mood for any probing inspired by mockery.” Philby, slouched in his chair, took a whiff of his glass, then a healthy swallow of the smoky liquid. “So, was it love at first sight or just two men passing in the night?” Obviously, the pockmarked courier had reported back to his master with details.
Stoker decided to disengage from the scrum, knowing too well that the acid in Philby’s tongue was top grade. “What do you need from me, Kim?”
Philby sat up and leaned in. “Conor Thorn. You remember him. From your run-in at Paddington Station?” Philby’s cognac-scented breath sluiced over Stoker. Of course, he remembered. Thorn had almost bagged him at Paddington when he finished briefing Henry Longworth on how to get the stolen invasion plans for Operation Torch into the hands of his Nazi friends. But he was sure Thorn didn’t get a good look at him—well, as sure as he could be.
“What of the man?”
“You may have heard that he and his accomplice, Emily Bright, have foiled another operation that Moscow had a deep interest in. That makes two.”
Stoker was well aware of the first failed mission, but not the second. He also knew that Moscow Center’s reaction to the initial failure had been very harsh regarding what they considered Philby’s mounting shortcomings.
“Two failed operations. A number that will not grow,” Philby added.
Stoker loosened his ascot, took a sip of his martini, and waited for more.
“I want him out of the way. He’s been too much of a nuisance. And I need you—”
“To take care of it.” Stoker took his martini, tipped his head back, and drained it. “Where is he?”
Philby sat back and picked up a pack of Woodbines from the table and shook one free. “That’s the problem. He hasn’t been seen since…” Philby lit the cigarette with the nearly spent one between his fingers.
Since he punched you in the face, Stoker mused.
“Since Tuesday.” Philby blew a cloud of blue-gray smoke toward the maze of pipes and ducts that hung below the ceiling. “I suggest you have someone follow Bright. She’s back at No. 10. Given their relationship, she’s bound to rejoin her friend in due course. When that happens, you take charge. I don’t care how long it takes, how you do it, or where it’s done.”
Stoker nodded and began thinking first of the how. He was very fond of knives. They were quiet and brought death fast, if used properly. As to where, that wouldn’t be in his complete control. Unless he was to lure Thorn into some sort of trap, possibly one that used his friend, Bright, as bait.
“What about Bright? What if she was collateral damage?”
Philby smiled and picked a speck of tobacco from his tongue. “Ah, all the better, Miles. All the better.” He leaned forward and in a soft voice said, “One more thing. Do not underestimate Thorn. That would be a mistake.”
VI. APPENDIX
I. B - P L .
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 been mentioned 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 classroom.
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:
BOOK-LISTS
A. L. A. A L —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 L B R C ’ L —Compiled for the Iowa Library Commission by Annie Carroll Moore, Supervisor of Children’s Rooms in the New York City Public Library. Another excellent and practical guide.
B B —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.
F C ’ R —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.
T R R C —Compiled by Charles Welsh. Heath. Referring chiefly to Heath’s Home and School Classics.
S C N M N —References to Material on Selected Stories, Together with an Annotated Reading List. Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. $0.20. Excellent.
S H C C G M , I , O , as Conducted by the Children’s Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. $0.05. An excellent guide.
A L G S T C T Y A , with a Brief Account of the Story Hour Conducted by the Children’s Department, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh. $0.05. The same Library has issued:
A C B U H L R C , conducted by the Children’s Department. $0.25.
B C —A List Compiled by Gertrude Wild Arnold. The Marion Press, New York. 1905.
R Y —Sargent. Houghton.
A C ’ L —Selected by May H. Prentice and Effie L. Power, in behalf of the Cleveland Normal School.
C B P S L N Y Compiled by Claude G. Leland. Marked by educational requirements, and graded.
A L B B for 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 “BirdLore,” a magazine which Mr. Chapman edits.
C ’ R L —Cleveland Public Library. English History for the Sixth Grade. The system here adopted is excellent, and might be followed with advantage in other lines.
C , S , L —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.
F H B Y —George E. Hardy. Scribner.
S E C recommended by Miss Isabel Chadburn:
a. Catalogue of Books for Secondary Schools.
b. Prize List, Education Committee, London County Council. Graded.
c. Buckingham Palace Road Library. Mr. Pacy.
d. Cable Street, Stepney, E., Library. Mr. Roebuck.
e. Descriptive Handbook to Juvenile Literature. Finsbury Public Libraries, Mr. Cannons.
f. Group of Books for Schools. Librarian of the Cardiff Library. Mr. Ballinger.
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 literary format, 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 definite individual 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.
II. A L S B C .
PICTURE-BOOKS AND PICTURES
(The N P -B are sold in this country by D .)
B , F D.—Book of Shops. (Verses by E. V. Lucas.) Dutton, $2.50.
B , W —Peter Poodle, Toy Maker to the King. Dodd, $1.50 net.
C , R —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.
C , P —The Brownie Books. Century, $1.50 each.
C , W —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.
D M , B —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.
G , V —Happy Heart Family. Duffield, $1.00. (There is a second volume.)
G , K —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.
G , P. V , A.—L’illustre Dompteur. (The French Circus Book.) Plon; Brentano, $2.35.
H , H —Slovenly Peter. Coates, $1.50. [German editions are preferable.]
P , L F —Adventures of Robin Hood. Stokes, $1.50.
W , I 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. Vide Poetry; also German section, Richter, etc. The French are here included since they are so familiar to English readers.]
MYTHS, FOLK-LORE, LEGENDS, FAIRY TALES, AND HERO TALES
Æ —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.
A , 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. Vide also Contes Choisis, Bibliothèque Rose.]
A N ’ E —(Ed., Andrew Lang.) Longmans, $2.00.
Fairy Tales From. (Ed., E. Dixon.) Dent, 2 vols., 7s. 6d. net each.
A , 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.]
B , J —The Story of Siegfried. (Ill., Pyle.) Scribner, $1.50.
The Story of Roland. (Ill., Birch.) Scribner, $1.50.
B , A F —The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts. Houghton, $1.25.
In the Days of Giants. Houghton, $1.10 net.
B , T —The Age of Fable. Lothrop, Lee, $1.50. [Cheaper editions, Altemus, Crowell, etc.]
C , W —True Annals of Fairyland. Reign of King Herla. (Ill., Charles Robinson.) Dent, 4s. 6d. net.
C , L —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.
C , A. A.—Story of the Rhinegold. Harper, $1.25. [Vide also “Wonder Tales from Wagner.” She is the author of “Masters of Music.” Dodd, $1.50.]
C , A. J.—Charlemagne and the Twelve Peers of France. Macmillan, $1.75.
C , G —The Cruikshank Fairy Book. Putnam, $1.25; $2.00.
F , R. E.—Gods and Heroes. Ginn, $0.40.
G , J. M. (E .)—True Annals of Fairyland. Reign of King Cole. (Ill., Charles Robinson.) Macmillan, $2.00.
G , J. L. 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; vide German section.]
H , J C —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.
H , N —A Wonderbook for Girls and Boys. (Ill., Walter Crane.) Houghton, $3.00.
Tanglewood Tales. (Ill., G. W. Edwards.) Houghton, $1.00; $2.50.
H , R H —The Good-Natured Bear. [Out of print, but republication is strongly recommended by librarians.]
I , J —Mopsa, the Fairy. Little, Brown, $1.25.
I , W —Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Macmillan, $1.50. [Expensive illustrated editions issued by Putnam and Doubleday.]
J , J —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.
K , C —The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children. (Ill., T. H. Robinson.) Dutton, $2.50. [Vide also editions Crowell; Harper, $2.50.]
The Water Babies. Macmillan, $1.25. [Cheaper Editions.]
K , R —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.
L , E. R. L. —Fairy Tales. Routledge, $1.25; Harper, $2.00.
The Last Fairy Tales. Harper, $2.00.
L F —Selected Fables. (Ill., Boutet de Monvel.) Young, $2.50.
L , A (E .)—The Red Fairy Book. Longmans, $2.00.
The Blue Fairy Book. Longmans, $2.00.
The Book of Romance. Longmans, $1.60 net.
L , S —The Boy’s King Arthur. Scribner, $2.00. [Lanier bases his narrative on Mallory. Vide Howard 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.
M , H. W.—Norse Stories. Dodd, $1.80 net.
M D , G —At the Back of the North Wind. Routledge, $1.25; Burt, $1.00.
M -C , D 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.
M , P —Mr. Wind and Madam Rain. Putnam, $2.00. [Vide Petite Bibliothèque Blanche.]
P , C —Fairy Tales. Macmillan, $0.40 net. [Vide p. 36.]
P , H —Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Scribner, $3.00. [An excellent version of the ballad has been issued by Stokes, ill., Lucy Fitch Perkins.]
R , J —King of the Golden River. Ginn, $0.25; Page, $0.50.
S , H E. (C .)—Book of Legends. Houghton, $0.50.
S , F R.—The Queen’s Museum and Other Fanciful Tales. Scribner, $2.50. [Vide former edition, “Clocks of Rondaine and other stories.” Scribner, $1.50.]
T , W. M.—The Rose and the Ring. Putnam, $0.50, $1.00. [Vide other editions.]
POETRY AND VERSE
A , W —The Ballad Book. Macmillan, $1.00.
B , W —Songs of Innocence. (Ill., Geraldine Morris.) Lane, $0.50 net.
B , R —The Pied Piper of Hamelin. (Ill., Kate Greenaway.) Warne, $1.50.
B , G —Goops and How to be Them. (Several volumes.) Stokes, $1.50.
C , A P —Ballads for Little Folks. Houghton, $1.50.
C , L M —Flowers for Children; New Flowers for Children. [Out of print, but re-publication is strongly recommended by librarians.]
D , M M (E .)—Baby Days. Century, $1.50.
E S P B . (Ed., Sargent-Kittredge, from Francis James Child’s collection, Cambridge edition.) Houghton, $3.00.
F , E —Poems of Childhood. (Ill., Maxfield Parrish.) Scribner, $2.50.
G , O —The Deserted Village. (Ill., E. A. Abbey.) Harper, $3.00. [Abbey also illustrated “She Stoops to Conquer,” $5.00.]
H , W. E. (C )—Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verses for Boys. Scribner, $1.25.
H , O W.—Poems. (Complete ed., Cambridge.) Houghton, $2.00, $1.50. [Vide “The One Hoss Shay,” ill., Howard Pyle, $1.50.]
J , W (E .)—The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes. Dutton, $3.00.
L , C M —Poetry for Children. (Ill., Winifred Green; pref., I. Gollancz.) Dent, 2s. 6d. net. [Vide in same edition “Mrs. Leicester’s School,” 5s. net.]
L , A (E .)—The Blue Poetry Book. Longmans, $2.00.
L , E —Nonsense Books. Little, Brown, $2.00. [Vide also Warne edition.]
L , H W.—Poems. (Complete ed., Cambridge.) Houghton, $2.00. [Vide also “Hiawatha,” ill., Remington, $4.00.]
L , J R.—The Vision of Sir Launfal. Houghton, $1.50.
L , E. V. (E .)—A Book of Verses for Children. Holt, $2.00. [There is a school edition.]
M , T. B.—Lays of Ancient Rome. Longmans, $1.25. [Vide editions Houghton, Putnam.]
M , B —Poems of American Patriotism. Scribner, $1.50. [Vide “English History Told by English Poets.” Ed., Bates and Coman. Macmillan, $0.60 net.]
M G N R (Ill., Tenniel, Crane, etc.)—Dutton, $1.50. [Vide Nister ed., Routledge, etc.]
M G ’ M —Houghton, $1.50.
N , C. E. (E .)—Heart of Oak Books. Heath, 7 vols., from $0.25 to $0.60. [Collection of Rhymes, Poems, Stories, etc.]
P , F. T.—The Children’s Treasury of English Song. Macmillan, $1.00.
P , C (E .)—Children’s Garland from the Best Poets. Macmillan, $1.00.
R , A (E .)—Book of Famous Verse. Houghton, $0.75 and $1.25.
R , J W —Rhymes of Childhood. Bobbs-Merrill, $1.25.
R , C G.—Sing-Song. Macmillan, $1.50.
S , S W —Marmion; The Lay of the Last Minstrel. (Ed., W. J. Rolfe.) Houghton, $0.75 each.
S , K H. D , L (C )—The Land of Song. Silver, 3 vols., $0.36 to $0.54.
S , R 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.]
T , J A —Little Ann and Other Poems. (Ill., Kate Greenaway). Warne, $1.00. [Vide also edition, ed., E. V. Lucas. Stokes, $1.50. Including verses of Adelaide O’Keeffe; ill., F. D. Bedford. Vide “Greedy Dick and Other Stories in Verse,” by the Taylors, $0.50.]
T , A , L —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.”]
W , I —Childhood Songs of Long Ago. Wessels, $0.75. [Vide English editions.]
W , C —Book of Nursery Rhymes. (Edited and graded.) Heath, $0.30. [In Home and School Classics.]
W , K. D., S , N. A. (E .)—Golden Numbers: 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.]
CLASSICS
C , M —Don Quixote of the Mancha. (Retold by Judge E. A. Parry; ill., Walter Crane.) Lane, $1.50.
C , G —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.
C , A. H.—Lords of the World. (Pictures from Roman Life and Story). Appleton, $1.50.
H —Wonder Stories from. Told by Boden, G. H., and D’Almeida, W. B. Harper, $2.50.
H —Iliad. (Tr., W. C. Bryant.) Houghton, $1.00 to $9.00. [Vide also tr., Lang, Leaf, Myers.]
L , C —The Adventures of Ulysses. Harper, $2.50. [Vide also ed., E. V. Lucas, Putnam.]
O , A —(Retold by Marvin, F. S., and others; ill., Charles Robinson.) Dutton, $1.50. [Vide also ed., G. H. Palmer and W. C. Perry.]
P —Lives. [Full ed.; also J. S. White’s “Boys’ and Girls’ Plutarch.” Putnam, $1.75.]
S —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.) [Vide also 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.]
S , J —Gulliver’s Travels. Macmillan, $1.25 net.
T , M. H.—Spenser for Children. Scribner, $1.25.
“HOW TO DO THINGS”—AMUSEMENTS
A , L. M.—Little Women Play. (Adapted from the story by E. L. Gould.) Little, Brown, $0.50.
B , D —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.
B , L. A.—Things Worth Doing and How to Do Them. Scribner, $2.00.
Handicraft and Recreation for Girls. Scribner. $2.00.
B , A —Photography Indoors and Out. Houghton, $1.25.
B , C. V.—Soap Bubbles and the Forces Which Made Them. Gorham, $0.75.
C , M . S. J. (C .)—Conundrums, Riddles, Puzzles, and Games. Hansauer.
G B B G . Dutton, $2.50. (Vide Nister.)
K , L. E.—Three Hundred Things a Bright Girl Can Do. Estes, $1.75.
K , G. G.—Comedies and Legends for Marionettes. Macmillan, $1.50.
L , A. J. (Prof. Hoffman.)—Magic at Home. Cassell, $1.25. [Vide also “Modern Magic.” Routledge, $1.50.]
L , E. V. E —What Shall We Do Now? Stokes, $2.00.
N , P —Topsys and Turvys. Century, $1.00 net.
S , E T —The Wild Animal Play. Doubleday, $0.50.
S , N —Six Fairy Plays for Children. Lane, $1.00 net.
W , M 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.]
MUSIC
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.
B , H. L. (music), S , B (words)—Four Childhood Rhymes. Schirmer; The Boston Music Co.
C , E —Fifteen Mother Goose Melodies. Schirmer. (Music somewhat difficult.)
F , W A —Posies from A Child’s Garden of Verses. Ditson.
G , J L. (music), R , C. (words)—Songs of the Child World. Nos. 1, 2. The John Church Co.
J , H S., R , M —Song Echoes from Child Land. Ditson.
J , J —A Life Lesson. (Words by Riley.) Schmidt.
M L , J M., G , W. W.—Educational Music Course. Teachers’ Edition for Elementary Grades. Ginn.
M G S M . (Elliott, J. W.) Novello. [An edition is published by Houghton, $1.50.]
R , G , B —Songs for Children. John Church Co.
T , W —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 middle register 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.
Miss Avery’s Music List. Music in Children’s Libraries
B E C —Breitkopf and Hartel. New York.
M , T , I [tastes] C —Fanny B. Gates. West. Springfield, Mass., 1898. [Reprinted from the Journal of Pedagogy, October, 1898.]
N ’ S M C (O , .)—[Descriptive.] London.
S ’ M L L —New York.
Literature of Music
L G M Y P —Alathea E. Crawford and Alice Chapin. New York, 1897.
M R C ’ T —Crawford and Sill. New York, Schirmer.
S M C R : L H —Grace S. Duff. New York, 1894.
S M M —Lucy C. Lillie. New York.
S R —Chapin.
W S -B —William Henry Frost. New York.
Vocal Music
B ’ B —(Old songs.) Ill., Walter Crane. Routledge.
B ’ O —(Old songs.) Ill., Walter Crane. Routledge; Warne.
B R T —Compiled by Margaret P. Osgood [from German and English]. Boston, 1880.
B O R S M —Walter Crane. Warne, $1.20.
C ’ G S —Arranged by Wm. L. Tomlins. Chicago, 1895.
C ’ G V —12 Songs by Stevenson. Music by Mary Carmichael. London.
C ’ G S [From a Child’s Garden of Verses.]—R. L. Stevenson. Music by C. Villiers Stanford. London, 1892.
C ’ S G —Eleanor Withey Willard. Grand Rapids, 1895.
C ’ S S B —Arranged by Wm. L. Tomlins. New York, 1893.
C (A) D —School Operetta—Moffat. London, Novello.
C C A M —Wm. L. Tomlins. New York, 1897.
C C N O —Bramley and Sir John Stainer. Novello; Routledge.
G C S —(English folk songs.) Arranged by S. Baring Gould and H. F. Sheppard. London, 1895.
K C —Kate Douglas Wiggin. Boston (cop.), 1887.
K —Von Carl Reinecke. Leipzig; New York, Schirmer.
K - J - (50)—Von Hoffman, V. Stuttgart.
K (24)—Gustav Fischer. New York.
K -A —Amalie Felsenthal. Leipzig.
M - R (Operetta, Old English style.)—Hawkins and West. London.
M -B K —J. Fischer. Berlin, Bloch.
N , P , T A A L , with Copious Notes—John Philip Sousa. Philadelphia, 1890.
O M D (Operetta.)—Shapcott Wensley and F. C. Wood. London.
O E P —F. W. Galpin. (Dances and sports, old music.) London.
