Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse

<p>This is a book of tales and verse for children of that sort which holds older readers with an equal fascination.</p><p> </p><p>Mr. Field is a master of this delicate sort of art and the book abounds in a great variety of themes and moods from the mediaeval romance to the symbolic prose-poem or the modern child-story.</p><p> </p><p>A common spirit of tenderness and of a sort of elfish humor if we may be allowed the expression binds the various tales and verses together as on one string and gives a very distinct and unified impression to the whole volume.</p><p> </p><p>The Mouse and the Moonbeam is as exquisite a bit of folly and wistful pathos as one could wish for and so simple in style and word! </p>