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IP^OFMANYUORSG PACE DUFF IE BQYLAN\ ■And IKE MORGANGrat* Duffle Boylan and Ike Morgan, author and artist, .are creatures of a Children's book of verse and pictures, probably the most gorgeous ever published. But though the artist has been unsparing In the use of primary colors lie Has kept within the bounds of academic artistic license, and many of the illustrations are veritable masterpieces o£ the poster art.'“Kids' of many colors” as a title will suggest the contents, made up of rhymes about kids of many colors, wrltLen in all colors” of styles.-While I much of the text is clever, soma points i betray laborious digging and lack oE spontaneity. Of the smooth and jolly style in which,, happily, moet of the verses are dope, Noraib Malally is an example: ’’Young Norah MaiaJlyHud quite a fine dDiJyMade from a potato alone.Tt green hair was sprouting,. Its brown Ups were pouting,And two eyes It had of its own.A crip with a feather It had for fine weather, - . ,A bib of a shawl, snug and;net;And Norah would, mutter;.With salt and with butter.Thu darllut would be good to eat.Mr. Morgan is well known aa a cartoonist and serious, illustrator, and Ml!He hia drawings in “Kids of Many Colors” are superior ttom an artistic stand point they fall to show an ability to go back to childhood and think child ..thoughts and laugh child laygibs. His drawings are excellent, hut most of them lack that simple native humor which‘Js so delightful to little folks.17:e book has 157 pages and the child! eh of .every country arc pictured and rhymed: clear around; to the little Chinese.Arcund the world in Chlpa lana They have tho queerest ways;They jm *« bed when we wake up;Our nights are ail their days,They write a, letterup and down, Instead of left and right;And put their hats on In tho house -When they are must polite. The hook hag valuable instructive qualities both in the' text and the excellent, artistic cultivation to be gained from the pictures. -(Jamieson - Higgins Co., Chicago.)
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Des Moines Daily Leader
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Sun, Oct 20, 1901
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