[Illustration: ILLUSTRATION FROM "THE WONDER CLOCK." BY HOWARD PYLE. (HARPER AND BROTHERS)]
[Illustration: ILLUSTRATION FROM "THE WONDER CLOCK." BY HOWARD PYLE. (HARPER AND BROTHERS)]
It seems almost superfluous to give a list of the principal books by Miss Kate Greenaway, yet for the convenience of collectors the names of the most noteworthy volumes may be set down. Those with coloured plates are: "A, Apple Pie" (1886), "Alphabet" (1885), "Almanacs" (from 1882 yearly), "Birthday Book" (1880), "Book of Games" (1889), "A Day in a Child's Life" (1885), "King Pepito" (1889), "Language of Flowers" (1884), "Little Ann" (1883), "Marigold Garden" (1885), "Mavor's Spelling Book" (1885), "Mother Goose" (1886), "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (1889), "Painting Books" (1879 and 1885), "Queen Victoria's Jubilee Garland" (1887), "Queen of the Pirate Isle" (1886), "Under the Window" (1879). Others with black-and-white illustrations include "Child of the Parsonage" (1874), "Fairy Gifts" (1875), "Seven Birthdays" (1876), "Starlight Stories" (1877), "Topo" (1878), "Dame Wiggins of Lee" (Allen, 1885), "Stories from the Eddas" (1883).
Many designs, some in colour, are to be found in volumes of _Little Folks_, _Little Wideawake_, _Every Girl's Magazine_, _Girl's Own Paper_, and elsewhere.
[Illustration: ILLUSTRATION FROM "CHILDREN'S SINGING GAMES" BY WINIFRED SMITH (DAVID NUTT. 1894)]
The art of Miss Greenaway is part of the legend of the æsthetic craze, and while its storks and sunflowers have faded, and some of its eccentricities are forgotten, the quaint little pictures on Christmas cards, in toy books, and elsewhere, are safely installed as items of the art product of the century. Indeed, many a popular Royal Academy picture is likely to be forgotten before the illustrations from her hand. _Bric-à-brac_ they were, but more than that, for they gave infinite pleasure to thousands of children of all ages, and if they do not rise up and call her blessed, they retain a very warm memory of one who gave them so much innocent pleasure.
[Illustration: ILLUSTRATION FROM "UNDINE" BY HEYWOOD SUMNER (CHAPMAN AND HALL)]
[Illustration: ILLUSTRATION FROM "THE RED FAIRY BOOK" BY L. SPEED (LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. 1895)]
