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 BUTTER-SCOTIA, or, a Cheap Trip to Fairy Land. i8o pages. Map of Butter-Scotia, many Full-page Plates and Illustrations in the Text. Bound in specially designed Cloth Cover. 6s. " Leaving the sea, a pleasant passage through Starland and across the Milky Way lands the voyagers in Fairyland, and Herald Houp-La invites them to the Court of King Puck. Tomakin has a narrow escape of being devoured by a vfitch. ... By Krab's instructions, Olga defeats Brassiface the Ogre in a game of golf. ... With the Silver Niblick won from the Ogre, Olga rescues Tomakin and defeats a dragon at Puck's Court, and ultimately secures a masterly retreat from Butter-Scotia. The trial of Tomakin, an election scene, and a Cabinet Council, are excellent fun. ., . The plot of the story is admirably worked out, the incidents are full of interest and excitement, and the humour is irresistible. " — Manchester Courier. " The geographically-minded may be glad to know that ' Butter-Scotia is near the North Pole, and not far from the Equator, in longitude looi and any amount of latitude ! ' Moreover, it is ' bounded on the N. by the Gulf of Funland, on the W. by Cocoa Nut Iceland, on the S. by the Caramel Mountains, and on the E. by the A B Sea, or Sea of Troubles. Chief exports — crackers and goodies.' " — Birmingham Gazette. "Almost, if not quite, as good as ' Kata wampus.' The little folks for whom it is written will say it is a jolly book. Olga, Molly, Kate, and Tomakin turn up again, and make a voyage from Fleetwood to Butter- Scotia — such a voyage and such wonderful people they see when they get there : King Puck, a golfing ogre, witches, and a goblin newspaper reporter, among them. It is right-down funny, is this book, and all the little ones who have read ' Katawampus,' and many more, should read it. The pictures are again by Archie Macgregor, who is, we suppose, a Butter- Scotchman." — Pall Mall Gazette. THE FIRST BOOK OF KRAB. Christmas Stories for Children of All Ages. 132 pages, with many Full-page Plates and Illustrations in the Text. Bound in specially desigiied Cloth Cover. 3s. 6d. " His Honour . . . has known how to make even the domestic black- beetle interesting. His verses flow easily and ring pleasantly, and the illustrations by Archie Macgregor are decidedly good, and some of them strikingly so." — Athenceum. " Krab is a goblin, who tells most delightful stories at Christmas-time to a party of children. Perhaps the story of Undine the Wave is the prettiest and most imaginative, but the Clockwork Child is very funny." Educational Review. " The half-dozen stories it comprises are as charming and fresh as ever.'' Star. " In ' The First Book of Krab' Judge Parry seems to have eclipsed all his former efforts, and has produced a book which will at once establish itself as a favourite with children. . . . The stories are extravagantly non- sensical, but original in conception and charmingly told." Liverpool Daily Post. " Krab is an old gentleman who has a delightful turn for story-telling, Christmas stories especially, but I am bound to admit that they are the real old-fashioned sort. Krab himself was old-fashioned, you see, he didn't even ride a bicycle ; he travelled by a sleigh drawn by two white reindeer, Friska and Floska, but he was a marvellous story-teller, so all wise young people are advised to forget his old-fashioned qualities, and just listen to the stories of Butterwops, Undine, and the Clockwork Child." — Madame.