WENDY GROWS UP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3389, 2 December 1911, Page 3

WENDY GROWS UP.

MORE OF PETER PAN IN MR LARRfE’o NEW BOOK.

O TIIJ-: NISVEHLAND

I Mr J. M. Barrio long ago wrote one I of tao delightful p.ays tur cnii<llo.ll over put upon the stage. Thousands of little oiks watched enthralled the adventure® of Peter Ban, the boy who never grew up, Wendy, Captain • Hook, and the rnst and doubtless there were many of them who would have given their eyes to know what became of all' those entrancing lollk. They may learn now, lor Mr Barin' has written a delightful hook calk'd “Peter and Wendy,” which tells many things Mr Barrie forgot to put in the play, and also carries the adventure; ol the hero and heroine much farther. What happened when Wendy grew up? The book will tell you that she had a daughter named Jane, that Jane grow up and had a daughter named Margaret, and that Peter Pan taught each in turn to fly to the N overland. “And,” says Mr Barrie, “thus it will go ion so long as. children are gav and innocent and heartless.” Wendv knew in the beginning, the brtok tells uis, that “a'l children, except one, grow up.” Kor one day, when she was two she picked another rose and ran with it to her mother, and Mrs Darling cried. “Oh, why can’t you remain like this lor over?” ' '“This was all that missed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendv knew that she must grow up. You always knew after you arc two. Two i.s the/ beginning of the end.’ How Mr Darling won Mrs Darling is thus described ; “The many gentleman who had been boys, when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to prop, ko to her, except Mr Darling,, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so lie got her.” This wonderful book maintains that “it. is the nightly custom oi every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage m their minds and put things straight for next morning, repacking into their proper places the many articles that have wandered during the dayAnd that wonderful Xcvcrland, the scene of so many thrilling adventures! Mere is a pen picture of it:—“The Neverhmd is always more or less an island. with astonish in sr sp’ashes oi colour here and there, and coral reefs and ra-kish-locking craft in the oiling, and savages and lonely lairs, and gnomes who are mostly tailors, and eaves through which a river runs, and princes with six elder brothers, and a hut going fast to decay, and one very small old lady with a booked nose.” _ j The boy or gild who i.s given this ; wonderful hook will be the envy of j every other hoy and girl of his or her i acquaintance.