The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-12-01
BOOKS THAT BoYs LIKE To READ.
The Scope of Juvenile Literature Is widen.
Ing and Rising.

Tho eo,a ., ;,,oru, ,,,,.,,u. 4, .v.o,,,r,
broader win .ycrv yo,r ,rho vonr" ,Lon 10
learning "how,o shoot" ,,nt, KIdI aud ihe
spanish Main nrn nc,rlv ,,ovsd nu, pi.anv
is lost nrt. Thc Indian ia +, roo,i,w ,,l with
/, cIoor tn,,rrodc, a, Mo n,,nin,,.,n, 10, o.,
romance md ,Io ah,rn, ha", ,,i. ',,',s' ,"0
,r,' n"u 'ho charm nave aisappcatc!.
Inc world Is growing smallcrand smaller. and
Kind ennu,-h T., ro,,ojn ma, rI,,raI III,
~ 1919. " W 'o'''"'" "u'Niio!'"' iheGo'S
os former decades arc slowly but surely being
shattered and the your. people OF TODAY AFRO
setting IN GODS of ,hoir own ,,,on'irnnt
ri,ar 80 i,, 'uu, " ,ne' omn a rion''neh'
Tho young people have grown wonder
fully wise. They no longer take delight in
words OF one svllabio or conilne themselves to
n certain class of reading as thoy did ten or
fifteen years ago. In those days the author
stopped TO write TO them: nowadays the
author knows that 10 is writing for appre-
ST. . 's'a mems e"t so""S eti',,H.
,,,o re"s'h , wi,en was BOY mere was an
venture Indian killing If, On tbo nloins
VOYAGES with bucconasrs and Tho lilo we're
the subjects OF most of the stories of the day.
Can't. Mnync Reid's stories were tbe most
popular ones. Then juvenile literature broad.
ened. and the stories Of tho doings of young
people within the pale Of civilization began TO
ih,efest 'ne young people. W. j. ADAMS
toliver Optic. Horatio Ager. Jr. {. A. Fosdick
Harry castlcmon,. J. 4. Trowbridsc, and
os',n 49,. ~ o,ns, s"p''ic" wa. uernunu
.Cudjos cave Watch and Wait, auI those
other stories wbo.> mon,ior would =, rr, :,
o'"o, hmo his Mou,u carry many
nu I, Il, nn, H, ~, ,v am i n Away to
OF thrns adv.nture we're oban tTs o t
siys sSay before ,Iey wero in Grsat Dart Nt dis
i@Ssd Gy TN, Sr new t ,n h,rro n,s
Ennns ~; ,"u ~, ,o'uay aiHide tho Juvenile
cass.s ' Ths p .mI'% hf sharry defined
ger boys, tho newssAoys. and iho G9otHpcEs.
mh s Jnli% 'enrnnS Il snl read With as
I'd se"th IL" B" E!' bsar aG ann s
SKIN sam as DID their fathers when they were
Hos been r,S ca IN , 81 tsHS no prHErrss
or tns wiltefs or tmcs. me.novel Libraries
arc arc Wearing out under ting strain Of creating
ives I've, XII or brave lads rifle I, cope with.
strun ont ' tbrnns or sens,i"n IN thS world is
and When aords no o1 ma 81 f" for :sE thfr
m ;rTr.s boys AMI ,he bootblnGks and Their
Tor such h, stories than were spent in 1882,
son IN me Inc sscG4h class can DO placed tho
ries; Let me say here that tho publication in
IND it more profitable to send their work 10
aazne stories ar" usually reprinted in book
form. hIt YOU Will find very few such books in
t'ic publlc libraries.
Is rather difficult. therefore. for those
schoolboys and schoolgirls t." keep lace with
current il'Gratnr". and You Will nmd that tho
books which are popular among this class are
me same That wore popular among the chill
drcn OF twenty years or more ago The names
OF the books seem to hc handed down from
scneratlpn 70 generation. nclc Tom
'ibi;n koninSon trusoe. 'Gullivers Tray
els. swiss Family liobinaon.' Twenty Thou
Shhu Leagues l hder tho Sea and such
books are read AS widely by young people
to-uay as they ever were This class
q readers knows but little change.
Now ana then II new author cr"ers into a
library ana becomes popular. In tn" FREQ
Circulating Library of this city tho author
whose books are most in demand bv boys is
q. ~, H"nty. His stories OF adventure arc
Il triile sensational. tut somehow or other
ne has become, POPULAR and tho boys read
ms bouHs as 'hSt as they ,arrrar
them til" nara2tne. and Inn t,tsr nv, n''y Icy