New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-20
HOLIDAY BOOKS.
ADVENTURE, HISTORY AND FAIRY TALES
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

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| uur,or local color boyish adventure and good
moral teaching are mingled In Charles Miner
! rhomnson's book The Nimble Dollar With Other
| Stories (Houghton Mifn e. Coz. The tae WHO"
gives a title TO the collection is an amusing az.
count OF the journeyngs Of a dollar OF i"'' WIN"
a New England country storekeeper puts III piS
| till to trap a thief. 1t had been given to him os
a drummer for that purpose. and he knew nothing
OF It's value AZ rarity till after 1t had disappeared.
Before getting back to him that dollar nah passeu
through an astonishing number OF HANDS, anu us
value having been discovered. It's restoration was
| awaited with great interest But the dreams OF
fortune vanished before the drummer's declaration
| that 4, was a counterfeit that he thought "ouiu
! make a good decoy.
"A ranged Web tells of the troubles OF a boy
who making an idle but untrue boast TO his orother
| In fun. Is compelled by a remarkable chain OF IN
cidents TO invent lie upon lie In order to extricate
| himself from the hrst-and all to no purpose IN
| the end There are several other equally clever
| stories in the volume
The hero OF Fred W.haws Boris. the Bear
| Hunter" IT. Nelson & Sons lived 200 years ago
in Russia. When out hunting he met Peter the
| Great who saved his life. The Car took a fancy
| 10 the Young hunter attached him to his service,
| and the two became close companions and neiped
each other through several thrilling adventures
| Peter Is pictured as a whole-soued despot, who
| wanted his way, but respected people VINO
under stress Of need we're not afraid to order MN
4 ah 1Ostle him ABOUT LOT MS o"H koo'
I,ezsk,ah Rut,erworh continues to produce stories
| of the lives OF famous In American history
J tIis latest volume THE Knight Of Liberty Cd.
| Appeton & Coz. recounts with substantial uu'h
| the attempt of Dr. Bollman and the American
traveller Francis X. Huger. 10 release Lafayette
| from the Austrian prison at Olmnz, where ne was
! detained after the French Revolution the story
! goes back 10 Lafayette's early lie ana MS OK
periences in America, and continues TO his tri-
umphal visit in 1928
In the summer of 1894 DR.. Frederick A. Cook took
a marty of college boys and their professors and
a few others on a voyage Of amateur Arctic ex-
! ploration 4 somewhat ambitious plan or study
and discovery laid out. but the expedition was
brought to an untimely end. The schooner Miranda
which carried the party struck an iceberg and that
| DELAYED the journey that the far North couid
| not he reached and then she on rock. ana
the explorers had 10 be rescued and brought home
| by fishing vessel.
! Something of Labrador and Greenland was seen.
however and the record Of the trip has been writ
! ten by Henry Collins Walsh. and published unoer
! the title of THE Last Cruise Of the Miranda
CThe Transatlantic Publishing Company. To the
| main account are added contributions different
| topics by various members Of the expedition.
| A volume Of interesting stories dealing with
Arctic and semi-Arctic scenes Is entitled My
| Strange Rescue" Ct Nelson e. sons. In this DOCK
J. Macdonald Oxley collects from various periodicals
some Of his tales and accounts OF sport ana au-
venture in Canada. His work IL full Of the spirit
OF outdoor life and healthy delight in the struggle
with snow and ice and creatures OF the forest
goodly amount Of fiction Is accompanied by several
serious articles Canadian sports and people.
| Dr G 7 Davis the author Of Caribou Shooting
| In Newfoundland" (he New Era Printing House,
Lancaster, PENN Is believer In outings Tor Drain
workers and takes them himself His last one was
10 the interior Of Brain's oldest American colony:
| and he had so good time that ne has set down an
| account OF his journey and a description or the
| country, its animals plants and people in the hope
of encouraging others to follow his example
Two new sea stories from the pen OF Miss Molly
| Elliott Seawe published with the title OF
Quarterback and Foksle" CIV. A. Wilde & Coz
The first one relates the way in which young fei-
| low learns self-con,rol, gets into Annapolis afte-
| a. series Of failures and makes success as naval
officer. A pathetic thread runs through the tale
| A venerable and worthy private has son in the
| Academy who is ashamed Of him. having been
| brought up by his wealthy grandparents under an
| other The boy denies the relationship 10 his
| companions. and when they discover his fasehood
they refuse associate with him and drive him to
resign: and in the Of his sons disgrace the
| old man dies.
The other story deals with General Prescotts
capture by the patriots Newport during the
Revolution
Nowhere can one find stories for children
simple and unaffected In the books OF Hans
! Christian Andersen. Nobody else can point so
many morals and not impress every child as an In
suferable prg. But he is al one with them In faith
In everything that Is not SEEN in the wisdom which
makes dreams real. in fellowship and understand
ing OF every and blade of grass with which
| they play His Stories and Fairy Tales ought
to have frs, place in every collection OF chldrens
books A edition is always to be welcomed,
| ma tic when Is in uneXcppOn-
| able the two volumes OF DR.. II. Oskar Sommers
| translation, just issued by Messrs Dodd Mead &
Co.
| II Is as much set for the library for the play
| room. Uncut edges gilt top. good paper, and good
type are complemented by charming Illustrations
and artistic binding designed by Mr.. Arthur ]. Gas
kin. The pictures are quaint, decorative. archaic
In suggestion unreal enough go with fairy tales
| and simple enough TO do violence to Andersens
own simplicity.
The Keeper Of the Salamanders Order" Caob-
| erts Brothers) is modern fairy story by William
Shattock-a story Of strange adventures in
| known and fantastically unknowabe clmes.
| fairy takes a Prince for journey on Sala-
| mander's back to her home floating mountain.
There she changes to a little girl and forgets how
to rule her steed The long search for the mystic
| word Of command which Ia 10 help the Prince get
home brings the children among ogres phoenxes,
| griflns and many other queer creatures.
Mr. Palmer Cox Is still true TO his Brownies
This year their friends will be able. by means OF
THE Brownies through the Union Ohe Century
| Company 70 follow the quaint little creatures
| they journey through the Pennsylvania coal mines.
ride horseback in Kentucky. chase cattle In Texas,
saw lumber In Michigan, and play with the
lions on the cliffs at the Golden Gate The Brown
les learn good deal of geography before they get
home but they are just as funny as when they
are entirely given up to playing FRANKS.
Edward S. Ellis, in 'rhe Young Conductor Che
Merriam Company, follows the fortunes OF a brave
boy who saves train from being wrecked be-
| comes an employe OF the road and Is concerned