The Portland daily press., 1895-11-07

maid, Gascon valet, and native guide,
so that We have in the narrative ample
material for the harvesting of all SORTS
of experiences and observations from
different points of view. Information
and entertainment are we'll mingled and
some scenes of school and home are
here detailed not to be found in other
sketches. Original designs, in illustrat-
ing, by Felix Regamey. (Loring, Short
& Harmon. Price 81. 50)
-Four volumes are at hand of "Stories
of American History by James Otis,
that most popular writer of juvenile lit
erature. They are respectively, can Is
land Refugee, " Ezra Jordan's Escape"
1.-THE Boys of 1745'' and ''Neal tho Miller"
They are rather thin volumes, s inches by
5 l-2 and of excellent type, paper and
| illustration
| Nothing can be better for our young
| folks than the spirited setting forth of
incidents in American history. Material
| for it is exhaustless and when we'll hand
led as in the present case, and rendered
lively and wide-awake, such tales never
fail TO inspire young readers. IAN Is
land Refugee has as sub-heading "Casco
Bay in 1872 and that seems to come
nretty near home. We recommend these
stories heartily. { Loring, Short q Har-
mon.)
Jerry's Family, by the same author,
James Otis, author of Toby Tyler, Jennie
Wren, etc., is a story of street walf OF
New York, and is illustrated by George
Foster Barnes 1t gives the history OF
a small boy with the biggest and warm
est of hearts, who gathers in mother
and s'kid" more oppressed and alone
than he. The new home, it's vicissitudes,
a final happy outcome, albeit poor Jerry
suffers in a way never to be wholly made
up to him, and the memory OF the golden
rule are the substance and outcome of the
story. Much argot, good many hand
to-hand skirmishes, and the realistic side
of street life generally are here intro
duced The pictures have character, and
plenty of movement. (Loring, Short &
Harmony
Nautilus by Laura E. Richards author
of Captain January, ETC., illustrated,
is bewitching piece of imaginative
work. 1t isn't very probable, and we
doubt rather whether, like many of Mrs.
Ewing's books about children, it might
not beguile the hearts of adults more
thoroughly than those of little folks; and
yet it is not always easy to tell, for it may
be that the foreign captain and the en-
trancingly varied and beautiful sea shells
and other ocean blooms and growths will
quite carry away the twelve year olds.
Anent the parlor little John says II
guess it's a fine room, sir; and then II
person didn't like it, there's all out
doors, you know, and that's never shut
up.'' "True,' cried the Skipper with
merry laugh, tout of doors is never shut
up, pra Use be to Heavenn'
Nautilus is decked with a bounding
cover design very effective and artistic;
and it is a story worthy to stand with
Mrs. Richards's best, which is high praise.
Flooring, Short & Harmon. Price rs
csnts)
This authors Melody is also brought
out this fall in an illustrated holiday edi-
tion, bound in green, silver and gold,
with half-tone pictures from drawings by
Frank T. Merrill Caleildered paper and
new large type. We have here, too, an
ex quisite bit of mingled humor and
pathos. The dedication leads one to the
eyes that see not of dear little Melody,
while Miss Vesta and Miss Rejoice, the
Doctor and the old fiddler, once known
are not lightly remembered.
She "sings like an angel" said DR..
Anthony, s'like an angel from Heaven"
"She has a right to, SIR" said Miss
Vesta gravely, "she is child of God,
who has never forgotten her Father"
(Loring, Short & Harmon. Price
$1.s5.)
Round the Yule-Log. Christmas in
MOI way by F. Chr. Asbjoren, translated
bylH. L. Brockstad and illustrated by
L. J. Bridgman, follows France, Eng
land, Italy and Germany in the series
ssChristmas in Many Lands" 1t is hard
ly in text the sort of sketch to attract our
children yet it is quaint and character
istic and deserves it's place in Xmas tales
of different natonalities. Norwegian
folk and fairy tales are here woven into
the story and the brownies drawn in pic
ture and verbally described are very pre-
yalent and sometimes do things fitted to
make curly hair or straight locks stand
on end Just ever SO little, you know
(Loring, Short & Harmon. Price so
| cents.)
Ruby's Vacation. The Fourth volume
of the Ruby Series by Minnie e. PAUL.,
author of Ruby and Rutley, etc. 1t is
lamentable fact that the reviewer OF
big volumes grows somewhat away from
little ones and that the perusal of stupid
works on science and art will spoil a
really fresh taste for the ecstasy of Prudy
and Susie and Dotty Di1nple. So that