The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-07

Indeed delightful and thoroughly in
keeping with the old-fashioned, I'M
pretentious spirit Of the book. The
numerous illustrations are from photo
graphs by Mr.. Clifton Johnson-photo-
graphs that are unusually sympathetic
and typical; the boy Of old New Eng
land is pictured in all his favorite
haunts and pastimes. Zone Of the best
things in the world to be is a boy" be-
gins Mr.. Warner. ut requires no ex-
perience, though it needs some prac-
,ttice to be a good one. The disadvan-
''tage of the position is that 1t does not
last long enough; it is soon over; just
as you get used to being a boy, you
have to. be something else" Mr.. War
ner's boy, though, is still as youth
full as he was twenty years ago, and,
because he has also the power to make
us young with himself, he is the kind
of lad we like to have around.
90 t'Being a Boy" by Charles Dudley War
ner, with Illustrations from photographs by
Clifton Johnson. Houghton, MiHiin & Co.,
Boston. 81. For sale by e. w. Porter &
J Co..
Romance and Reality of the Puri-
tan Coast" is a spirited and pictur-
esque account of the famous North
Shore" of the Massachusetts coast, so
frequently a background for history
and fiction. This time the well-wOrn
road is Travelled by bicycle, and the
rider, Mr. Edmund H. Garrett, has
pictured his rambIes always with APP
tprecfation and sometimes with enthu-
siasm. Nahant, Lynn and Swamp
scott, Marblehead, Salem, Manchester
by-theSea and many other places on
the way to Cape Ann come under the
authors pen, and history and romance
receive their share of attention, togeth-
er with the beauties Of nature. The
author is also the illustrator of the
book, and his pen and ink sketches. of
roadside scenes and quaint conceits in
the way Of tail pieces and initial let
tiers add not a little to the charm of
the book. This little volume is a COM
panion to Mr.. CARROTS Three Hero
ines of New England Romance"
C'Romance and Reality of the Puritan
Coast" by Edmund H. Garrett. Illustrated
81. Little. Brown & Co., Boston)
cold Cape Cod Folks" in it's time had
many sincere if ulcritical admirers
and to these, at least, Stuart and
Bamboo" will be very welcome 1t is
difficult to regard this amusing pro-
geological garden and geological gar
den at that where nothing that is not
very strange and exceptional is given
place ;~eVery one of the countless char
acters that thrOng the book is a bundle
of idiosyncrasies. Cranks and imbecilos
and lunatics always have a queer kind
of way of taking to her, admits the
heroine, and this admission perhaps ac-
counts for the kind of people she finds
herself among. But the characters are
no more peculiar than the construction
of the book Composition has no ter
rors for Mrs. s. P. Mclean Greene for
she never recognizes its pitfalls; she
makes no attempt to reconcile the
realists to her plot or people, or indeed
o--give her characters or incidents
cohesion with each other or the plot
Margaret Stuart, a widow of suddenly
reduced circumstances, with richest of
weeds and daintiest Of appointments,
without any apparent reason, quite
aimlessly Journeys to Yarmouth and
lives in a tenement house, where she
meets Mrs. O'Ragen Stuart, who claims