The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-24

tale. 1t begins with developing and
'f1lms, . and dark rooms; and follows on
TO party where seventeen of the guests
were only holding off from mumps for
fear of losing the fun.
Later, the children have hard time
Summing on modified scale; and sill
later Christmas comes, as it ought N
every book, with happiness in unstinted
measure.
But why anticipate? Why indicate the
points of wholesome, wide awake nj e
little story, when all the boys and girls
of a certain age, namely under twelve,
are dying to read it and record it for
themselves. portland: Loring, Short
G. Harmon. Pric $1,000
The same firm has annually brought
out Chatterbox for period of twenty
years-an omnium gatherum of bright
prints, black and white Illustration and
text crowded with the old stand by es for
busy readers. Anecdotes, verse, puzzles,
long stories, adventures, natural history
and travel. A deal of instruc ion may
be CLEANED at this harvest, presented as
narrative and not obtruded by way of
preachmeut. Its cost is S1.25. port
land; Loring, Short & Harmony
Mrs. Laura e. Richards's Three Mar
garets has also been beckoned to and
FASTENED by the eager expectations of the
young folks. 1t is suited to readers of
from eleven to eighteen years of age, and
| is very satisfactory and charming. Per-
fectly natural and full of a sense of the
enjoyment of all the good and beautiful
things of the world in doors and out, it
yet carries by virtue OF good story telling
| alone and not made prominent
| the best of morals in that it leaves in the
young consciousness a belief in the con-
tent to be acquired and contributed by
unseldshness and good temper, marred by
no vestige of priggish self satisfaction.
| The illustrations are not SO good as they
ought to be- portland: Loring, Short 81
Harmon. Price sl.25.)
| Also from Estes g. Lauriat cortland:
Loring, Short & Harmony. we have The
{ ity of Stories, by Frank III. Bicknen.
illustrated by Birch and others. Price
81. 25; and The Apprentice Boy, or Learn
| ing the Business. by the same author, at
the same price and illustrated by George
| Foster Barnes. Totally unlike, these are
both excellent in their way. The City
Of Stories is very fascinating and has the
difficult art of giving life likeness to the
maryels of the imagination, only granted
the naturally gifted story teller. In
fine cosey fashion the Princess Toilette
refuses to study save for brides, and trud-
ges OF in high spirits, together with the
Tower Clock and the Third Son, to the
City of Stories; for stories she must have,
nor can the Court command stories
enough to satisfy her craving. They So
cure them galore when they really reach
the City-new and exciting and beauti-
fully told; not the old stories, but new
ones and good ones at that, And then
there's wheel within wheel in this
volume of--but that's another story.
The Apprentice Boy deals with hard
facts and hard knocks, and is told in
straightforward English-no dreams of
fairies orsscaprices here. From country
home the hero enters o large wholesale
business house in the city and has to win
his way by industry and pluck. This he
does, and our ''quiok results boys" would
do we'll to observe that there is now the
same need there always has been for self
denial in youth.