The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1898-11-19
BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLK

The appearance of books for young
and that of their parents and guardians
in their Interests demonstrates again
that that most numerous class In every
well constituted community enjoys the
favor of authors and publishers To
lavish degree.
Few publishing houses today but have
their sizeable list for young people, along
with fiction" scientific and the
other classifications. and every year
the young people get their due share OF
the product Of progressive writing ana
OF the developing art of bookmaking.
Indeed. I'm no particular Of his business
does the publisher neglect his young
people, while IL Is manifest that "A great
many clever authors are deVoting a
great many thoughts to supplying the
literary demand of this most diScrimln-
ating constituency.
This years Century Book" is
'"rhe Book of the Ocean" harmonious
i'm design, with the century's Worlds
Fair Revolutionary and Biographical
Books" Ernest Ingersoll is the au-
thor OF "The Ocean Book II tells OF
almost every thing you can think OF
that has to do with the water, the me
within il and the craft that travel on
il. with pirates. sailormen ana decent
merchantmen, arctic explorers, divers,
the lighthouses and reefs, storms, tidal
waves and doldrums, and much else,
described and pictured between its at
tractive covers. The story of the ma
vies and warships, past and present, is
particularly good reading just now. III
Is a book for any fellow or any miss, To
cherish. The price is $3.50 Preston &
Rounds.)
Another capital book from the Gen.
tury company is THE Story of Marco
Polo" by famous Noah Brooks. Polo
discovered Asia, much as Columbus
discovered America, and though frst
received with amusement. his sensa-
tional romances eventually became an
authoritative account OF regions OF the
earth which were almost wholly un-
known TO Europe up 10 his time. and
some portions of which even now re-
main unexplored by Western travellers.
In its entirety IL is not an easy Dook
for the young TO read, and no suitable
edition for them had been ISSUED pre-
Vious to this venture by Mr. Brooks.
In THE Story of Marco Polo he has
made a iudicious selection from the
book of the great Venetian traveller.
largely preserving the quaint phrase
ology of the original. and introducing
enough of comment and explanation TO
preserve the continuity of the narrat-
i've. Aside from the fact that the book
will please wide-awake boys and girls.
il has timely importance in view of
the threatened disintegration of the
Chinese Empire. OPrice $l.50. Preston
* Rounds).
The man who, we should say, is be-
ginning to write for a third or fourth
generation of young people since he be-
gan, Hezel<iah Butterworth, provides
for the library of his works. published
i'm q handsome uniform edition by ID.
Appleton and company, THE Pilot OF
the Mayflower." tale Of the children
OF the Pilgrim Republic. The book is
one more Butterworth treasure. 1t is
hard. indeed. to imagine anything more
tempting than the stories that have fol-
lowed one another so rapidly in this red
covered library, beginning with the
Franklin book, True To His Home,
and now providing this stirring story
that takes us back to the thrilling days
of Maynower and the Pilgrim colony-a
field. we should say, that Mr.. Butter
worth knows particularly wei. Printed
in good sized type on heavy paper, and
beautifully illustrated. the "Storn OF
the Pilot is delight price N.50.
Gregory
Mary p. Wells Smith carries herread-
ers back to the Puritans and the King
Philip war. in the second volume OF a
series that has begun exceedingly well
THE Young Puritans OF old Hadley'
and The Young Puritans in King
Philips War" being the two. The
story continues from the first volume
the adventures of the Hadley Puritans,
and in highly readable fashion fur
nishes a picture of the life and times OF
the colonial days that tend to persuade
cold historical facts in the mind where
they ought to be with every young
American. Little. Brown & Company,
Boston, are the publishers. and the
book is clothed In a cover with a highly
spirited picture on il.
Lee & Shepard publish part of the
Stories of the American Revolution, by
Everett Il. Tomlinson. an author that
young people follow pretty closely. The
Revolutionary Stories are told in Mr..
Tomlinson's stimulating fashion and it
Is difficult to imagine more interesting
or more desirable reading. The book Is
the fifth in the Library OF Heroic
Events" Gregory