The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-09
Books for Young People Among
the Recent Additions.
HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY
Old and New Favorites for Children.
Fairy Stories In Great Demand.
Great American Industries
by ". +. Rocheleau.

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is ~ Son OF Liberty" 10y willis Boyd
Allen. This is a wcll-told story ot life in
the colonies just before the beginning oi
of the revolution.
katherine Lee Bates. professor I'm wei
lesley college. has produced an cxccilcntiy
written and arranged handbook of
american literature
Among books on the fascinating his
tory and mythology of Greece and Rome
FOR the youngest children are I'm Myth
land.'' by NJ. Helen Beckwith. "A Wonder
Book for Boys and Girls, by Nathaniel
Hawthorne. and myths of Old Greece
and histories Of Old Rome" by Mara l..
Pratt.
A large number Of books for second.
third and fourth grade children have been
written by Mara l.. Pratt. whose stories
of American History" have been popular
for a long time. The following books by
her nave been recently received: 'rhe
Story Of Christopher Columbus" "Cortez
and Montczuma," de Soto. Marquette
and La Sale" The Great West. 'Sto-
ries of Colonial Children" People and
Places Here and There and Francisco
Pizarro: the Conquest of Peru" 'rhc
Great West describes IN simple language
parts of the country from the Alleghenies
to the Pacific ocean. People and Places
Here and There" IL ~ series of five vol
umes, devoted to Australasia. china,
England. India and Northern Europe. In
cola liberation with Elvira Carver she has
written "Our Fathcrland.' and she Is
Joint author with Anna Temple Lowering
of "Stories of Massachusetts
An old favorite of the children IL Mrs.
Elizabeth w. Champney. whose pierre
and His Poodle Is the latest accession to
our shelves.
All .... .-ta.a h. ,G,.,, - IN .x,,I
lent book on rudimentary botany called
Buds. Stems and Roots" and two vol
umcs on ornithology with the title "Sto-
rics from Birdland.' aud Anna Chase Da-
Wis has treated zoology I'm Animals.
Tame and Wild"
Professor Henry Drummond obtained
an international reputation as a thinker
and "A fascinating writer. 1t was some
what of \ surprise when. after his death.
there appeared "A fascinating juvenile
story called The Monkey That Would
Not KILL
Fairy stories are always in great dc
mand and two new ones by G.. l.. Farrow
are THE Missing Prince and 'rhc wal
lypug of Why"
'Patriotism i'm Prose and Verse" edi-
tied by Jane Goddon, is a book of popular
recitations.
DR.. William Eliot Grihis is master of
two historical subjects. and IL is difficult
30 say in which he docs the best work.
on japanese history he probably has no
equal I'm the country and on Dutch MS
tory he Is an enthusiast. His latest book
for young people. The Pilgrims i'm Their
Three Homes. England. Honand and
America is an excellent work, but its
chief interest is in what he says of their
life in Holland.
We nave before referred to the excel
lent work Herbert IIayens is doing in his
historical books for young people. We
believe that Paris at Bay a story of the
Siege and the Commune Is the best
book he has written. II bcgins with an
account of the battle of Sedan and ends
with the crushing of the Commune.
Mrs. NJ. A. h. kelly's introduction to
Leaves from Natures Story Book for
kindergarten and Primary Glasses" is a
book of selections about natural history
that should find many readers among the
! little folks of Butte.
Sketches of American Authors. 10y
Jennie Ellis keyser, is AN attractive work
i'm two small volumes which is suited To a
younger age than any other similar book.
w. +. Rocheleau Is compiling a series
of readable books on Great American
Industries" The first volume is devoted
TO the industries concerned with mineral
products The second concerns itself with
product of the soil. and includes timber.
as well as grains and similar articles.
A selection of stories from Sir Walter
eDtot = ~ h'hA ~
| Geierstein' and Marmion'' will be a use
full introduction To the writings of the
great romancer.
! Clement h. Shorter, editor of the Illus
trated London News. has produced "a
handbook of victorian Literature: Sixty
Years of Books and Bookmen.' which
contains as much information as can well
| be compressed into the same limits. The
book is confined to British writers. and
we take pleasure in quoting his %explana-
ton why he has excluded a discussion OF
4 American writers.
ut was my intention at first to devote
a chapter To Sixty Years of American
I Literature But for that task an English
man who has paid but one short visit to
the United States has nc qualification.
He can write OF American literature only
as seen through British eyes. That Is to
see much of it. it H. true. Few Americans
realize the enormous influence which the
literature of their own land has upon
this country. Probably the most read
poet in England during the 10 years has
been Longfellow. Probably the most read
novel has been Uncle Toms Cabin.
Among people who claim to be distinctly
literary Hawthorne has been all but the
favoritc novelist. Washington Irving not
! the least popular essayist and Emerson
the most invIgorating moral influence. In
my youth Tho Wide. Wide World and
'Queechy' were in everybody's hands; as
& the stories bl hifA idIlfs " itldiH i''lA
Howells. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Frank
Stockton. Henry James and Mary wilkins
are to-day. Apart from Dickens nearly all
our laughter has come from Mark Twain
and Artemus Ward.
'In history VIC in England have read
Prescott and Motley; in poetry we have
read Walt Whitman. William cullen Bry-
ant, John Greenleaf Whittier and. above
all. James Russell Lowell. who endeared
himself 10 US alike a. q poet. a critic
and in his own person when he repre-
sented the United states at the court of
ST. James. Lastly ] recall the delight with
which az "A boy [ read the 'Autocrat oi
the Bseakfast Table and tho joy with
which a. a man visited the author. Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. In his pleasant
study in Beacon street. Boston. These
and many other writer's have made Amer
lea and the Americans very dear to In
gIishmen. and this in spite of much wild
and foolish talk in the Journals of tho