The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-31
BUTTE PUBLIC LIBRARY
A List of Standard Books for
Young People.
IN REVIEW AND CRITICISM
Nearly Every Department. of Thought
Represented in Juvenile Litera-
ture-The Patronage Is
Increasing.

| Ihls is the time of year when our boys
and girls have the most time to devote to
general reading, and we are glad to state
that they are not unmindful of their OPP
portunity. While the young people are
not the only ones who use the library
during the summer months, and while we
would like to see both old and young use it
twice as much, the people of Butte can
take a lively satisfaction in the patronage
of the institution
| Encouraged by the increased attention
given to juvenile reading by libraries,
teachers and parents, our authors and
| publishers are not backward in their eff
| forts to supply the demand. The books
for children that appear to-day are in
| Vulnerable in quantity and, book for book,
| excel those prepared for older readers in
| reliability, the compactness with which
information Is given and in literary merit.
| A book written primarily for children is
| desirable book for anyone, and those of
| GU. adults who religiously refrain from
| perusing juvenile books not only indicate
their lack of culture. but deprive them
selves of many enjoyable hours.
The juvenile book to-day has invaded
| nearly all classes of knowledge. We do
| not remember any volume that treats of
| theoretical psychology, but with this ex-
| ception about every department of
| thought from theology to football, is rep
| resented among the books prepared for
the young.
IAN About Animals for Old and
Young is an attractive book consisting
of a large number of good-sized pictures.
| drawn in the broad lines in which young
people delight. The title is not exact
one, for if the author did not know any
more about the animals than he has
given in the text, he is not much of a 20
ologist, and very few adults will care to
examine the book except in company
with a child. With these reservations,
the book is a useful one. short and
| reliable summary of the nature of many
| animals is given in connection with illus
trations and the child will easily be in
duced to study the subject further.
The two latest additions to that attract
| lively printed and finely illustrated series
called "Appletons Home-Reading Books
are Uncle Sans Soldiers; Story of the
War With Spain" and "Our Navy in
Time of War, 1861 to 1898" The former
book is by Oscar Phelps Austin and the
latter by Franklin Matthews The two
volumes agree in that they not only give
a satisfactory account of the occurrences
| of the wars described, but also contain
much information respecting the popular
| features of military science, such as the
| daily life and occupations of soldiers and
sailors, the grades of the service, symbols
which indicate the differences of rank,
leaccounts of uniform, ratons, etc.
Mrs. w Awdry's EARLY Chapters in
Science for Young People is an excellent,
simple reading book on all the important
departments of natural Science
| We have several volumes VI our list this
week devoted to the recent Spanish war.
Some of these are hastily written, but
| both in interest and reliability they will
| compare very favorably with books for
adults on the subjects. Eibridge S, Brooks
'Story of the War With Spain is by
an author who possesses an especially
| attractive style, and is recognized as a
careful historian. Few writers for boys
can be so thoroughly Endorsed and so
safely recommended as canfWilliam Drys-
| dale. His Cadet Standish of the St.
Louis is one of the best books about the
war and one of the most interesting of
late editions.
''The War With SPAIN" by Charles Nor
ris is a reasonably accurate and we'll
written volume. 1.-The Nations Navy
By the same author, covers briefly the
whole record of our naval history, but
pays particular attention to recent years.
Spain by Frederick A. Ober, and
Short History of SPAIN" by Mary Plat
| Parmele are desirable works for those
who wish a brief account of our late an
| tagonist. 1.-The Despatch Boat of the
Whistle; a Story of Santiago" by William
o. Stoddard, contains traces of the pop
ular style of the author and pays partic
ular attention to the part occupied by
| Journalists in the conflict. Nv
| 1t is hardly necessary to call the atten-
ton of the boys to Fighting in Cuban
| Waters" by Edward Stratemeyer In his
book Mr.. Stratemeyer continues the story
of the three brothers, of whom was
a H. ,lT,t at AI1s,; Ito,
and another of "A Young Volunteer in
| Cuba" The third brother figures in this
| book as participant in the record of the
| Brooklyn.
Comparatively few books, juvenile, or
| otherwise, are as yet obtajnabe in Eng
llsh which treat of the, various South
| American countries. On this account "1n
the Land of the Gender; a Story of Ia
| rapaca," by HeZekah Butterworth,
| though inferior to many of, the other
books of the same author, treats of a re-
| gion almost unknown.
1.-THE Strange Adventures of Billy
Trill," by Harriet A. Cheever, gives good
idea of the life of a song bird and suggests
what may be acceptable in caring for
those home favories.
Robert Cochrane has compiled and the
publishers have furnished an attractive
setting to -Four Hundred Animal Sto-
rieS 5"
| From the pen OF w. II. Fltchett we nave
two volumes devoted to the great eX-
ploits of British soldiers. These volumes
are called Deeds That Won the Empire;
Historic Battle Scenes" and Flights for
the Flag" The books contain picturesque
accounts of a great number of battles, all
of which are important to the student of
| history or literature, but many of which
| are strangely unknown to the average
reader.
There il no .better way TO become fami,-
la with the wonderful history of John
Bulls empire than to read the accounts
of the great novelists concerning impor-
| tant epochs. and great characters and
events. Very careful selections for this
| purpose have been made by G. Laurence
CONNIE and arranged in chronological Or
der in THE Kings Story Book; Historical
| Stories Collected Out of English Romantic
Literature in Illustration of the Reigns of
English Monarchs, 1906 to 1886 and in