The times., 1899-12-17

a great man seem human and familiar to
those who read OF him. Washington, in
this biographer's hands is certainly not
"a steel engraving and in this latest book
one may learn things about the great
painters of the world which will make
,nsIn more than mere names
The first chapter is on Michael Angelo,
and the last on Gustave Dore, and, as IN
the authors other books there are twelve
chapters in all. The other painters taken
up are Rembrandt Rubens. Meissonier,
Titan, Van Dyck Fortuny, Ary Schefer
Millet. Reynolds and Landsser. There are
portraits of some OF these, and reproduc-
tions OF several great paintings, among
them Titiaus Ia Bella" SlhetfeTs st
Augustine and His Mother" and Nelson
ier's "Sergeants Portrait New York:
G. P Putnam's Sons. $1.5o)
ChiIdrcn's Books.
'OId French Fairy Tales is a charming
collection of folb-stories. edited by Cha5les
PerrauIr MADAME d'Aulnoy, and one or
two other writer's, and translated into Ers-
lish. Some Of these will be familiar to the
children of today. and others comparative
ly new The Dook contains the histories of
Cinderella Hop-o' myThumb, the Fair
One win the Golden Hair. Bluebeard,
Little Red Riding Hood and the Sleeping
Beauty. but the other tales-more tnaH
half the whole collection-are not so we'll
known There are mere than two hundred
Illustrations and the book is daintily
though not e,aborately gotten UP. lBos-
! ton: Little, Brown u Co. $L0OJ
The Young Puritans in Captivity by
Mary P. Wells Smith is. as its name sug-
gests, the story of three Puritan children
| carried of by the Indians II is the latest
volume in the Young PuTitaus' series by
the same author and is a complete story
| in itself while dealing with the same
/ region as that described in the first TWO
| volumes. The time is that of King Philip 5
! War, and while many Indian customs are
/ faithfully pictured, the more barbarous
| features of savage life are not described,
! and the book is not in any way sensational.
/ (Boston: Little, Brown d Co. Sl,23J
Madam Mary of the Zoo is book Of
! animal series by Lily T. Wesselhoeft,
author of "Old Rough, the Miser." Madam
! Mary" is an old grey African parrot called
/ Mary instead of Polly in Difference to her
1 age and the book is a sort of melange OF
| human and animal conversation; part
! of it taking place at the Zoo, part at 'he
home of a little girl named Ruth, and a
part at the Wild West Show. Boston:
| Little, Brown & Co. $l.25.)
The Little Fig-Tree Stories" by Mary
Hallock Foot p are, as one might expect,
charming and simple little narratives two
/ or three with an allegorical meaning, 9TH
/ ers mere sketches of child-life. Mrs.
I Foote'S work is always artistic, if not strik-
| ing and this is no less true in her stories
/ -Aa in In fOT he
reading Of older folk 1t is to be regretted
that the book is rot more fully illustrated,
! since the authors drawings of her own
| characters are invariably interesting. The
cover design makes up for this TO some eX-
| tent, being extremely dainty and artistic.
| tBoston: Houghton. Miffiin & COD
THE Story of Magellan" by Hszekiah
! Buterworth forms a worthy addition to
the small library of historical books for
boys ard girls already written by this au-
thor As he explains in his preface. the
book is "a short. picturesque history of
| MagsllaE's adventures, such as may be
read by family lamps and in schools" The
style is simple, and rot beyond the compre-
hensicn CT the Youngest readers. and the
| narrative is interesting in itself and from
the manner of it's telling The atmosphere
Of he days in which the Portuguese eX-
! plorer lived is reproduced with as much
/ accuracy as is possible in so brief and un-
pretending a history, and this alone can
( hardly fail TO make the book fascinating "a
school children. There are many histories
which reduce tales as delightful as fairy
lore TO sort Of dry-as-dust condition in
which they are fit for the reading OF neither
old nor young. Mr. Butterworths is not
that sort of history He has added some
of the romances told-and probably partly
nyented-by the old-time explorers, which
do much to make the reader understand
the world of four hundred years ago. Al
the end of the book are some chapters Oh
the later history of the Philippines. lNew
York: D. Appleton & Co S1.50J