The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-11-14

and Will be especially appreciate
wherever there is New England
strain in the blood is Soldier Rigdale:
How lie Sailed on the Mayilower and
How He Served Miles Standish." Its
author is Beulah Marie Dix. who wrote
Hugh Gwy0th.' fine historical ro-
nance. Soldier Rigdale.' as the title
indicates, is a story OF life i'm the origi-
nll Plymouth colony. The hero Is a
boy. whose career is followed until he
becomes grown up and big enough 20
carry "A gun and the reader Is brought
| into The atmosphere OF the famous
| MayflOWer settlement In way thar has
| never been approached i'm book Tor
| young people. The young hero who ~
namesAke OF Miles Standish. strives
diligently to live up TO his name and
! his ambition is TO be Ike the famous
| Captan. Many of the his,oI.c COM
! pany of the MayiiOwer and Plymouth
colonies are brought into the tale i'm a
! familiar way and Capt Standish. ~
! course, b. conspicuous. AS ne must ever
! De- in any tale OF Plymouth colony.
] Miles Rigdale and his little sister arr
/ captured bv Indians and have other
! adventures aud participate I'm expert
! cnces thai illustrate capitaliy lfe ~
/ the struggling colony. To "A delightful
! ly written story Soldier Rigdale' is
! further made attractive by pictures by
! Reginald B. Birch and cover design
! OF great beauty. significance and holl-
/ day richness. published by the Mac
milan company For sale by Preston
! x Rounds Price N.50)
! Another first rate story Of New Eng
| land colonial times or century later
Is Ben Gomez" by NJ j. Canavan
macmillan company) Ben. the hero
is a stranpng young fellow ana ~
joins that famous company of New
England w0odsmen. tmppcrs and In
dian fighters known 90 history as Rog-
ers' Rangers. after the name OF their
adventurous captain. With the Rang
crs and sundrv bodies " colonial troops
and British regulars. Ben takes a hand
in The French and Indian war. a very
complete and evidently accurate story
OF which Is told with all the charm OF
personal narrative In this fine book
stark. Gates. Israel Putnam and many
herU!c tgEres OF the period whom Ben
Gomez knows or learns about are pOr-
trayed in the course Of the romance
and as a historic story OF the times for
juvenile or older readers the book is
inconparably stirring. exciting and In
forming withal The illustrations bv
George Gibbs are equally spirited.
price $i5oD
The name OF NJ Charles Perrault ~
Paris or the fact that he was chief Of
public works i'm the time Of Louis XIV,
may not be widely familiar. But some
OF the stories that ne wrote and that
were first published about the dawn
Of the lSth century are immortal
Red Riding Hood was one OF them.
Blue Bird. the Sleeping Beauty"
cinderella and Hop o My Thumb
were fIom Perraults pen. These and
others OF his fairy tales have been re-
told good many times and in a good
many different ways since NJ Perrault
wrote them. but i'm none OF their many
forms has there been the least improve
ment on the distinguished simplicity of
their original style. \ generauon' ago
you could have bought a chunky little
volume of the fairy stories NJ Perrault
with others. illustrated with some queer
and highly original cuts. let's of them.
There never was a fairy book quite so
good AS this one. the familiar stories
were SO naiVely told and SO quantity
pictured. We believe the book has been
long out of print. Bur now to our sur
prise and delight. Little. Brown e Co.,
the Boston publishers. have reproduced
II In their Christmas list In clean new
volume OF the same chunky form we
used to love so well. with all the origi-
nal translation i'm new stype and all the
queer aid pictures by the famous
French artists who SO delightfully."- in |
terpreted the text. The title is "Old
French Fairy Tales" by Charles Per |
rault. Madame d'Aulnoy and others IT |
Is reprint Of unusual interest and i'm I
Dortance In Juvenile literature and the |
publishers have laid lovers of fairy 1
stories under obligation ta them for re-
producing the famous classic i'm all its !
'nignal simplicity and beauty of letter .
'ress and pictures. price $1,000
The new interest in our counfry's |
avy revived by it's triumphs of the
panish war makes particularly ac-
aptable a book written primarily for
outh and dedicated to the cadets OF |
le United states Naval Academy at
entitled pike and Cutlass. |
ero Tales Of our Navy. hts author and |
ustrator is George Gibbs and the Lip
ncott Company publish It, Sona OF
e tales haye already seen recent pub ,
'ation in Lippincutt's Magazina and
her periodicals while others are fresh
drawn from various authoritative |
urces. All are told with great spirt | Z
ia the Illustrations are capital. Among |
e naval heroes whose careers have =
tnlshed the tales that make up this |
mlrable volume are Paul Jones Mich
as Blddle, Decatur. Hull. Farragut
lrter and Gushing while newly told
g stories Of such famous sea duels as !
at OF tn Constitution and the Guer- [
ere. The book is completed by a chan '
Z aeAnled- the commanders
the Spanish war, there is an account '
lie at the Naval Academy and a $
etch about those particularly SALTY !
d devoted American sailormen. the | 4,
oucester fishers. their craft and their
'rk. ttor sale by Gregory
new Henty book is always expected | e
The holiday season. This time. IL is n
he Brahmns' Treasure: or Colonel q
orndlke's Secret" handsomely fash
ed by the Lippncotts and illustrate -
in spirited fashion by Elenore :,
listed Abbott. The period is the lat
part OF the last century The plot Il
ieeper ana more mystic than is com -
u even with Henty and IL is elaborat %
ana unfolded I'm "A way To hold the | .,
ing reader captive TO the pages until | IA
final chapter. The boys who read ..
1ty books need only 10 hear the an a,
lncement that new one Is to be ~
nd In the book stores TO start a rush .,
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