The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-12-07

and the drawing superb. The following
opening stanza is indicative of what is to
follow:
around the world in China land,
They have the queerest ways;
They go to bed when we wake up;
Our nights are their days.
They write a letter up and down,
Instead of left and right;
And put their hats on in the house
When they are most polite.
There is more about the Chinese child,
! and pretty little verses about the little
ones way up north in Lapland-also the
pickaninnies down in Dixie land.
Little Boy Black is a negro kid.
Way down in the white cotton land.
He's just as gay as katydid,
But he's neither freckled or tanned.
Then there are merry verses about the
Indian papoose; the Arabian boy; the
wandering Gypsy child; the little ones
of Italy; Greece, Turkey; India; Russia
and far-away Australia, and lots and lots
of good things about the little boys and
girls of our own country, as well as our
neighbor Canada.
| What little boy or girl would not like
Santa Claus to bring him or her Kids
! of Many COlOrs" in it's pretty attractive
I holiday dress on Christmas morning: who
would not like to read t. last little poem
of Johnnie's trip around the world:
'"Toot, toot, too-too!' the whistle blows,
| The train Is at the station.
| This is the day that Johnnie goes
To visit ev'ry nation.
! 1t will not take him ninety days,
| But only just minute,
| To make the trip, and IS he says
| He thinks he'd best begin it,
I The study globe is on the floor,
| The choo-chOo cars are able
/ To go around the world before
/ His supper is on the table.
foot, toct, too .oo!" Now all aboard
| For European travel!
| This train can cross the sea and ford
| AS well as run on gravel"
| THE MANS PREROGATIVE-By Ed
ward S. Van lille. Published by Town
Topics Publishing company.
Edward S. Van lille, in his novelette,.
1.-The Mans Prerogative," which is the
| feature of the current issue of the quar-
| terly Tales from Town Topics, discusses
| entertainingly and strongly a subject Of
| neverending human interest.
| Jack Arnold. a man Of the world. who
| has gone the pace, finds himself at mid
| die life in love with Griselda Van Cleef,
| the young, innocent sister of his old
college chum. Because he cannot change
| the past and come to her regenerated,
| he refuses to ask her to become his wife.
| An impossible gulf he maintains, lies
| between her purity and his baseness.
Griselda learns this, and just at the
moment she thinks she has lost him she
| salls into the snare of villa in, by
whom she is dishonored. Believing that
! she is thus lowered to the level of the
| man she adores. not wantOnly but be-
| cause destiny has so decreed, she con-
! fesses.
+, - conclusion is the only one possible.
( 1t is a delicate subject but Mr.. Van
| Zile handles it with a dizziness that is
l,admirable. There is nothing offensive
I in "The Mans Prerogative'
| The rest of the volume is made up.
| as usual, of those clever stories,
sketches. verses and witticisms which
| have given Town Topics a re ,utation
| for smartness the world over. Most of
| these, in recognition of the season, have
a distinct holiday flavor.
THE ROAD TO RIDGEBY'S-by Frank
Burlingame Harris. Published by
Small. Maynard & Co.-ClOth, $3.50.
1.-THE Road to Ridgeby's"-a charming
NOVELETTE, fruit from the pen Of the
young author, and we regret to say his
last-fOr he has gone the way of all
flesh and crossed over the mystic river
depicts in an entertaining manner farm