The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-10

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This book as it now appears with
half hundred or more beautiful cOlored
drawings by H. NJ. Squires and E. Mars,
will delight the young and recapture the
fancy of the Old. In 1.-The Heros'' we
have the new tales of Perseus and
Thesus and the Argonauts as only
Charles Kingsley can tell them. Old as
the past, but ever new to the child. The
Illustrations are in keeping with the
times. In mechanical execution the vol
ume is faultless.
'"ren Boys from Dickens BY Kate
Dickinson Sweetser. New York: X.
II. Russell.
A book for young people and one which
adults will enjoy is this compilation of
the boy lives of Dickens. Tiny Tim, Oil
yer Twist, Tommy Traddles. Deputy
Dotheboys' Hall, David Copperfield Kit
Nubbles. Joe, the crossing sweeper; Paul
Dombey and Rip, are the ten boys whose
lives are given. The text is maintained
with the necessary connections to bring
the boys to manhood. The volume is il
Illustrated by George Alfred Williams.
.'Brenda's Summer at Rocllley" BY
Helen Leah Reed. Boston: Little,
Brown & Company.
CHEEKY, entertaining and full Of just
the things one would expect to have hap
pen during a summer spent on the IA
nous north shore of the Massachusetts,
coast, is Miss Reeds story of Brenda
Summer at Rockley." The Illustrations,
by Jessie Wilcox Smith, are satisfac
tory, and the summer girl oEIhe cover
in blue and white, gazing out over the
blue water at the white sail boats, will
probably tempt the readers to wish it
Were in such form it might be used as
poster
History in Rhymes and Jingles." By
Alexander Clarence Flick, Phi. d. Ak
ron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Com
pany.
Very ambitious in motive is this at
tractively illustrated volume with its un-
pretentious title. The fact that Mother
Goose's rhymes, like Banquo's ghost, will
not down. has led Prof Flick teacher of
European history in Syracuse university
to undertake to teach some of the prin-
cipal events of history through rhyme
and rythm The illustrations by Carl 7.
Hawley have been carefully prepared.
"Mother and Baby Lullaby Poems" By
Mary d. Brine. New York: II. a. Rus
sell.
Lullaby Poems contains nothing new
and there is very little originality of ex-
preston. A first book evidently it is, and
it lacks smoothness and spontaniety. 1t
is moreover a tribute to the man-child.
Among the twenty-six lullaby poems but
three allude to the little woman. This is
a serious defect because human nature
is so constituted that it responds to that
which is near and dear. While many
mothers will appreciate the hopes and
fears SO delicately expressed for the
future of the "baby prince they will feel
a chill at heart that the baby princess is
left out. The volume is profusely and
elegantly illustrated.
"Held for Orders" BY Frank H Spear
man. New York: Mcclure, Phillips IL
Held for Orders" IS a collection of
etories of railroad life which have been
published in magazine form 1t will be
eagerly read by the thousands who will
8ecognize in these ten stories faithful
representations of their own strenuous
Fife. The author combines an intimate
4nowledge of railroad life with a rare
genius for story telling, a combination
3hsst has produced work delightful and
Obstructive.
0The Merry-go- Round" BY Carolyn
Wells New York: r. H Russell.
A delightful little volume of nonsense
b thyme, illustrated by Peter Newell, is
Ihe Merry go-round. While intended
for juvenile readers, this little book, like
Alice in Wonderland. gives promise of
becoming a classic equally interesting to
child and adult. There is something ir-
resistibly fascinating about tie reckless
JEmbling of sense and nonsense The
rhythm is perfect and the rhymes in
imitable.
Swedish Fairy Tales By Anna Wahl-