The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-16

T. These stories are just the kind to
amuse and interest children. They are
told from a boys point of view. Billy
in the role of pirate, author, rough
rider, etc, will be keenly enjoyed by
boys and girls, and older people as
WE'LL.
"rrhe Great White Way" by Albert
Bigelow Paine, j. r. Taylor & Com
pany. and Z East Sixteenth street,
New York city, publisher. Cloth $3.50.
This volume is a record of an unusual
voyage of discovery, and some roman
tic love affairs amid strange sur
roundings. IL is a tale of the deepest
south and by a competent and CON
| scientious critic has been pronounced
the best thing OF the kind that has
been published since Gulliver's Trav-
els. This same critic says 1T is far
more entertaining than any account Of
| Ant-Arctic discovery given to the
| world heretofore. and I'll venture the
| opinion that it Is fully as correct in
| scientific research. Moreover, the story
! viii fetch all who have felt the hug of
| the bear" The illustrations are num-
erous and appropriate.
THE Screen" by Paul Bourget, j. F.
Taylor & Company, and 7 East six
teenth street, New York, publishers,
! Cloth 81 80. This 1t will be admitted
is a fascinating story. II is a story of
! societyin Paris and London. The char
acter studies are in Bourgeois most
finished style. His power of analysis
| and ability to depict character are
marvellous, and nowhere are they bet
ter illustrated tina min the Screen
THE Kings Ruhies." by Adelaide
| Fuller Bell. Henry T. Coates & Com
pany. Philadelphia, publisher. Cloth
/ 81 90. 1.-THE Kings Rubies," a story for
| boys and girls, by Adelaide Fuller Bell
narrates the doings of natural, healthy
| children, with little mystery center
| ing around the 'rubies,' how they
came to America and their fortunes
here.
Dear Days" story Of Washington
school life. by Armour Strong. Henry
T. Coates & Co. Philadelphia, publish
er. Cloth $1O0. This is story for girls
Ia story Of school-life in Washington,
told in an unusually fresh, natural
way. The local coloring inseparabie
from life at the capital, should be OF
educational value as we'll as interest
to children. f
Lessons in PHYSICAL Geography" by
! Charles r. Dryer, M A., FIGS. A., pro-
f~ssor OF geography, Indiana State
| Normal School Half-leather, 12mo.,
Illustrated 4S0 pages. Price, $l.20.
American Book Company, New York.
| In no branch of school study has
| greater progress been made in recent
years than in raphyboth in meth
| o is OF tesching and in its textbooks.
| This notable progress In photographic
knowledge and teaching is very strik-
| ingiy illustrated in this new textbook
Oh physical geography by Prof Dryer.
| One of the chief merits of the book is
that It is simpler than any other COM
plete and accurate treatise on the SUBJ
ject now before the public. Although
especially adaptse for the high school
course, the treatment is easily within
the comprehension of pupils In the 'p-
per grades of the grammar school and
may be used to great advantage In
connection with the advanced school
geography. aeh
Around the PAN" by Thomas Flem-
ing. The Nut Publishing Company
New York. Cloth, $100. This is a
large and handsomely bound volume,
profusely Illustrated in way calcu-
lated to provoke smiles and arouse in
terest. The story is an interesting as
the midway, with which it deals to
| a very considerable extent. Although
the exposition is a thing of the past
| readers of this book will find that the
book is bright. and fresh and enter
tanning.
Magazines.