The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-10-16
BOOKS FOR YOUNG FOLK

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ON GUARD. by John Preston True:
published by Little, Brown & Co For
Sale by Preston & Rounds. Price 81. .20)
How General Nathaniel Greene. of
Rhode Island. backed by Morgan ana
Sumter and Marion and lot of those
fellows, cleared the Southland of Tories
and Britishers and drove CORVALLIS up
into the arms OF Washington. al York.
town.. is told In a fine and spirited ro-
| nance In this story of ION Guard Against
| Tory and Tarleton," the third and con-
| cluding volume of the Stuart Schuyler
| series, stories of the American Revolu-
| ton. Stuart Schuyler is a major I'm this
| booil and he performs feats Of individual
daring and prowess that are of extraor-
dinary value 10 the successful prosecu-
ton OF the plans OF his superiors. How he
captured and ran away with Jackson. the
servant of a high ranking British officer
and swan a river with him on a single
horse while the British patrol could only
halt on the steep bank and shake their
fists at the performance, Is one Of the
most interesting and exciting OF Major
Schuyler's brilliant adventures And
then there are other admirable characters
In the story, brave soldiers, both Amer
lean and British, and fair maids and a
lot OF spirited pictures drawn by Lillian
Crawford True and chapter after chapter
calculated to carry the young reader
along in a glow OF pleasurable excitement
the while he Is getting mighty pictu-
rescue account OF how Greene and his
gallant army did the historic trick that
made the American colonies free and In
dependent
JUST so STORIES. by Rudyard Kip
ling
published by Doubleday Page & Co.
For sale by Preston & Rounds. Price
N2O)
These Just So Stories for Little Chill
dren" are a new kind OF a fairy story.
or fable or Alice in Wonderland, or orien-
tai tale. or all these ard other kind with
strong infusion of original Kiplng.
just as would be expected from Rudyard. |
Mr.. Kipllng has already addressed him.
self To the young people in many a fanci- |
full tale but we do not know that any |
thing has preceded these Just So Stories |
for Children OF the plea type age. Here |
they are then with Mr.. Kipling's com
pliments to the quite little children, |
though well be bound that the big
folks will take occasion TO delight I'm |
their pages as unusually young people
have devoured Rreediy the stories that
Mir, Kipling really intended for his mature
readers
IL Is wonderful collection. And Il is
fun of marvellous pictures. And the pic
lures are 10y Kipling as well as the stories
which accounts for much of the weird
ness about them. And with each picture
goes wonderful description lest, without
II. the young reader might be In the |
fog as To what the picture was about. Mr.. |
Kipllng not prentending to be an artist |
whose works can speak for themselves. |
even II he did not indulge In "A good deal
OF allcgory like some OF the greater mas
ters whose pretentious pictures have TO
be explained In prosaic description before
YOU can appreciate them. And the pub
lishers have printed the book I'm type that
reminds you OF the letters at the bottom
OF the opticians test card and have bound
IL In n greeny green cover with one OF the
marvellous pictures on IL. so that you
could no more pass II by on the book
counter without bringing up with a round
turn 10 look az II than you could pursue
desultory course by the newest explosion |
In the New York subway.
The pictures and the stories are about |
several things but very mostly about |
animals. They tell veraciously how the |
whale came TO possess such a curiously re- \
stricted throat apparatus considering the l.
hugeness OF his mouth. and how the con- |
tcmptuous camel came to be burdcned |
with hump and how the rhinoccrous |
acquired his ridicuously wrinkied skin, |
how the kangaroo came TO have his rear
legs 50 unduly long and how the leopard |
came 10 be ornamented with spots Then |
there are a few sage and wonderful |
things about armadlllos and crab and |
n cat and n butterfly that stamped how |
the nrst letter was written and how the |
alphabet was made and other things |
equally curious that none of us would |
ever have known anything like 80 much |