The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-15
Girls Books.

lhree attractive young women are ruined
by one of the usual financial swindles of
the day in The Wyndham Girls, by Marion
Ans Taggart The Century Company.
and are obliged to make their own way
IN the world. The story is bright and in
teresting. The girls are live girls and the
young men they fall in love with are manly
young fellows. The story of the crash
j. told in much detail, but there is plenty
OF fun and good humor to keep the story
going. There il an inordinate aomtnt
of love making, we should Judge, for
81 Nicholas stories. and the WyIdham girls
are rather too old for a chld's book, but
the account OF the way in which they sue
coed in making their living. We imagine
makes up for that. A needless cruel prac-
teal jest at the end seems in very bad taste
The book II bright and lively, all the same
A charming young girl is the heroine of
Little Miss Sunshine, by Ga briee T. Jack
son 81. +. Taylor Company She is whole
some and genuine and saves a great many
episodes that otherwise might seem com
monpllce. There are the stock rllstics
and the stock slum people, but Sunshine
puts them all through. The threatened
tragedy at the end. perfectly needless. is
luckily averted.
How happy the girls colleges would be
II their graduates would only let them
alone. II is the turn of Radcliffe now and
Miss Helen Leah Reed writes it I'D i'm
Brenda 5 Cousin at Radcliffe Little. Brown
u Coz IL is painful to read Of he honest
hard-working Annex" as bv-gone in
stltution, though il is TO the Annex" that
Miss Reed belonged and to find Radcliffe
described as girls school like anv other.
That is the fate of all colleges however;
those who write about them seem to find
II necessary to present the side that repels
II the reader will bear in mind that Radcliffe
J. doing good work, nevertheless, and that
most Of the girls there are no, fools. but
well-intentioned young women, Miss Reeds
book will do no harm
There IS mighty little about Polly. and
that not agreeable, in Concerning Polly
and Some Others, by Helen NJ WINSTON
dee and Shepard. There is lot about
other people who are interesting, grown-up
people in a rural community II may he
unjust TO mention David Harum" for
the people described in that Popular book
had been depicted long before. but IN, Sc
are people OF the class described there.
and the similarity is carried 10 the Point
Of making an old lady win a horscrace at
the county fair. The old people are natural
and we'll drawn, Polly is built on The most
wooden Of stock models.
noble young person of - who heps
her brother in the family troubles is pre-
scented to us in Nathalie Chum, by Anna
Chaplin Ray Little, Brown 4 Coz. The
chum Is the older brother. II is inexplic-
able, considering how sensible and well
behaved they are. that the younger children
should be 50 rude and vulgar and slangy.
They are needed for contrast, We suppose
delightful, natural Sout bern girl con-
verts every one about her to better ZEE
In "Hortense, A Difficult Child" by Edna
A. Foster lice and Shepard The difficulty
l. in making the natural ways Of the child
M in with the preconceivcd notions of
propriety Of the New England bred Young
woman who undertakes to bring her up
The book reads like confession hat the
New England conscience il not infalible
and in so far is welcome
Another book of the same character il
Miss Lochinvar," by Marion Arnes Tag
CART Appletons). The heroine. as nigh,
DE expected, comes out of the West She
IL all that l. desirable. and carries her
Eastern relatives by storm. Whethe hard
TACT VIII warrant the glorifcation Of either
southern or Western little girls we do not
care To determine We have seen enough
OF them who are charming to warrant the
existence of these books, and we have seen
plenty OF delightful Eastern girls of fifteen
100 There canno, be too many pleas for
naturalness and simplicity in our girls.
family Of ten girls run wild through
the negligence of a father who seems little
more than adoddering idiot, fall into the
hands Of an energetic, prim, thoroughly
respectable British aunt in Girls of the
Forest by l., I. Meade (E. p. button a