New-York tribune., 1902-12-12

Stories. Pictures and Poems for
Young People.

so,,e of his adventures, hitherto untold in the
African vilds The hospitable savages who en-
fertsined him and loved him are made ViVio
realities to the reader, and the strange things
he sees. the beasts he encounters, remain OBJ
,ects of absorbing interest. The ever kindly
r,e,ial spirit of Friend Paul. irradiates his
"reminiscences with accustomed sunshine Inc
hook is one of the best he has given u.s.
..The Finest Boy on Earth"-that is what one
of the characters in Mr.. J. b. Connolys story,
"Jeb Hutton" (Charles Scribner's Sons) calls the
barn of the same The reader will not demur
AZ this Characterization for "Jeb' is certainly
q noble fellow, a shy, rustic young giant, with a
heart made TO match his frame and an indomita-
BILE spirit It is stout healthy. masculine
story The later episodes Of Jimmieboys ca
reer are recounted by Mr.. J. K Bangs in Bikey
the Skycvcle and Other Tales Of Jimmieboy
briggs Publishing Company. Here, as in form
er works Mr. Bangs works his vein of whimsi-
cal fun with an ease and spontaneity which
seem never to fail him.
Bows who have leaning toward sport will
IKE Mr. W. A Linn's book, Rob and His Gun
fCharIes Scribner's Sonsl. Therein, under the
sutse of pleasant fiction. the author describes
many real hunting expeditions, suggesting
thereby the manly and practical methods OF
conducting such sports
Horatio Alger, jr-. an adept in setting forth
the adventures of the poor boy whose honesty
lands him in commercial success and discounts
his mean rivals, has produced in Andy Grants
Pluck (Ienry T. Coates & COD new book
of this sort. The hero is invariably right, self
nossessed generous and far-seeng. The same
publishers bring out THE Haunted Mine, by
Harry Castlemon. the story of two boys who,
by strange fortune, come into the possession OF
r,roperty in the West The chief interest of the
book turns upon the efforts of Scoundrels to
wrest their wealth from them The same author,
in "A Struggle for a Fortune" (Saalfield Pub
fishing Company, presents an honest young
hero who is forced to travel very hard road
in keeping what is rightfully his Mr. w o.
ss7ooazI15-s Voyage of the GhaFeaaagne'' Oana
Estes & Co) apparently runs the gamut OF every
possible application at sea Of electricity Ihe
young hero and heroine Of the story go on a
voyage in an electric ship. and one remarkable
incident follows another with a celerity that
makes ones head spin. The same publishers
issue Edward S Ells's Lucky Ned" the story
of a manly country boy whose strong character
and high courage bring him comfortably out of
all difficulties and dangers They issue also
two pretty volumes in the Young of Heart
SERIES containing Dickenss christmas Carol
and Jean IngeIow's wonder Box Tales, and
two more volumes in the Famous Children of
Literature series, wherein We find The Story
of Little Nell" abridged from Dickens's -'Old
Curiosity Shop" and The Story of Little Eva
cleverly made up of selections from Uncle
Toms Cabin Jacks of All Trades" Cd Ap-
rIeton & Coz is an uncommony entertaining
story by Katharine n. Birdsall A fine young
family of boys and girls undertake to support
themselves and their delicate widowed mother,
and they go about it in entirely practical
WAY The book has good taste and good feel
ing.
Mrs Moleswortfl's stories have always been
charming in their refined, graceful and judicious
way and "Peterkin'' CThe Macmillan Company
is no exception TO the rule. Peterkin is a dreamy
child fond of MYSTERIOUS things, with firm faith
in witches and enchanted princesses. His be-
}iefs lead TO a queer complication, which reveals
many of the intricacies of child nature The
moral of the pretty book is undoubtedly, Don't
Jet very imaginative child read too many fairy
stories" An unusually winning story is L. A
Bsr5er's "A Romance of the Nursery John
J,sre) The children whose occupations, fan
cies and audacities are chronicled therein are
original enterprising lovable-one of them.
Fia1netta. is a delightful little witch, whose
dancing figure will linger long in the readers
memory Mabel Osgood Wright's 'Dogtown
(The Macmillan Company. being some chapters
from the annals of the Waddles family, has the
charm ever to be found in sympathetic studies
of GOg character anG OoS nldiiiieiS- AhS iiON'O
people" of the book also pleasant of their
kind ard a prompt acquaintance with both doss
and humans may he confidently recommended
10 xzhomever it may concern.
Chubby: A Nuisance 6ongmans. Green &
Coz. is q pathetic little story by Mrs. H H. Pen
rose of 2 child of unusual intelligence and beau
tv Of character. 1t is A story sad as Miss
Montgonery's Misunderstood but the young
hero is a much more reasonable. possible and at
tractive being than is the hero Of the earlier
book The same publishers bring out THE
Burges Letters by Edna Lyall. book which
records the course of English child life in the
sixties of the last century. Family life then
was not so very different from family life to-
dav though to he sure the influence of The
Heir of Redclyffe' pervasive among young
-eonle and "rninistering children" set the pace
for charitable exercises. The little Burgeses
tried 10 minister but on the way home from
their visit of benevolence they quarreled so Vio-
,ently that they had be put to bed in the nllo-
de Of the day! "Noll and the Fairies (Her-
hort s Stone & Coz is the title of a plump lit
.le hook in which the steps of a baby's gradual
acquaintance with the world about MN are
dealt with in a realistic fashion
A group of eleven prettily bound and prettily
f,us.rated volumes by various authors has been
brought ont by T Y. Crowell & Co. under the
,,e,era1 title of s"The Golden Hour SERIES
.-osisies and Diggleses" is the pathetic little
story by Evelyn Raymond of city wall VINO
out of poverty unspeakable brings to whole
countryside the riches of charity. kindness ana
unselhshness Molly" by Barbara Yechton, is
the story Of a practical. sensible. brave chiio'
whose excellent influence upon a particularly
exasperating cousin is described in lively fash
ion "A Little Dusky Hero" by Harriet l.
Comstock is the sentimental story of small
colored boy Master George Washington Mckin-
lev Jones who saves the life of his colonel in