New-York tribune., 1902-12-22
MORE JUPENILIA.
Holiday Stories, HISTORICAL Roman
fic and Domestic.


Of this season. however, has q real IL noueS
.b.r-, os its own This is Mayhem" "a {. NC
crurs g. Chi g. tale by Jessie Anderson Chase'
~ which Marie of Nassau, daughter or "lliiain
tho Silent is the heroine There is no more pio'-
,,resoue period in European history thah 'iia
,r which the Netherlands suffered unoer 'iie
cruel hand Of Philip of Spain. and the au'iioi
has deftly employed the abundant 1ncloehl al
hand Marie is a stanch and noble htue oelhe'
and her story is told with simplicity WlIh edi-
ner+ness and with exceeding good taste In
..Margarita, a Legend Of the Fight for lne Ofe@'
E,yar., O1odd. Mead & Co). Mrs E w. Champ
nev has used many romantic episooes OF I'VE"
World history in the eighteenth century Inc
struggle between France and Spain for the pos
saeeion of the Mississippi country PROVIDES no
end Of material for the novelist, but no historicai
+aia can he effective unless it is full Of dramatic
action .'Margarita'' is "talky-talky 10 Ine
last degree and therefore wearisome 10 Ihe
practised reader. Possibly there be young peo-
nle who will like to take their history py way
of little drama and long explanations Inc
eutbor does at least preserve to some extent lne
atmosphere of the period with which she oea4s.
This cannot be said with reference TO MAUI
sally, Coana Estes & Co), a story by Harriet
A Cheever, OF the years just preceding anu Ioi
lowing the opening of the American ReVolu-
tr5unphant efforts of a little orphan girl 10
,-ise above unrnerited degradation-it is conlcal
IN its anachronisrns its mingling Of the speech
and customs of three centuries. 1t is pity
,or tbe author shows true story telling aolllg
which is rnisused in treating period In Fhich
she is not at home. The same criticism may pe
anplied to Harriet T Comstocks lower vi
Throne" Oittle, Brown & Coz, a romance Oh
the girlhood Of Queen Elizabeth, tnousn 'ne
hook has something more of literary Quahly-
II nresents the extremely sentimental We" Oh
the nrincess who is quite a nineteenth century
,.r, ond If is calculated to astonsh the serious
historian.
t. book fo- girls which shall be thoroughly In
teresting as well as improving-'hls Is Ho' GA
easy thing to achieve and the holiday season Is
mot ALWAYS rich in such treasures one "hich
NAV he commended heartily is Marion A rag
.ar+,s miss Iochinvar' Cd. Appleton & Coz Inc
t-,gb. sweet honest hearted girl who comes
.,ou+ Of the West to spend winter with her
New-York cousins wins upon the reader at once
and grows more and more lovabie TO the last
mage She is not in the least self-rlghteous anu
.'preachy," but her sincerity, frankness' uhseh-
3shness and warmth Of heart make OF her an au-
rnirable missionary to a group of relatives WHO
have let the world be too much with them Ii
Is 2 wholesome book and a pleasant quite re-
moved from the stereotyped, vulgar tale OF poor
girl and rich cousins" Another book by the
same author as clever Miss Lochinvar' and
as fragrant with upright, womanly thinking, Is
The wyndham Girls" (The Century Company
II is the story of a group of girls suddenly re-
duced TO the straits of poverty and meeting them
with thoroughbred courage and refinement An
other story which is as wholesome in its way is
-'The New Pupil" CThe Macmillan Company, by
RAYMOND Jacberns. It is little romance of
school life and its heroine is mischievous and
self-willed youngster unused to discipline and to
girl companions. The hackneyed business" of
unjust accusation is brought in for machinery,
but even that gains freshness from Pollies vivid.
naughty honorable little character. 1t is an
amusing story, and. like Miss Lochinvar,'' i'm
proving.
Faithful" OLittle, Brown & Co) is story told
for girls Of larger growth by the author of Miss
Toosey's Mission" If it have moral it is that
persistent unselfishness may sometimes be a
crime against ones self and others also. Faithful
plays into the hands Of a mean little feminine
sneak, and wrecks her own happiness and the
happiness Of those she loves best by self
abnegation and a silly credulity which would
seem to be out of keeping with her real force of
character. The moral is a suggestive one-but it |
has been thought that the present generation |
did not need it. The same publishers bring out |
Grandma's Girls" by Helen Morris, story of |
country pleasures intended for girls approach |
ing their teens. The group Of cousins who de- |
scend upon Grandma" at the farm are agree |
ably naughty youngsters, full of fun, quarrels, |
oisobedience and compunctions. For girls Of |
the same age We may suppose. is provided the |
foolish and improbable story The Yellow Vio- /
lin" (The Saalfield Publishing Company. by |
Mary A Denison. One cannot but regret that |
stacy writing in a world that holds such books |
as Miss Lochinvar" or Little Women" Older
readers are appealed TO in Miss Carolyn wells's |
Eight Girls and Dog" Che Century Com |
pany). The eight girls are vivacious young |
creatures forming the Blue Ribbon Cooking |
Club, and their various adventures arise from /
their plan OF housekeeping together for fort |
night in seaside cottage The story is told |
with much animation. We not sure for |
whom the stiff, didactic. platitudinous Elsie |
book Of this is intended; but for "Elsie's
Winter Trip" (Dodd. Mead & Co), as for its |
predecessors, there must be waiting readers else
II would not have got itself into print. One |
shudders at the thought that any little brain |
could have absorbed the endless line Of stodgy |
volumes in which Elsie Dinsmore has appeared |
Hope Loring" d. c. Page & Coz, story for |
girls by Lillian Bell. cannot be described as |
stodgy, hut il is as little TO our taste as the |
dreary Elsie book. Its heroine is of the Inn |
pulsive child-of-nature type which we are riad 1
10 say is observed chiefly in fiction. Hope is |
mentioned as being "as irresponsible as baby" |
and she is represented bawling in infantile |
fashion in her fond fathers arms because her |
apologetic mamma heedlessly set the day for her |
coming out tea" the date of the college
football game. The irresponsible one is in fact |
crazy about football and the book has an ALL |
pervading atmosphere of howls mud and COL |
lege yells. Hopes supposedly high sense of |