New-York tribune., 1902-12-12

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entertaining adventures. THE Wonder-Shp'
bv SOPHIE SWEET. is merry little tale Of pair
of New-EneIand children and what came OF
their running away.
In The Tiger and the Insect OK" H. rus
selD Mr.. Habberton tells much the same SOFT oi
story that once captured a muitituoe OF reaueis
under tho title of 'Helen's Babies" This time
the two children are little girls, but they are
of the same tribe as Bulge and Toddie-quaIht
naughty wicked sanity. adorable ana super
naturally intutive Like Bulge and Toddie,
they blurt out embarrassing comments on those
who surround them. and, like the two boys
also they act as little gods from the machine
in furtherins the love affair of the spinster and
bachelor of the book. With all their exasper-
ating WAYS the children are winning lhelr
prattle however becomes occasionally tire
some 1t is not easy to repeat an carry SUE
cess clever Book Of Nature Myths
HIoughton Mifflin & Co) has been adapted for
children by Florence Holbrook from the Iolk-
lore collections of serious investigators MOST
of these Indian stories speak Of justice shreWd-
ness and kindness, the punishment OF eVli' the
reward of good Why. by the way, does cat
always in leaping alight safely upon her 1our
feet? 1t is the reward for saving by such
leap the life of a good magician threatened by
a venomous serpent. And why is the maspies
nest so badly built? Because she was an aoom-
Unable lazy little bird and after the other birds
had started her nest, building each after us
kind ito show her how"-she still refused 10
learn. being well content to have her work done
for her. But behold her teachers rebelied ana
flew away, leaving the nest half hnlsheo, anu
so 1t has been ever since Hindoo barrlster'
P V Ramaswami Raju. has made collection
of Indian Fables C1. P. Dutton & Coz, which
are now and then instructive amusing. No
-iNv bleS
.Esop. though some of them suggest an imita-
ton or variation There, for example. is the
story of the peacock and the fox. wherein the
bird is not in the least gulled by Reynard's fiat
terry and lets the wheedler know as much The
fox figures continually in these fables, and MS
cunning often goes unrewarded
Miss EVELYN Sharp's book, THE Other Boy
macmillan Company, introduces a group or
very amusing, natural and naughty children,
the "other boy" being an upappreciated ge-
MUS an excellent foil to them There lies a
good moral in the way in which the lively,
boisterous young barbarians at play are made
to see that a boy can be clever and studious
without being a milksop- The story is more
than commonly entertaining THE Outlook
Story Book for Little People" (The Outlook
Company is an admirable collection of stories.
sketches and poems. Animals figure largely
and charmingly-in these pages. and have some
particularly captivating Photographic accom-
paniments- Miss Carolyn Wellss heroine, little
Folly having concluded her tour in Fairyland.
undertakes new expedition-hence Folly III
the Forest (Henry Altemus Company. Many
interesting personases she meets and converses
with, including the Geese That Saved Rome,
BucephaIus the Sphinx, the Centaur, and Pc
gasus Mr. Birch's drawings comical
as the text In a volume entitled 1.-The Sand
man: His Farm Stories q. c. Page & Coz,
Mr. W. ]. Hopkins offers for the benefit of
critics of six years or less some ingeniously
detailed narratives of rustic life. He testihes
TO the excellent effect of them upon his own
little critic, the carefully elaborate details being
notable factors in his success. The book is
prettily illustrated. From the publishers
we have received two new volumes in The
Little Cousin Series" These. Our Little Ha-
waiian Cousin and Our Little Philippine
Cousin" contain much picturesque information
about new possessions, arranged with due
admixture Of fiction to capture the curiosity
of little readers.
"A Pocketful of Posies' Houghton, Mifflin &
Coz is the quaint title of q book of quaint
rhymes for children by Abbe Farweli Brown.
All manner of childish imaginings and dreams
and whims glide through this musical verse
and much of it is delicately gay and sweet:
My little hammock swings and swings,
/ play I am that bird with wings,
Who up there in the great big tree
Swings in his hammock just like
Some of these verses in the Stevenson
vein echoing his very accents, but most of them
are as fresh as the posies themselves. new
edition of Miss Jane Andrews's book, The
Seven Little Sisters Who Live the Round
Ball That Floats in the Air" has been brought
out by CHM & Co. These sketches have be
come classics in their modest way, and can
still be commended to the small readers who
long to know something about the strange, far
off inhabitants of the globe.