The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-30
o4 Fine Boys Book
BY Fl. S. Garfield.

The Boys Of the Rincon Ranch" by H. S. Can
field late Of Texas, is an ideal. healthy boys book
In It arc most entertainingly related the expe-
rieuees Of three boys on 3 big ranch ia Southwest
1eNas To an outsider the entertaining accounts
OF the boys adventures among the Characteristic
natural conditions OF that part Of our big State
must be highly interesting and refreshingly in
struetive and Texans must hail every develop
ment Of the familiar features OF Rio Grande
ranch life with delighted sense of recognition.
Century company New York;
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Bayou Trisc" by Josephine Hamilton
Nichols, can scarcely be called a story. II is
rather series of pictures of life on one Of the
smaller sugar plantations OF louisiana and the
design Of the author seems 10 be primarily to
represent the induleent and amiable attitude OF
the Southerners toward their former slaves. In
these word paintings, especially in the earlier
chapters of the book, the small details Of still life
are remarkably we'll done One OF the most
amusing sketches in the book Is Modest Powlcr's
mode OF procedure in her successful campaign to
capture for her own unaitractive daughters the
young bucks who were looked upon as the pick
OF plantations Her feminine ambitions. wiles
and devices arc much the same as those OF any
maneyering mama of the New y ork four hun
dred' OF plot or problem there is absolutely
none to the book,
"a Captured Santa Claus" CHARLES soribner's
Sons New York;, is a sweet and touching little
story of the civil war, and the excellence OF its
matter and manner is Just what one expects Of
its author Thomas Nelson Page
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The collection of short stories by Dr. Henry
Van Dyke, published under the title, The Blue
Flower on every page bears the press OF deep
feeling clear thinking and broadcast scholarship,
Being Van Dykes the style of it u.s. Of course
meriray musical prose However, the book Is
not recommended as purchase to tho average
reader for taken up Just for time passing Il will
be found totally unproductivc of pleasure. Two
of the stories. The Other Wise Man." and "The
First Christmas Tree" arc just now appropriate
to the coming festival of Christendom,
an Happy Far Away Land" by Ruth Kimball
Gardiner Zimmerman, New York;. Il an ideal
chds story book according 20 modern theories
concerning child culture and entertainment. Old
King Cole rcigns in Tar Away Land" Little
Bo-peep IS his daughter, and Little Tom Tucker.
Datty-down-dilly, Lucy Lockett and other alluring
Mother Goose characters, bob up serouey" on
almost every page. The FAIRIES that dwell in this
Far Away Land" are a more human company
OF fairies than children have ever met before.
The gospel OF work is preached in all the stories,
and the gospel Of linship between the child and
every other living thing.
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Children Of the Wild is a fascinating and In
struetivc book for tiny tots--not exclusively for
the tnest either.
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Mr.. Barries THE Little White Bird" deserves
all the good things the critics say about it. The
story is tender, fanoful and poetic with a novelty
of conception and range also Of humor and
pathos for which even MIR Barrie has not pre-
pared his readers, It is all laid in London, and
has whimsical Charles-Lamb-ike elderly narra-
tor, who looks on at the struggles OF newly
married couple, helps them tells stories to their
child, and peoples Kensington Gardens for his
benefit with fancies of fairies and birds after
his own whimsical fashion The book is a COM
pletey original piece OF literature from the hand
Of master.