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E,usenie Foa," edited with notes and
vocabulary by Louise De Bonneville,
SidwelI's Friends Select School, Wash
incton. d. c. New York: American
Book Company.
This little book with it's accompany
ing vocabulary will be found of great
assistance to beginners in French. 1t
is a charming story beautifully told by
one of the most gifted of the French
writer's for the young, as well as of
many more pretentious works adj
dressed to an older reading public
Nine Foa The charming story lie
Petit Robinson de Paris" was on the
list of books recommended as suitable
for college preparatory work by the
committee of twelve in their report
upon education to the Bureau of Edu-
cation. This list has been adopted by
the college entrance examination board
of the Middle States, and Maryland,
and will probably, in time, be gener-
ally accepted throughout the country.
The book is one that might profitably
be in the hands of every student of the
French language.
"a Readers History of American
Literature" by Thomas Wentworth
Higginson and Henry Walcott Boyn-
ton. Cloth; PIP. 327. Boston: Hough-
ton, Miffiin & Company.
This volume will prove an invaluable
assistance to readers of the best
American literature. Written in d
clear and graceful style, comprehensive
in it's scope, it presents within con-
venient limits, an able and interesting
review of the growth and develop
ment of literature in this country. One
can but be impressed with the clearness
and force of it's analyses and the ac-
curacy of it's judgments. Colonel Hig-
ginson in undertaking a work of this
character had the very great ad-
vantage of personal acquaintance
with an exceptionally large number of
the great writers whose works today
are the recognized classics of Ameri-
can literature.
The result of his collaboration with
BOyntOn, is a work which while wisely |
and fairly discriminating is not lack
ing in the touch of human interest |
that can alone give warmth and color
10 a treatise that is at once historical |
and critical. An interesting feature
of the book will be found in the fac
SMILES of the handwriting of a num-
Der OF famous writer's, including
Bryant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Long
fellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell
Emerson, Hawthorne and others.
This book is indeed what it claims to
be a Readers history of American
literature. 1t is, moreover, in itself a,
work of absorbing interest naI
1t should have a place of honor in
every library where the American
classics are still kept on the front
shelves.
The typographical work in this vol
ume is fully up to the high standard of
HouShto1 & Miffiin's publications. It
is printed in good sized type, on an
excellent quality of book paper, and
is substantially bound in English
cloth.
'Sacrilege Farm by Mabel Hart.
Cloth; PIP. 1893; price, $1.OO. New York:
D. Appleton & Company.
This volume is number 319 of the
famous "Appleton's Town and Coun-
try Library" The average standard
in this series has been kept surprising-
ly high, and will be fully sustained by
"Sacrlege Farm 1t is a clean, whole
some story, full of dramatic force and
interest. 1t is simply and charming
ly told, and will be a valuable addition
to series that has won merited
no, pyit
Mr. Chupes and Miss Jenny; The
Life Story of Two Robins" by Effe
Bignell, author of MY Woodland Init
with illustrations by Geo. w.
Hood. Cloth; price, $780, New York:
The Baker & Taylor Co., publishers.
The keen insight into, and love of
nature shown in this delightful little
story constitutes it's greatest charm.
We do not realize until we read it,
now much may be made of the life
story even of two robins by a sympa-
thetlc writer. 1t is a story to delight
the heart of the child, and one in nowisel
lacking in interest to older people. It
is by far the most ambitious and GER
tainiy one of the best stories of bird |
life which has yet been published in
TINS country-and under the skillful
treatment of the author the little hero
and heroine come to possess an almost
human interest to the reader. There
is plenty of room in the world for sto-
ries like this.
THE Danger Line, The Story of a
Case" by Lawrence L.
Lynch; price IS cents; II mo; cloth:
PIP i44; Chicago: Laird, & Lee. Pub
fishers.
This book is well described as a story
OF mystery, and like stories of that
character is full of absorbing interest.
The author K. NJ. Van Deventer. who
writes under the pseudonym of Law
renee l.. Lynch, has been a prolific
source of stories of dramatic and thrill
ing quality. The Danger Line" will
ra nix as one of his best.
Michael Carmichael" story of
Love and Mystery, by Miles Sandys;
silk cloth; illustrated; PIP. 316; price
S1.25; Chicago: Laird & Lee, publishers
This is story which excells in char
lcter, interest, and delineation. It has