New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-12
From 'Littledom Cast

these pages; and clever. naughty, passionate,
tenderhearted Rebecca walks through them a
real and most endearing creature of flesh and
blood. school is pretty good" writes to her
mother the quaint little exile from Temperance
township.
The Teacher can answer more questions than
the Temperance one, but not so many as can
ask l am smarter than an me glrls 1 ouc odD
but not so smart as two boys Emma Jane can
add and substract in her head like a streek OF
lightning and knows the spelling book right
through but has thoughts of any KIND She
IS in the Third Reader but does not like stories
in books. I in the Sixth Reader but Just
because 1 cannot say the seven multiplication
Table Miss Dearborn threttens to put me IN
the baby primer class with Elijah ana Elsha
Simpson little twins.
With Lijah and with Lisha am tied.
My soul recoyles like Cora Doctors wife
like her / feer / cannot bare this life.
/ am going TO try for the spelling prize but
fear cannot get it. I would not care but wrong
spelling looks dreadful in poetry. Last Sunday
when found seraphim in the dictionary I was
ashamed j had made II serrofm but seraphlm
is not word you can guess at IKE another long
outlandish in this letter when spels lJseIl
Miss Dearborn says use the words you can spell
and if you cant spell seraphim make angel do
but angels are not just the same as seraphlins
Seraphins are brighter, whittier and have bigger
wings and l think are older and longer dead
than angels which are just freshly dead
Miss Dearborn asked US what is the object Of
education and ] said the object Of mine was
TO helm paw off the mortgage. She told Aunt NJ
and 1 had 10 extra for punishment because
she says q mortgage is disgrace like stealing or
smallpox and il will be all over town that we
have farm. Emma Jane is not NOR
gagged nor Richard Carter nor DR.. Winship but
the Simpsons are.
Rise my soul strain every nerve
Thy mortgage TO remove,
Gain thy mothers heartfelt thanks.
Thy fanily's grateful love.
Pronounce family quick, or II won't sound
The incidents of little Rebecca's precious ed
fha IF he
mortgage" will hold to the end the most care
less of young readers
Another new book for girls which deserves
cordial praise even IL its quality be less endur-
ing than that of "2ebecca," is NJ f. Walters
Daughter Of the Rich little. Brown & Coz.
1T is a story Of loving kindness and happy coun-
try life. book good in it's way sunshine
and a fresh breeze. Some OF its scenes are
founded on reality-witness the episode OF the
night before Christmas, when the gift bearing
youngsters deep into poor old Aunt Tryphosa
LittIes lantern lit henhouse:
What they saw proved too much for their
risibles and suppressed CYCLES and smokers
and choking laughter nearly betrayed their
presence to the old dame within
on the low roost sat Aunt Tryphosa's noble
Plymouth Rock rooster and beside him. in an
orderly row, her ten hens. Every hen had on
her head a tiny flannel hood-some We're red,
Sorne were White-the strings knotted firmly
,Inder their bills by Aunt Tryphosa's old fingers,
trembling with the colo
She was just blanketing the rooster, who sub
rnitted with a meekness which proved unde-
rtabv that he was under petticoat government.
FOR All the airs he gave himself with his wives
The funny little hooded heads, twisting ana
f,ITninc the AXIS" and 'oks" which accom-
rsnied Aunt Tryphosa in her labor Of love the
Wild stretching and tapping OF wings, al rur-
7,isbed a scene never 10 be forgotten by the SIX
pairs OF laughing eyes that beheld H.
The whole CHAPTER OF which this is a part is a
heart warming bit OF reading for Christmas
boys and girls.
In Aunt Jimmy's VIII CThe Macmillan Com
rany) Mabel Osgood Wright sets forth tale OF
the kind that invariably appeals 10 the childish
irnagfnation-a tale OF misfortune brayely borne
by q little heroine, OF wickedness defeated and
of final restoration TO happiness and comfort
II is an admirable story Uncommonly taking,
too. is Honor D'Eyersl" (Dodd. Mead e. Coz,
by Barbara Yechton. The scene IS laid in the
island OF ST. croix. and tropical life is pictured
with striking fidelity. The beauty Of the region
iE welcome setting for the fine figure of Honor.