Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-19

viii be source OF delight to those who
love the best literature, and parents
VIII tlnd IN It's pages much that viii be
helpful I'm shaping their chlldren's lives,
the stories are 50 simple and graceful
that they suggest Tolstol at his best,
ANA the moral attached to each fascin.
atng title tale IL excellent As an eX.
ample may be mentioned the story Of
the untldy little boy who was visited
by the Tidy Angel ana told TO go
INTO the garden and find his brother.
lie found various smooth AM sleek lit
Tie animals In the garden, who failed
to accept him as a brother because
they were clean and, finally Erunt-
ing pig arrived to claim kinship OF
course the boy did not wish TO share the
pigs homo, and became clean ana neat
at once, Mrs Richards charm OF style
pcrvadcs this book. which is beautiful.
w embellished. Little, Brown & CO.,
publishers,
The locality described by Mary Aus
tin In her new book, "Vhe Land OF
Little Rain, ccnters about lndepoud.
enco, cal. which has situation hard
lN Cquallej for the study of mountain
ana desert II is about days ride
by pack ANA TRAN cgum the famous
Death Valley and hnlf as far IN the
opposite direction from the ridge OF the
Sierras, bong about twenty miles %
the north OF Mt Whitney, their high-
est peak, Independence ia duh. CONE
Portable littln town whore nobody
works unlces hC has TO- where most OF
the inhabitants play "seycu-up," and
where Mrs. Austin ig the only person
besides the minister who can pray
out aloud When hor book was put
on sale q the General Store, ID was
gngorly inspected by the inhabitants,
who refused to believe that the illus
trations had not been drawn from ac-
tual photographs They ala not know
whether 70 be offended at liberties tax
en- or TO be pleased with the distinction,
but us books went the general verdict
pronounced II n Jim Dandy and a
"beaut'
Chateaubriands Les Aycuturcs du
Dcrncr Abenceragc, edited by James
-, Buner. Phi D., associate professor
I'm the University OF North Carolina, lis
just published boy the American BOOK
company, This edition OF the we'll
known work of one of the foremost
French romanticists is prepared for
rapid reading In the first year OF
the course, The style is simple and
matter If so interesting as to hold the
students attention, The notes, while
brief and to the point explain an
proper names, geographical hisorioal
and legendary illusions and give the
equivalents Of idiomatic expressions
The vocabulary Is both complete and
accurate
1.-THE Curious Book of Birds" Is by
AbLie Farwel Brown. author Of In
the Days Of Giants" "The Book OF
Saints and Friendly Beasts, etc. with
eight full-page Illustrations 10y II
Boyd smith This Is a playful book
about birds that is meant to amuse
children. II Is wholly unscientnc,
fantastic. and charming. The birds
that 1t deals with are described In a
vein Of fancy like Klpling's Creatures
of the Jungle Book. They are more
like fairy birds than those Of the
familor bird book variety, in fact,
such birds as children conjure up for
themrelves-birds that think and talk
like people. The basis OF the book Is
to be found in oil stories and legends,
from ancient sources, mostly Europ-
can, but some of Oriental and African
origin, and others from the American
indian FOLKLORE. The author has taxi
en- these whimsical notions and quaint
conceits of an earlier time and so re-
lated them to our everyday birds as To
endue them with "a romantic and imag-
native atmosphere. children are sure
to find amusement In the book.