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

day books. 1t will hold the interest of any
healthy minded boy from the first page TO the
last
A couple Of really valuable volumes are pub
lshed by the A Vessels Company under tha
utie OF Famous Battles of the Nineteenth Cen
fury" They contain descriptions by more or
less we'll known writer's of battles which this
side Of the ocean and on the other have changed
the fate of nations and given undying fame to
great soldiers and sailors. The compiler. Mr..
Charles Welsh. has shown reasonable taste and
Judgment in his selections which begin with
Nelson at Copenhagen" and end with Fight
ing with Ashantis." Brief notes on the wars
curing which these engagements took place add
TO The interest CT these volumes. One more book
concerned with matters military is Miss Anna b
Warmers West Point Colors' CFIeming H Re
veil Company. 1t narrates the experiences of
a cadet at West Point in a most ladylike and
kindly manner.
Paul du Chaillu is no more, but he has left to
the boys who have blissfully read his stories.
year after year. one more book of "Reminiscences.
This is In African Forest and Jungle" Charles
Scrloner's Sons)-a book OF queer and amusing
stories OF life among savages and wild animals.
Most OF the savages described by Du Chaillu
We're, so far he was concerned, exceedingly
gentle ones. He was a pleasant soul who wished
well to man and beast. and his books are as
piSftSaJlI as was JhelT writer.
Mr.. w. c Sprague has prepared and the A.
vessels Company publish Napoleon Bona
parte: A History Written for Boys" The work
Is done in way to attract and hold the boy
reader. Daniel Webster for Young Ameri-
cans" little, Brown & Coz is the title of a
volume containing the principal speeches of the
massachusetts statesman with an Introduction
and notes by Professor Charles F. Richardson.
MT E. P. Whipple's essay on Webster as a
master of English style is included In the vol
ume which is further ENLARGED by the addl-
ton Of the text Of the Declaration of hide
pendence, the Constitution OF the United States
and Washington's Farewell Address The Cen
fury Company brings out a new edition Of Mr.
| Cleveland MOffett's Careers Of Danger and
Daring" book which portrays with JUNCTION
the difficult tasks in life Of such workmen as
the locomotive engineer. the steepIe climber
and the wild beast tanner. It holds many a
thrilling anecdote Of heroism. Mr.. Forrest Girls
5ey's book THE Country Boy" CFleming H.
Reven Company is one of the most refreshing
and satisfying books Of the season. All that
boys love best in country life SPEAKS to US in
these pages. and with all this comes a sympa-
thetic study Of boy nature that has real value
as well as charm.
THE Mutineers' Lothrop Publishing Com
pany) is story of school life by Eustace l.
Williams. 1t is particularly well told. its move
ment is rapid. its episodes more or less dra-
matte and its moraI-the evil of sharp practice
in schooboy politics-is pungentIy enforced
a book also dealing with school life is God
frey Marten, SchooIboy'' &C. P. Putnams Sons),
by Charles Turley. This is q reprint of one of
the cleverest and most accurate and significant
studies Of public school life in England. Godfrey
is good fellow, mischievous enough, but thor
oughly honorable. Mr.. Turley has reproduced
to perfection the schoolboy tone and turn of
mind In "Weatherby's Inning" Cd. Appleton
& Coz Mr.. Ralph H. Barbour gives us a slim
ulating story of college life and baseball. There
is fun in it-but there is also sound, manly
sense.
With hardly exception, the books men
toned above illustrated, and it may be
added that the Illustrations of the greater part
of them are excellent in conception and execu-
ton