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Slight Cousins and It's sequel, Rose In
Bloom" have been added TO the excellent
illustrated edition OF Miss Alcott's works
published by Little, Brown d Co. Though
neither 30 good nor so famous as little
Women" these stories stand out against
the mass OF trash that girls read nowadays.
Il II curious to see the artist struggle with
The costumes OF war times-they wore hoop
ILxirts In those days and we haven't re-
burned to them yet. All the pictures are
Ianachronisms, but that doesn't matter
with stories that might be happening to-
day M well as thirty years ago.
(; A modern Japanese boys book comes to
US from the Century Company In Gensai
Murai's "Kibun- Daizin or, From Shark
Boy to Merchant Prince translated by
Masao Yoshida. Though the revelations
Of Japanese character and ways OF think
Ing are very interesting, we have been at
tracted more by the remarkable similarity
OF this Japanese form OF literature to our
own. The book might have been written
by oliver Optic; there is the same highest
Incentive OF material success, the same
praise for rather questionable means to
stain It, the same bowling down Of adults
to the merits OF pushing youth. Japan
and New England cannot be 40 far apart
after ALL
II is to be inferred from Patty at Home
Dodd, Mead d CO.. having had a predeces-
sor that Miss Carolyn Wells's young hero
Inc has already made friends. From the
abrupt termination OF this story 1t is reason
able to suppose that it will have a sequel,
with more Patty That young lady seems
to have a delightfully."- equable tempera-
ment, by means OF which she brings her
elders to shame. We doubt the taste Of
30 much -spooning" in a girls book
The manner in which, at the end, the
widowed father informs his daughter OF
his projected marriage with her young
friend IL novel. at any rate.
Plenty Of sensational adventures will be
found in Mr.. Ernest Ganville's "In Search
Of the Okapi' "a. c. McClurg Il Co., Chi
cago), evidently a British product The
scene is in the wilds Of Central Africa with
many barbarous savages and much slaugh-
ter. book for boys is hardly the place
for attacks on the Belgians and the Congo
Free State, but Mr.. Granville does not hest
tate to carry on in this book the very sus-
picious campaign which the British news
papers have kept up for some years past
against the mismanagement Of all but the
British in Africa.
An excellent idea is carried out to GER
tain point in Geography of New York;
The State-The City," by Floyd h. Smith
and Arthur c. Perry, Jr. american Book
Company. With pictures, maps and sim
pie text, the physical, industrial and COM
mercial features Of the State. and the build
ings and life OF the city are described, with
comments, historical and sociological.
That Is too much to be done we'll in SO small
q book One four times the size would be
very useful in the schools, and out Of them,
too. !
The chief interest in the four volumes OF
life Stories for Young People, by Franz
Hoffman, "a. G. McClurg Co.., is that
they are translated by the veteran George
P. Upton. The stories belong to an anti
quated form OF children's books which we
have soon disappear with no regret The
lives narrated are those respectively OF
Beethoven" Mozart" william Tell"
and "The Maid Of Orleans"
Some things we're not altogether pleasing
In Miss Alcott's stories, but were overborne
BY real merits. A weakness for gush. a
fondness for sensation once in a while and
Q touch Of sentimentality. These defects
we find exaggerated in THE Little Grey
House." by Marion Ames Taggart NC
Clure. Phillips & Coz, book obviously
reminiscent Of Little Women" but put
together crudely and with little eye for
character in the persons introduced. The
heroine is a misoonoeption Of 10 and her
adventures belong to fairyland rather than
10 life