New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-17

of tho hook IA said to be true. A story based
on actual experiences In the Philippines is
vividIv told in winning His Way to West
Point" CThe Penn Publishing Company. by
Captain Paul B. Malone. The American youth,
whose courage IS as great as his sense of honor
is true. goes through many extraordinary mill
tary enterprises, and generally with the success
he deserves. A sneaking enemy plots against
him In vain; and the young volunteers eminent
services earn for him the appointment to the
great military school, where stuff such as his is
most heartily welcomed.
A biography of the doughty Captain John
Smith" has been prepared by Tudor jerks, and
published by the Century Company. No boy
who likes good stories Of good lighting and of
exploring adventure could fail to be moved by
this book It is pleasant TO note that the author
iSclines to believe that the narrative of Poca-
hontass rescue Of the captain is a true one
Another early American story is ". NJ. Gray
don's with Puritan and Pequot (the Penn
Publishing Company. The scene IS a New-Eng-
land. and among the characters are Miles
Standish, Governor Bradford and Roger Will
Jams. Fierce Indians. bad white men and mar
vellously brave boys provide many awesome in
cidents. I'm the year of grace 175S there were
two families living on that island which we of to-
day call Mount Desert"-so begins Mr.. James
Otis's story Defending the Island" Dana
Estes s. Coz. 1t was while the fathers of these
English families were absent catching fish Tor
the winter supply, that their homes were at
tackled by a party Of Frenchmen and Indians
How the two women and the children. the eldest
OF whom only fifteen, succeeded in beating
of the enemy enlinently worth telling.
more agreeable Indian appears in Mr.. Butter
worth's sketch of King Philips son. Little
Metacomet" CThomas Y. Crowell & Coz
nj lava
for his white playmate touchingly por-
trayed. 1.-THE Boy Captive of Old Deerfield'
Q1ittle, Brown & Coz is a new story, by
Mary P. Wells Smith, of life among the Indians
at the beginning of the eighteenth century. 1t
is founded on the woful experiences of the little
captive. Stephen Williams, son Of the Deerheld
minister. He spent year with his Indian mas
tiers, and Mrs Wells Smith has told his story
in a beguiling If tragic fashion. In "Captives
Three" (1ne Saalfeld Publishing Company
James A. Braden tells tale full of excitement
and suspense. Two boys and a girl are captured
on the frontier and saved largely by the
courage and cleverness of the little girl 1.-THE
Search" "a. S. Barnes & Coz is a picturesque
story, by E. P. Weaver, of eighteenth century
America. A young fellow crosses the ocean
to find the granddaughter of the London
merchant who is his master. The girl has been
carried away by the Indians, who killed her
father and mother. and has spent her childhood
IN captivity The search in the wildwood gives
opportunity for the introduction of much
well worn but always entertaining material
A great deal of valuable information about
China as well as a nerve twanging recital Of
an American boys adventures during the Boxer
rebellion may be found in Kirk Munroes book
The Blue Dragon CHarper & Bros.). 1t is
full Of hairbreadth escapes and 1t will be
remembered as containing a likeable if not too
creditabIe character in the person Of young
Chinaman who plays Damon to the American
heros Pythias. THE Isle OF Black Fire. q.
s. Lppincott Company describes the various
terrifying events on an island off the Gold
Coast-an island Oh which a shipwrecked
mariner has discovered remarkable store of
pure radium, carefully guarded by the savage
Inhabitants The reader can easily imagine
what happens to the party of Americans who
seek the treasure in yacht. good boy who
always does the thing he believes to be right
is the hero of Honour Bright CFrederick
Warne & Coz, by H. Ercott-Inman. David
Chester has most startling adventures by land
and sea, but Away comes out Of them IN serene
good form, secure in manly truth, honesty and
courage. Finding Fortune" (the Penn Pub
fishing Company is the title of a new story by
Horatio Alger, tr Two old friends meet US on
Of poverty. who is slandered and almost
ruined by the idle and dissolute young snob Of
the village The whole story is absolutely false
to life Stories whose scene is set IN Labrador
are not often found among holiday books
this year there are two Mary Bourchier San
fords book, The Wandering Twins "a. c.
McClurg & Coz is really absorbing, though 1t
is based on an impossibility-the meek sub
mission, to wit. of an English army officer to an
easily disproved SANDER. He disappears
and is supposed to be IN a Labrador
fishing village. Thither come his young
son and daughter in search of him, and
the book is mostly taken up with their
adventures in that rZimitive region The other
Labrador story, The Mysterious Beacon Light"
Little, Brown & Coz. is told by George E.
Walsh and portrays the joys of four schoolboys
voyaging to the North in vacation time They
are resolved to discover the schooner Nancy
Brown, wrecked long before iceberg and
frozen therein. How they And the Nancy in a
cave, how they demolish the plans of some VILLAIN
wreckers and bring the schooner home IN
safety leave the joyful young reader to find
out for himself. The same firm issues THE
White Crystals" by Howard R. CARTS. It is an
amusing book, full OF details OF a boys country
pleasures and strengthened moreover by neat
account of the way in which the hero defeats
a swindling attempt to get a salt mine away
from his unsuspectng rustic uncle.
''Baby Elton, Quarterback" CThe Century
Company by Leslie w. Quirk. celebrates an
Admirable Crichton of college athletics. We find
In the book scant reference to the real purpose
for which universities maintained: but as
at the end of the story Young Elton's scholarly
standing is found to be all that 1t should be-
we may suppose that his studies were not neg
lected. How this can be reconcied with start