The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-20

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Freckles is a boy who when he sets out
to make his own way in the world knows
no other name. He has been brought up
in a charity home, but he gets tired of
| being "called up, looked over and refused
home and love" On ACCOUNT of the alb
sence of an arm and Of an ugly face, and
! strikes out. OF course he gets along after
| he finds employment in the woods. It is
employment with danger and adventure,
however, and boys and girls. too, will
find the story to their liking.
Boys especially will take to two books
published this fall by, Charles scribner's
! Sons, New York. These books are Boys
| of st. Timothy's and A Midshipman in the
Pacific. The former by Arthur Stanwood
Pier, is a story of school life with much
''doing" from the first to the last, includ-
ing football and other things necessary to
a modern education. It IS well told and
just book to interest a boy with lots of
the boy in him. The other Scribner book
is by Cyrus Townsend Brady and is chock
full Of adventure, including whale hunting,
shipwrecks and other things that are
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| Some of the adventures are based upon
history.
"a book to delight girls, and boys might
not find it uninteresting, is EIinor Arden,
Royallst, by Mary Constance Du Bots.
Elinor is a winsO1ne maiden, the daughter
Of a royalist in the days Of Charles I. and
the Roundheads. She saves the kings
daughter from the enemy, and is later gra-
ciously rewarded by. the child herself, now
\ grown into an interesting princess. An
other book from the same house Ghe
Century company, New York, will appeal
to boys. It is Captain. Iohn Smith, by
Il Tudor jerks. It is bassa upon the writ
ings of the captain hfnself, who was in
turn hermit, traveller s9silor, soldier, a
slave to the Turks, an explorer, a captive
among the Indians. a3lBader Of men, "a
statesman and a writery
The personal adventures Of one Of
Washington's couriers during the revolu-
ton, are related in The Rider Of the Black
Horse. Robert Dorlon's prowess, bra
very and discretion won for him the re-
sponsble position as a courier. His ad-
ventures are constant and exciting and
. provide interesting reading for boys of
almost any age. The author Is Everett
T. Tomlinson, who is an authority upon
, revolutionary topics and his books, pub
:. lished by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Bos-
ton, form an admirable set of volumes.
Nathae's Sister, the sixth and last
:, book in the "Teddy" series, records the
= sayings and doings of Teddy and the rest
. of the McAlister family. It is as charm
ing, entertaining and natural as the pre-
! vious stories by Anna Chaplin Ray, which
= is enough to commend It to any one seek
: ing a book for young folk. It is published
by Little, Brown & Co., Boston.
Dandelion Cottage, by Carroll Watson
Rankin (Henry Holt & Co., New York;
is a book in which girls are the chief act
ors. -Four girls are the 'cottagers, and
their housekeeping and the experiences
they have are enough to keep you guess
ing and interested. There is something
, more to the book than chlldrens play
= too. .,,..
A boy who is falsely charged with q
. crime is the principal figure in The Cabin
in the Big Woods, by James Ball Naylor
), published by the Saalfield Publishing com.
), pany, Akron, Ohio. The boy makes his
:, home with farmer and his family. How
the truth about the boy who Is trying tc
shield another is brought out is for the
author to tell. <-l.--4T 49, 't.ss4gs
Not all boys know what Bacon's rebel.
lion was. If they will take the trouble t.
find out in The Cromwell of Virginia, by
a Edward S. Ellis, they will at the same
q time get a. story Of thrilling adventures O.
: more than two hundred years ago. The
u book is one of three from the publishing
u house of Henry r. Coates & Co., Phila
e delphia. The other two are by Seward
D. Lisle. They are Up the Forked River
a story Of adventure in South America
that land full of mystery for boys, ant
Teddy and Towser, a story Of the earl.
d days in California, when that state wa
d where the gold came from.
n Three girls and three boy friends occu
lpy the attention and admiration Of tn
ir readers Of The Little Grey House, b,
I! Marion Ames Taggart. The girls ar
ir71 ND do +, i,,crS
and others, and the boys are the kind o
friends to count on If boys and girls Xix
to read about boys and girls here is tn
book for them. It is from Mcclure, Phil
); lips & Co., New York. 80 .s .a.-.g
t, There was time when Chicago WASH
anything-just prairie. Later there wer
a few wooden houses. 1t is early In tn
wooden-house era that the events relate
in A Little Girl in old Chicago begir
Those were days of adventure and excite
ment, so that this book, by Amanda
S. Douglas Oodd Mead & Co., New York;
l. is one to keep juvenile eyes wide open.
IF is a story Of unusual interest. 4
4 The story of brave boys lOurne
from London to the old frontier of Amer
lea, when the frontier was east Of. tn
Ohio river, to rescue captive from re
men and white traitors is told. and tol
~ WE'LL in The Search, by p. y Weaver q
l. S. Barnes & Co., New York
II Quintette of Graycoats, by Effie Big
nell (The Baker & Taylor company. NeN
York;, is an attractive little book tellin
of the authors observations of a grou
of gray squire els.
- Two books from the presses of tn
y. Henry zAltemus company, Philadelphia, ar
It. Amy Dora's Amusing Day, by Frank n
Bicknell, and A Prairie lnfanta, by Ev
Wilder Broadhead. The former is the stor
@ of naughty girl who ran away. wit
generous dashes Of nonsense, and the la1
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which develops in mining camp and hs
a happy ending.
Little Folks Of Many Lands, by Lul
Maude Chance, is g reader whose tit
tells clearly enough what it contains
We is for children who have not progresse
far as readers and combines nteret