Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-28
FOB YOUNG READERS.

A LITTLE PRINCESS, Being the Whole
Story Of Sara Crewe. now Told for the
nett. Illustrated In color by Ethel
Franklin Belts. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
From the story OF Sara Crewe" grew a
play, "A Little Princess" and from that
play has now grown a book OF some size,
telling in full the tale OF the adventures
and sufferings and final reward of gentle.
long-enduring Sara. Mrs. Burnett says in
her preface that she had no idea there
were SO many characters really demanding
a place in the story Of Sara Crewe until
she began to make play Of It, and even
after the play was produced and this lar
ger work was undertaken there were plenty
Of newly discovered Incidents that simply
could not be omitted IL the narrative of the
lovable little girls career at Miss Minchins
school were to be properly told. AS the
book stands, Sara's experiences are de-
scribed with many details that are most
interesting to all her old friends and many
new ones. And Miss Belts twelve beauti-
full color plates, showing Sara In her many
situations. as the happy companion of her
father: as the petted favorite at Miss
Minchin's school before the disaster came,
as the abused dependent living in the at
tic, as the recipient Of the bounty of the
mysterious Hindoo and his generous mas
Ter, living next door, ana Hnatly as Mr.
Carrisford's adopted daughter with beaut-
full clothes and plenty Of money to help
the poor and handsome COACH are them
selves worth close study. The tale thus
told will be all the more welcome for the
popularity of Sara in the previous intro
auctions the child readers have enjoyed
TEDDY SUNBEAM; Little Fables for Lit
tie Housekeepers. By Charlotte Grace
Sperry. Illustrated by Albertine Ran
dali Wheelan. San Francisco: Paul
Elder & Co.
Teddy Sunbeam is the kind of friend to
have. the kind every good housekeeper and
all her children and other helpers should
encourage to come around as often as pos
sible. Teddy is kept pretty hard at work
most Of the time doing the million and
seven things that must be done by all the
sun folks, but he has time to give good
advice now and then. and to stop to chat
with his friends the broom and the rain
bow and the violet and other creatures that
speak strange language all their own
that nobody but themselves and Teddy can
understand This little book, telling about
Teddy, is bright in every corner. as a book
about SO bright chap Teddy Sunbeam
should be. The pictures are amusing and
the stories are suggestive. Every little
housekeeper should be a reader.
JIM CROW TALES. By Burton Stoner
illustrated by CARL B. Williams. Ak
ron, Ohio: The Saalf1eld Publishing
Company.
Tom, the farmers son, had long chase
after certain crow that persisted in haunt
ing his fathers corn field and doing dam
age there to the newly planted grain. One
day he managed to capture this black thief
and tanned him and learned the crow Ian
guage, so that afterward Tom heard from
the crow some remarkable tales of the for
est animals. These tales are here set forth
and make highly entertaining reading.
THE WILD FLOWER FAIRY BOOK. BY
Esther Singleton. Decorated and Illus
trated by Charles Buckles Falls. New
--'~Y York: Dodd. Mead & Co. Washington:
Brentano's.
Here are twenty-four fairy tales col
lected from all sources. Danish, Chinese,
English. Hindu, Norwegian. japanese, Ger
man, French and Italian. They represent
the highest types of fairy lore in all Ian
guages, and are translated and retold with
consideration for the childs understanding
The book is beautifully Illustrated with six
teen color plates of q kind to delight the
young readers Each page is decorated
with artistic tracery in pale green, car
rying out the wild flower idea which
gives the volume its title.