New-York tribune., 1905-11-25
JUVENILIA.
NezU Holiday Books about Girls,
Boqs and BeastieS.


ners Sons, The little heiress who lost her
father and her fortune at one stroke ana oe-
came the drudge of a boarding school was anu
is. doubt, impossible paragon but many
little girls have shed delicious tears and glggleo
delicious giggles over her sorrows and her oo-
dities, revealed in the first version or heF
story and in the play made therefrom Various
personages missing from that early version ana
found in the play appear in the new book
Mechisedec for instance, is character whose
acquaintance the young reader will claim with
enthusiasm. If Sara Crewe seems to oldsters d
sugar candy being quite untrue to life, 1t must
he said that Youngsters can devour great oeal
of sugar candy without much HARM and that'
on the whole the ideals presented by this lollS
child are admirable ones for little girls TO suus
Il, toward AS for the romantic return OF
Sara's fortune, this is a period of nara lacls'
and such fairylike improbability VIII cultivate
q desirable Imagination. Ethel Franklin Bettss
illustrations in color are suggestive, anu Soiii0
of them are prettily pathetic
A charming story book is Barbara Yechtons
"soroe Adventures of Jack and Jill' Dodd'
Mead g. Coz She has gone back therein TO the
uest Indian island in which she found such
.xoal1ent material for former book. Not ohly
Tack and JILL but all the other young peopie
she introduces to US. are amusing ana '@oio'
not in the least priggish, but wholesomely soou
and whoiesomely naughty Jill-otherWlse niue
winifred Carstairs-tells the story as gayly ana
simply as a real child of the clever sort "oulu
do The oddities among the islanders ana INC
phases of life unknown to American chlluieii
lend a delightful freshness to these pages
There is no lack of exciting adventure tho
most effective of these being Jilrs rescue OF heF
delicate little brother Paul from the quicksano'
.+be debbiI sand" into which he has Wanoereo'
That the incident is made to seem perrecIy
probable and not at all melodramatic Is hlsii
testimony to the authors skill. gfvio, also' 10
the description Of Santa Cruz hurricane "he1
Jill and her brother Jack and OLD MISS Deii
Wade are caught by "W-h-u-f!-B-a-n-s!
great tremendous gust" fn the open street.
we went so fast that there no time to think l5
the z TouP hard thgmp sass thsFs TaTf FPts 1f aSd
ana Roidng tight gbqea S to Of 9ss sr fsher
I'VE must shut that up qckly says I I JaGh breath af
and ae $40 so Was + though stl very frightened
And hardly had Jack done that with @ ths coffas ff
Rss B6t fSR3 3f of her has
u0 comes Peor another remendous wind below
ing nd and thoSEh TSaEns aef as and sIef arg
ehildpep Just lust raiea se fs Be d0n too Not carrying
Vsry high in the air this time but sun & up aI0m on
ntBi0g eh9 at all Then down we would flop again
hard upon the earth then whired rouna ana & GuT or
IKE IN AVN MS'1 fat But sometimes in such very
comical way that though you sn Rnew now fTghtened
and Miss Bell shrieking out still you SPd I dd9 nor
not aIways help laughing. But Miss Ben oio ii0'
laugh can tell you.
The author of the Brenda Books has writ
- ,n "Arov In Acadia little, Brown & Coz
.laa..,+ story of travel in Evangeline's country
rzb o1ar of the volume admits the use OF enter
+sinine historical anecdote, and there IS enough
NAV of temper and motive among the charao-
4ers ordinary they are, TO hold tile Ih'ei
of the average girl reader Acadlan sceiies'
Acadian romance and Acadian relics are Poi
+rayed in such an inviting fashion thaI 1t may
Iii s,,eeest TO the reader a journey Of personal
exploration Another book reminiscent VI pae'
times is Miss Amanda NJ. Douglas a Ll''io
Civil in Old San Francisco" Dodd, Mead q COB
This is the San Francisco of the forty-ilillers'
strange unfinished, rickety, bewildering place.
-,,+,, ,,sIiness crowding marvellous beauty, and
eordid vulgarity rioting side by side with SUN
c~or;sl, ettoue+te How much the author reallv
Knows Of the time and place we may not con-
iecture. but by dint Of mixing with her pracli-
cal details large amount of sentimentallty she
has made a story which is calculated to appear
10 girls in their teens
The Kristy of 'Kristy's Surprise Party
(t4ouRhton Miffiin g. Coz. by Mrs olive Thorhe
H1,,ar ,s one that we have met before-in this
1a5x hNOkS-Ine
thirst for stories To her upon her birthday
co,,oAs a rrocession of grown-up friends, bringing
eact a story to tell. In most cases 1t Is a story
of the teller's own childhood and in most cases,
go a. has an excellent moral The story OF
a. ,,+ Turein's Tea" inculcates the virtue or
careful obedience; that of Lost in the Fire
shows forth 2 deed of unselfsh bravery; that of
..-rhA Oueer Family Next Door the wisdom of
nindfng ones mother: that of Aunt Sues Sc
cret., the lesson that neighborly love and help
f,,ness bring happiness not only to the helped
49, 20 the belner These are only part of Mrs.
sfiller's Christmas box of tales: all are sweet IN
snir,t and full of common sense. book in
similar iudicious vein. intended for little girls
whose years have struck eight or nine, IS Eliza
orne Whites story, AN Only Child" CHoughton,
Mif1in & Coz The small heroine of this vol
,,ne has her times of folly, her hours Of fun,
and her folly and her fun often revolve round
sroun of exceedingly interesting cats. And
sneaking of animals brings TO the book called
ppm" (the H NJ Caldwell Company. by Mrs. o.
Rragdon It is the autobiography Of grey
bound which IS a kind of dog much liked by
those who like IL at all Pup IS particularly
ane specirnen of the breed-an afTectionate. cour
ageons feIleg with enough whimsicality and
sense of buuor to make his company most en-
1iventng The romance of his career is mostly
caused by the efforts OF the bad man who has
stolen him in his soft babyhood to steal him
again when ne has reached the haven OF be-
loved home There is no occasion for tender