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ROSE o. THE 1a1vER--By Kate Wig
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ROSE D. TILE {R1vER--By Kate Wig
+ gill. PIP. III. s1.2b. Honghtoll, Milf
fin & Co., Boston. EJig H
. Mrs. Wiggin's charm Of style and her
vein OF genuine htmor have Won for
Her and assure her for the future h
large circle of friends These two quail :.
/. ties have combined to give her work n
& character that has appealed largely, and
people like to read what she writes for
the sake OF this, and more or Less re =
rnrdlcss OF what she Is writing about
4 |Rose o. the River is sparely equipped
4 In the plot; there IA little story hhd
! what there Is is conventional and not
1 new. Rose the rustic beauty, rewards
i Stephens long and faithful devotion
i with her hand though her love for hin
4 Is at that time more or less promenade.
Later Claude, the dappor glove sales
man from Boston, naeks manor the
world assault upon her young AFFECTIONS,
4 Ind she apr cars 80 Thoroughly beguiIcu
! by Ciaude's superior acquaintance
with the amenities of litsl that Stephen
| feeling himself unlovcd stcrnly breaks
! Inc Engagement. Later still Rose comes
| 10 see that Claude 1t but tlnsel and 3dross,
and, her heart now genuinely warming
| toward Stephen, she wins MIN DICK, nlu
thcy are again betrothed. with every
/ prospect OLA happiness ever after.
rhis is ii simple and ancient theme
! which would prove certainly dull In un-s
sl,ilful hands, but Mrs. Wiggin has re-
| deemed 1t in the telling by hcrsabilitlesi
and narrative SKILL There is plenty that
! is amusing In these pages. ODD Ken
nebec" and the Crambury fool family
being tho chief humorous characters.
| "Old Kennebec" IS Roses grandfather,
| < INF nj
teresting character, IN the book. The old
gentleman was so named because he had
| once lived on the Kcnnebcc, and was for
over Dragging about the wonderful
"drives'' they used to have on that
! noble stream In which he. .Kenncbec,'
| always played redoubtable and famous
part. The scene IS laid Oh tlc banks Of
the Saco, and there are some lively nc-s
counts of logging and jam breaking on
! that stream. Rose o the River is a
! simple village idyl, done With the charm
that we naturally look for in this au-.
thor's work.
THE HEART or a GIRL BY RUTH
Kimball Gardiner. PIP ESQ. $i.50. a. s.
Barnes Company, New eiOr'.i
This Is a very good book OF Us kind. It's
title is deceptive, suggesting Kind Of
sentiment that Is conspicuous only BY It's
absence ..Thc GIRLS dropped at just
about the time when she Is old enough
to have beaux and the book deals With
n feminine heart engaged with for diff
fcrent things. This is Margaret carln, lier
| book, and tho reader Is privileged to fol-
| low Margic's life, principally her school
| life, from the year she WAS too young
even for the First Reader class to the
day when she graduated with flying col
ors at the High School. Mrs. Gardiner
N I,n., Iat,t v,,,I,l rI,r ~ n.
sight and skilfnlncss, and has traced the
development of her herone'a character
| with insight, decacy and charm, The
earlier chapters have reminded us good
| deal OF the immortal Emmy Lou, which
| Is high praise for u hook OF school
sketches. They have not all the, engaging
humor of Emmy Lou, but they have
much Of the same graceful fancy and
pleasing sentiment and much-G of the
same charm. The book as a whole differs
from n rather too great length and
there has seemed no particular point N
another which the Carin family made.
However, Margie Is a nice girl, interest
ing and with an Individuality all her
own. and we have found It agreeable to
read about her. &s
COMPLETE PoETICAL WORKS OF
Lord Byron Cambridge Edition. PIP.
Company. Boston.
Messrs. Houghtoh Mifflin and Com
pany's Cambridge edition of the poets
Is we'll known. A feature of the edition
is the collection al all the poets work,
with but one or two exceptions into
single volume, thin, but untransparcnt
paper enabling the publcisters 10 keep
down the size of the valume without q
sacrifice OF: good clear print. The val
llnEcs are thoroughly edited with
portrait and biographical sketch of the
author, complete but concise annRtation
and indexes to titles and first lines. The
volume before us Is complete, and despite
the fact that 1t contains over one thou
sand pages, it is in no sense unwieldly5 or
over bulky Both mechanically and cdl-
torially, 1t is an excellent book which 1t
is a pleasure to praise.
THE HANDBOOK OF PRINCETON
BY John Rogers Williams. Pp. 154.
$3.50 net The Grafton Press. New
York.
A historic and descriptive account cf
Princeton University The various un-
versty buildings nre noted In detail, brief
historical sketches being devoted to nj
least all the more important ones, and
the various points of interest In the
town IRE also duly written up. large
number of good photographs illustrate
the text. The volume contains an IN
PRODUCTION Of Dir. Woodrow Wilson. No
boy, however deeply interested In the
prospect of going to Princeton, would
ever study through these pages, SO we
conclude that the book must have been
written for interested mothers and faith 4
ers and for visitors II there is a demand
among them for a guidc-hook to Prince
ton, no doubt this volume will satisfy It, 4
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BOY SOLDIERS or THE CoNFEDER-
ACY.-By Susan r, Hui, PIP, 959.
$500 net Neale Publishing Co., WASH
ington,
has gathered many fragments having
to do With the boys who bore arms In
the Confederate army. In the aggregate
L lis n hraNe story. but d hnthet L. ono