Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-08
HOLIDAY JUVENILES.
illustrated Books to Delight the
Boys and Girls.

illustrated Books to Delight the
Boys and Girls.
THE STORY OF POCAHONTAS AND
CAPT. JOHN SMITH. Told and pic
tured by E. Boyd Smith. Boston.
Houghton. Miffiin & Co.
In no more artistic form has the story of
the doughty captain and the gentle Indian
maiden ever been told. All the twenty
six illustrations are reproduced by the
three-color process and the effect is ad
mirable. Not only, however, is there ro-
mantle story and charming color, but the
historical accuracy of the drawings make
the book peculiarly significant just at this
time, when the 3O0th anniversary of the
settlement of jamestown is to be cele
brated.s Mr.. Smith has substituted truth
for the humor that made his STORY of
Noah's Ark so delightful, but these stir
ring historical tableaux must much en-
nance his fame
sEEM-SO'S. By L. ]. Bridgman, author
of Mother Wild Goose" New York.
H. NJ Caldwell.
Figures often cast queer shadows, and
that fact is the keynote of this book. On
the right-hand page will be found shadow
perhaps of an elephant perhaps of pump,
perhaps even of a Russian soldier; on the
next page, however, will be found the real
cause of the shadow. The results are GER
tdiHly IuHHy anu Will appear u
readers. Clever little verses by the illus
traitor accompany the pictures.
THE PUNCH AND JUDY BOOK. BY
Helen Hay Whitney. Pictures by Char
lotte Harding. New York: Duffield q
Co.
The immortal Punch has now had his
story told with fitting rhymes and appro-
pirate illustrations. He is SO ubiquitously
wicked and does such novel bad things
that every little boy and girl must when
these charming rhymes of Mrs. Whitney's
are once heard, feel a curious relationship
to the naughty gentleman. Here they will
find not only Punch and his Judy, but Jim
Crow, the crocodile. the tiger, the donkey
and the doctor and Joey the clown, and,
although at the close the book says:
This ends the Punch and Judy Book;
You need not take another LOOK,
no child will be able to help looking until
he has it all by heart.
SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW. By Ca
brielle E. Jackson author of Little
Miss Sunshine" New York D. Apple
ton & Co.
Stories of schoolgirl life are always in
teresting to schoolgirls in real life This
tale of Gabrielle Jackson's is sure to ap-
peal. Both school and home life are model
ed on sound and wholesome lines. The I'M
deserved dishonor- and final righting of the
father of pathetic new girl unites her
story with that of Elizabeth, who is the
t'sunsh ine'' of the little world.
THE ROOSEVELT BEARS, Teddy-B and
Teddy-G; Their Travels and Adven-
lures. By Seymour Eaton paul Pr
PERI. illustrated by V. Floyd Camp
bell. Philadelphia: Edward Stern &
|. Co.
Hundreds of thousands of children have
become acquainted with the proweSs and
humor of Teddy-B and Teddy-G through
the medium of the newspaper syndicate,
and with the publication of their travels in
book form thousands more will enjoy them
in permanent form. President Roosevelt
and his boys are said to have been among
the many who followed the bears with de-
light when in serial form. Hence the name
Roosevelt Bears. Now, if any one misses
any particularly clever rhyme he will, as
everybody else must wait mpatently the
appearance of further adventures in book
two and book three.
THE JINGLE OF JAP. BY Clara Bell
Thurston. Boston: H. NJ. Caldwell Co.
1t may not be generally known, but the
book says:
Every dolly has heart,
Although yau may not know it.
So when you pin doll dresses on
Pray try to pin below it,
Inc story OF tne neart troubles or a little
Japanese doll, who completely loses his
head to lovely wax, naxen-haired beauty,
makes perfect toyland epic, and the ex-
quisite colored pictures and decorations are
treasures.
BOYS AND GIRLS FROM GEORGE
ELIOT. By Kate Dickinson Swee:ser
author of Ten Girls From Dickens"
Pictures by George Alfred Williams
New York: Duffield & Co.
Tom and Maggie Tulliver, Totty Poyser
Eppie, the Garths little Lizzie Jacob
Cohen, Tina the little black-eyed monkey,
Job fudge and Harry Transome are the
children of George Eliot whom Kate Sweet
ser has summoned out of the crowd of
grown-ups in the novels to meet in this
pleasant child company. The book is al
most a critical revelation. The service is
almost as much to the novelist as to the
many boys and girls who now will, without
distraction of matters to them unimportant,
become acquainted with these lovable little
folk. Bright, active, normal and real chill
dren are these, and their company empha-
sizes gift of their author too little felt
The pictures which Mr.. Williams supplies
are charming.
THE BABIES HYMNAL. Designs by
Abram Poole, jr. Selected by Marion
II. p. McFadden. Chicago: A. C. Nc
Clurg & Co.
A tender idea, very sweetly carried out, Is
this hymnal for the little ones There are
in all twenty-one hymns, with the music,
which have been carefully selected to suit
the simple moral needs of children. From
the Morning Hymn to the cradle hymns
at the end there is not one which has not
definite child appeal. The designs in baby
blue add much to the attractiveness of the
volume.
THE GOOSE GIRL, Mothers Lap Book
of Rhymes and Pictures. By Lucy
Fitch Perkins. Chicago: A. c. Nc
Clurg & Co.
Whether to speak first of the conspic-
uously charming full-page drawings of this
lap book or the rhymes that go with them
is hard to tell. Fortunately, as the author
is also the artist it does not make much
difference. Both pictures and poems are
delightful. 1t is not possible to agree with
the young critic in the book, who says:
If only people would write fewer books
How well pleased people would be-
II all Of the authors would change into cooks
'Twould suit me perfectly.
This author of 1.-The Goose Grl' even this
young critic would allow to ply her own
trade
VERBECK's BOOK OF BEARS. Ph:la-
deIphia: j. B. Lippincott Co.
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