The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-06
NEW BOOkS.
corhrpsd Lron Nlrth Prne .

~ q very 8ttraCtl'C Nblal'te OF lrute ara
verse and pictureH.
Another entertaining sc' ~ legends is
offered in Long igu in Greece " by Ed
mund J. CARPENTER Littla, Brown and
Company. The Greek myths are told
following closely tho version or some CLASH
cal author or other, from l.omer aud Heriod
10 the Lately dS covered HacChylidee. but
they are all legendary t6lcs in n poetic
form. The i~lhiFtpFtiorE arc from famous
paintings and sculpture. The author Is
never childish in hie rendering and never
rises above the comprehension Of youth
In his excellent English.
There is a class ~ books which il Is soTne
what dihicnlt 10 c~rilicisa and which are
perhaps fully described ny naming the
authors. Thesa ha ve thoir ~ ger audiences.
as Jacob Ahhoi and Oliver Optic and Miss
Aloott and Elijah Kellogg had in Ahrmer
dimes, who know intimately the boys and
girls created by the author and are anxious
to follow their further adventures, and who
would resent any change in their character
or behavior. Such books always form
O Series" and often appear in serial form
before being published in a volume. One
large batch If these comes to us from the
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company Of
Boston. In "Thn Camp ~ Letter X
Clarence r. Burlpigh loads his young heroes
through exciting adventures in the Maine
woods. There are hunting and wood
craft and smuggling, with many amusing
descriptions If natives aud their ways.
Everett T. Tomlinson in -Four Boys on
the Yellowstone" personally conducts the
reader from Buffalo to tho Rocky Noun
A-E., ,AI . br,ura ia V,rro nAztcpfnrpG than
fall 10 the lot Of ordinary prosaic ira ellers
A further step in evolutionary history is
taken by ". q. Stodda ri, in Two Cadets
With Washington his heroes now play
ing their part in the siege of Boston. A
tale If the sea and of adventure in the
fairyland Of the Pacific e. Edward Strate-
meyers Dave Porter in the South Seas"
This has nothing to do with the famous
cruise Of the little Essex, but carries the
modern hero Of a former book further on
bis career. As the title suggests, With
Mask and Mitt," by Alhertus r. Dudley, is
q lively baseball story. II deals with boys
In q great preparatory school and some Of
the Illustrations are photographs Of the
buildings.
Other books NJ the "A me sort come from
other publishers. Our Old friend. Edward
8. Ellis. IA kes 70 the Maine woods in "A
Hunt on Snowshoes" 0he John &. Winston
Company, Philadelphia. Adventure is not
there are Indians, for IL wouldn't
like Mr.. Ellis IL they were left ont, and
there are tales Of the North beyond. MIR.
Arthur Stanwood Pier in Harding Of st.
Houghton. Miffin and Com
pany) tells a second story Of life in the
prepa ratory schools conducted
after English models, in which he inculcates
the principles Of manliness according to
present day lights, and introduces, We think
for the first time. the President of the United
States az attending the school exercises.
Another excursion into Canadian descrip-
ton il made by Anna Chaplin Ray in Janet:
Her Winter in Quebec" little, Brown and
"A continuation of a series. in
Producing a comic Enplishman in addition
TO the boys and girls already known.
Among older books may be noted a re-
Of THE Bible for Young People"
CThe Century Company, Mrs. J. B. elders
admirable selection of 100 Bible stories
for the young, in which the text
Of the King James version il followed.
The type is large, the illustrations are from
celebrated pictures, and the book is very
handsome. A classic of the nursery, now
twenty-five years old, the first of the ia
nous Pepper books, Five Little Peppers
and How They Grew, by Margaret Sidney,
is published in holiday dress, with wide
margins and many colored pictures, by the
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company.
For the very young Clara Murray has
"Playtime" little. Brown and
Company, a sort Of glorifed primer, with
,harming and artistic coiored pictures by
Hermann Heyer. The Mother Goose melo-
dies in 'Favorite Nursery Rhymes" Erred
erick A. Stokes Company are illustrated
BY Ethel Franklin Belts in color and in
black and white. The pictures miss the
spirit OF childhood; they are more am
than successful. To these. perhaps,
should be added Billy Bounce" by W. w.
Denslow and Dudley A. Bragdon &c. W.
Company. That young per-
sons extraordinary and amusing advent
ures are, accompanied by comic pictures
vivid colors. Much of the fun, however,
,eems addressed to grown up persons,
particularly the slang, and it may possibly
bass wholly over the heads Of the young.
Among new school books We are glad
10 see Grace Greenwood's Stories from Old
Ballads" edited by Caroline Burnite (Ginn
md Company. A graceful writer who had
h art Of interesting the young. and who
more sympathy for literature than
modern specialists do. deserves to be kept
.Nve. The selection of Lyrical Poems by
Robert Browning" edited by A. J.. George
little, Brown and Company; has the
OF being easily understood. 1t is
painful 10 find Thsckeray's Henry Es-
(Macmillans) in school book form,
that Is inevitable now that the book
a requirement for admission to college.
The Introduction and notes are by Prof.
John Bell Henneman
A sort Of history for beginners in the
skape OF biographies has been written by
Or. Eva March Tappenin American Heroes,
lAoe-lseS' Houghton; Mifiin and Company
The heroes begin with Columbus and Magel-
AN and end with pavy Crockett and Kit
Carson; though Lincoln ia added. Their
stories are told in very simple language
and youthful aversion to dates is respected,
In very few instances.
A brief account Of the United States
army with special regard to the uniforms
has worn has been written by Tudor
jerks with the title, -Our Army for Our
Boys" Mofat, Yard and Company. The