Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-27

i Kelly while their parents are drinking wa
| ters for their health. The eldest tells ths
| story of the things they did and the sight:
they saw. and there was a great deal done
| before they hailed 'the union forever"
LADY HoLLYHOCKAND HER FRIENDS,
| Book Of Nature Dolls and Othors.
BY Margaret Coulson Walker. author
of Our Birds and Their Nestlings.'
Drawings by Mary Isabel Hunt New
York: The Baker & Taylor Company
Washington: Ballantyne & Sons.
No child can occupy itself with this col
| lection of marvels from -gourd men and
poppy maids. pipe dolls and peach Indians
without coming to realize the wonderful
store house Of nature. The colored Illus
graphic text. will enable every little person
to make all the playthings he wants.
THE AUTO GUYED, q Pictorial Alpha
bet. Text by James Jay O'ConnelL
Pictures by Rudolph e. Leppert. New
York: e. P. Dutton & Co.
Children Of all ages viii laugh at this
series of comic pictures and funny rhymes
Here is a fair sample:
L b the Luck that would seem to pursue
For your wheels always skid when you want to
skfddoU.
ANIMAL SERIALS. By e. Ward Blais.
dell. New York: T. 7. Crowel1 & co.
Mr.. Blaisdell has depicted 30 many AMI
mails in human guise that he Is said to
think in terms Of animal life. Certainly
no more droll collection has been pro-
duced In ages. Mr.. and Mrs. Rabbit, Miss
Hippopotamus. Messrs. Bear. Lion and
Elephant, as he has seen them, will be-
come household memories and papa and
mama may find In their performances
something curiously satiric Of people they
know.
THE PICCOLO. By Laura e. Edwards,
author Of Captain January" Boston:
Dana Estes & Co.
1.-The Piccolo'' is a charming little poem
that gives its name to a more charming
group Of child's verses 1t Is hard to be-
ueve that the little tot can be entirely
happy unless he is to learn some Of these
ditties Of the woods, birds, beasts and
child life. And while he Is singing the
songs he must not miss the clever mar
ginal pictures that decorate the book.
QUEEN SILVER BELL. By Frances
Hodgson Burnett. New York: The
Century Company.
RACKEITY PACKETTY HOUSE. By
Frances Hodgson Burnett. New York:
The Century Company.
So charming are Harrison Cadys Illus
trations Of Mrs. Burnett's new series Of
fairy tales of which Queen silver-Belr'
and "Racketty-Packetty House are the
first issued, that 1t Is difficult to stop gazing
at them and commence the stories. and
then one is provoked that he delayed. The
qualities that gave Little Lord raunt-
leroy its imperishable charm are echoed
in these tales, together with a little tin
king, silver note of their own. The fairies
nd oil how 10
THE STORY OF GENERAL JOHANN DE
KALB. By Percy K: Fitzhugh. illus
trated by B. M. Fairbank. Young
Folks Colonial Library. New York:
Mclaughlin Brothers.
This story of how the poor peasant boy
Of Huttendorf became the famous Baron
de Kalb and how he laid down his life in
the service OF the Continental Army Of
America should be of great interest to
every young patriot. He will be particu-
larly entertained at the account of the little
French marquis and the gigantic baron In
Philadelphia.
IN EASTERN wONDERLANDS. BY Char
lotto Chaffee Gibson. Illustrated from
Photographs. Boston: Little. Brown &
Co.
To be taken with a party OF bright boys
and girls from home and given a chance to
see all the strange peoples Of the far east,
to stop at such wonderlands as Honolulu.
Toxic. Nikko. Kioto, China. Ceylon. Handy.
India with Lucknow. Delhi and Bombay,
and then travel through Egypt. that is the
fairy fancy that comes true some times,
and here such an adventure Is told just as
the children saw 1t.
OUR LITTLE SPANISH COUSIN. BY
Mary F. Nixon-Roulet. Illustrated by
Blanche McManus. Boston: L. Z. Page
& Co. Washington: woodward &
Lothrop.
The manners and customs of the sunny
land of Spain they are seen through the
eyes of a growing boy make this new addi-
ton to the Little Cousin series particu-
larly attractive. Everybody wants to know
how the boys Of other countries actually
live. and Fernando is q real boy, and the
way he plays and the things he sees and
Is interested in over in the great peninsula
from which Columbus sailed makes a
bright and happy story.