The sun., 1907-11-09
NEW ROOKS.
Continued from sspcntE Paas.

storms and on the ice. There is a spirited
neEle girl in the tale who is almost az good
g o boy. They lnd mother for her and
q fortune and the gold chain and coin that
cnpves she was changed in her cradle FOR
Anckher baby that died. They are hustlers.
khO Rival Campers. They even steal a
big Indian from the circus and have a war
dance before they scalp him and find
rsdheaded IRishman under the Indians
eagle feathers and war paint. There 10
EOally not a dullnoment in the performance
III q good Olean vaudeville and doesn't do
any particular harm IL IL doesn't do any
special good 70 anybody. The book is
pubIished bYL. G. Page &Co. ..
A pretty dish to set before young readers
10 "Bl'lys Prlnoess.- by Helen Eggleaton
HASKELL IL. & Page CO... They will like
4 bsoauRe Il IL 40 unlike whatever did or
ever could happen In real life. just aa their
elders and better like prerOsterous tales
about imaginary dukes and queens OF
society written by people who dOnN know
anything about them. Billy was a nevNsbOy
Without any parents to Interfere with him.
His REinCess was a somewhat violent little
French xirl who didn't likSInar stepmother.
They lived together in an Smpty piano box
In q vacant LOT an the most wonderful way.
Billy's father had been an architect and
evidently a good one, judging BY the in
gWauity he handed down TO Hlly in the
line Of home making. Ultimately the
kind author, after the manner OF writing
people with nothing 10 do but to invent
things, found some very pleasant relanves
for Billy in England and some generous
and wealthy people in America 10 send
the Princess TO school, where It is To be
hoped she learned TO mend her manners
and govern her temper The book is written
with a certain brisk and deft cleverness
and a charming disregard for the proba-
hilities
The collection Of tales which f. Nesbit
publishes this season under the title OF
-The New Treasure Seekers" are delightful
stories that it is a pleasure TO recommend
to all kinds Of children-even the grown
up ones. Itis seldom that such refreshing
wholesome and entertaining fiction is TO
be found i'm the Juvenile list. The six
Bastable children have appeared before
in books, and all who have met them will
be delighted TO read more of their adven-
lures and their merry, whimsical remarks.
To those as yet unacQugiuted with H. o.
and Dora and the rest a pleasure is in
store. They are very real. very natural.
very slangy little English youngsters with
out any mother to interfere with their ex-
ploits. which are unusual and interesting.
The book opens with the wedding OF AL
berts uncle" where every one seemed
TO enjoy. themselves very much except
AIbert's uncle and his blushing bride:
and they looked desperate" The story
OF the making Of the Christmas pudding
In what the Bastable children themselves
would call ripping There are humor
and pathos and sweet human kindliness
as well as good craftsmanship in all these
stories which are published by Frederick
A. Stokes a Co.
"Napoleon's Young Neighbor." the story
Of the friendship between the eNiled En-
peror and -Betsey.' the little daughter OF
Mr.. Balcombe at whose house Napoleon
spent some weeks at st. Helena. is founded
upon an old book published the middle
Of the last century under the title of the
sRecolIections of Napoleon az St. Helena.
Helen Leah Reid (the author Of the Brenda" "
books understands the art of telling stories
for young people in a very entertaining
manner. To the portrayal Of the mischief
loving little Betsey and the great Emperor
In merry mood playing games and Presid-
ing at feasts with little girls as guests of
honor she has added a panorama of the
career Of Napoleon which will he read with
interest by those for whom the dry details
of history possess little attraction. Her
style is simple and natural and even historic
facts are transmitted by her into entertain
ing tales. Betsey is a very real and natural
little girl, and Napoleon is shown in a new
and appealing character the friend and
playmate Of little girls. The story is
published by Little Brown and Company.
"The Doctors Little Girl" is the angel
child which every little girl ought to be
but, thank Heaven, never is. With the usual
propensity Of sanity children she contracts
Q dangerous disease and barely lives through
it's crisis, her bed surrounded by anxious
watchers, the doctors fingers on her feeble
pulse. Parents and lovers of healthy,
natural, naughty children ought 10 be recon
oiled to their misdoings by this habit all
good children have of being i'll. Better
upset the household with mischief than with
trained nurses and doctors. There are in
this story, which Marion Ames Taggart
has written, a perfect mother. an equally
perfect father and, most remarkable OF all
loyal and devoted maidservant. There
is also lame little boy who plays the violir
and a rich little girl who is spiteful and
envious. The story is sentimental, pa
thotic and very disturbing to the robust
common sense OF the average child who
knows that things never happen that way
In real life and wonders why since they arr
10 often written in books. THE Doctor
Little Girl" 10 published by L. c. Page anC
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