Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-19

every one who reads this book.
Four Boys in the Land of Cotton. By
Everett T. Tomlinson. Boston: Lothrop
Lee & Shepard company.
Few authors can count so surely on a
large circle of admirers as can "Pansy
whose later books seem to have gained
In plot and general interest. while losing
nothing from their spiritual force. Her
new one. Ruth Erskine's Son. is SO
keen and true a picture of life that each
reader will feel that he or she has
known some of those people. Ruth Ers-
| kline was one OF the famous -Four Girls
at Chautauqua," and also the heroine
of Ruth Erskine's Crosses" another OF
this gifted authors most popular books.
This book finds her the widow of Judge
| Burnham. with one fine son, Erskine.
to the making of whose life she devotes
her own in fullest measure. With her
sons manhood and marriage come ex-
perienceS that would overwhelm weak
er and a less sensible woman. Her rare
tact and abiding faith prove equal to all.
| No one understands the serious things
of life better than Mrs. Alden, and her
keen presentation of its problems COM
| pels. the readers closest interest.
| Ruth Erskine's Son. BY Pansy (Mrs.
G. r. ALDEN. Boston: Lothrop, Lee "
| Shepard company.
|
a real boy who went from Boston to
| Arizona and Nevada with his parents,
| and the story is based on what the
bright little fellow actually did and ex-
| perenced in the mining districts of Ne
vada. In connection with many adven-
lures fine account of a most INTEREST
| ing and not very well known region is
given and told in way that will win
| the eager attention of children. The
| little hero is thorough patriot and
| deserves his success, and the account
of the national flag made by himself
| from scraps of red, white and blue cloth.
which taught something like love of
country to children who had not before
known it, is true story. The twenty
| four full page pictures lend much to the
| interest of the book.
A Little Prospector. BY Edith M HI.
Baylor. Boston: Lothrop, Lee e. Shep-
ard company
Sam Walter Foss is, more than any
other of his time, the true poet of the
| people, and his personally chosen title
| for his new volume fitly characterizes
book of verse that will be instantly ap-
preciated by the sound and wholes ONE
people who actually do the worlds
| work, who love poetry of music, feeling
and sense, but have neither time nor
i.inclination for society verse or sensa-
poems that require a university lee
turer to interpret them. Mr.. Foss has
clear, ringing message that charms
and amuses while making point that
is worth while And let no one think
his latest and favorite title means that
his Is merely average verse.
Songs of the Average Man. BY Sam
Walter Foss. Boston: Lothrop, Lee g.
Shepard company.
One of the events of the year for
boys is new book by Mr. Dudley, who
was a star college athlete himself not
so many years ago, and kept pace with
the scientific advancement which vari-
Gus forms of athletics have made in re-
cent years, and who knows American
fitting school life thoroughly. At Sea-
ton academy, which is, of course, Ex-
eter, three fine, manly comrades, re-
spectively captains of the football,
baseball and track and field athletic
teams, make a compact to support each
other in carrying through the really
great responsibilities that devolve upon
each. The purpose is that for the
honor of their school they may achieve
a great year" of triple victory over
their traditional rival. "Hillbury."
How they. develop their material. rise
superior to discouragement and fairly
attain their ambition. together with
many jolly incidents of real school life,
the most absorbing that man ever
knows, forms the story. THE Great
Year" is great book.
The Great Year. BY A. T. Dudley.
Boston,. Lothrop. Lee G. Shepard COM
panyv .s1A Ias ,it.es 81
An eighth volume brings to close the
popular Randy Books" Randy is the
same true. loving Girl that she has al
ways been. The comical rural characters
that have given so much entertainment
in early books are, if possible, more droll,
and Randy's little sister Prue as winsome
and original as ever. 1t has long been
evident that the time must come when
Randy must make the choice which most
deeply concerns her future happiness, but
so honest and maidenly is she that
neither of the young men who most
worthily admire her can feel that he has
more than the pleasant friendship of for
mer schooldays, nor is the reader any
wiser as to the outcome, until at the very
end she allows her heart to make known
who is "Randy's Prince" This is wisely
done, as the story of sweet and simple
girlhood is in this way entirely unim-
paired by the Introduction of the love ele-
ment The regret that there are to be no
more Randy Books will be somewhat
modified by the authors welcome state
ment that little sister Prue' is to have
a series of books written about her. be-
ginning with next season, in which Randy
will no doubt often appear.
Randy's Prince. BY Amy Brooks. Bos-
ton: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard company.
In little volume issued under the
explanatory title of "Stories from
French Realists," appear representative
tales by Zola and De Maupassant, suited
for school reading. They have been
carefully chosen to give the student
some conception of the spirit which has
dominated the literature of modern
France. as exemplified in the work of
the two chief exponents of the modern
realistic school. The scenes are laid in
France, and the life is wholly that of
the present day. The stories win give
large vocabulary of ordinary words,
and furnish material of intrinsic inter-
est as we'll There are helpful notes,
exercises for retranslation and a full
vocabulary.
Stories from French Realists. Edited
by l.. B. Shippe and N. L. Guene. New
York: The American Book Co.
The text of Muller's Neue AIarchen is
an excellent example of pure collouuial