The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-08

of the numerous pretty things that have
come from this earning authors pen.
THE Love Affairs of Literary Men is
charming as any of its older sisters
and brothers. which is saying all that
can be said for it. Bound in the pref
test of lavender and gold. the little book
is as refreshing to read as to gaze upon
And the love affairs are delightful, too.
True. in some instances they have been
toned down considerably for holiday read
ing, and the naughty Shelley, with his nu-
merous loves, seems almost justified in
his liberal amOurs. Poe is not so bad,
either, as one has always thought him,
being only gentleman who likes drink
occasionally and dies-well. of what some
unfortunate gentlemen fond of drink
occasionally do die OF. While the title
really sounds almost alarming, realizing
as one does that the love affairs of some
of the literary geniuses would hardly
make good holiday reading nor the most
edifying mental pabulum for the Young
Person. yet the book, in all its dainty
prettiness, may be safely put in Sweet
Sixteen's Christmas stocking with the
pleasant assurance that it is innOcently
charming both inside and outside.
More About The Teddy Bears-seymour
Eaton. author; Edward Stern & co, pub
fishers:
Perhaps there is little boy or girl in
the United States who doesn't know or
love the Teddy Bears, but If there is no
one seems to know of such a very strange
child as that. This Christmas Seymour
Eaton has worked very very hard to have
a book ready for his little readers VINO
would not consider their Christmas com
plete unless they heard some more or the
two adventurous Bruins, Teddy b and
Teddy G.. who are having such lot OF
fun travelling. This latest chronicle OF
their adventures shows them in many
odd places. but the two chums are
happy and rolicking throughout all their
adventures and have some great old
times.
exciting series of happenings in Pullman
cars Kansas farms Niagara Falls and
Boston But to show that they are really,
truly heroes, they put out fire ana get
well burnt and sore for their pains. or
course their meeting with Buster Brown
and Tige is one of the interesting parts
of the narrative, though Busters mother
was along and sort of kept down the nj
| larity of the party. West Point and phil
adephia, Washington and Pittsburg, all
in turn were viewed by the bears and
| heartily enjoyed as every little tad who
| knows the furry gentleman can vouch Tor.
| But the greatest of all is where the bears
get out a newspaper. Just to see Teddy
G. running linotype machine is worth
| the entire cost of the book.
| The book, which is large and thick, has
| number of full page Illustrations in
| colors, lending interest to the text, while
| every page is Ornamented with the Teddy
| Bears in some of their stunts.
| 1t bids fair to be one of the most
popular of the Christmas books and for
| the little girl who has a Teddy Bear
snugly tucked away in the nursery it
can not fail to be of immense pleasure.
| Pinafore Palace, Edited by Kate Doug
! las Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith
| The Mcclure company, publishers:
| Every home. large or small. poor or
| rich, that has a child in it, says Kate
| Douglas Wiggin in the forewOTd to this
/ delightful treasure house of rhymes, lis a
| Pinafore Palace, and we have borrowed
the word phrase thinking no other words
| would so well express our meaning"
! In the fOTeword of the book a plea is
! made for dear old Mother Goose and Mrs.
! Wiggin assures the young mother. grave
! iy anxious as to her babyS mental food,
| that the dear old woman scatters but the
most wholesome of healthful nonsense.
| But the book is by no means baby
jingle book 1t contains all the best IN
Juvenile poetry one is tempted to say
ever written, for surely there are d thou
sans little gems of the poetry of child
hood.
Just to read over again the gallant
| courtship of and marriage of brave Cock
| Robin and Modest Jenny Wren brings
one back with a lean to chiIdheed and
many young mother with baby heads n
| her lap will read over the old dear rhymes
| abstractedly and see again her own home
and her own mother reading the never
old quartrains that tell of Jack Sprat
Peter Pumpkin Eater. Little Bo-Peep anc
Jack, the house builder. Then such q