Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-30
BOOK WORLD NOTES

Pages will be found an account of Bernard
Shaw's personal life and of his connection
with public movements This book comes from
the press Of George w. Jacobs Co.
Suffrage and politics are not the only fields
today which attracting the attention or
woman. Big game hunting Is also one or her
attainments. pictured In Two Dianas and
Their Shoot in Somaliland,'' n new-b book an
nounced by John Lane company. The volume
is a profusey illustrated account OF DIG
game shooting in desert and Jungle The TWO
huntresses describe in many interesting chap
ters camp life, trek. hunt and chase The
photographs many and valuable.
The laureate of green fields and running
brooks, James Whitcomb Riley. has written a
long poem entitled Boys of the Old Glee
Club" which the Bobbs-Merrill company have
issued. Somehow-perhaps because most OF US
spent happiest days in simple country
hcmes-the rhymes of this unpretentious singer
seem to touch the hearts of the people. The
exotic, the affected, the insincere appear sud
denly in their true colors when placed beside
Mr.. Riley, who stands for all things real, hu-
man and worth while Boys of the Old Giee
Club is written in the famous Riley dialect
and presents such village characters as the
title Observation-Disclosures storekeepers farm
ers, whose gift for song used to thrill the
''gethering" at ''sociabes, @. A. RS, cam
paign meetins." and the like
Myra Kelly has followed up her remarkable
SucceSSful Little Olt1ZenS WlLu u new WI
ume of stories of the school children Of New
York 8 east side, entitled wards of Liberty"
Here again the little characters OF the first
book, with their irresistible mannerisms and
dialect, furnish endless entertainment and
newer glImpses of phase of metropolitan life
OF whose existence few people were familiar
before Miss Kelly published her first story.
All, or nearly all, of the stories in the book
have appeared in McClure's Magazine.
One of the most difficult tasks of the writer
of childrens books is to determine what Will
please his small critics. To write over the
heads of ones juvenile readers is not less IN
effectual than to write down to them-an in
dignity which the youngsters are quick to re-
sent. That Paul Harboe hit upon the happy
medium in his 'Child's Life OF Hans Christian
Andersen" one of Duffield & Co. s new books.
is shown by an enthusiastic letter that his
widow has received from little 9-year-old
girl in Boston: Dear Mrs. Harboe, she says,
THE book was lovely. The part that liked
best was when Hans went abroad, and was re-
ceived by the lords and ladies so grandly.
There wasn't a part in the book didn't ike.
1t was all good. When first got 1t began TO
read it right eway. 1 hope will soon be able
to read some more books that were written by
your husband" This little admirer unfortu-
nately must hope in vain, for Paul Harboe DIED
last summer. before the publication OF his
book.
One of the most Enthusiastically eccentric
things ever done by Gelett Burgess-and one OF
or four days in constructing of cardboard. mica
and green velvet little model of an old New
England house. complete to windows, cur
tains, lawn. garden, trees and even lnciuding a
hammock with a tiny hat and a summer novel,
and washing stretched out on a clothes line
on the back stoop. This was for dinner
given to several literary friends in New York,
and, when the coffee was served, he deliper-
ately set fire to the whole farm. His expla-
nation was that had It been spared, his guests
might have forgotten the affair. but they would
always remember the destruction OF the house.
There was considerable practical II subtle
psychology in his reasoning. No one who ever
saw that little house go up in smoke on Its
little hill OF damp moss will ever forget 1t.
Indiana as O storehouse for Stevensonian ad-
venture seemstnot yet exhausted. for the Bobbs-
Merrill company announce that the heroine OF
Meredith Nicholson's new novel, Rosalnd at
Red Gate' is near neighbor to the famous
House of a Thousand Candles" Once again,
the publishers intimate, strange craft cruise
Lake Annandale, dark villains watch their
chance for knife thrust in the dark-once
again heroes are bold and maids are fair, and
the happiness Of love crowns ALL CLOVIS thus
the fire of romance in the heart of .prosaic
America, and all true patriots rejoice that an
other commodity can be procured at home.
The CITY of Aniston in 'Santan Sanderson'
is presumably Portland, Ore, whose citizens
will no doubt recognize the lonely white house
in the aspens," the wide square with the court
house facing it. and on another SIDE the
chapel on whose communion table the Rev.
Henry sanderson played his game of poker
for Hugh Stires' soul.
The Mcclure company announces the follow
ing REPRINTS: A second edition Immediately OF
'The "Reminiscences Of Carl Schurz"; sixth
edition OF Ida NJ TarbelPs little masterpiece
HE Knew Lincoln; fourth edition OF o.
Henry's stories Of metropolitan life. THE Four
Million; a sixth edition of Helen r: Martin s
new Pennsylvani9 Dutch story His Court
ship"