New-York tribune., 1907-12-07
JUVENILI4.
STORIES, Real AdUentures and Pict-
ares for BOys and Girls.

toid stories OIL Sir Francis brakes adventures
on the Spanish Main; of the famous fight at
Lepanto of Don John Of Austria; Of the splen-
did struggle of Les Gueux, the wild beggars of
the sea-; of that wonderful last fight of the
Revenge whereby Richard GrenvilIe ended his
life as a true soldier ought to do: of the brave
career of the Dutchman Barentz and Van
Heemskerk: of-but need not continue the
sturdy list. Here stories of the fighters
OF ali nations told tersely, picturesquely and
enthusiastically 1t is a book to make boysh
pulses race. volume in which fiction has
larger share than history is Mr. ]. T McIn-
tyres The Boy Tars of 1912" (The Penn Pub
fishing Company The fiction is conventionally
"bluggy'-the best passages in the book have
to do with the fight between the Guerriere and
the Constitution and the battle of New Orleans.
a book in which there is more or less of battle.
murder and sudden death is c. H Forbes
Lndsays John Smith. Gentleman Adventurer''
q. B. Lippincott Company From his boyhood
In Lincolnshire to his departure from Virginia
in 1909. invalid and a sadly disappointed
man, accompany the courageous soldier of
fortune. conced!ng that whether his
count of his prodigies of valor against the
Turks and of his encounters with Indians be
strictly true not, they at least furnish excel
lent material to the judicous biographcr. An
OTHER book this lively hero intended for
young readers-a book which is chiefly devoted
TO his adventures in Amerca-is Eleanor II.
Johnson's Boys Life of Captain John Smith
CThomas Y. Crowell & Coz. This volume. like
the other. is written in vein of hearty admira-
ton and respect for the captain. He appears
again in the early pages OF Mr.. Tudor Jenks's
book When America Was New CThomas Y.
Crowel & Coz. as a type of the Adventures
who led the way these rich shores, Mr..
jerks. however, has given comparatively little
mirable aim has been to describe the life of the
eolonists. their occupations. amusements and
surroundings. in the years in which they gradu-
ally made this great land abode ready for
civilized men, for women and little children. in
stead of being wild. unknown country, where
Indians lived and roved, leading life almost
ignorant of what these white thought
necessaries Of life" 1t was an excellent idea
to thus present to modern American bows and
girls the practical details which they often fail
to find in ambitious histories They will
open eyes of wonder, doubt. over this pas
sage:
b6 n 3 wa e hf he ras T96 % T6 6S in hs as
to show great respect for their elders saluting
table while their elders ate. and We're expected TO
give a helping hand upon the farms and in the
house. In this way they learned to do all sorts
cf work. and as. they grew up became fitted TO
the Colonial childhood soon to end.
games that were like what they around them
The boys pretended to be Indians or hunters or
fishermen: made bows and arrows or wooden
guns. willow whistles, harnessed their dogs 10
III ME- i.. ,nabin to- b1t dolls made them out of corn
husks. sticks. flowers and leaves and played house
81 Short they made their .playthings or Joined
in the games that, Ike tag heeo nothing ou' c'I-
dren themselves.
The grewsome dangers that Colonial children
had to face are illustrated in new volume of
Mrs Mary p Wells Smiths "Old Deerheld
Series" In this Boys OF the Border" O1ittle,
Rrov.n & Coz the author tells in effect the
story of the border forts and of the woes OF the
settlers in the Deerfeld Valley during the
period of the French and Indian wars Reai
norsonages appear therein. and the narratives
of Indian raids grievously true collec-
,ion of spirited stories of fighting with Indians
a,d bighwavmen in the Far West bears the
title of Adventures OF Uncle Sans Soldiers
,4arner e. Brothers) These tales offer at
tractive instances OF herofsn and not few.
thrills Among the authors whose work these
are shouId be mentioned General Charles King
and Captain Charles A. Curtis.
The frozen North has not been left unVlslted
j.; tho hooks of the season. In North Over
land with Franklin" CThomas Y. Crowell & Coz
Mr. ] NJ Oxley has founded romance upon
history reteling in lively fashion the story of
Lieutenant John Franklin's exploration in the
grin, vastes of Northern Canada The after
career of the brave Englishman has for most
people obscured the interesting events OF his
earlier days and the record ingenlously set i'll
frame of pleasant fiction is welcome one
Another story OF icy regions is Professor Edwin
+ Houston's 1.-The Search for the North Pole
(The John c. Winston Company This author
has used in his story many stirring details Of
past explorations and has sought to show the
coniectured availability OF scientific dis
coveries and inventions in the longed-for finding
of the pole
What will story Toying youngsters do wien
"E. Nesbit," otherwise Mrs. Hubert Bland, gets
tired of writing a bout the Bastabe family?
There is Oswald the almost mpeccable elder
brother who sweIls with conscious virtue; ana
there is Noel the little poet, with his rhyme
about
They must nave been an awful size
And tbere is naughty H. o. who runs away
to be a Clown. writing to Father Bastaple'
"yyben 7 am rich and reveared / Will come
hack rolline"-in money, understood And there
is Dora the judicious, who cant resist hu-
morous escapade and Alice, the brave, VINO Is
almost as good as boy, ana ooh let US io'
get Dcky the inventor-who that mas per
sonal acquaintance with these Bastape chiioieh
can ever be Indifferent the successive re-
ctals of their adventures? In the New lreas-
ure- Seekers (Frederick A. Stokes Company
thew have as much fun and fall into as many
scrapes as in the former volumes Inc STORY 10
merry and sympathetic and winningly Illus
trative of child character. An uncomHo1is
agreeable story also is Minna Caroline Smiths
Red TOP Ranch" &c. p Dutton d COZ. Inc
free and joyous life a Wyoming ranch' Win
;.st nox.et occupations and amusements, is made
~ seeu, as entertaining to the reader as 10 t'ie
uo1, Eastern visitor who is the heroine. Ihere |