Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-18
BOOK NEWS

I
! able strides of late, the recent Es-
peranto congress, held in England,
| having greatly increased popular In
terest in this scheme for a common Ian
guage through which the native OF one
| country may converse easily with the
man whose mother tongue. If spoken,
would have been as Greek to his fell
| low conversationalist. Esperanto does
not seek to provide a remedy for the
error committed at the tower of Babel,
| but to ameliorate the conditions thus
created. 1t is designed to be second
| language in which they may meet on
common ground, either for the ex-
change of social ideas or for business
purposes. It's strong point is its sim
plicity, the book itself consisting OF
only 1856 pages. To this however, is
added an Esperanto English and Eng
| lish- Esperanto lexicon for every day
use.
1.-The American Esperanto Book" by
| Arthur Baker. Chicago, Charles H.
Kerr & Co.
Among the new books of the autumn
season that will appeal particularly to
lovers of a good short story are an
even half dozen of yarns by as many
different authors, published by Thomas
Y. Crowell & Co. in the Entire
Nous" series. The booklets are taste
fully bound and artistically illustrated,
some one or two of them in colors.
The titles are: Good Night" by Flea
nor Gates, quantity pathetic story of
a parrot, very human in it's wicked
ness and in its love; Schmidt, by Lloyd
Osbourne, simple, homely tale OF an
east side German shopkeeper and his
life romance; Dawn" by Katharine
Holland Brown, an account of how a
great surgeon, his nerves sadly out of
,-1r
health and strength in the northern
wilds, through service to others;
"Allee Same" by Frances Aymar Mat
hews, the story of an American child
kidnapped by Chinese; 'In the Deep of
the Snow by Charles G. d. Roberts,
a Canadian ,out-of-door yarn; and AR
aminta and the Automobile" by
Charles Battell LOOMS. a Battelly yarn
of a "batty" automobile, which was
altogether too much for the inexperi-
ence of its owners. The Entre-Nous
series. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell
& Co.
Ted in Mythland'' is a successful
attempt to popularize mythology for
very young readers. Many of the
myths and legends are related in verse,
and in verse well calculated to appeal
to young minds. The stories are inter-
esting. and the pagan deities are given
a real existence through their CONVEX
sations with, little Ted, who meets
Cupid, Jupiter, Juno, Vulcan, Venus
and Dryads and all the other interest
ing inhabitants of Mythland in propria
persona. A connected thread of mar
rative runs through the book, suffici-
emily strong to carry the childish in
terest from one myth to the other
Tied in Mythland," by Hermine
Schwed. New York: Moffatt, Yard & Co.
The grown-up who has had children to
entertain upon days when the weather
forbade their being left to their own out
of-door devices will appreciate Cadolyn
Wells new book, Rainy Day Diversions, I"
just issued from the press of Moffat, Yard
& Co. The book contains numerous
recipes for dispelling juvenile boredom
and its cuisine is most excellent. More
over the descriptions of games. catch
puzzles, tricks and similar amusement
devices are written in narrative form, corr-
shutting in themselves series of short
stories that will prove highly entertain
ing to the youngsters. The idea of max
ing puzzle into a juvenile mystery story
is clever enough to merit the popularity
the work undoubtedly will receive.
Rainy Day Diversions. By Caroline
Wells. New York: Moffat. Yard & Co.
allure is Mother Goose's Puzzle Pictures"
just from the press of the Henry Altemus
Company. The old familiar text of Mother
Goose's rhymes, known and enjoyed by
many generations of Riddles here, remains
unchanged, but the Illustrations accom-
panying it contain hidden figures for the
little ones to discover. These hidden pic
lures have been very popular of late, even
among grown ups, and the new book
x1yifh n
view. The concealments are not too diff
cult for infantile solution, which should
make the book an acceptable gift either
to boy or girl.
Mother Goose's Puzzle Pictures. Phila-
delphia: Henry Altemus Company.
Charles Van Norden, author of "Yoland
of Idle ISLE is a New Yorker of old
family, his ancestors having been Dutch
settlers and Huguenot refugees of earliest
Importation. He was graduated from
Hamilton college as veledictorian, as a
clergyman held important parishes in New
England, for several years was president
of Elmira college and received honorary
degrees from Hamilton and from the Uni
versity of the City of New York. He
visited California, became interested in
the development of great water storage
system, in which his brother. Warner Van
|
connection he organized, promoted and
made successful one of the first electric
long transmission enterprises in the
world. He thereupon retired to private
life in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada,
where his picturesque home rests on a
site of surprising grandeur of outlook
upon gorge, valley and snow-capped
mountain.
Out of this leisure springs ''Yoland of
Idle ISLE which is a romance rather than
novel, and glorifies memories Of four
months residence long ago in the Ber-
mudas. DIR. Van Norden has already DE-
come an author of repute, and number
of literary ventures, two of which are re-
ligious and one an Outline of Psychol-
ogy," have come from his pen, to make
no mention of numberless contributions
in all kinds of periodicals on all kinds of
subjects His books have been received
with high favor by critics.
On the Pacific coast he has become well
known. because of his interest in philan-
thropic movements and In the economic
development of the region, especially
along lines of irrigation. He is now
closely identified with California, and a
persistent worker for all that makes for
tho oood of the state