The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-18


 wealthy friends and they suecaad aI last and their fortune make very pretty tale which boys and girls will delight in and older folks will also find very interesting. "Billys Princess is very prettily Illustrated by Heien Mccormick Kennedy
 TIE FIRST NANTUCKET TEA PARTY PARTY, Illustrated by Walter Title; published by Doubleday. Page X. Co.' New York; $2.ao at Judas.
 The First Nantucket Tea Partg.1 which Doubleday, Page < Go. havs just published for this holiday season purports to be letter written hv Ruth Starbuck Wentworth 9n inc twentieth day of September. l7sa. The letter is addressed to. her mother and tells the story of the arrival of the ! first tea in Nantucket: also af the ar- rival of 8 certain sea clptain and of the romance which followed ii is narrative delightfully."- as.lass, naive. and charming and the illus.rati5ns-- which produce the effect If the in. comparable illuminated mediaevai manuscripts unique, lavish and beautiful. Whether Ruth Wentworth did actually write her letter in 1795 is a question for ths higher critics" 1 to answer. but the loeamsnt, which has long been know1 n Nantucket. has every mark of authenticity and is fully believed to be genuine The book is a very handsome lnl artislic ccn- tribution to the haliGa publications and will doubtless be in much Cemand. As says the Boston Iisrald
 '.In the form If letters to her rar- ents the lovely young heroine of the lstory narrates her l4ttis tale of her hearts romance, anl by hsr portraits Ishe is q most ailuriag all I Tascinating bit of feminine nature.
 1 Although the picture drawn for the frontispieee' is 1ttinsly eharaeseris- tic of the story's imp3ig, vet the most charming portraits of thls laiv fair are those taken with her clad in her lnew blue gown with grandmas lace lin the neck. IL is this gown, which Eshe writes her mothsr slls is wearing to family dinner parry where Aunt Content is much pest9rcd .n her mind as to how to serve .ns tea which las Ibeen brought from across the sea by ! cousin At any rare a desper1se att tempt is made and twl bowls 9s tea fare boiled for an holr@ and when the cousin and his fr9ll arrive they are told the process of tea-nlaking. Thus Hit happens thatSthe cousin 5 friend superintends the showing fl the lady in the blue gown how to properiy make the tea, While Aunt Esther'S careful watching of ler nieee leads 4 her to reprimanding that young mall and reminding her that t wls url- seemly to talk with men. However, l that view of the question does not prevent a wooing and laRWedling be- A fore many months.
 "It is pretty little tale, these let l ters of a young maiden fair, and tlie I author has shown marked nicstsr and 1 delicacy in the simple style ofssts llar- Eration, so appropriately befitting the l character of the stopy's import and text.
 MT. Titles artistic embellishments in the way of richly toned page il- 3Elumining and effectively shaded color sI Illustrations ad much to the storys attractiveness
 4 .HEIDI. by Joanna Spyri translate ed from the Thirteenth German edition 4 by Helen A, Dolei published by Ginn eS CO, Boston; 50
 beautiful holiday edition which is; heartily commended to searchers for suitable Christmas gifts, The story is d charming picture of happy domestic life among Swiss children, valuable for lis revelation of national traits and a simple religious feryor which touches the heart
 Johanna Spyri is well known in Ger- many as a writer of children's stories, and some of her books have reached an almost classic distinction in the lit erature for young readers One of her most widely known books on the Con- l tinent is Heidi which is the Swiss dialect dininutive for Adelheid. It has run through numerous editions in \ German, but has never, until the pres- 4 ent time, been brought out in English. 4 Now we have the first American edi- ton, translated by Helen B. Dole, from the 9th German edition, and publish- 4 ed by Ginn & co. Nathan Haskell Dole writes an introduetion, giving some ac- count of the author and her work. The book appeals strongly to tse lyoung and all who love children with Tits delicious story of the little girl Heidi who with her god grandfather lives among the mountains caring for their fioc kof goats Heidi is charac- ter finely drawn which will not easily be forgotten. Seven full-page illustra- tions in color.
 THE YOUNG TRAIN DISPATCHERS by Burton K. Stevenson, author ot Fhe I Marathon Mystery etc; illustrated byH A. F, Buttoni published by |. z. Pase & Co.,. Boston.
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