New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-21
BOOKS FOR GIRLS.
4 u1usimg Fiction and Fact tn Christ
mas Tales.

Books for girls stiH partake Of the spirit o.
happy energy and healthy mindedness which
was Mss Alcotts contribution 10 juvenile liter
allure. The usual Young heroine IS bright
brave incapable OF ueanness. devoted 20 her
parents and her brothers and ardently DESTROYS
OF ea-ning-altogether q very nice girl indeed
She II is wno swings rnerrilv through the new
stories Of boarding school college life. There
Is 10 pleasanter specimen OF the r7-pe this year
than -Mary Ware Il Q. Page & Coz. the lat
est volume In Ms Annie Fellows Johnston's
Little Colonel Series" No young feminine
reader vs. imagine. car resist the spell woven
OF The high principle. the warm heart and the
irnpetuous generosity of this maiden from Arr
zona The little Colonel" from Kentucky was
a charming parsonage. and Mary Ware Is
worthy successor Another agreeable story Of
school life Is The Vide Awake Girls (Little,
Brown & Col. by Ra tharine Ruth Ellis Ex-
periences IN Germany lend variety 70 the record
Of college happenings and the studies Of gtriisn
character. The same publishers have brought
ont another Sidney Book by Anna Chaplin
RAJ. this time the story OF Sidney al College
The group Of ole friends known 70 the readers
Of former volumes reappear. not the least en-
gazing Of them being Sidney Stsyre herself in
her first year at Smith College. II is the col
l4re girl who will most thoroughly enjoy the
lacking in taste Is "Jesnnie-s Journal CBon-
nell Silver & Coz, The heroine IS : vulgar
little heiress and there is too much trashy love
making described in ner journal There are
echoes Of school days in "Persis Putnam
Treasure" little Brown & Coz. II IS an ami
ma TED little story by Mrs. N : Hamliu Of a
girls camp in Maine and therein again appears
the Nan Tor whom Young readers have shown
affection at other Christmas tires
a girls book that is genuinely humorous IS
Carroll watson Rankin's The Adopting OF Rosa
Marie Henry Holt ( Coz. Little Rosa Marie
Is an Indian baby. vine, having been borrowed
by one OF the four young housekeepers o. last
,-ea--s "Daudelion Cottage lands the borrower
In many troubles. The half breed mother runs
avav. and the stolid infant Is left upon the
hands Of the little girl who has contemplated
getting only few hours fun out Of the com
paniousaip OF the live dol. The complications
that follow give scope for much that IS comic
in the way Of incident. and the author wastes
none of her opportunities Miss Sophie SWEETS
Princess VISA Gttcle. Brown q Coz is a
story of Down East" To which the stealing Of
white child ny an old sqUaU imparts an eie-
nlent OF traEedy- OF course. no well mentioned
modern author would close her book in gloom.
and the story % Peggy Piper. otherwise VISA.
turns c0t II be happy one. with the wealthy
old sguau behaving in the most 5enefcent fash
ion 70 the whole family i is story calCu-
lated 70 give delightful thrills 70 ten 10 twelve
years-olds. Miss Betty Of New York CHar-
per &. Brothers. is the title Of q vivid story by
Ellen Douglas Deland. We meet therein the
characters Of a former book "A Little son Of
sunshine but this new one is complete in itself
and can be enjoyed apart from its predecessor.
u mas its moments Of excitement for the ,oung
nero Is twice the victim OF kidnappe-s in search
OF ransom ana Betty, the child who saves hinI.
does so in the face Of danger and in a VERY
clever fashion The book IS thoroughly enter
tanning and il UnobtrusiveIy conveys number
Of excellent morals for the Young girl of the
period
A specimen OF the mixture OF fiction with
travel record Is 10 De found in Helen Leah
Reeds Trina in Italy Little Brown & Col
II Is mixture which has a vogue at present
ana which can be turned osr a. easily as aov
other factory product 1t no doubt gives a good
deal 81 useful Information to young girls in their
early teens. and can be made the vehicle az
worthy suggestions as % conduct and study
-Clotiide' "a c. McClurg < Coz Is a story Of
New Orleans life II the first years OF the last
century Like other stories by its author Mar
euer1te BGUFet il Is rather sentimental and
''1geeps Weepy but Young girls. ee know are
Hot arersc 10 The luxury OF a tear ana al least
rEe tale is not Harmful a really fascinating
book Is MT Z. = Lucas's collection II short
stories published under the title OF me nrsi
"Aune's TER Dle Good Nature" CThe Macmillan
Company There is gentle irony as veil as run
IN the hlund=rs ~ little anne whose kina i'm
pulses 90 often lead her into trouaie-,,nlz 4or-
ever 80 turn IN the ~nd into rejoicing San1e
thing of TIE humor RI Lsma is N these tales
and the DooA is one ulen above tFe s.--rase ~
its siad. 4 volume af which the same