Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-12

dian--may be pronounced u very UNI
usual piece Of fiction for boy readers.
Wabigoon, the principal character in
the story, is the son of a Scotch factor
and an Indian princess, who live at
Wabinosh House. a post deep in the
wilderness OF Lake Nipigon.
His adventures are frequently thrill
ing, always nbsorbingly interesting.
never unwholesotne, and with their
wonderful setting, described SO wildly
that the reader will never forget it.,
make UP an unusually fine story,
The story is we'll porportioned not
too long, and the interest is sustain
ed TO the very end. There IS even a hint
of Il sequel, and every boy reader, and
most adults, would like to know how
Woonga was punished, and IL Rod ever
found his gold mine and married Min
netaki.
A Little Maid in Toyand. by Adah
Louise Sutton pictured by a. Russell.
Whenever Adah Louise Sutton sends
out q new book, thousands of youth
full hearts yearn for just a peep at the
treasures between its two covers, and
this year their highest hopes Will be
fulfilled.
Sally, the heroine, is the Little Maid,
who delights in furnishing q most raV-
ishing dolls house. One day when the
y
get being equipped with a cradle, spin
ming wheel, and drying herbs, Sally
views the kitchen. her chiefest delight.
In the refrigerator is; a most delectablc
looking piece of cake, and q tiny piece
of it goes into Sally's mouth. she
shrinks and .shrinks way down to doll
size and becomes @ member OF the doll
household
The illustrations are from the pen
of A. Russell, the we'll known illus
traitor. who gives six full pages done IN
colors, and scores of black and white
drawings to the book. Bound in boards,
cover In colors, quart, ST., belonging 10
and uniform with the Billy Minister'S
series The Saalfield Publishing COM
#pany, Akron, Ohio.
Toodles Of Treasure Town apd her
Snowman, by Frederick Chaplin, draw
ings by Merle Johnson.
A most captivating story, given a
beautiful dress; that describes the pre-
Eeut volume.
Toodles herself halls from Florna
and the first glimpse we have Of her
is as she steps into a fairy craft called
the Magic Globe, of which a queer
little fellow named Pedro is pilot. To-
gether they fashion q snowman and
he comes to life to brighten the tale
with his ineXhaustible huinor Their
destination Is treasure Town, .lIle' lLhiiu
OF Good deeds and Riches but en- route
they are unfortunate in being captured
by the Harum- Scarunis. After many
adventures, they escape by a ruse and
make q triumphant entry into Treasure
Town Toodles Is welcomed royalty by
tho queen and when she starts on the
return Journey bears Wealth and Good
Health as gifts to her father.
Merle Johnson's illustrations deserve
special and particular mention. He has
given the book 43 pages in colors. and
more than $50 black and white draw
ings, which tell the story by picture as
graphically as it Is told il, words
Large quarto. 217 pages, illustrations
b in colors, CLOTH s150 The Saaltield
Publishing company, Akron, Ohio
"By the Christmas Fire" by Samuel
NJ. Crothers, author of The Gentle
Reader 1.-THE Pardoner's Wallet" etc,
is a Christmas book of most unusual
quality and attractiVeness. DR.. Croth-.
ers whose position as tho foremost Of
American essayists is now undlsputed,
1t at his best in these charming, whims-
ical. inspiring papers. He writes Of
Christmas and the literature of disil-.
fusion of Christmas and the democrat
tic spirit, and OF other allied topics,
with a delicate susgestiveness and i'm
aginative charm that VIII give pleas
ant and memorable hours to many
readers. Like Dickens III his Christ