The sun., 1908-04-18
Books for the Young /.

Satan will find little mischief for the boy
to do who tries to live up 10 Mr.. Joseph II.
Adams's "Harpers Indoor Book for Boys.
Harpers) This provides abundant en-
| ployment for busy hands and minds. Very
wisely the chief stress is put on woodwork,
carpentry, turning and the minor accom-
! plishments, the directions being clear and
practical and the youthful eXperimenter
being led quickly TO the production ofwork
that will crafty him. There are elaborate
instructions regarding metal work and
more compact chapters on clay modelling,
! bookbiniing. painting and decorating and
other crafts, with information about magic
lanterns, home gymnasums. toy theatres
and many other means Of exercising youth
ful ingenuity. ...
No book can be unattraotive that tells
Of a small boys horticultural experiments,
but 'The Garden Book for Young People,
by Alice Lounsberry Frederick A. Stokes
Company, would have been much moro In
teresting II the young hero had met with
more failures. The author seems disin-
clinod to go into necessary details; the
people seem TO attract her as much as the
plants and abe sketches out an inoipieut
love affair. Youth which has 10 hoe up
weeds will looh on her tale az a fairy story,
but there is plenty Of healthy out OF doors
life in it, The book should not be mis-
taken for a gardening guide, which the
title might imply. ..
Two biographies those Of Col. Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, who is stil alive.
and of Henry Wadsworth Longiellow make
up -Laureled Leaders for Little Folk, =. by
Mary Z. Phillips Uothrop, Lee and Shepard
Company, Boston,. They are illustrated with
many portraits Of persons mentioned, these
including nearly all Of Boston's nineteenth
century celebrities with views and with
quotations.
Various tales gathered from the pub
fishers juvenile periodicals constitute The
Battle for the Pacific Harpers). All are
stories of the sea, some deal with hypo-
thetical machines Of the future. few with
possible conflicts for the mastery Of the
Pacific. The authors drawn on most freely
are ". j. Henderson and Yates Stirling, Jr.;
among the others are Julian Ralph, Kirk
Munroe and q. Z. Walsh.
British authors who write about children
are seldom entirely unnterestinR. Mr..
Charles TIrley in THE Playmate (E. P.
Dutton and Company gives promise with
his young ones at the beginning but he
seems 80 much more interested in the less
attractive grown people that the. children
become rather wooden puppets There
are few humorous illustrations that in
the same way arouse expectations only TO
disappoint them.
IN 4Daye Porter in the Far North
Chothrop. Lee and Shepard Company Mr.
Edward Strntemeycr subjects his hero.
whom he has already led through various
volumes OF adventure, first to episodes
Of school life which seem 10 be mingled
with an undue share Of villainy and next
to bsirbreadth escapes in Norway. His
youthful admirers will he gratifed at the
hcros meeting his yearned for father at
last and at the statement that he is to have
still more adventures,
Another volume Of a series, Mr.. Albertus
r, Dudleys The Yale Cup Gc.h-op, Lcc
and Shepard Company. continues 70
describe boy life at Phillips-Exeter Acad-
emy. II contains football game, base
ball game and several athletic meetings
in which tho hurdle race Ia prominent.
Some Young men known from earlier
volumes mingle with others who are new In
the usual succession of virtuous and VII
lainors school episodes.