The sun., 1908-06-14
i For tho Honor Of ,ho school tBarbour,. .

| 20, Story of Betty Cwelis).
l 30. Anderscn's Fairy Tales.
81. Donald and Dorothy (Dodgc,.
| 81. Lady of tho Lake (Scotp,
| SO. Merchant OF Venice tShakespeare).
| "a. Christmas Carol tDickens).
| So. Blue Fairy Book lang. ..f.1 !
| 30, Huckeberry Finn Twain) -
! 81. Julius Cesar tShakespeare).
! 3s. Man without a Country (Hale).
| 30. Patty Fairfield twells).
| 10. Robin Hood tPyle).
| ~. Tales From Shakespeare Lamb.
-, What Katy Did at School tCooildgc). !
-. Beautiful Joe t5aunders).
| ~. Glpsy Breyton tPhelps).
| ~. Jackanapes Ewing. '.
| "a, Miss Lochinvar Taggarp. ..'
| Al. Search for Andrew Field Tomllnson).
| ~, Wonder hook tiawthorne,.
Shakespeare seems to appeal especially
to children on the East Side. They not only
read and ponder. hut they commit to men,
ory and play the characters: ..
Seton Thompson. Long. Burroughs or
kiplng do not seem to appeal to the children.
The following review Of one Of Long's
books may explain the reason: This book
folks too. The grown folks win catch the
writer's meaning" Very often the girls
and boys will pick up In their homes books
lying around and read them. A girl found
"The Marriage of William Ashe" and says
| writer's. Mrs. Humphry Ward. l did not
care much for the book as 1t was very
hard to understand. but l saw the play
and understood 1t better. The best part
OF the book is the ending because it 10 the
Children are Indifferent as to the author
OF book. According to one girl "Coleridge
wrote the famous story called Sam Crewe. '
Colefidge has written a number OF books,
| and most of them are flctions.'
Marion Crawford has something to learn
about himself from this criticism of
The Palace Of the X ing: -One little thinks
when he peruses the pages Of this novel
that Marion Crawford is a man reared on
our, Western plains, used to fighting Indians
Government One wonders how. reared
as he was he could write so authentic
story on Spanish history. In my estimation
he would have greatly excelled in stories Of
he is rightly called our cowboy poet
statements concerning -tncie Toms
Cabin Says one: Every point in this
gathering the facts together Contrary
minded is this girl Perhaps the one fault
of the book is that Harriet Stowe takes
one side Of the question, and that is the
cruel treatment Of the slaves. Not all of
Of them were treated as IL they were the
slave owners own children
The works Of Mary Mapes Dodge are all
popular: Perhaps first comes Hans
One childs opinion is that -the stories in
The Land of Pluck are easy to understand.
The moral which every story contains is 80
easily recognized that Immediately, whether
| you want to or not. you will be on its path.
The illustrations are 30 beautiful that they
themselves give an idea Of the story Some
Of them are 80 funny that they make one
laugh afterward II he reminds himself Of
them"
Athletics in the public schools have ore
ated demand for stories Of sports. In all
the reviews by the boys it is the fairness, the
evenness of the match and the justice
pervading the stories that most impress
them. 1t is noticeable that "Tom!Brown's
popular although many Of the boys read it.
The story Of the fight is almost invariably
chosen as the favorite part. Capt. Charles
Kings Cadet Days impresses one boy
because he can't lay it down until he fin
| ishes it.
1t is very doubtful il the creator Of
Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer realizes
what the boys in the public schools Of New
| York city think OF his books. More praise
comes from these readers for Mark Twain
than falls to the lot Of any other writer
for boys. 1t is also doubtful whether
in his airiest flights he ever dreamed Of
the morals to be found in these stories.
tom Sawyer Is my favorite book" says
| IL
venture. 1t teaches me to be kind to all
dumb animals and to have courage when
danger 10 near" Says another: The best
book of a funny sort that | ever read is
Tom Sawyer by the celebrated author
| Mark Twain. The book is very good
book because 1t brings out the good and
bad Of the boy, and l advise you to read it
il you have not already done So"
| Miss Aloott's works have the same hold
on the children Of to-day that they had
L 4 ALnl <~f
"'Lttle Men is one Of the stories that
makes one wish 1t would never end" says
a schoolgirl Of the present time. Here's
rather a nice distinction In review Of
-Rebeooa.' by Miss Wiggin, Aunt Mi.
Jane was kind. lovable spinster." One
Of Mrs. A. D. 7. Whitney's works receives
| this short criticism 1T is an extremely
interesting book but / would not care TO
read it again Sometimes the unknown
are very attractive. One girl says: The
books enjoy reading most are those which
portray the life Of girls at boarding school.
/ Maybe the reason is that the unfamiiarity
| Of the life mentioned holds a sort OF charm
| for one who was never initiated into it
A boy In the most crowded part Of the city
says: "The reason why like this book 10
because it tells something that happened
| In the country, not in the city
Murder de win out is S in shs scSae sat
| boy because it shows you that II you are
| bully there's always some one that will
| spoil your plan" That is properly ex-
| pressed. but this boy had written 'faoe'
| and something told him that wouldn't do.
| 80 he wrote plan" over face"
Miss Myra Kelly's Little Citizens" has
| found its way into the school libraries and
this review comes from the "little cit-
zens'" neighborhood Miss Myra Kelly,
who was for while teacher in our neigh
borhood, uses thick book to tell her ex-
periences in. The language the children
use is awful and when they are punished
for it they say they learned 1t at home,
The book is Interesting because OF the
funny things the writer lmagines the chill
dren say This girl took the book in a
much better frame Of mind than did many
others. The neighborhood rather feels
that it has been ridiculed.
In many cases of course the parents are
English speaking people and they read the
books and enjoy them as much as the chill
dren do. Not long ago a little girl took
book home from her school library and
1t stayed long long time. Finally the
teacher asked her for it. II was a patri-
otto story and the child's grandfather had
been soldier in the civil war, 80 he imme-
diately fell upon IL when she brought IL in.
Then her mother had IL, then the big brother