The San Francisco call., 1909-01-17
Brief Reviews of New Books

Cheerful Bill, a philosophical pup.
who contributes the material for
book of hearty laughs entitled "Bill.
a Cheerful Dog" (Moffat, Yard & Co.),
apparently intended to dedicate one OF
his illustrated poems" to the suf-
fragettes:
Men and women dogs and cats,
often have their little spats.
Men and dogs. you must agree,
Live in perfect amity
So this questions up once more
What are cats and women forg
The clever pictures and verses are by
Frederick White, and though some OF
them win appeal to youngsters, the
humor is more for grownups.
"overhoIt's Magazine is new one
In the field. edited by Miles Overholt.
formerly editor of Tanglefoot Maga-
zine. We are told it is written with
an ak" and we wish the ak had been
sent along with the book to facilitate
hacking a nick in it's neck. 1t is a
very strained effort TO be funny and
like most labored attempts it fails.
published at Dayton, Ore, monthly;
10 cents per copy)
Judge Curtis d. Wilbur is born
story teller and thoroughly under
stands the childs mind. This is proven
by his delightful book called The Bear
Family at Home and How the Circus
Came to Visit Them" The book is writ
ten exactly as Judge Wilbur told the
story to his own children. and having
found them an appreciative audience
he has published the story for other
children. The book is we'll printed and
bound, with many excellent drawings
in wash and line. (The Neuner COM
pany. Los Angeles)
The Little Colonel books, by Annie
Fellows Johnston, are the best juve-
niles since the Little Women" books
appeared over 40 years ago. Each one
of them seems better than the last.
and now that the end of the series
is reached we have Mary Ware. the
Little ColonePs Chum." 1t is fully as
entertaining as it's predecessors and
coloners career will not be satisfied
till possessed of this one. (L c. Page
& Co.. Boston; s1.5o:)
One OF the pleasantest books OF
travel information which has appeared
for a long time is "Old Edinburgh"
by Frederick w. Watkeys. The author
has made no attempt to give the en-
tire history of Edinburgh, but has sim
ply sought to gather the most inter
esting and romhntic OF the events
which have gone to make the old town
so famous. The book is filled with
from rare old prints and
from photographs not easily obtainable
and they add much to the interest and
value of this very readable work. e.
C. Page & Co.. Boston; vols; $40
The Little Cousin series Of books is
growing enormously. 1t now numbers
81. the last being Our Little Austria
liam Cousin" by Mary +. Nixon-Roulet
7 IL. ~ II, -
aim is to teach the little American child
something about the people. especially
the children, of foreign countries. All
the important countries have been
written about now and the series is
most interesting and instructive for
children. IL. c. Page & Co., Boston;
so cents.)
Ruel Perley Smith knows about all
there is to be known about camping
and he has put 1t most entertainingly
into series of books for boys. The
three volumes already well known to
boy readers were all located on the
Maine coast. but in this book, Jack
Harvey's Adventures the author
moves his young friends to Chesapeake
bay and gives them some exciting ad-
ventures with the notorious oyster
pirates who have infested that re-
gfon. The boys have a grand time
even though Jack is kidnapped but
everything comes out right in the end
IL. c. Page &s Co.. Boston; $1.50.)
Dr. C. W. Saleeby. whose Conquest
of Cancer" made such ructions in the
medical profession. has launched an
other bomb. Health, Strength and
Happiness 10 the title of his new book.
and while II contains many startling
views it is not so revolutionary as was
his other book. DR.. Saleeby has a pro-
found contempt for the diet and exer-
else fads OF the day. and he reasons so
convincingly that one agrees with him.
while reading anyway He says the
body should be the useful servant to
the mind. and If one would have II so
he must think of all his functions only
enough to make it unnecessary to think
of them at all; in other words, to so