The San Francisco call., 1909-10-10
Brief Reviews

AS a companion volume to Rainy
Day Diversions" Miss Carolyn Wells
offers Pleasant Day Diversions and
If one has seen the first, the second
will be bought at once. The first IL
chapters are under the headings of
diversions for the various months in
the year. and all sorts of useful sugges-
tions and diversions are found there,
such as valentines, Easter novelties,
halloween happenings and the like.
Then follows a chapter on games and
the last three chapters contain mon
ologue, a musical farce and an operetta.
The value and interest of this little
book can not be too highly estimated.
Miss Wells has spent a number of
years in writing for the amusement
of youngsters, and she thoroughly un-
derstands the childish mind. (Moffat,
Yard & Co., New York. SD
In a series of Books Children Love
new volume has appeared entitled
stories Children Love" This is edited
by Charles Welsh, well known as the
editor of THE Golden Treasury of Irish
Songs and Lyrics" and the same care
is bestowed upon this volume as upon
the mora serious but not less impor tant
work. The book is divided into three
parts, For the Tiny Tots" For Young
Children and For the Older Ones
In the first section we find old familiar
Mother Goose rhymes and kindergarten
stories carefully selected in the second,
favorite fairy tales and a few classics.
In the last are tales that older children
can understand, but grownups love
them just as well. There are selections
from Hawt thorne. from "GuIliver's Trav-
els and from Baron Munchausen, and
one never grows too old to enjoy them.
The book is to be heartily recommend
ed, especially for bedtime. reading. 1t
contains a few illustrations in color,
which add to its interest for children.
Dodge publishing company. New York.
s1.25.)
In small volume entitled Younger
American Humoristsr is collected a lot
of what may be called high grade
samples of real American humor. Wal
lace Rice is the compiler and he has
chosen sayings from some 25 bright
Americans, all but six of whom are
living. If you are ever present at a
discussion of the value of American
humor as compared with that of any
other country. just produce this little
book. open It anywhere and read Every
quotation is good and selected with the
utmost care. The book invites a sec
ond perusal dodge publishing COM
pany. New York. so cents.)
book called Auxiliary Education" )"
by DR.. B. Maennel, has been translated
into nglfsh by Emma Sylvester, Pd. NJ,
of New York. 1t is a very valuable
work upon the care and training of
backward children. and the high stand
ing of both author and translator in
the educational world makes comment
upon it almost superfuous. The trans
lator has not followed the German text
exactly. aiming only to present the i'm
portant thoughts of the author. The
final chapter on The Education of Ex-
ceptional Children in the United States
was complied from numerous sources
and is OF a closer. more personal in
terest- The object of the book is to
arouse the interest OF all professional
people. as physicians, clergynen and
jurists and all those who possess the
broader humanitarian spirit. The book
is important in the bearing of its sub
ject upon the welfare of the people at
large. Doubleday, Page & Co., New
York;
The title page of this book reads.
Cafe CaclSle from Dumps to Delmoni-
CO.'S" by Clivette, the Man in Black:
Side splitting stories overheard in
cafes throughout the country and incl
dents in the life of a wonder worker
After that 1t seems almost rude to saw