Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-21
BOOKS FOR JUNIORS
BY FLORENCE BosARD LAWRENCE

that HtlY chosen Is IIeiOnB Irlenus-
Douglas Jerrod
fNHIS PAPER has two purposes.
One is to amuse and entertain all
\ those young readers with whom 1t
comes in contact The other one Is to
help prepare those readers to get the
greatest good out of fife-the greatest
good from each thing in life, in work,
in play, in music, reading, in fact in
everything which makes up life. But
of course we cannot always take the
best unless we know just what 1t is.
Some things we know instinctively; for
instance, we know good food from bad,
and all of us know good clothes from
bad, but in books, music and pictures
even the wisest of us have to have in
struction sometimes. So in this Junior,
hope to help in some way to show the
boys and girls who read 1t what some
of the very best books are. l want
all the Juniors to read, and to read
great deal, but there Is so much that
is wonderfully good in the world to
read that not one of you have the
time to read one bit of trash. In this
column ii will be my aim to point out
each week some good new book which
you may read with benefit to yourselves
and to all with whom you come in con-
tact, and l will be very glad IL the
boys and girls will read about these
new books each week so that they
may decide just which ones they would
choose when the opportunity comes.
"At the same instant the latch went
up and the door burst open and John
Peter saw a most extraordinary
figure enter. 1t was a parsonage VINO
bore more resemblance to one or the
gent than to man. His body couio
bend itself in every direction, 1t was
so supple and elastic. His eyes shone
like phosphorus and his ample chest
sent forth noise equal to that which
proceeds from a smiths bellows. Tne
two large wings which were Fastened
to his shoulders could not have spread
themselves in the cottage. A red man
lie of thin stuff fioated around him,
falling into so many folds that the
shape of his body could not be pre-
ciselv distinguished. His feet glided
over the floor without walking; yet he
seemed rather fatigued. as though he
had come long distance.
"'Give me chair he said to John
Peter, that / may rest with you
moment before proceeding on my
way" -
This is the manner in which Mr..
Wind is introduced to poor John Pc
ter, the miller, in Paul de Mussets
charming book. "Mr. Wind and Nine.
Rain" John Peter has been praying
that the rain might fail upon his gar
den and the wind might blow to turn
his mill to provide food for his SICK
wife and to enable him to earn money
to purchase for her those comforts so
necessary to the sick.
The story is compounded from "a
bles told by the peasants of Brittany.
Many of them are woven into one
fairy tale, which will gladden. the
heart of every child reader and Whicn
is at the same time sufficiently mover
so that those older readers into whose
hands the book happens to fall VIII
find pleasure in Derusing II.
The strange adventures winch foi-
low the introduction of the miller TO
Mr.. Wind and later on to Madam Ram
make most entertaining reading. ana
there are the happy moral teachings
in the stories which endear them SO
much to all childish readers. The
book contains also the scheme for
making puppet show, with the cast
of characters and full description OF
the speeches and apparel of the pup
nets The entire chapter furnishes
sufficient suggestion so that ambitious
boys or girls could build their sown
puppet shows.
These stories are not new, but have
recently been given a new edition
which will delight the juvenile read
ers.
Mr.. Wind and Madam Rain. BY
Paul de Musset. Translated by Emily
Makepeace and illustrated by Ernest
Charles Bennett. New York City;
Harper & Bros.
"What sort of book is this Three
of a Kind?' by Richard Burton?' asked
one young woman of another the other
day.
.iOh. Just the sort you would wish to
have written yourself, replied the
other, who had just finished reading 1t.
The publishers, however say that It
is the story of the joys and sorrows
of three unprosperous friends--a man,
a waif and a dog. These are the char
acters of the story. They have always
sufficient to eat of the food they like,
a violin from which the strains of Bee
thoven or Chopin may be drawn ac-
cording to the mood, an open fire where
hard wood Goals send forth their glow
of warm comfort over the carved black
oak table, and the rich, soft hues OF
the Spanish leather screen. These fur
nishings do not make for prosperity, OF
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