Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-19

formal persons always called her Miss
Sylvia.
Yama Yama land. By Grace Dufie
Boylan; pictures by Edgar Kellar.
Chicago: The Reilly-Britton COM
pany.
Genial, inquisitiVe, quaint Billy Pos
sum Is a true animal character from
the sunny south, which has produced
BTer Rabbit and so many others. j.
Carter Beard chronicles his many ex-
citing adventures In a recent publica-
ton. Interesting experiences are his
escape from a large and ferocious
oyster his friendships and enmities
with wood rats, squirrels, frogs, owls
and prairie dogs, and his final finding
of q comfortable home in the Zoolog-
ical gardens, where all the little peo-
pie may go and call on him.
In describing intercourse among ami
mails the authors imagination has been
reasonably free, but in broad sense
the story is true to nature; there has
been no violation OF accepted facts
about the character and habits of the
birds and beasts in the story.
Billy Possum. By ]. Garter Beard.
Twelve illustrations in color and
twenty-four in black and white by
Culmer Barnes. New York Freder-
lCh a. tStOhSS tOlllpahJ'
A book of tales by Josephine Daskam
Bacon, called 1.-THE Borderland," is we'll
worth while so far as womans life and
career are concerned. There is a re-
assuring message to all womankind in
the stories, and they are beautiful in
their sympathy and understanding.
The writer las cleverly and feelingly
touched upon many of the problems
and anxieties, the troubles and cares
with which the life of woman teens.
Not the least valuable are the hints
as to energy, work and skill which are
conveyed through the poetic characters
whose figures glide across the pages OF
the tales.
clara Elsene Peck has done some
beautiful illustrations and cover deco
rations. which with the fine quality of
printing and binding give the little book
an air of grcat distinction emnently
fitting the quality of the stories.
In the Border Country. BY Josephine
Daskam Bacon. New York: Double
day, Page & Co
The story of a camping party made
up of active boys of 10 or so Is told by
one Of their number, and the reader
nav guess which one relates the many
lively episodes Of the trip. In one way
and another the boys are able to Sc
cure funds for an outing during their
summer vacation, and are very FORUM
ate in the friendship of the principal of
their school and his friend an athletic
young doctor Under the care of these
two, whose intimacy dates from college
days, they go into camp on an island
well suited to the purpose, and within
easy distance of thronged summer re-
sort. A series of exciting ball games
and athletic contests with the boys at
the hotel naturally follows, and the
boys display as many varieties of hu-
man nature as could their elders. Two
mysterious strangers lend excitement
to the summer and give opportunity for
some diverting detective work in which
the boys take most creditable part.
The author is man who knows boys
thoroughly, and by his work is known
to a very large number of them, and
the whole atmosphere of the story is
merry, wholesome and just what boys
like.
The Lookout Island Campers. BY
Warren L. Eldred. Illustrated by Ar
thur o. Scott. Boston: Lothrop, Lee &
Shepard company.