New-York tribune., 1910-11-26

Sall lly search Tor a water route
70 Cathay and the Indies. in which tht
| portuguese took so great a part, Mr.
| ETC Wood devotes his book OF .-Fannou.
voyages" 1T. Y. CroweIl & Coz mainly
~ columbus. John Cabot. Nespucci. Bal
o"a' Nerazzano, Cortes, F'robishsr. Davis
| CIR John Hawkins, Raleigh and Others ot
1he great explorers of the New World
ana the western Atlantic and eastern
he arranges his heroes first OF
' according to their nationality. and
'iieh chronologically, ending with tive
| epiSooes in the ultimate struggle for
supremacy. the destruction of the Ar
1liaua' Sir Richard Grenville's heroic
| Al the Revenge A book of mighty
'i-eA and mighty deeds-ir q mighty period
N'ie worlds history. Another gigantic
oI those days, Elizabeth's greatest
'i' mas large and capita1ly illus
volume all to himself in Mr.. Ed
" bacon's The Boys Drake"
'01iailes Scribner's Sonsl. Here's a
o0' 77i 10 make a youngsters heart heat
one that needs explanation in the
i.54-' VI tue twentieth century. tvpIcal of
'1Ie sixteenth in its lawIessness and nOint
! oL FieW' out also one of grear and last
ing achievement. sreo+ a.o,, s.-,,-o-d
-''u OF Anglo Saxon supremacy.
oh tells his story well. MI
la O-~ I b Wheeler. an English writer
Oh Napoieonic topics. has turned his
pen 10 Ihe service of youth in 1.-The Bows
Nak'oieon ct Y. CroweII & Coz. an able
| --- FN1' 'I04' sympathetic account Of the
slupenuous career of the Man of Destiny
"lth' after the modern manner occa-
sioilaI shTnpses Of what we have come
oI the man himself his mind
! and character.
MI - N Kendall, superintendent of
schoois In Indianapolis. has made a VOL
uIEle OF selections from THE Prince and
l-4e auper' A Yankee at King Artf1ur's
oourl and the Personal RecoIIections Of
Juan OF Arc, and called It Travels in
history by Mark Twain" CHarper). His
( purpose is TO give our bows and girls a
14Ist glimpse Of the spirit Of Twain's work
aS wen as or his humOr, and to arouse
IN them a curiosity that later on will lead
them TO go 10 him direct The Mark
IVAN Of these three books is a giant.
| especially the Mark Twain of the rough
| heWn, savagely satirical Yankee" He
is not for children but for mature. think
Ing men and women, the incarnation Of
| the American spirit and viewpoint in the
| fulness OF its strength and influence Mr.
| hendaIl's aim, laudable one, Of intro
ducing our youth to the immediate. lv-
| ing influences Of literature instead Of to
its remote past is a capital one but it
requires the understanding coIlabora-
| ton Of grown-ups, teachers or parents.
It is what the reading Of these chapters
with their juniors viii suggest to their
elders Of explanation, amplihcation and
| comment that viii constitute their value
/ In fact IL this use Of them 1t will be
well to have the originals near at hand
/ In preparing the book Mr.. Kendall had
il mind the sixth. seventh and eighth
/ grades Of schools. as well as home read
/ ers.
/ Elaborately and practically illustrated,
Mr. Elmer Ellsworth Burns's Story Of
| Great Inventions FIarper's Brothers)
| tells in simple. untechnical language, but
with exactitude, the romance Of the
pioneers of applied science from Archi-
medes TO Marconi and the Wrights his
record including Calico. Torriceili, Pas
| cal Newton. Watt. the Leydenjar,
Franklin and the lightning rod. Gal
vani. Volta, Runford. Davy. Faraday,
! Siemen. Edison, the telegraph. telephone.
steam engine, turbine motor-in brief.
all the principal steps Of scientific prog
ress. A true fairy tale of the ages
that viii delight the boy with an in
ventive turn Of mind Mr.. A. Henry
Savage Landor. who has lately been con-
Quoting a sort of Peary-Cook contro-
versy with Mr.. Sven Hedtn in the French
press. has prepared q boys version Of
his travels which he calls An Explorers
Adventures IN Tibet CHarper & Bros-).
tt makes a capital tale Of adventure,
danger. hardship and endurance. Mr..
Landor apparently attaches more i'm
portance to his phonetic spelling Of local
names (even unto ''Hinahyla'' for
.'HimaIya'O than his young readers are
likely to do.
The new volume IN Mr.. Burton E.
Stevenson's Guide Series" for young
readers is called "A Guide to Biography:
American Men Of Mind (the Baker &
Taylor Company. a companion, Of
course. TO his earlier Men Of Action"
He takes up successfully our poets,
prose writer's. painters, sculptors. actors,
scientists and educators, inventors and
philanthropists and reformers, whom,
! like the men Of business. one would in
! cline TO describe as men Of action. Here
again the men Of the title embraces
women - Louisa Alcott, Julia Ward
Howe, Charlotte Cushman, Mrs. Drew,
! I,ucreria Mott, Clara Barton and many
! others. The book is addressed to de-
/ cidedlv well advanced boys and girls.
| In fact. Mr. Stevenson appears TO be
/ writing as much for syrown-ups as for
/ them. A book that will claim the in
/ terest Of men and women as We'll as Of
/ bows and girls is Miss Julia Ellen
/ Rogers's excellent Earth and Sky Every
+ Child Should Know" Doubleday. Page
/ &, Coz. The major portion Of the little
work is devoted to the earth, Of whose
wonders and revelations to the scientist
/ most of US are so unpardonabIy ignorant.
! The chapters on the sky suffice to open
the eve TO what may be seen on any
clear night. Another true fairy tale.
LABOR