New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-14
Another Batch of Children S
Books for the HOLIDAYS.

1t is welcome relief. I'm The food Of
American girls books OF comfort and
luxury, pleasure and play. to come upon
ore that tells them of what their moth
ers did and endured i'm the settling Of
orr country Such a book is Bertha
z. Bush-s "A Prairie Rose little,
Brown & Coz. Il tale OF q boy Of nine
teen and his ffteen-year- sister, who
settled in Iowa in the days when it
formed part of the frontier. The hard
slips. The incesssnt laleors. the dangers
ard deprivations Of the settlers wives
end daughters are set forth. the giant
task whose fruits their descendants
reap 4 good book for a. present day
American girl. Hearts and Coronets
CJacmilan Company. by Alice Wilson
Fox. is an English story for young peo-
ple." or. rather. an English novel ot
high life adapted 10 the require
ments Of girls Audrey Denver. an or
plan living at Brixton With the family
g her uncle who is a chartered account
ant. IS brought by fortunate circUm-
stance 20 DorinCourt Castle. where she
is the guest @! its lordly masters chill
dTen. Middle class Brixton weighs heay
.lv upon her awakened fastidiousness
after this. She feels so at home in an
exalted atmosphere. The experienced
royel reader viii know that this feeling
IS the first intimation Of the strawberry
mark TO be discovered later on her firm
Young arm Indeed. il turns out that
she is the real owner Of castle and title,
via the convenient device of the self
exiled younger son who has died in the
New World. The book is typical of the
worshipful attitude of the British middle
class toward the aristocracy. but it is
entertain!ncly written
-Everybody's Lonesome" IF. II. ReVeli
Company IS the text as well as the title
Of Clara Z. Laughlins book for elder
girls. Mary Alice is unhappy in her
PARENTS simple home in a stagnant
country town. There is nothing that
interests her or colors her life. Then
her godmother plays the good fairy by
taking her TO New York. and teaching
her how 10 i've, 10y the intellect. but
above all by sympathy; TO give affec-
ton and TO receive il graciously. Every
body is lonesome" this is the godmoth-
er's secret Of happiness, and the boon
NAV be won by treating all ones fellow
beings as in need Of syGpathic com
nanjonship. Mary Alice tells the secret
10 King Edward and to the man she
r1arries. Miss Sophie Jewett reteilS SIM
plv the story Of ST. Francis of Assist IN
Gods Trouba dour'' CThomas Y CroweH
f. Coz as II is related in the LEGENDS
that have grown up around his name
appending an equally simple moran oi
-he lesson Of his life. The numerous
illustrations consist in part Of reproduc-
lions Of frescos and pictures 10y the
early Italians. and IN part Of pictures
81 the scenes in which the saint moved
and lived. \ simple narrative wen
adapred Il the childish understanding
End aDpealine To It's love of "A story
of Mary Rodney's The Girl from Dixie
,rocbrane Publishing Company one can
only say tilat II IS bald story "f
southern girl Tho goes from her parents
IMPOVERISHED roof-tree - the home 81
her unrIe in Washington. The uncle Is
-er,- wealthy there is no mistake
..s.au. that. he furnishes her with d
.-oyelHess. and later takes her 10 i-u-
,.aro. \ most unproftable. meaningless
sort u narrative
Travel in Spain and sketches of the
| SPANISH character and life are inter
mingled with the story OF The Glad
LADY" Dana Estes & Cos, a7 one ad-
n,iriue young spaniard calls the Ameri-
AN. Miss PATTY Blake, on a visit +" her
sister and her Spanish husband. and on
a vacation from her Partisan hniShins
school. Fiction for older girls on the
threshold Of the novel reading stage IS
apt so be neither flesh, fish nor fowl
Miss Amy Z. BIanchard's new story is
1,redornirantIy flesh; white meat. now
oyer. not dark and strong 1t is Spf1sh'-
X rather romantic and dashed with the
,,ict1resoueness of its scene cupid fires
his first darts with great accuracy OF
aim. wherefore the md Is hetf"tfiai-
One feels. after reading this story 'la'