New-York tribune., 1910-12-17
CH!LDREN'S BOOKS
Another Batch of Good Things
for the HOLIDAYS.

"a dUo4 ASl VI sollu volumes or EnSllSn
origin that should receive hearty recep-
tion from American boys and girls as
well consists Of Heroes of the Eliza
hethan Age" by Edward GilIiat; Heroes
OF the Polar Seas" by J. Kennedy Mac
Lean, who includes the exploits of Scott
and Shackleton IN the Antarctic in his
narrative of the long battle toward the
North; Norman J. Davidson's "a knight
Lrrant," beiag an arrangement for
younger readers of Southey's transla-
ton OF 'tAnadis of Gaul." and a selec-
ton from two old and worthy books, Sir
George Webbe Dasent's Popular Morse
Tales and Tales from the Field" un-
Ger the tile Of Morse Fairy Tales
These books are issued in this country
by the J. 8. Lippincott Company. Mary
" Tileson drew upon Scott, Macaulay.
-aytoun. Campbell. Bayard Taylor,
Holmes, Longfellow. Whittier, Tennyson,
Browning, Stedman. Lowell, Thomas
Buchanan Read and many other singers.
American and English, for the contents
Of her excellent 'Children's Book Of
FaIlads," which, first published more
than quarter Of a century ago, now ap-
pears in a new edition 1ittle, Brown &
Coz. Mrs. Tileston publishes this sea-
son a new collection Of verses for chill
dren from six to twelve, which she en-
titles 1.-The Child's Harvest Of Verse
Qittle. Brown & Coz, and TO whose
contents more modern singers con-
tribute, among them Frank Dempster
Sherman. Abbie Farwell Brown and
Augusta Larned. as well as Edward
Lear, Howard Carroll, Horatio Ewing,
Susan Coolidge and Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
The authors of ''Magicians' Tricks:
How They Are Done (The Century Com
pany). Messrs. Henry Hatton and Ad-
rian Plate. are both professional enter
tainers. They begin very sensibly by
declaring that the hand is not quicker
than the eye, and throughout are
thorough and understandable in their
directions concerning card and coin and
handkerchief tricks, tricks with balls
and eggs, with knives and goblets. Other
prestigiditators have contributed to this
volume, which is not by any means des-
tined for boys alone. a smaller volume
On the same subject, by an English ma
gician, VIII Goldston, is More Tricks
and Puzzles Without Apparatus" CE- P.
Dutton & Coz. Pencils, matches, coins,
bits Of string, handkerchiefs, cards. etc,
are the only articles needed for the per-
fcrmance Of these tricks Mr.. Emmett
Dunn AngeIrs PLAY Q4ittle. Brown &
Coz comprises games for the kinder
Earten, playground. schoolroom and col
Iege. which can, however be played also
without supervision or assistance from
elders. Mr.. Angel keeps in view
throughout the educational and training
value Of play.
and still they come, the boy aviators
IN their numbers, There are already
three series OF these books in exist
ence, Captain Wilbur Lawton's boy
Aviators'' Hurst & Coz numbering six
volumes. several Of which have already
been mentioned IN these columns; the
"Aeroplane Boys" Chicago: The Reilly &
Britton Company, by Ashton Lamar. in
four volumes. and the "Airship Boys"
in four volumes, not to mention other
fctionaI young 9iers who do not come
IN series. but by themselves All these
hooks are legitimate exploitation of a
new boys enthusiasm. 4 handsome vol
uune. If not strikingly illustrated. is Kate
Dickinson Sweetser's Ten Boys from
History Duf1eld & Coz. the two boy
wiz
tins Of an enthusiasm that ended in the
black crime Of slave trading; David.
Louis XVII, who never reigned: the
young Black Prince, Tad" Lincoln,
David Farragut as midshipman, the boy
Mozart and Peter Of Haarlem,'' the
hoy who saved the town by plugging up
q hole ii the dixie with his finger. Peter,
however, he is observed, does not belong
70 the realm Of history. He was an in
vention, and e charming one, Of the
American author Of Hans Brinker-"
A mass Of information about life in
South America viii be found in Mrs. Elisa
Haldeman Figyelmessy's Two Boys in
the Tropics (Lacmillan Company.
The charm OF this book lies in the fresh
ness OF its impressions and descriptions,
the author, who lived for many years in
British Guiana, having apparently writ
ten down her first experiences and obser-
vations while they were still novel and
strange to her. A readable study OF wild
animal life in Florida, as well as story
Of sport by water and land, is found in
Fisher Ames jr's, BY Reef and Trail,
which appears in a new edition, with the
ir71print of Charles Scribner's Sons. In
Famous Scouts" L. c. Page & Coz
Charles H L. Johnston writes Of the ad-
vert1rous. romantic exploits of the trap
pers. pioneers, scouts and soldiers of the
American frontier, from Israel Putnam
10 Buffalo Bill, with, between these
two. Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clarke,
sam Houston and others. Mr.. Joseph
4. AltsheIer long ago won his spurs as
a historical novelist for grown-up He
again demonstrates that he knows how
~ write for boys in THE Riflenlen Of
the Ohio" (Appleton). z most adventu-
ro1,s tale Of the wilderness in the days OF
Boone. Another book from his pen is The
t.oreemen of the Plains" (Macmillan
Company). It's scene is laid in the days
or the great Cheyenne war Besides its
hunting and trapping lore and the obI-
gatory Indian fighting. this book con-
tains some sympathetic sketches or the