The San Francisco call., 1910-12-18

sparkling incident delightful dialogue,
depth of feeling and an unerring aim.
Never for a moment does the story
strike false. Its thread is the thread
of nature, though always OF romance.
1t is as stirring as the times which It
depicts. but also human. gentle, fas-
cinatingly quaint and always vivid
While the scene OF this story is OF
the greatest historic interest, il is not
inherently a historic novel, as it does
not deal directly with historic person.
ages nor incidents. Movement and
spirit. however. are true to the period
and place in every particular.
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day feel old to see ''Chatterbox" on
the cover of a book for the Christmas
season. But it goes on forever and
has yet to find any one to dispute its
place as the best and most popular
annual for children in the world. A
wonderful variety of subject matter is
found in "Chatterbox;" there are boys
stories. sea stories. fighting tales; then
there are some tales of 100 years ago,
true ones talks about pictures and
their painters: talks about some Eng
lish trees; all the articles and stories
fully illustrated; animal oddities; puz-
Zles, short stories, anecdotes, too num-
erous to mention. Remember hoy you
enjoys eu II ana ouy II Ior some young
ster. Dana Estes & Co., Boston; $1.25
and $1.75.)
A book with all the novelty and
fascination of a puzzle. all the delight
and attraction of a game, and all the
profit and pleasure of an education in
art, geography. natural science and
biography. is difficult to imagine; but
such a rare thing has been prepared
by Edwin L. and Emma T. Shuman. 1t
is entitled THE Rainy Day Scrap
Book" and each one should be ac-
companied by paste pot and a pair
of scissors. An envelope in the cover
contains 107 halftone pictures. and each
one is to be cut out and pasted In
its proper place in the book, which
place is suggested by few lines of
outline drawing and few words Of
description. 1t is ingenious and inter-
esting and most instructive, for there
are reproductions of famous places and
pictures all over the world (The
Reilly & Britton company, Chicago;
$1.25)
The Boy With the United States
Foresters,' by Francis Ro1t- Wheeler, is
as worthy and interesting as the first
volume of the series with the United
States survey. 1t covers five important
lines of adventurous development:
First, the prevention and fighting of
forest fires; second. the regulation of
the grazing of cattle and sheep; third.
the preservation and disposition of
lumber: fourth the wild ardor of the
pursuit of big game fifth, the re-
sponsible life of the individual forester
Replete with information. alive with
adventure. and melting patriotism at
every step. the handsome book is one
to be instantly appreciated. Lothrop,
Lee & Shepard company. Boston; s1.50.)
One of the most beautiful books for
Christmas is j. M. Barrie's Peter Pan
in Kensington Gardens with illustra-
tions by Arthur Rackam. 1t contains
is of these beautiful drawings in color
and one is puzzled which to praise
most, drawings or text. (Charles
scribner's Sons. New York; s1.5O)
In a series of books entitled Life
Stories for Young People" which Mr.
George p. Upton has translated, four
new ones have appeared. They are
widely different persons as to time and
characteristics. and though simple in
language, require teacher to tell the
child something of the contempor-
aneous history. The volumes are
"Charlema gne" by Ferdinand Schmidt:
prince Eugene" by L. Wurdig, a re-
markably interesting biography; "Eu-
genie, Empress of the French" by
Erich Holm, very laudatory account,
and Queen Maria Sophia of Naples, +"
by Carl Kuchler, the best of all, for
this history is less familiar than that
contained in the other books. Ca c.
McClurg & Co., Chicago; so cents each.)