Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-20
New Books for Junior Readers
BY FLORENCE BosARD LAWRENCE

Spider Adams last Saturday was pain
In "Old Rose and Silver" Myrtle Reed
has written another book in the same
sweet style which has distinguished
her literary output for some time. Cen
tie readers certainly, and some who are
not gentle will find this love story,
with it's delicate touches of humor and
it's rather fantastieally chosen charac-
ters, an amusing and readable tale.
Readers who look for problems or
sterner stuff will already know that
the pages penned by Miss Reed are not
for them, so they too will be satisfied.
The love story is an extremely dainty
one, the other characters of the book
well drawn to emphasize the most in
teresting points of principal characters,
and the setting of each scene is inter-
esting, picturesque or unusual, as the
occasion warrants.
The printers and binders have done
much to make the book popular, for its
pale lavender covers with silver scrolls
and lettering are enlivened with
glimpse of roses blossoming through the
silver trellis.
Old Rose and Silver. BY Myrtle Reed.
New York: The Knickerbocker Press,
G. p. Putnam's Sons.
'I've always thought says Betty,
one of the twins, that we have the
most beautiful things happen to us
family ever had" And this was the
family spirit of the quaint, happy, low
ing family whose story, "From Sioux to
Susan" Mrs. Daulton has set down
the dear minister-father, "Masie," dear
est of mothers, Betty and Peggy the
twins, Davie, Benny and Phil, and the
heroine of the story, Sue-merry, roll
licking, unselfish, helpful, willful, fas-
cinating Sue. They we're poor, and be-
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often; but-thanks largely to big sister
Sue-life was one perpetual frolic; and
the family devotion and helpful neigh
borliness which run through the pages
are conceived and portrayed in Mrs.
Daulton's happiest spirit.
The home and family life at Cherry
fair is one of the sweetest in recent
juvenile fiction, and how sue fougnt
her battles and developed from a Wild
cap into a lovable woman makes a
pretty tale.
From Sioux to Susan By Agnes NC
Clelland Daulton. New York: The
Century company
Neither in it's historic sense nor in its
literary form or substance does the
value of Joel Chandler Harris story,
"The Shadow Between His Shoulder
Blades" lie. But, rather does it rest
in the familiar homely style, the simple
direct view, the warmly human touch
of the author himself, the beloved au-
thor of "Uncle Remus." The adven-
lures of two crippled Confederates, fol-
lowing their determined, patriotic re-
turn to camp for such service as they
can yield, cover, in their capacity as
scouts and messengers. stirring ex-
periences in eluding Yankees and de-
tecting spies. A quiet love story gives
color and motive to parts of the general
movement. A summary act of military
Justice meted out to a traitor of their
own camp, snaps off the story with
grim dispatch, leaving a weird, shivery
feeling, voiced in the title of the story
itself.
The Shadow Between His Shoulder
Blades BY Joel Chandler Harris. IL
Illustrations by George Harding. Bos-
ton: Small, Maynard & Co.
Two little girls, Constance ard Eu-
nice Newman, are in the foreground
of delightful series of books the first
of which is "Grandpa's Little Girls"
Work and good times in school fur
nish most of the material for this en-