The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-17

which have appeared in print before. 10
published under the title Uncle Remus
and the Little Boy by Small. Maynard
and Company. Boston, in big. clear typs.
with suitable cOlored pictures by J. II.
Condo. The stories are like the first
Uncle Remus stories. dealing chiefly
with Rr'er Rabbit. the verses are Jingiy
aud amusing and the book should AFFORD
as much entertainment To the little ones
as 10 their elders.
Mich better work has been done by
Mr. Ralph ID. Paine than A Cadet OF the
Black Star Line Charles SCribner' . sons }.
His readers expect reasonably some ac-
count Of life on a great ocean steamship;
they are put on with sensational incidents.
two resctIes at sea. a collision with an
iceberg. "A row on the waterfront Of New
York
Three instructive volumes OF British
manufacture are issued 10y Thomas y.
Crowell and Company. Ia Famous Noy-
ages of the Great DISCOVERIES" Mr.. Enc
Wood gives a satisfactory account of
sea adventure 10 the end Of the sixteent h
century. He heRins properly with the
voyages leading TO the discovery Of tn
Cape NJ Good Hope. follows on with those
relating to- America and with the early
circumnav v cations ~ the globe. and he
comes more distinctly British with the
stories Of the beginning of the search for
the northwest and he mort heast passa gee.
The stories II the Revenge a nd Of the
Spanish Armada ara worth telling even
II they have nothing n do with the sub
J'ct IL the book The Stories from
Dante 10y Susan Cunning Ct on. 10 a sort
II commentary intended a. much for
adult readers as for children The author
very sensibly begins with the story 81
Dante and Beatrice hasad on the Vita
Nuova Her account Of the -Divina Com
media - very perfunctory; she prefers
To take the chief perspns II whom Dante
speaks and u tell what - known ~ them
regardless of the poem We learn all that
We neei know about BrInettr IItini,
for instance. but We get very little idea
of tho reason that makes his admiring
pupil put him in He'll The book il illus
trated with pretty Colored pictures This
IL the case alsp with Mr. Thomas Carter's
Stories from Shakespeare. Mr.. Carter
has taken q dozen of the hest known plays
and in his paraphrase introduces many
quotations from the text.
From Little. Brown and Company come
three collections ~ verse for children
made by Mary Wilder Tileston The
Chlldren's Harvest of Verse is new and
! joins the verse OF some recent poets IN
well established favorite= The Children =
Book % Ballads il apparently a reissue
II contains. with many coed ballads.
some SonRs and other poems which.
uneXceptionabl~ though they be. have
nothing ~ thu ballad about them. hs. for
example. the extract from I.oweil's Com
memoratInn Ode To the volume ~
nursery rhymes ana rther verse; for anal
children called sugar .ad Spice and All
That's Nice.- which 10 the best colleCtion
% the three. additions hav" been made
for this edition
In when America BNrama Nation
! Thomas V Crpwell and Company. Sir
Tudor jerks. continuing his history NJ
tho United States. covers the period be-
twean the Revolution and the civil war
In this volume a. in the others he Laws
stress on customs and culture rather than
on political events