The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-19

Girl L Loved" is unexcelled in it's way
Other holiday books from the
same house include Sunshine Annie"
and The Live Dolls Party Days by
Josephine Scribner Gates. s1.25 each;
Riley Songs of Home" s1.25, and
Dick Randall" by Ellery H Clark,
$3.50.
In Sunshine Annie" Mrs. Gates
relates the history of little bright,
cheerful tempered girl who is unselhsh
and happy in spite of the fact that she
Is an orphan and has to work hard
The story of Annie's experience as
a missionary of happiness is built
about the popular poem by James
Whitcomb Riley, Little orphant An
ME" which Is made to fit the career
of this small heroine very snugly
Annies sympathy for the cheap, home
ly dolls on her shelves and her anxiety
to have them find homes where they
will be lovingly cared for, is pretty
and endearing. Sunshine Annie" is
real and most delightful addition to
the favorite characters in story book
land; to know her is to love her and
to be better for it. With it's pictures
in color by Fanny Y. Cory the book
ia especially attractive.
Every little girl will want to read
THE Live Dolls" book and learn
about the series of parties, one for
each month of the year which the book
| tells about. There is a snow man
party for January, a Valentine party
| for February a kite party for March.
on April fool for April. May day dance
next an old -fashioned entertainment
! in June. a patriotic celebration for
July, flower-doll party for August. a
corn roast for September, Hallowe' en-
for October, Thanksgiving and Christ
mas for November and December.
/ In each instance there Is a happy
mingling of traditional good times,
and of some new invention which is
| kept a secret up to the last minute
The wind Is guest of honor at the
| kite party, and at the thankful party
! In November the pet turkey gobblers
whose owners did not want them to be
killed are invited. each wearing red
| ribbon bow. The whole tone of the
story is, like its predecessors, spright-
~, and children will find abundant en-
| tertainment in 1t.
The Riley Songs Of Home numb r
over half n hundred of Riley's happiest,
most characteristic songs, songs of the
soil and sky, and of the plain people
living between the two in farm and
| village There are songs about "home
| folks" and CHEEKY words" and frlend-
ship and trundle-beds and courage and
| patience. the practical things of every
| day lives and the simple virtues that
make these lives beautiful Not all
of the poems are in dialect. Indeed, a
\ goodly number are not, reminding us
of how we'll Mr.. Riley has written out
side the folk-speech of his native
4 Hoosierdom.
1 Personal preference will doubtless
make varying choices among the rest,
but the appeal of these must be to all
Irresistible Songs of Home with
/ pictures by Will Nawter, Is uniform
with the Greenfield edition of the
1 poets work.
Dick Randall" is a story that boys
will like because it is crammed fun of
I athletics, OF high jumps and sp Is
and all the other feats Of skill,
strength and endurance that are per-
formed on track and field,
i Dick Randall. the young hero, new
student of Fenton Academy is a
thoroughly healthy. frank, boyish boy,
who should win friends outside the
pages of the story as quickly as he
docs within them, Mr., Clark has writ
ten the story very simply and clear
(. ly he has given 1t an emphatically
u healthy tone, with due distinction be-
tween amateur and professional sports
and entire emphasis on the former.
Naturally 1t is in Dicks athletic tri-
umphs that the readers OF the book
4 will be most interested. and the &C
count of how the prize shield was won
and the honor of the academy main
tanned ,makes truly thrilling story.
.urhe Blood OF the Arena
Troy and Margaret West Kinney
the we'll known New York artists, vii
spend the winter in Spain, partly fol
pleasure and recreation, partly tc
study, and partly to execute an impor,
tant commission placed In thar hands