The San Francisco call., 1910-12-18
Latest Additions to
Holiday Juveniles

Frank e. Kellogg who wrote The
Boy Duck Hunters now offers the
Young Duck Shooters in Camp He
tells us that many of tie events In the
story really occuffed that Beam Fos-
ter is drawn from life. That in itself
Is enengh to recommend the story, for,
as the author says, the moral of the
tale Is: THROW physic to the dogs; get
out into the woods exercise every day
all YOU can In Gods own sunshine and
Nature will do the rest without money
and without price, The story. is
healthful in tone and written with
vigor. Frederick A. Stokes & Co, New
York;
One can not begin too soon to give
the children little lessons in natural
history, and no more interesting way
can be found than in books like The
Adventures of Two Ants" 1t is told
by Nanny Hamnarstfoiti in Swedish
but translated into English by A. E. B.
Fries. From the egg stage to the long
winter sleep we go along with the ant
and learn everything about his life and
habits. 1t is told In simplest language
for the very youngest readers Cor
1istensrs) and is interesting and in
structive, though the child will not be
aware Of the last Fully illustrated
with pen and ink drawings. (Freder-
lex A. Stokes & Co, New York;
Captain Wilbur Lawton is leading
his boy aviators a merry dance. First
he took them to Nicaragua then en-
gagged them in secret service, with
wireless on the side; then to Africa,
nothing but facing death in the
antarctic, and now we have them on a
treasure quest, and the subtitle, "The
Golden Gal1een,' hints at what to ex-
pect. The adventure part of these tales
is not SO bad, but the aviation stunts
would make the Wright brothers or
Ctrfiss set up and take notice.
Hurst 6 Co., New York 50 cents.)
over the Nonsense Road is the title
of Lucille Gulliver's holiday offering.
and It's foreword alone would make
any one want to read it. This is good:
"Of course your grandaunt may tell
you that she never saw a gay baboon
coming out of her kitchen cupboard or
a jolly bruang sailing down her river.
But that does not prove that no
baboon ever came out of a cupboard or
that no bruang ever sailed down a
river. How does she know?
The world is a large place-the largest
place / ever was in-and bruangs and
baboons have plenty of room to do
whatever they like and your grand
lI.
- The book is not an Alice in
Wonderland but though in that class
and not an imitation 1t has good points
of its own. Cd. Appleton & Co, New
York; $1.50.)
In The Young Guide" by Clarence
3. Burleigh one can see exactly what
life in the Maine woods is during the
height of the hunting season, and few
need be told that there is no other life
like 1t. In addition to the natural ex
citement of hunting, further adyen-
lures are supplied by a band of unde-
sirable citizens, who steal deer left
hanging in the woods and sell them to
'yarding crews" Norman Carver and
friend, Fred Warner. are instrumentaI
in having some of these villains
brought to justice. This is the third
volume of the Norman Carver Sc
ries' and is illustrated by Harry G.
Edwards (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
company. Boston; s1.50.)
Roger Jackson, the hero of Frank Z,
Channon's "An American Boy at Hen
ley is sure to become favorita
Roger, an American boy, is placed hv
his father, on the way to India. in an
English preparatory school. The story
shows how he adjusts himself in manly
fashion to the ways of English school
life, differing greatly from those of
American schools, and the incidents in
clude some spirited football, BOATING
and cricket matches, the adventure in
an ascent of Mount Snowden and the
rescue by the boys of some shipwrecked
persons from foundering brig in the
British channel 1t is thoroughly
good, manly story. and will be espe-
cially new and interesting to American
boys, as 1t treats the distinctive fea-