The San Francisco call., 1910-10-30

posed of "a beautiful notices. each page
fine enough for a Christmas card. The
notices are well selected. there being
number from Stevenson. Cable. John
Muir. Van Dyke, Browning. Tennyson.
Phillips Brooks and hosts of others.
The calender is 61R x10 inches and boxed
for the holidays. The decorations by
Charles Frank InsersOn are artistic and
beautiful. paul Elder & Co. San Fran
cisco; so cents).
My Advice Book is another little
album arranged by Herschel Williams
which will tax the ingenuity of the
owners friends. Each page contains a
question How shall I pose for pho
tographer?" How can / dispose of a
tiresome caller?" etc. There are so OF
these questions and the owner asks a
sketch and four lines OF advice on the
subject The old fashioned autograph
albums are seldom seen nowadays and
will be welcomed with delight by the
young people CA. C. McClurg & Co.
Chicago).
A foolish little booklet entitled
Making Faees"-a study in facial ex-
pressions, by Herschel William. may
afford it's owner some amusement when
it Is completed. 1t Is a sort of album
and each page has a blank space for
picture. name, address and date. The
picture is supposed to be drawn by
the contributor Of himself, or a kodak
or caricature pasted in. and each one
indicates an emotion. Fear" is the
sample page. with the line. This is the
way I look when I'm scared" The
youngsters will be sure to get some
fun out Of this book. CA. C. McClurg
& Co., Chicago)
The College F'reshman's Don't Book
is book of good advice by George
Fullerton Evans "a. B). a sympathizer.
that costs rs cents, and by the same
token can be proved mathematically
to be infinitely more valuable than the
advice that costs nothing. From a Pc
rusal of the little notes printed on the
broad margins OF the neat pages you
will find that the advice covers a re-
markably large number of things that
the average freshman learns from di-
versely favored experience. The most
unusual thing about II is that IL is
expert advice, good advice and TAX
able; not all good advice is taxable.
Most of it is too priggish: this isn't
(Paul Elder & Co., San F'ranciscO.)
Now these stories are all true. the
tales in The Hump Tree Stories, by
Mary Joss Jones. for they are told
mainly on the excellent authority OF
Mr.. Big Bill Brown Bird of the Low
Limbed Hump Tree. And they tell OF
the adventures OF High Hopper, Grass
hopper. Humper, the Green Worm.
Black Brother, the Little Wild Pig.
Mr. and Mrs. Blackbird who are so
wise and clever; Little Miss Tadlets.
the Ambitious Froglet, the Pink But
terfy, who is called Winky Pink. be-
cause he winks with his wings; Dicky
Swift. the Squirrel and other enter
tanning folk of the woodland. the
river bank, the garden lands. the green
grass region, and the adventures OF
hn Ia Ia foII oh
eye widening and hair curling and ex-
citingly true (Paul Elder &c Co. San
Francisco. SD
In book entitled Two Boys in the
Tropics Mrs Elisa Haldeman FigyeI-
messy tells in a fascinating manner
what happened to two youngsters when
they did just what every wide awake
American boy would like to do--voy-
aged to South America in a sailing
bark. A hundred and more exciting
adventures they had on their journey
and after their arrival They are set
forth by Mrs. Figyelmessy in a way
which will make the pulse OF the read
er quicken. One of the admirable fea-
lures OF the book is the fact that un-
consciously it gives splendid picture
of the people and customs of British
Guiana. a country which 10 the major
ity of people is little more than a
name. The authors husband was
United States consul to British Guiana
for more than 20 years. so she has had
rare advantages for studying the coun-
try aud the people. (MacmilIian's,
New York. $1.35.l
One of the most interesting of the
new publications for Juveniles is called
The Red Magic Book" II contains
drawings by Emile Benson knipe and
verses by Alden Arthur Knipe. and It s.,
is full Of the realest magic you ever
saw. Attached to the book is a sheet
az red gelatin. When you have looked
at a colored picture until you know
every detail of it. you drop the red
gelatin sheet over the page and 10.
the whole picture changes 70 something
else. An attractive gift book for a
child. Doubleday, Page & Co. New
York;