New-York tribune., 1911-12-09
HOLIDAY JUVENILlA
Books for Girls, Fairy Tales and
Nursery Books.
MORE BOOKS FOR GIRLS,

Where sits Kate Douglas Wiggin, there
reading-table, with, generally, some old
or people glancing over her shoulders.
Her new story, Mother Carey's Chick
ems" (The Houghton Miffiin Company. is
delightful comedy of life. OF a make
believe battle with a wolf at the door,
whose erowings arc mostly play, and
Of a number of nice, considerate, gentle
and mutually helpful people, young and
old If It is not life, il certainly is life
as We might well wish it TO be.-Among
the masses of new children's books there
appears occasionally 4 new edition of
some favOrites Of an earlier generation,
ths results of whose hazard of new fort
unes are well worth watching. Some
years ago Little, Brown G Co. found
that the charm of Louisa Alcott S
stories was as potent as ever; this year
they reissue Susan Coolidge's What
Katy Did" What Katy Did 1t School"
and what Katy Did Next" with illus
trations by William \. McCullOugh.-
Victorine, though an American by birth,
had spent most OF her childhood In
France with her widowed maternal
aunt When her father, who had mar
ried again, sent for hec, 81 began to
keep a diary inspired by 'le example
of the girl i'm La Ncuvaine de Colettc.'
Her aunt, be it understood, had
charitably instiled in her mind the idea
that loyalty TO her mothers memory de-
manded a distant attitude toward her
stepmother. And so "Victorine's Book, y
by Nina Rhoades. gives her account Of
the gradual winning of her affection by
q lovable second mother. and of her ad-
ventures in what was to her strange
country with strange manners and GUS
toms. The story is attracuvely written,
with an engaging imitation Of the pre-
else English that girl of Victorine' S
French education would employ. CThe
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company
Miss Amy +. Blanchard continues 10
write for older girls. In "Talbots
Angles" Dana Estes & Coz she takes
us 10 Maryland, to the Eastern Sho',
her young and lonely heroine being in
danger OF losing the home OF her an
cestors, first 10 her widowed sister-in-
law, under the terms Of an unjust VIII,
and then 10 a claimant from Connecti-
cut, who has not forgotten, however, the
tie Of distant relationship and the chiV-
airy Of the South. Where an older girl
and two young men are involved there
is cOurtshlp. The book is readable, but
is not one of the authors best.-De-
cidcdly for older girls. also, 's the ninth
and final volume Of Amanda NJ Doug
| lass Helen Grant Books which as en-
titled Helen Grants Harvest Year
| CThe Lothrop. Lee & Shepard Company
Helen reaches the parting of the ways
/ here. she must choose between hel
! career" and the call Of love. The choice
| is not made easy for her by the author
who shows her all the possibilities ol
us eul independence open To the modern
woman, but the young clergyman wins IL
! the end And SO Helen Grant marries
/ and, one supposcs, loses all interest u
older girls. At leas,. the beginning o.
her married life is the end OF the Ions
record of her experiences. -- Miss
Billy" by Eleanor II. Porter a.. {. Page
& Coz. is a story cleverly based upon th'
elghteen-year old orphans misIeadins
baptismaI name. Let alone In the world
sh.. accepts trlstfullv an invitation Il
max" her home with an old friend OF he
father. who. never haVinB seen her