Evening star., 1912-11-09
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.
THE CASTLE OF ZION, Stories From
the Old Testament. BY George
Hodges With illustrations. Bos-
ton: Houghton Miffiin Company.

IS0t0me0t.
Hodges. With illustrations. Bos-
ton: Houghton Miffiin Company.
This is the second of Dean Hodges re- .
told Bible stories. In "The Garden o.
Eden he rendered most attractively =
series Of scriptural tales from the firsi
nine books of the Old Testament. ending :
with the death OF Saul. In THE Castle
OF Zion" he takes up the sequence at the
same point and retells some of the most
Interesting episodes set forth i'm the other
historical books Of the Old Testament and .
I'm the Prophets. These tales are rem |.
dered with a reverent regard for the sig
nificance of the original texts. but in a
manner to insure complete understanding
by young readers. The characters are
| humanized and brought to an intimate
| relationship with the little folks who read
the tales. The illustrations, preceded by
| reproduction of one of Gustave Dore's
famous drawings are beautiful and ap-
propriate.
FLOOR GAMES: BY H: G. Wells.
etc. With photographs by the
author and marginal drawings by
F. r. Sinclair. Boston,: Small, May.
| nard & Co. =
| 1t is singular to find the author of "Thc
New Machiavelli' and Marriage and
| other only serious works producing book
| of children's games But why should
| there really be any case for surprise in
| this? Mr.. Wells has always shown him
| self in his writings an exceedingly hu-
man sort Of person. and it is really de-
lightful to find that he is a play of
| the little ones and the inventor Of divert
Ing games for them. In these pages
| 1t is shown how children can be enter
tatned easily with few simple toys until
the noor of the nursery expands and
reaches the confines of the earth. This
book ought to bring the youngsters and
parents closer together In the working
out OF play games on the floor.
citing Adventures Of Tr0t and Cap'u
Bill After Their Visit to the Sea
Fairies. By L. Frank Baum. author
of The Land of o." etc. Illustrated
by John r. Neill. Chicago: The
Reilly & Britton Co.
Trot and Cap'n Bill having had their
adventures with the sea fairies, as Mr.. .
| Baum has related in an earlier book. one
day Trot made the acquaintance of the
Boy from Philadelphia with an umbrella
| under his arm. The umbrella had GER
tain magic qualities. and as a result of It's
| possession Trot and the Boy and Cap'n
Bill set of ON a remarkable explora ton
| of the skies. Here Mr.. Baum tells all
| about this trip to Skyland, with it's quaint
spiral-legged. swan-necked Boolooroos
and other odd creatures. After many ex-
citing happenings Trot and the Boy and
Cap'n Bill manage to get back to earth.
and now Mr. Baum tells the story and
Mr.. Nein illustrates 1t in a fashion to
make 1t one Of the most attractive of the
| Juveniles" of this season. Readers OF
prior Baum books will recognize the Boy
from Philadelphia as Button-Bright, who
had an adventure with Dorothy in the
land of OK
THE MYSTERY OF THE GREY OAK
GoSfrey sfg1y IRWIN for ;Ss;r.tsy nSy. BY Louise
York: Moffat. Yard & Co.
Two Vermont boys have a series Of In
teresting adventures In the course of a
summer in which they are engaged in the
service Of the United States government
as helpers in forestry camp. One of
the boys has been hunting for his missing
| father, and in the course OF his pursuit
| he runs into a criminal conspiracy and
succeeds so well In thwarting II that he
| gains a rich reward from the federal gov
| ernment The story Is told in a manner
/ to appeal to the understanding and in
| telligence OF young readers. and at the
| same time is by no means of the lurid
sort that exer'tS q harmful influence upon
| juvenile minds. Boys cannot fail to de-
rive benefit from its reading.
SAINTS AMI hEnOGS3 since the Mid
| die Ages. BY George Hodges. author
of Saints and Heroes to the End of
the Middle Ages" etc. With illus
trations. New York: Henry Holt &
Co.
| Here, in brief and simple form. are
biographies Of fourteen men. who during
! the period following the middle ages be-
| came Of historic size. either as martyrs
for a cause or heroic fighters for prin-
ciples. Dean Hodges Is with this work
following his preceding volume on
| Saints and Heroes to the End Of the
Middle Ages" addressing his work chiefly
to young people. Here are given Luther,
More, Loyola, Cranmer. Calvin, Knox,
Coligny VIII lam the Silent Brewster,
Laud, Cromwell, Bunyan. Fox and Wes-
feY.