Evening star., 1912-11-23

hard time getting along under the laws
that the grown-ups make for them. They
have remarkable notion of what chill
dren need to eat. and can lay their fat
little fingers on an inexhaustible store of
goodies at any time. They like to play
games and they are not frightened by the
coolest of weather. even though their
costume never by any chance consists of
more than ear muffier. They are alto
gether just about the jolliest. funniest,
cunningest morsels that were ever Great
ed and this gifted artist has here pre-
Sented them in many pictures, accom-
panied by verses that tell several stories.
The 'Kewpies'' book will be one of the
prime favorites of the Christmas season.
THE CALL OF THE WILD. BY Jack
London. illustrated by Paul Bran
som. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
After numerous reprintings and new
editions another presentation OF Lon
don's remarkable story is demanded by
the requirements of the public, and this
time the publishers have given it an
especially handsome dress. the most at
tractive of all in which it has appeared.
Sixteen full page color plates accompany
the text in telling the tale of a dogs re-
version to type, while numerous marginal
bits in black and white, chapter head
tngs and tail pieces give the volume a
edition Of 1.-THE Call of the. Wild will
have few rivals this season.
THE SHADOW OF THE FLOWERS;
From the Poems of Thomas Bailey
Aldrich. illustrated by Talbot AID
rich and Carl J. Nordell. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company.
When plans were making for the
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memorial at
Portsmouth, Mrs. Aldrich was requested
to furnish a list of all the flowers that
had been mentioned by her husband in
his poems, in order that those flowers
might he planted in the garden of the
memorial. She compiled with the request
and then was impressed by the fact that
in nearly every instance the Ines, apart
from the mere names of the flowers. We're
part of the blossoms themselves, as In
the relationship of leaves and stems. So
she culled from this garden of verse a
bouquet Of quotations, which have now
been given artistic setting in a separate
Vo. ume that with it's sympathetic and
emblematic illustrations. will be welcomed
by all admirers of Aldrich, especially as
in their presentation these extracts fall
into an unintentiOnal but evidently di-
rected sequence suggestive of the chang
ing seasons of the year and the changing
aspects Of the life of the poet.
KNOCKING THE NEIGHBORS. By
George Ade, author of Fables in
slang" etc. Illustrated by Albert
Leverin. New York: Doubleday,
Page & Co Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
He is the same George Ade who set
the world laughing a long time ago with
his quaint capitalization and his drollery
of allusion, his novelties of colloquial
speech and his unexpected moralities.
After having been chiefly occupied for
some seasons in manufacturing materials
for the comic opera stage, Mr.. AIDE has
returned to his first love and has pro-
duced another Fable" book. which m ght
be called by any other title and be as
frasrantly Ade-likc. The Illustrations are
in the style that previous Ade books have
made familiar.
THE ORDEAL: Mountain Romance
of Tennessee. BY Charles Egbert
Craddock, author of The Raid of
the Guerilla" etc With a frontiS-
piece in color by Douglas Duer.
Philadelphia: J. b. Lippincott Com
pany.
The Great Smoky mountains again serve
for the staging of a Craddock romance.
This author, indeed. is so intimately iden-
tilted with that part of Tennessee which
touches the cloud line that merely TO open
sonal environment in the mists and re-
mote sjences of 3, world that would be
heaven except for the moonshiner and the
revenue man. With each new story the
reader returns to the mountains with
something of the same pleasure he feels
in revisiting a place he likes. characters
change and plots differ, but the Great
Smoky mountains are always the splendid
same
This latest romance has its starting from
mountain bungalow, in which the Bris-
Goes are remaining over summer to enjoy
the ''ctromatc pageantry of the forests
as the season waned.' Julian Bayne,
who years ago had been discarded by
his fiarcee for a richer man, visits the
bungalow and Unexpectedly meets the
woman, now widow, and mother OF a
small son. Her immediate effort to regain
the mans interest somewhat jars ones
conception OF Il dignitied heroine. but,
after all, it is human nature to try for
what one wants. And human nature cX-