New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-30

/ (FrOm a portrait painted Wheh she was
twenty-twoJ
show was ready TO move on, the lIt'Ie
girl was missing. A mountaineers
wife had taken pity on her. The owner
of the circus demanded her return
whereupon the mountain people warm
W. invited him TO stay and they would
show him some shooting. SO he moved
on. promising himself TO get the girl
back. AzaIea is kidnapped, the search
begins. and ends. Of course, i'm the dis
coyery Of Azalea's exalted parentage.
The story is written with appealing
sympathy.-It would be an arduous
occupation to take a census Of the
number Of series" Of stories for the
young now In course Of publication.
Here is the second volume Of still an
other one. Margaret NandercoCks
THE Ranch Girls Pot Of Cold (Win-
ston). The present reviewer is not IA
miliar with the contents Of the initial
volume. but this one begins with
prophecy of gold by a gypsy queen.
Fortune tellers are to be found every
where nowadays, even on ranches, 1t
appears. which proves anew what we
all know, that this particular super
stition is amazingly on the increase
among women The girls find the gold,
and at the end Of volume two take
train for volume three, which, II is
safe to foretell without being gypsy,
will be called The Ranch Girls at
Boarding School. "-Aud here We have
the Blue Bonnet" series, volume two,
called Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
page. In volume one a Texas Blue
Bonnet" was sent East from her home
on a Texas ranch 10 go to school; the
sequel deals with the adventures Of
her school friends on visit TO her on
the ranch Carolina Emilia Jacobs has
made most readable story Of It all,
without the aid Of her original col
la borator.-In the same way Captain
Becky" who was sailing a boat in
Florida in an earlier book pays a re-
turn visit to her young friend in the
New Hampshire mountains, in Marga-
ret Love Sanderson's Captain Becky's
Masquerade" REILLY & Britton). Becky
is very poor, and the friends parents
are very wealthy" but she has a good
time nevertheless.
Mrs. Annie Fellows Johnston fully
earned the success that met her Little
Colonel books. Her new story, Mary
Wares Promised Land" page, cam
not be too heartily recommended for
older girls. 1t has the sweet serious
ness of the threshold Of life the dignity
of young womanhood is in its pages,
and it is, in the warp and wool Of its
story, truly of this period I'm the his
tory Of womans Observation-Disclosures
Churchill was getting decidedly out Of
hand. Without mother, and left 20
her teachers by her busy father, she
was in danger Of being spoiled by
what his wealth brought her. But Mr..
Churchill was an American Of the old
type, and he had the cure ready when
at last the state Of affairs became plain
TO him. He sent Elizabeth back to the
humble little house in the lane where
he and his dead wife had begun life,
and there sans maid, sans motors. sans
luXuries. the girl proved herself her
mothers daughter and a chip of the
paternal block as well. The story,
with its timely lesson, is told by Fred
ericl Grin Bartlett (The Century Com
pany).-Mr. Ormesby has got into a
deal that for the moment looks like the
wrong sort Of corner which gets hnan-
ciers into squeeze. SO he and his
wife have decided that a years re-
trepchment is advisable. They will
rent their palace in New York. for one
thing. Not so, says their daughter
Helen. I'VE will discharge the lower
servants, keep on only the upper ones,
and start a school of domestic economy
for my college mates and myself" The
seven girls put themselves under the
tuition Of cook and chambermaid and
butler all of them, fortunately, most
amiable creatures. Helen does more
than this, she makes the model farm
pay, instead Of producing its usual def
icit Having done so much for others,
she wins for herself prospective hus-
band. All this and much more NAV be
read in Belle Moses's Helen Ormesby". j
(Appleton).
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