The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-28

Those WnO rear tnat the younger gen. 1
.,au,n Is gwen up wholly TO athletic
.,,rts and to msteriallstic ambitions
.r,uIo look over the literature which
.puled purveyurs keep on preparing for |
# Nearly every subject of boyish |
.,,husiasm is looked after by them. and
,.m.timcs their reputation. greater !
.,on than the topic. attracts. The !
,,,Ls belonging to some series or other |
n, bcf,re ,s seem endless and We
.ro driven to some form Of rough classi- |
dca'Ion
rorinninr first with stories dealing
with history and real adventures we
e,d that beloved veteran, Edward :.
ruis still active and vigorous with "a
two volume series about the struggle
Or Texas. THE Three Arrows and
"r,merher the Alamo" tThc John G..
Winston Company. Philadelphia. His
.,rthy successor. Joseph \. Altsheler.
keeps UP in his exciting civil war series
tho excellent plan of having his boy
heroes an the opposite sides in alternate
volumes. the war advances in The
s,u,. of Stuueyall" and The Sword
If Antictam" ,Appletons). Pioneer his
tor, never loses its attraction, set
n Rov scouts is taken by Percy II.
rtzhuah In the Path Of La Sale"
Thomas Y. Crowcll Company down
,he Mississippi with some adventure
and much instruction. Everett T. Tom
Nnson's youths actually engage in
scouting with Daniel Boone" ,Double-
day. Page and Company, which is
more satisfactory arrangement. The
noble red man is prominent, as he should
h. in Everett McNcil's The Totem of
Black Hawk" "a e. MCClurg and Com
pany. Chicago. the sort of story boys
usrd TO like forty years ago. John t.
Mrlntyre's hero hunters have a lively
time in Texas With Davy Crockett"
THE Penn Publishing Company. Phila-
delphial third of the "Buckskin" series.
The latest Of tho Wild West heroes is
the central figure Of Edwin l.. Sabin's
@Buffalo Rill and the Overland Trail"
a.. Il. Llppincrtt Company. Finally,
poit the present war in Europe and
Ross Kay makes a beginning with kind
Of detective tale. THE Search for the
Spy ,Rarsc and Hopkins, New York;.
Oliver Clay's THE Treasure Finders"
,Duf,ied and Company. while a COM
prehsnsive account Of exploration. -
wholly didsctic and instructive, not nc
ton. With The Las; Raid" the NTH
volume. Byron \. Dunn completes his
series abou, the civil war in Missouri
"a. =. McCiurg and company
The striking sketches Of a small boy of
anavy family that Maud Howard t. ter
son calls The Commodore" lLothrul,
lee and shepard Company. Boston, are
intended for grown people rather than
children. So long as he remain. a
child the boy is fine fellow and natural
in spite Of the authors intense emotion
IN the naval acasemy that emotion runs
over. her hero must he made pathetic
A. all costs Commander Edward '.
Beach starts the hero of four previous
books on his career as an officer II
Roger Pauld.ng Ensign" The Penn
Publishing Company, and Captain L
f. kilbourne takes his West Point here
IN further service in AN Army Boy II
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