Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-30
excitement and happy romance follow
one another in rapid succession.

one another in rapid succession.
POLLY COMES TO wOoDBINE. BY
George Ethelbert Walsh. 56 pp. 81.
! Lothrop Lee & Shepard company.
| Woodbine was a charming country
town where Uncle Jethro and Aunt
Miranda lived their comfortable but very
lonely lives on just such a bountiful old
fashioned farm as one likes to read
about To this home came Polly, n bright,
loving. cheerful little girl. There was a
! mistake about her coming-at least. II
seemed so-but some things thought at
/ first to be mistakes turn out TO be the
very best that could have happened, and
it was so in this case.
THE LITTLE FOLKS OF ANIMAL
LAND. Barry Whittier Frees. $50,
Lothrop Lee q Shepard company.
Each OF the half-tones from photo
graphs of living. costumed pets is faced
by a page of bright descriptive narra-
tive, the two pages forming one link in
unique Photographic story-chain.
THE STRANGE STORY OF MIR. DOG
AND MIR, BEAR. BY Mabel Fuller
Blodgett. 81. The Century Company.
Mr.. Bear is very lazy, but he lives in
to come and do the work for him. There
Is trouble at first. but everything comes
out right and they have some wonderful
and interesting adventures together.
TOMMY AND THE wIsHING-sTo
By Thornton w. Burgess. 81. The
Century Company.
Tommy, a country boy, finds out by
accident that whenever he sits on a
certain old gray stone his wishes come
true. He first wishes to be a meadow
mouse, then a red squirrel, a fox, a wild
goose.-altogether round dozen of his
| little brothers OF the wild. And thus he
learns much about their pleasures and
| their dangers.
PEG o. THE RING. BY Emile Benson
Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe. 37b PIP.
N.8. The Century Company.
The final story of the "Denewood"
series. Peggy of Denewood. a bewitching
little figure. meets with series OF ad-
ventures quite as interesting and exciting
as those OF the two preceding books. A
charming story and an Introduction as
we'll to knowledge of life among our
forefa theirs In the days Of General Wash
ington.
AN ARMY BOY IN ALASKA. BY Cap
tain G, +. Kilbourne. 346 PIP. s.. 25 The
Penn Publishing Company.
Don Page and Harry Kearney, two
young officers OF the United States army,
are ordered to Alaska to build tele-
graph line to d new mining field. They
are opposed by men who have selfish
reasons for not wanting the line built.
The rough mans country OF Alaska
supplies adventure and opportunity TO
do things worth while.
KIsINGToN TOWN. BY Abbie Farwell
Brown. 2lS pp. SIS. Houghton-Mifflin
company.
The town OF Kisington was besieged and
affairs were In a desperate state. Many
strange and iEteresting things had hap
pened In Kisngton in days gone by and
Fit suddenly occurred to the people that
Instead of surrendering to their enemy,
they would send out Harold, who knew
and loved all the ancient stories, and see
II by reading them to Red Rex, the king
OF their enemies, he could not divert his
attention. Harold's reading is so very en-
PERTAINING that the king asks for more
and moro of II, and finally repents his
purpose to destroy such an interesting
town.
THE LITTLE RED DOE. BY Chauncey
]. Hawkins. 81. Little, Brown & co.
One day the little red doe discovered
that her mother was no longer paying
any attention to her, so with a toss o.
her head and a flirt of her tail. she
started out to investigate the world.
day OF delicious freedom was hers
when she tasted to the full the Joy OF
the wild woods,-but that very might
she fell a victim to a hunter. fascinate'