Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-23
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My books. the best companions, are
A glorious court. where hourly I con-
verse
With the old sages and philosophers;
And sometimes, for variety, l confer
With kings and emperors and weigh
/ their counsels.
Beaumont and Fletcher.
PolIyanna Grows Up. BY Eleanor
H. Porter Cthe Page Company, Bos-
! toni.
This is "The Second Glad Book"
and is even gladder than the first. if
such a thing were possible. In the
| first book you were thrilled all over by
Pollyanna' personality. but Pollyanna
grown up is simply irresistible. The
players of the glad game" are back in
force and the very word glad takes
on a new meaning when Pollyanna
puts in an appearance. 1t expands
and includes in its scope the whole
universe and you cannot help being
| glad with her, particularly at this sea-
son. She is the kind that makes a
Christmas out of every day.
AS little girl Pollyanna is such a
marvel that you instinctively picture
| her in your mind as she will appear in
the role of a young woman, and you
are not disappointed. If you are a
man. you envy just a bit the one who
tually win her love. but you feel sure
that he will be the right sort. And
/ then, as you read on and are intro.
duced to Jimmy Pendleton, YOU heave
satisfied sigh and YOU know Polly
anna will be we'll taken care of.
A sense of warmth and comfort and
more or less of the Christmas spirit
applied, throughout the year pervades
the atmosphere OF the book. You are
filled with the appreciation and real
iZation that peace and good will are
really wonderful qualities and you are
somehow or other invigorated by the
contact with Pollyanna's bright and
winsome personality. She is the sun
shine that reaches out into every little
nook and corner and brightens it. to
the exclusion of ell darkness and sor-
row. She is q veritable medicine, as
the doctor says in the story, and a
medicine that is agreeable in the TAX
ing and effective in its application. AS
some appreciative reader of the book
has said, Mrs. Porter pressed the but
ter of optimism and sent a wireless of
gladness clear around the globe when
she wrote Pollyanna the Glad Book
and its sequel, 'Pollyanna Grows Up" |
"Pollyanna" has been translated
into many languages and printed in
the New York point for the blind.
There is Pollyanna petticoat and a
blouse, and, named after her, are a
registered calf, motorboat, a cat, a
bungalow in Wisconsin, tea house on.
top of Lookout Mountain in Colorado,
a farmhouse in Vermont and a live,
lusty girl baby in Texas.
Anne of the Island, by L. NJ. Mont
gomery. A sequel to "Anne of Green
Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea." (This
book by Page & Co., Boston, COM
pletes the trilogy)
girl at college is unquestionably
an interesting and entertaining study.
but girl such as is Anne Shirley of
Green Gables, whom Mark Twain
called the dearest and most moving
and delightful child of felton," is more
than that. She is fascinating and un-
usual in the qualities that have made
her what she is to the hearts of thou
sands of readers, and yet she is a per-
fectly normal, not even remarkably
good-looking, healthy young animal.
In this book she has come back to us,
this time in the character of girl
away at college. We go with her to
Redmond. which is a girls college,
and we spend the first year there with
her. Then we devote a good, healthy
summer to the long vacation with the
mple-hearted folk of the Island-and
we go on and on--until finally romance
comes into her life.