The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-16
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they ought to know. the collection Will
attract older readers as we'll.
Stories and poems relating 10 the
Nativity and Christmas time are con-
tained in christmas in Legend and
Story" by Elva S. Smith and Alice I.
Hazeltine I>othrop. Lee and Shepard
Company. BOSTON,, illustrated with re-
productions OF famous pictures. The
editors have shown admirable judg-
in their selections. Curl sity
should attract readers to Little
Verses and Big Names George II.
Doran Company. a book published for
a benevolent purpose. The editor has
induced a great many well known peo-
pie. most OF whom have achieved dis
tinction in other lines, to try their
hands at verse. Some have chung to
prose, some have contributed pictures.
and some, being professional poets.
have turned in their own wares. Gem
erals, ~financiers. society women, stage
folk are in the list and the President
sends a note. Unchanged by the COM
ing of war or the passing OF years
"Chatterbox" for 1915 follows in the
wake Of it's thirty-seven predecessors,
with it's well known and popular mis-
cellany Of verse, prose and pictures
Dana Estes and Company, Boston,.
Built on the same lines. hut for chill
dren of more tender years. is "Saal-
fields Annual" ,The Saalield Publish
ing Company. Akron, Ohio).
Instructive information Is sup
Piled by a variety OF books, either
directly or partly disguised by q
I gtln " nnnntnt Of mAbV infnr-
esting spots is given by Everett T
Tomlinson in places Young Ameri'
cans Want to Know tAppletons)
The interest in many of these IS his
t~orical, while in others the prdctica
and the picturesque prevail. An eX'
cellent manual Of o~rn!thology. The
Children's Book Of Birds" by oI!v'
Thorne Miller. appears in n new re-
vised edition (~Houghton, Miffiin Com
pany), the two parts in II volume
with beautiful illustrations, plain ant
colored. The directions for making
Home Made Toys for Girls an(
Boys" by a. Nicely Hall Lothr3p. Lee
and Shepard Company, deal not only
with the simpler manipulations OF
cardboard and paper, but with ingen!-
III liz u Nv ~
ances. Combined with the tale or {
boy who makes good, Sara War
Bassett in The Story OF Leather
(The Penn Publishing Company), de-
scribes the processes of preparing ant
tanning leather, while the story par
of Caroline French Benton's "Th'
Fun Of Cooking CThe Century Com
pany) is interrupted at frequent in
tervals by the detailed recipes 70
the dishes the children make.
Two Pennsylvania worthless are thu
latest additions to the excellent juve
nile biographical series issued by thu
Mncmillans: BENJAMIN Franklin,
by T.. Lawrence Dudley, is an AIDE
quate Of the sage, philoso'
pher and statesman as normal Amer
leans look upon him. with no refer
ence to his peccadilloes, while Ru
pert Sargent Hollands william
Penn" describes both an interesting
personality and a unique eNperimcn
in colonization. To the voluminou
attempt to describe the life of chi
dren in every land Luna May lime
adds an interesting "our Little Boe
Cousin (The Page Company, Bos
toni, fftieth of the series. The sup
Elementary series about children i
the past. which threatens to be nearl,
as long, is enlarged by Clara Nos
trovsky Winslow's "Our Little Cartha
gilman Cousin of Long Ago and Eva
leen STEMS "Our Little Norman
Cousin of Long Ago" CThe Pag'
Company, both describing importan
historical periods.
Two classic children's books appea
in holiday dress. Mary Mapes Dodge
Hans Drinkers Skates" tCharle
Scribner's Sons) has been Illustrate
with admirable colored pictures whic
reproduce the real Holland by Georg
Wharton Edwards. The large octav
will be a welcome gift to any boy q
girl, The equally familiar Heidi" b
Johanna Spyri has been illustrate
prettily In color by Maria l.. kirl
81. b. Llpplncott Company. The ne,
translation 10 by Elisabeth Il. Storl
Every healthy boy will be glad I
Tread the legends and animal tales q