Omaha daily bee., 1916-11-25

THE GOOD ENcYcLoPEDM. BY Gslett
Burgess. New York. Frederick A.
Stokes Co. .I.25.
Don't be a Goop! The ill-man-
nered but fascinating O-heads of Mr..
Burgess have served as nursery look
ing-glasses for a good many years.
Here are 254 goops-each caught in
the act" This biggest of all the
COOP books includes few of the best
verses Mr.. Burgess has published be-
fore with a great number of new
ones.
WATER BABIES. BY Charles Kinssley
This is one of the golden books
that is particularly delightful to chill
dren between the ages Of 8 and IL.
The text has been edited with notes
and an introduction by Clifton john
son. Some of the scientific digres-
sions have been omitted, and it is
believed that this is the most readable
edition for young people ever pub
lished.
THE WAY TO THE HOUSE OF SANTA
CLAUS. BY Frances Hodsson Burnett
New YORK. Harper q Bros. SlVV.
A Christmas story for very small
boys in which every reader is the
hero of big adventure. This fasci-
mating little books is written by the
author of Little Lord Fauntleroy"
and is printed in such way that if
intended as a gift for small boy
there is room on the pages for his
own name to be inserted, making the
adventure apply to him as his very
own. Something new in the way of
Christmas story and one that will
surely appeal to every little boy.
WONDER BOX STORIES. By Will Brad
ley "a New York City Tho Century Co.
A collection of a dozen stories for
boys and girls of fairy tale age. Each
story is complete in itself, but familiar
scenes and old acquaintance met pre-
viously in the book turn up now and
again. Young people will find Mr..
Bradley's new book treasure box--as
we'll as wonder box-of delight.
Amy Brooks. Boston. Lothrop. Lee
Shepard Company. Ioo.
Dorothy Dainty, whose name is a
household word, has here her first ex-
perience as a pupil in a public school,
a striking change from the exclusive
private classes which she and her
happy little friends have attended. Her
sensible parents believe that Doro-
thy should learn to meet people from
other homes Dorothy with her gen.
tie tact-fts easily into her new sur
roundings, with no lack of fun and
activity.
THE YOUNG FOLKS BOOK OF IDEALS.
BY William Byron Forbush. Boston.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company. $500.
This is intended to be the funda-
mental book in the library of boys
and girls between II and Is, and it
deserves its place in interest, fullness
and worth. This book wisely, safely
and at the same time entertainingly'
provides what young people long to
be told if only it be done capably and
pleasingly. The book is produced in
style worthy of its really great con-
tents.
THE ALLIES FAIRY BOOK. By Edmund
Gosse. Philadelphia. J, B. Lippeneott
g. Co. s1.75.
What! Is the war to be mixed up
with fairies? 1t looks that way. But
it is really collection Of fairy tales,
one each being from the nations
known as the allies, with the excep-
ton of tRoumania, which joined the
allies after the book had gone to
press. The book is attractively bound
and. the print is exceptionally clear
and black. Fairy tales, as we all
know, never pail on the young idea"
POLLY TRoTTER. PATRIOT. BY Emile
Benson knipe rs and M Aasn A'na5
si.ss.
That little girl can serve her coun-
try in time of trouble quite as hero
ically as the boys and men OF the
family is the thought underlying this
stirring story. Polly Trotter's brother
and father help the colonists in their
fight for freedom and Polly, tor
while, bewails the fact that because
she is a girl there is nothing she can
do. Her error in thinking this way
and the splendid way in which she
aids the cause comprise as interesting
a story Of revolutionary days as The
Maid of '76," by the same author.
Miscellaneous.
THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION. By Daniel
A. simmons New York. Fleming IL
Revel Company. $1.oo.
There are big questions dealt with
in this notable and timely book. Re-
ligion answers them in the afflrma-
tive-physical science, apparently, in
the negative. This work employs the
findings of science to show that SCI
ence and religion are really III har-
mony, and that all the known facts of
nature are in accord with the funda-
mental postulates Of religion.
THE STORY OF THE BATTLE HYMN
OF THE REPUBLIC; BY Florence Howe
Hall, New York Hall. New York. Har-
per G. Brothers. SO cents.
How the song which set nation
singing, and reused its patriotism to
white heat, came to be written and
how it has lived is told by the daugh-
Eter of Julia Ward Howe, who wrote
the Battle HymnA The frontispiece is
a fine clear-cut illustration of Julia
Ward Howe.
TEARS OF MY YOUTH By William
Dean Howells. New York. Harper q
Brothers. $500
Here, at last, William Dean How
ellis has written down as an important
contribution of American literature
the interesting facts Of his life up to
,the time he went abroad as United
States consul. And not only the facts,