Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-16
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AMATEUR CIRCUS LIFE, ny Ernest
Balch. New York. The Macmillan
company si.6O
This is a book for boys. Around
the circus idea the author builds up a
very interesting and practical system
of physical training, system which
will greatly benefit the growing lad
which will appeal to his love of
shows" and which at the same time
calls for no extensive outlay OF equip
ment. In addition to his strictly "cir-
Gus" chapters, Mr.. Balch has one or
two articles for the instructor or par
ent, which make clear how underlying
all of the subjects, there are certain
Fundamental! precepts and rules, drawn
from years of experience with boys
which cannot help but be OF great
value in building up strong bodies
THE SECRET TRAILS. BY Charles G. d
Roberts New York. The Macmillan com
pany, sl,S5.
New scenes, new situations, with
wild beasts and birds always as the
principal actors, are here described
by one who knows the furry folks
who loves them, and who can write
of them with sympathy and yet with,
out mawkishness. The writer deals
entirely with animals and the great
outdoors.
WITH THE FLYING SQUADRON BY Hsr
old Kosher. New York. The Mcmillan
company. $l,26,
Letters of the late Harold Kosher
to his family and depict an airman's
life in war. \ They are natural, spon'
taneous and unstudied letters, full o.
interest and very timely.
HAWAIIAN LEGENDS OF VOLCANOES
By W. D. westervelt Boston, Mass TIL
Ellis Press,
This is really a volume OF mythol
ogy, collected and translated from the
Hawaiian. The early Hawaiians in
corporated in their legends variou:
theories to. explain the volcanoes
many of which are in this volume
especially those legends which cluster
around Pele, the great goddess o.
fire, and Hiiaka, its sister, GOODIES:
of lightning. The book is neatly
bound in dark blue, with crimson let
tering. The illustrations are many
and clear, depicting much of the beau
tiful scenery around which the myth:
cluster,
A THOUSAND MILE WALK TO TIKI
GULF. BY John Muir. Boston. Hough
| ton Mifflin company. $3.50
John Muirs tramp from Indiana tt
Florida in 1867, and his trip thence
to Cuba, and finally to California, wa:
his first venture into the world OF hi
life work as student of nature, ant
he described it in his journal witt
all the fresh enthusiasm of such ar
adventure at %, and with good meas
ure of the literary art that dStin
cuisines his later writing.
cAE1FoENIANs; BY Robinson s91,n co LETTERS # ns
h Here IS new California poets
man who sings with much grace o.
nature ana lilell anu Woheh any ~
nance in Golden State of the West
Mr.. letters is a new poet, but there
is finish to his work and an inspira
ton and feeling in his lines that woule
do honor to an old and experienced
writer.
SONGS OF wEDLoCK. BY T. A. DAILY
Philadelphia. David Mckay. s1.oo
A collie ction of short poems full o.
romance and beautiful sentiment,
RHYMES OF RED CROSS MAN. B:
Robert W. Service. New York. Barse .
Hopkins. $780, -
The fact that Robert w. Service has
written another volume Of verse X
in itself a notable thing--Hfor Service
numbers his readers nowadays by the
tens OF thousands. But when we cou
pie this fact with another, that his