Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-02

stretch of mountain isolation has pro-
duced. There are here ten Of these
little frames. each including a back
ground of lovely highland landscape
In the foreground, as q rule. is the ia
miliar mission school of st. Hilda,
around which circle the shift-groups of
mountaineers, working out their loves
and hates, their friendships and their
feuds in a fashion as foreign to the
ments Of the present time. as II the
mountains of Kentucky were lonG-lost
defelicts in both time and space. Mr..
Fox knows this region and loves 1t in
friendly psychology he has produced
types of a restricted portion Of Amsri-
can life that have q substantial value
q sociological, historical. artistic value.
That he has caught this region and
made 1t permanent in sketch and story.
just before its transformation to more
conventional forms of existence, Is, one
Judges. most important element in the
work Of this sympathetic and dis
eliminating artist.
A BOY ON THE PLAINS AND IN THE
ROCKIES. BY William Allen
Greer. Illustrations by Blanche
Greer. Boston: The Gorham Press.
This little book. designed for boy
readers. recounts the adventures of
billie Brown" who. we'll toward six
ty years ago. travelled across country
from Iowa to the first lifts of the
Rockies. At that time the western
railway was no more than a project.
So. the trip was by wagon train. To
the boy of the present day the ad-
ventures of Haroun-al-R aschid can
hardly appear more strange. or more
fascinating, than the experiences Of
70 II I'D tv
prairie schooner" drawn by teams Of
oxen and cows. Indians skirted tho
little wagon train, or crossed its path.
A Mormon band, seeking q new prom
Used land, bore 1T company for a time.
At its approach antelope lifted start
led heads along scant waterways, and
buffalo rumbled away to right and left
Of 1t. The story possesses the flavor
Of personal "reminiscences. And that
is what It is. Herein lies its chief
in the faithful quality of the pictures
that sets forth an earlier period in the
life of the west. Illustrations of a
skillful and discriminating artistry
moments that come to Billie Brown In
the course Of his great adventure.
KIDDIEs. By J. ]. Bell. author of
Wee Macgreegor," etc. New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Here the author sketches seventeen
distinct scenes. Some child. boy or
girl takes possession of each of these,
rounding 1t out. like a filled balloon.
with the pranks and the play. the
thoughts and the fancies Of the sure
enough boy or girl. Boys. in the main.
figure here-a curious. inventive. ener-
getic, inspired motley of boydom.
Lauehable stories. the most of them,
yvit
observation and experience and. there
in. accounting for ones undiluted Joy
in these stories Of the eternal boy. A
book Of pure recreation for the reader,
friendly Interpretation on the part Of
the writer.
AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE
CHILDREN. An introduction to
geography. By Frank G. Carpenter.
Lift. d. Author of Carpenters &C.
ographical Reader" etc. New York:
American Book Company,
Having outclassed Puck as a globe
girdler. Mr.. Carpenter varies his travels
by another excursion into the Kingdom
Of Childhood: this time to guide its
little people to the homes Of other boys
and girls who live in every far OF cor
ner of the earth-never mind about the
from Everychild's home and leads to
Eskimo-land, where the tourists are
welcomed by children cocooned in fur,
who play merrilyson the ice and live In
stretches out to the hot lands Of Gem
trail Africa, to Japan. China. the Phil
ippine Islands, and, in turn. to every
other strange country, stops being
made in each to acQuaint the visitors
with its customs. games and costumes;
how the people work for q living and
how the children play. When the
tourists have called On the i've great