Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-05
Editors Table

Hindu Fairy Tales, Retold for Chill
dren by Florence Griswold. Illustra-
ted from photographs and. with 'front.'
ispiece In coiors and pen-and-inks
by L J. Bridgman. Price $l.25. 10th
rop. Lee & Shepard Co., Boston.
Mrs. Griswold. well-known soci-
ologist and lecturer, has recognized
the beauties Of many # the Hindu
folk stories unknown to American
children because no one Of sufficient
scholarship to understand them fully
has taken the pains to present them
in form to be enjoyed by young
readers. OF course they have to do
with the reincarnations Of the great
Buddha, the paralleiism between
whose life and that Of Christ is in
many ways so notable. Mrs. Girls
void has added something actually
new to the always limited number Of
really high grade books for children,
Childs Songs Of Cheer. by Evaleen
Stein. author OF Rosechen and the
Wicked Magpie. Four illustrations
in full colors by Antoinette Inglis.
Price Sl.25.
No books for children are more
charming than the very rare ones of
really excellent verses. Miss STEMS
brightly musical little poems have
won the approval Of scholarly critics,
but. better than that, they have made
children themselves memorize and
repeat them from actual enjoyment.
All children and all who love them
will be delighted with this handsome
ly made book of such verses for little
people as have been rarely seen since
the days of Robert Louis Stevenson.
The fine illustrations by Mrs. Inglis
are just what is needed to complete
a thoroughly charming book.
Toggles, An Outdoor Boy. by Fred
erick F.. Hall. Illustrated by Charles
Copeland. Price sl.25.
Without being in any way related
to that happily extinct family of
"goody -goody' children. Toggles. in
his own small way, manages to find
tongues in trees, books in the run
ming brooks. sermons n stones. and
good in everything" and his grand
fathers farm is for him a sort of
childhood forest Of Arden.
The child who knows Gods out
doors from actual living in it will find
his understanding of 1t deepened. and
his love for it increased by reading
this book: the little shut-in will find
it one of the consoling substitutes for
winds, woods, and sunshine.
Dorothy Dainty at Foam Ridge, the
new Dorothy Dainty" book. by Amy
Brooks. Illustrated by the author.
Price 81.
If we did not have the usual 'Doro-
thy Dainty" no other of the years
new books would have it's absence
mourned by so many nice little girls
and good many boys as well. The
little heroine Of these, books and her
friends are the DISQUALIFICATION Of
merry times, in which gentle man
ners are constantly but unobtrusively
in evidence. In this story all are at a
fine beach hotel where gayety
abounds. New characters, some Of
them among the best yet, add varie-
ty, and there ia action throughout
AS one young reader wrote to the
author You can't miss a page. be-
cause something is sure to have hap
pened on it."
Hale Merrills Honey Quest; How
One Girl Made the Best of Things. by
Annie Elizabeth TIarris. Illustrated
by Ronald Anderson. Price sl.35.
Hale Merrill, a girl OF fourteen,
suddenly finds her city home broken
up and herself thrust into n public
school in n country village. a violent
change in her self centered and I'M
evenly developed life under an in