Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-11
NEW STORY BOOKS
FOR YOUNG GIRLS
Latest Fiction Offers Good
Subjects for Christmas
Gifts

/ Fall juvenile fiction presents an un-
usually large number of books for the
older girls, and books that have the
words christmas present" written all
over them Any one looking for some
thing nice for misses Of from ten 10
sixteen or so will find choice in the
following:
"Margcry Morris, Mascot" is the
latest addition to Violet Gordon Gray's
stories of this charming heroine, whose
career has already had n preliminary
volume and will be continued in an
other. "NIargcry Morris and Plain
Jane" in preparation. However, this
story can also be read quite independ
entity of the others in the series. It
tells the adventures of new girl in
town. where she attained popularity and
had good times. Her trials began when
she undertook the role of mascot but
all difficulties were handsomely over
come.
"Comrade Rosalie" carries the reader
to northern France in wartime. Rosa
lie and her sisters and foster sister,
by a curious accident of the war, are
in town in the region occupied by the
foe Airplanes swoop over their old
castle and German spy is in their very
midst. A young aviator and youth e.
full soldier add thrills to the adventures
of Rosalie, who gets her name of COM
rade from them. OF course, the spy
plot is foiled and all ends happily. This
book gives American girls an excellent
idea of thescondtions under which their
young French sisters lived
"a Little Maid of Old Philadelphia
is another in the series describing
Colonial and Revolutionary girlhood, by
Alice Turner Curtis. 1t is for younger
girls. reaching into their teens. The
heroine lives in the city of Penn dur
ing the British occupation. She has an
opportunity of doing a great service for
her country. and makes good" emphat
ically. Even modern little girls who
know all the up to dateness of tho
movies will find much to charm their
interest in this book.
: "The Merrymakers in New York" is
for boys as well as girls. Marge and
Jean are the girls of the family and
Rex and Carl and Ned the boys, and
their ages range all the way from seven
to twenty, so there Is n wide variety
of interest. They meet many surpris.
ing but not improbable adventures in
the metropolis, and there is even a de-
cided mystery for solution before theil
story comes to its last page.
Betty Bell" is for older girls. Fan.
ME Kilbourne takes her very Ameri
can, and by that token, very charming
young heroine all the way into hcl
first love affairs. The book has mucl
of the geniality of Miss Alcott's fin,
( stories for budding womanhood.
Joan at Halfway" is another boOl
of the same type for older misses. Th
I heroine comes to live at Halfway Hous
with her old Scotch Canadian aunt an,
L uncle. She is only sixteen and full o
life and grace and spirit, There is
mystery brooding over the old place
and even an ancient gypsy curse to b
/ dispeled. Ioan's cheerful and livel
presence stirs up plenty of excitemen
for herself and others, and finally sue
{ ceeds in establishing harmony in
family that had had its disagreements
I LEFTY BELL BY Fannie Kilbourne Ne
II York; Harper & Bros. Sl5o.
II JOAN AT HALFWAY. BY Grace McLeC
| Rogers. New York: George II. Dora
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Herschel WILLIAMS. Boston; The Pa
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COMRADE ROSALIE, BY Mary Constan
- Dubois. New York: The Century Cor
N1ARGERY MORRIS. MASCOT. BY vlol
% Gordon Gray. Philadelphia: Penn Pu
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