Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-16
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Literary Notes

George Woden's Little Houses"
just published by e. P. Dutton &
Co., is a novel of unusual flavor. 1t
is a tale of humble life in a small
English manufacturing town during
the Eighties and Nineties of the last
century, but it inspires its realistic
pictures of the daily life of it's peo-
pie with quiet humor, with the sense
of their consequence and with keen
interest in them and their surround
ings. 1t achieves what compare
lively few novels do, makes the
reader feel that he would like to
have known these people, to have
lived in their little town and drop
ped into their little houses" for
cup of tea and friendly chat. Says
one of the characters, Were all
nobodies, mother, very nearly all of
us, nobodies in little houses. except
in our eyes and the Lords" And
the author makes the reader see
these nobodies in little houses as,
perhaps. they stand in 1.-The eyes of
the Lord"
E. P. Dutton Sc Co. have taken
over from Mitchell Kennerley, w.
II. Hudson's Adventures Among
Birds" which Kennerly brought out
several years ago in an imported
edition. The buttons are having it
printed in this country and will pub
lish 1t this fall in an American edi-
ton profusely illustrated with pic
lures taken from the wood-cuts il
Illustrating that classic of ornithology,
Thomas Bewick's History of Brit
ish Birds" first published in the lat
ter part of the eighteenth century.
The pictures for the Hudson book
will be made from an 1926 edition
of the British Birds" The Dut-
tons expect to have ready w. H.
Hudson's new book, recently COM
pleted, Birds in Town and Village"
early next month.
Just before his death the late Col
onel Roosevelt wrote an introduction
for Mary Fanny Young's little vol
ume of children's rhymes of Oys-
ter Bay, when We Were Little"
which L. P. Dutton & Co. have just
published. Two of the illustrations
in the book are from pictures or
Quentin and Archie Roosevelt when
| they were tiny chaps and show them
| one in a great field of daisies and
the other having delightful time
all by himself in a strawberry patch.
The verses and their themes evil
Qently dppedleu uceply W SoiohSi
| Roosevelt, for he says in his intro
duction: Miss Youngs writes OF
the quaint, old-time Long Island
life, of which not only her father
and 1, but she herself and my chill
dren, were part. 1t was not the life
of the summer resident" 1t was
the life of those who lived winter
and summer in the simple. pleasant
homes, beside the shore or on the
neighboring hills of the northern
Long Island country. 1t is lovely
country The people who
dwelt on these farms, or who got
their livelihood on the waters of the
! Sound, came from stock which had
been on the island for nearly three
centuries. The life was what they
had themselves developed 1t
is with this life that Miss Youngs
deals in her charming little poems,
which tell of the work and the play
of both grown-ups and children.
Naturally they appeal very strongly
to me; for / love the Long Island
fields and woods at all seasons; at
the high tide of the year when the
green foam of spring breaks into
the deeper green Of summer; md at