Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-10-02
NEW BOOKS
FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
Vide Tariety Of Subjects and
Interests for Youthful
Reading

The fall season Of Juvenile books, now
opening, presents wide variety Of
themes and plots. Although these books
are published thus early in the fall,
any or oil Of them are adapted for
Christmas giving. ~,
American boys will find a thrilling
war story concerning the British SOL
dier in Tommy Of the Tanks" written
by Escott Lynn, quite a favorite author
Of English lads. The author knows the
war game well, and also the technical
phases of the tanks which from Cam
brai onward played such an important
part In the winning Of the war. He
also has the faculty Of holding atten-
For the girls comes Edna Turpin's
Treasure Mountain" an unusual
book In that IL In replete with red.
blooded adventures. Boys will be glad
to peek into their sisters copies Of IL.
Page. Rufin, the fifteen year old hero
inc, Is camping with party of friends
on the shores OF mountain lake. She
Is saved from danger by q youngster
whose family lives in the vicinity. He
tells Page Of legend among the noun
tain whittier that certain cave not far
away contains treasure that is guarded
by the ghost of q man who was killed
while seeking Il. Nothing daunted,
Page persuades the young mountaineer
to lead her and two friends to this
cave. They enter and--and the story Is
well begun. And It grips interest till
the end.
y,.I "FOgy S,t;l Girls of Forty y Years ear; Ago."
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q quartet of little girls who are very
real because the interesting things they
do were actually done by children who
lived when it was thought remarkable
to have even a telephone. They were
sisters: Dulcie, nearly twelve; Daisy,
less than year and half younger
and Molly and Maud, who were nine
and seven. They were living with a
"step grandmother" while their father
was away of in China. The little girls
concluded that the reason why she was
not nice and kind, like grandmothers in
the books they loved, was because she
was only "step." 1t required many
experiences to find out that things are
not always the same In real life-and
then, again, sometimes they are. All
ends In happiness for the bright and
well meaning little girls.
Very appropriate to this year Of the
Pilgrims tercentenary Is "A Mayfower
Maid" by Emile B. and Alden A.
Knipe. The heroine, Barbara Gorges,
a motherless Puritan girl, sets out from
with her father on what Is to
terious new world-America Never
theless, her father, a stern member of
the Puritan band, insists that she ac-
company him. and it is only in Myles |
Standish that she finds a spark of cour- |
age to face the journey. The captain of
the vessel is n coward and turns the |
ship back to England. There Barbara |
oses her father and, after a series OF
adventures, finds herself aboard the |
Mayflower bound for the new coun-
try. Arrived in America the settlers
come near starving. In these trying |
times Barbara develops into brave.
girl. She is intimate with |
Rose Standish. who shortly after the
anding succumbs to the rigors Of the
bitter climate. Thereafter Myles Stand.
sh takes 1t upon himself to guard
and thus in his confidence she
earns and sees much of his negotiations
with the natives. The book is interest.
ing simply as story and the Knipes
nave incorporated legitimate amount
If historical information.
Millicent Evison's Rainbow Gold"
whimsical little heroine /
whose heart is brimming over with
,umor. pathos, loyalty and courage. The
great love Of her life is given to her
father, and when he is sentenced to ten !
years. Imprisonment her faith in him Is
4 rainbow on the cloud of dishonor.
'TOni" goes with her brother and ,