New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
Books for Boys and Girls
Stories That May Supplement- the Famous
Childhood Classics

pple1nent the Famous
] Classics
thesa, Thia book ia one Of several
Miaa leonard has written about the
Gsaypaeuse Family.
n Ts AND TINE BoFTLE-MAN.
by Edith Ballinger Price (she
Century Company. is a story
OF two boys and a girl. all threa
Children have vivid imaginatiens and
aeem to be we'll UP on adventure
steriesA The setting is by the sea and
sAe plet eepcsgns that eldest Of chill
dssA% ssantss writing a message and
putting 1T inse bottle and aending it
cut to seek adventure for them.
The Bettle-Maa writes them lettera
| and enters iato THAR very exciting
livea. The children are mareened an
. desert island. in THAR negotiations,
and the messages from the Bottle Man
are addressed to them In answer TO
their appeal for help. The book is
we'll written, but would probably ap.
peal only to children who were in the
habit Of imagining such thrilling ad-
ventures for themselves. Seme Of the
points would be lost except upon adulA
readers.
a MOTHER story which belongs to
~ a series is that Of Sunny Boy
in the Country, by Ramy Ali
son White (Barse g. Hopkins, puhliah-
ers). If the Sunny Boy series has
followers they must belong to the
perfect little lady and little gentle
man" class. No normal child could
care very much for Sunny Roy IN
less he or she were intrigued by the
way in which this young person puts
things across on his elders.
Sunny Boy is never punished; he is
always explained to. Even when he
made kite of some perfectly good
Liberty bonds his grandfather had on
his desk and this valuable toy gets
away from, him in the wind and is
lost, nc ene scolds or even reprovea
the little boy. On the occasion when
Sunny Boy learns to say "My land Of
Goshen" the family is extremely exer-
eised because Of the bad habits their
darling is starting.
The possibilities about little boy
visiting in the country should be great
for children'a book. But the Mandy
pamhy child and the unreal grown-up
people make it impossible to feel any
life in this Sunny tBoy book. wher-
ever any sort Of getion is promised
the author stops to moralize or teach
lessen in sweetness and light fer
children. and, we have a suspicion, for
the parents also.
VT AMY eartoonist ever starts q
series Of Girlhood Ambitions he
should not leave cut one depicting
the desire of many little girls to be-
come detectives. In The Crimson
Patch, by Augusta Huiell Seaman (the
Century Company. Pasrieid Meade,
the seventeen-year-old daughter Of an
array captain, certainly has that girl
hood aEahition satisfied to the fullest.
The Crimson Patch 10 a mystery
story for girls, and Of its kind it is
one OF the beat we have ever read.
Patricia Meade is q very nice, healthy
American girl. Her father, who has
recently returned from German
prison camp, takes her to q hotel in
the city. where they are to stay for
three menths. Qatensibly he is doing
.sosaa lecture work, but in reality he is
concerned with mueh more important
and ouhsle work. From the moment
they arrive at the hotel, no, even before
they got there, certain German spies
suapeet the Captain. The way in
which Passaeia inneeensly plays inte
their hands and them Yscevera the
damage che has done VII. satisfy any
would,he girl detective.
A MOTHER Boy Scout book has
"A been published by Barse a Hep
' '"" kins. This ia Boy Scouts on
the Trail. by John Garth. 1t follows the
lines OF interest to the great army Of
Boy Scouts, According to the pub
lishera, all the books Of the series. the
Boy Scout seriss. are published with
the approval Of che national headsuar-
tera OF che Rey Scouts of America.
rT~Rg MYSTERY or THE SEA,
LARK. by Ralph II. Barheus
end ii. p. Holt (ths Century
Compaay)s 10 an entertaining story
Of hey with enterprise and ana
bitiea. Young Jack Holden is inter.
essed in helping hia father, who has
been forced to sell his home and for.
felt hia prospects in business through
his suspicious partner. Simen BARKER
Barker 10 the aisagTaeabls shiaaiat In
the ssaRy whe ease Q shadew On Iel-
aeaS asaas when the batter was gehhad
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