New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-25
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&-SOOsLS HeyDood Broun

suit Mr. Doran as to the official death
rate of that last chapter. l have read
the criticisms of papers from New York
to San Francisco and Intermediate
opinion is strongly that Sally didn't
die, although there are a few emphatic
death sentences. In the face of this
contradiction the publishers, deaf to
the public interest, remain silent. May
yours be the voice that will draw forth
the authoritative word.
Personally, my money is on living
Sally. I don't believe that Mr.. Swim
merton is the sort of brute to kill off
such heroine, or the sort of artist to
finish with q hecatomb. And I DON t
see, anyway, why fall against rail-
ing should have killed tough little
Sally. 1t took a whole flight of stairs
to finish her father and there must be
something in heredity."
"You say in to-day's Tribune: TT is
about time to call halt on the discus
sion Of children's books" writes AIDE
laide and continues, with remorseless
grammatical accuracy, We'll, about
doesn't mean quite and I claim the
privilege of 'one word more"
Ade1aide's one word is as follows:
II still have almost all my childhood
books, and I still say it unblush-
ingly-reread them occasionally; so
I'm not very shaky as to authors and
titles, and, if memory should fail,
can readily refresh it and thereby
serve the cause of accuracy and do
much to simplify the task of the
clerks at the children's book counter
when the boom begins on the part of
Tribune readers.
Neither of the two books that
Phyllis Duganne attributes to Sara
Orne Jewett belongs to her. Little
Lucy's Wonderful Globe is by Char
lotte Yonge. Internationally, I may
remark that hated it, much as the
child of to-day probably hates the
educational movie that has replaced
IT'D The Story of Short Life, as Inez
Haynes Irwin knows, is by Juliana
Horatio Ewing-a writer of real merit,
bound to delight young and old alike,
the beauty of whose rather intricate
style children doubtless feel, though
they can scarcely appreciate it. That
other stanch Briton, Kipling was one
Il r..
Co. he alludes to We and the World in
the highest terms and quotes from It.
| beg to assure Mrs. Irwin that the
exquisite Story ST Short Life is not
the sole survivor of her fine works.
Jackanapes, I fancy, is much better
known; it, too, ranks as children's
classic. Personally, I cherish Flat
Iron for Farthing with still greater
affection. Jan of the Windmill and Six
to Sixteen also contain much that is
fine, and the latter is particularly in
teresting in that it presents many of
her educational theories, and is, in
part, / believe, based on her own home
life.
"Other books that loved (and love)
are Eliinor d. Adams's Robins Ride,
Beatrice Harraden's Little Rosebud
and large number by an anonymous
writer (wohld that could discover
her identity!-I'm sure that it was
"her') who masqueraded under the
non-committal and unsatisfactory cog
nonen Of "The Author of Miss Torsey's
Mission" This particular volume was
for grown-ups; the children's books
included Hardy and Foolhsrdy, Larry's
Luck, Toms Opinion, Gilly Flower and
most charming of all-One of
Covey.
Practically all these books-English
every one--were published in America
By A. l. Bort and were obtainahlc in my