New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-20
P2oLo By
1OOVo HeyDood Broun

of literature teens with good ones
when | was young and struggling
author q still struggle, but am no
longer young) my niece Phyllis Du-
books as any little girl could possibly
be. bought her all the books I could
afford, but | did not buy half or a
third of what l wanted. She has
enumerated some of them, shocking me
by forgetting names occasionally, mis-
remembering others and leaving others
out. Contrary to her fear, Sophie
Mays Dotty Dimple and Little Prudy
series are delightful little books, quite
different from the lugubrous row of
which Elsie Dinsmore was the heroine.
Children naturally love Elsie Dinsmore
she is always rebuking grown people
in such conclusive though Christian
way. Phyllis Duganne forgot Each
and All, the delectabe sequel to the
delectable Seven Little Sisters. And
she left out completely two great ia
vorites of hers, Five Little Peppers by
and here l can't remember myself
and Rebecca of Sunnybroek Farm, Kate
Douglas Virgins MASTERPIECE
"For myself, pass over Mark Twain.
kipling, Stevenson, Barrie, Louisa AL
colt, Andersen, Grimm, Gelett Bur-
gess's Coop Books-every body knows
them. But l cannot too strongly rein
force Phyllis Duganne's recommends
tions of the stories and plays of Beu-
lah M. Dix. Soldier Rigdale, A Little
Captive Lad, Hugh Gwyeth, The Max
ing OF Christopher ngham-they
go on historically to nearly score if
you count the plays. Then they re-
turn to the present day and become
contemporary in books like Friends at
the End and Mothers Boy. I was at
Radcliffe College with Beulah Dix, and
| remember the thrill that ran through
our undergraduate world when it came
out that her first book had been-not
accepted but ordered, in her twentieth
year, just before she was graduated
Then there is Abbie Farwell Brown.
who writes with great individuality for
children. The very names of her books
are alluring-The Lonesomest Doll, The
Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts, In
the Days of the Giants.
How / envy children reading GEORGE
Macdonald for the first time! think
for fancy and fantasy - sometimes
Barrie seems thin beside him-there
is nobody like HIM. Curdie and the
COLLINS, The Princess and Curdie, At
the Back of the North Wind--thoy
pour magic into a child's life. And
for children little older, st. George
and st. Michael, Malcolm, The Marquis
OF Lossle, Phantastes-the TEEN with
thrills. There are two or three other
childrens writers - British, too - who
hope are not neglected in these DAYS
when children's books are full of limou-
slnes, private yachts and all the APP
purtenances of wealth. They are Maria |
Edgeworth, Mrs. Horatio Ewing and
the latter's mother, Mrs. Gatty. can't |
believe that Mrs. Ewing's The Story
Of Short Life will ever cease to be
read-in Great Britain at least. But
others OF her authorship must have dis
appeared. At any rate, the other day
when I put some old-book sleuths on
the trail Of her exquisite Old Fashioned |
Fairy Tales it was not to be found; |
nor another book that dates back to
my childhood, Their Club and Ours. |
nor third-and such a lovely one,-
that came later, Twilight Stories The
old Wide Awake contained many beau
tiful stories. They speak with ar |
extraordinary eloquence for the taste
of that generation of American writers.
There was Their Club and Ours, which
] have just mentioned. I remember it