Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-11-14
BOOKS TO DELIGHT CHILDREN
BOOKS FOR BOYS
Stories Of the War Still Popular.
PARKWAY Adventures.

PARKWAY Adventures.
Boy Scouts
Il may be true that In adult fiction
the war Is q temporarily taboo sub
ject, but not In books for boys. This
season brings several. Arnold .Adair
With the English Aces" little. Brown
4 Co.. is another Of Laurence
Driggs' stories Of q Stalwart American
hero who has already seen overseas
service in a previous book. Colonel
briggs knows aviation, and his new
book, In which Arnold, after two years
with the French fliers,. transfers tt
their ally. Ia full Of the kind Of hair.
breadth adventures that boys love.
Lieutenant com.tock,s U. q. Ma.
rine" Penn Publishing Company is
by another man who knows his subject
through identity with It and experl-
ence in It. This Is the third book deal.
ing with young Comstock and bis
friends which Lieutenant Colonel Giles
Bishop. Jr.. Of the Marine Corps. has
written. His likable young leather.
neck Is now a commissioned officer,
thanks to the resource which he brings
to new problems. sparticularl$ in the
matter Of thwarting spies.
II Is only a step from the marine to
the navy. Of which they are the fighting
sailors, and 1t Is taken BY Lieutenant
Commander Fitzhush Green, Y. =. n.
in "Won for the Fleet" (E. p. Dut.
ton & Co... It IL the story Of two
youngsters who have the "makins" Of
iucn. but little else, and how they are
turned into officers and gentlemen un.
der the discipline Of the academy. This
story Of Annapolis is one OF adventure
and vicissitude, true to the middy's life,
by one who has lived It.
School stories are always a part Of
the Christmas offering Of the publishers
for boys and girls. Arthur Stanwood
Pier. who writes some Of the best, has
added to his fine Saint Timothy's series
in David Ives (Houshton Mifiln
Company. Though this Is distinc.
lively boys book, It carries the lik &.
able young hero not only through prep
school. but also through college Into
his early maturity. 1t has rousing in.
terest and high ideals.
Ralph Henry Barbour a another
from whom corkipg good story of
school life can be expected. fright
End Emerson" (Dodd, Mead 4 Co. u.
like others Of the authors books, lays
considerable stress on the athletic side,
aud saasonably the game in chief inter-
est Is football. The scene Is laid at
Alton Academy, familiar to readers of
other Barbour stories, and MS this Ia n
live prep school, it needs little imagina- :
ton to indicate what good times are in
store for the boys fortunate enough to
find this book in their stockings.
Boy Scouts have their innings in a
splended story, "I3oy Scouts on Spe.
cial Service" (Little. Brown & co.. =.
by Charles II. Largo, Billy Ransom.
en- enthusiastic Scout, because he speaks
French and has relatives In Paris, Is
allowed to 60 to France when his
father. DR.. Ransom, goes across on Red
Cross service. Billy thus has a chance
to put his Scout code into practice in
all the excitement Of the great war.
and his boy readers will be thrilled ut
his adventures.
Samuel Scoville, Jr., Is an author we'll
and favorably known to Boy Scouts.
Though his new story, The Inca EN-
erald" Century Company, Is not a
scouting yarn, its typical go.ahead
young Americans possess the good quail.
tiles and trained resourcefulness of
Scouts. md in their adventures unde.
the Southern Cross meet every demand
and danger. Those boys. and girls. too,
who read 1.-THE Blue PEARL will like
this sequel to it with another gem mys.
tery to grip the interest.
Heroes Of the Ruins" George II.
Doran Company !s new volume In
the Round the World With the Boy
Journalists" by Francis Rolt Wheeler.
for his popular books. This. too, is a
book with background Of the war. and
as he was called by the poilus whom he
helped. as he sought through the
trenches and underground passages for
his lost loved ones. OF course, there are
Americans in the story. too, and they
will be liked by their young country
men who read this fascinating book.
A new book by Rupert Sargent Hol .
land Is an event In the lives Of many
boys. In Peter Cotterell's Treasure
(J. B. Lippincott Company Mr.. Hol.
land shows boys who yearn for far. od
scenes that excitement, like charity
begins at home. A camp ON an island
an old pre-. Revolutionary mansion.
hidden treasure, mysterious visitors Il
the island-here are just . few OF tn,
ingredients blended into Z most pala
table tale.
"L!ge Mounts. Free Trapper'
| Charles Scribner's sons), 10 a stor!
OF frontier life, with characters in !
having all the grip and vigor OF Coop
cr's woodsmen. Lige himself Is well
Drawn character Of the sturdy, resource
/ iu pioneer boy. and lads Of today will
find lots OF interest In his adventure
on fur.hunt!ns expedition to tn
/ hcadwaters Of the Missouri. Franl
, ,,Jormop "a tho ou<hnp