The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-04-14

Spring has surely come, for found
"Grasshopper Green" on my desk this
morning. The little folks will be inter-
ested in that announcement, know,
for "Grasshopper Green and the Mead
ow-Mice" Up. f. Volland Co. So e.
Washington ST., Chicago), is very
delightful brand new story book writ
ten especially for them by John Rae.
He has also made the jolliest sort of
colored pictures for it, showing the
tight listed ant. and the poor, half
frozen fiddler grasshopper, and the
klno mouse family that took him and
took care of him. II you want to know
how he repaid their kindness by scar
ing away the farmers cat, ask daddy
to get You the book for your birth day.
The same nice man has made won
derful pictures also for American
Indian Fairy Tales" (volland1 which
w. T. Larned has retold for boys and
girls. There is Iagoo the story-teller
and how Shin-ge-bis fools the North
Wind; the Little Boy and Girl in the
Clouds, and the Child of the Evening
Star; the Boy Who Shared the Sun
Introducing Bosh-kwa- dosh, the mas
todon), and O-jeeg, whom men thought
a Mantle; Misho-sha, the magician,
and Seegwun who climbed to the
eagles nest. And oh, little girls,
there's the story of the Fairy Bride.
think it is quite the incest book for
children have seen in long, long
time
Good luck comes to those who bring
The sunshine where they go,
so laugh and work and play and sing
And you'll have luck, know
That is the verse that begins the
rcket story in another crildren's
book. by Johnny Gruelle, called Lit
tie Sunny Stories" (volland). There
are FAIRIES and little beautiful things
and the old man who helped the little
boy find the way to fairy land, and
Mrs. Cricket's squeaky rocking chair.
And did you ever hear of Sunny
Year Book for Sunny Children" (Voll-
and)? Well, there is one, with bun
MES and kittens. fairies and birds,
flowers and easter eggs and Giggle-
qucks. Princess Finette and the Fairy
of Play, little wooden people, and
swings and balloons and-oh, every
thing!
Someone asks: who wrote Eliza
beth and Her German Garden, and
what became of the authOr?"
Countess Mary Annette Won Arnim,
wife of Count Henning August Won
ess Russell as she married Earl Rus
sell in 1916. She is an Englishwoman.
daughter of H. Heron Beauchamp,
and has son and. three daughters by
her first husband. Besides Elizabeth
and her German Garden which she
wrote in 1898, she is the author Of ten
other books, one a year, excepting the
period Immediately after her first hus-
bands death, and after her second
marriage. Since the outbreak of the
war she has published but one book.
christopher and Columbus, in 1919,
her war activities keeping her too
busy for novel writing Her other pub
LEGATIONS are: The Solitary Summer,
The April Baby's Book of Tunes, The
Benefactress, The Adventures of Eliza
beth in Ruegen, The Princess Pris-
elias Fortnight, Fraulein Schmidt
and Mr.. Anstruther, The Caravan
ers. Priscilla Runs Away and The
Pastors Wife She has a London
house, and a couple of years ago she
had a country home in Chichester.
do not know whether she and Lord
Russell still keep it up. II should go
to England again. ri find out for you