Evening star., 1922-12-17
,s.ss = n ERTAlL: The Story of Gray
Squirrel. BY Ernest Thompson
Seton, author of Lives of the
Hunted" etc. Illustrated. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Seton, author of Lives of the
Hunted" etc. Illustrated. New
York: Charles Scribners Sons.
fffN the nut forests of America
practically every tree was
planted by the gray squirrel
or it's kin. No squirrels, no
out trees" Now we know where re-
planting the forests started. For the
wise little gray squirrel was at it, so
it turns out, ages and ages before the
government ever thought of the plan
There is evidence a-plenty, too. in
support of this claim. For even in
city parks this prudent fellow works
rom morning till night planting pea
Nut farms, with occasional hickory
nut orchards set in between. Abb
sorbed in tree culture though he may
be, the gray squirrel has many other
interests and preoccupatons. FOR
instance. he must fluff his fine banner
of a tail once in SO long. There's
reason. He must get out of bed early.
Sor there is his sun song to sing
and breakfast to hunt. He has court
ing to do. and marrying, and care OF
babies as they come along. Indeed,
this interesting and highly Intelligent
fellow leads a life pretty much like
our own. And in this intimate ana
knowing and waywise book Mr. Err
nest Thompson Seton lets us in upon
many fresh facts concerning the ways
"f life that the gray squlrrei-lke
The rest of us-has had to learn out
of the sheer need of keeping alive.
eKIPPY BEDELLE. BY owen john
son, author of THE Narmint,' etc.
Illustrated by Ernest Fuhr. Bos-
ton: Little, Brown Il Co.
Every boy along about sixteen sets
M hA Sa,f fir,,ay f1l
very boy is sure that he alone is the
only traveller of note in this land of
Romance. We come upon Skippy
Bedelle just as he is turning the cor
POOR Skippy. But how one does en-
Joy him! At the last he sums his
pwn adventure better than any one
ran do it for him. Looking back
rom the height OF about seventeen
wears, Skippy says: What | don't
Nnow about women amt worth
5aowing. Resolved: If any loving is
going to be done, they can do the
loving"
rHILIPPA At THE CHATEAU. By
Margareta Spalding Gerry. author
of ''Philippas Fortune" etc. New
York: Harper * Bros.
1t is sheer good luck for girl read
srs that-when going school
lime came around-Philippa was seat
~ SSHooi III u Ndllsiutt
winter seems to have been made for
robust youngsters. And fhilippa
jumped into it head foremost, 50 TO
tpeak. Snowshoe contests and skat-
ing and coasting, with lot of just
messing around in the weather itself
took up no end of time and afforded
no end of joy. Yes, and there was
The school. School. however. has
way of tagging behind in interest
when more important things are
sct- a.
here, innocently and subtly. but al
lowed nevertheless But there was
the school, the Chateau, after all.
|, And there was madame, too--;t person
age; and nademoiselie-a dear. And
there were the first days of loneliness and
homesickness for Philippa. She was :.
regular trump through these first awful
days, much more pitiful than as If she
had dribbled tears all over everything.
~ boys school down the way helped
things along generally. and bit of
Sociability in town now and then
helped. too. Phiiippa had one real
adventure, a thrilling thing in effect,
that should not be spoiled by the
about two years ago. She is two
years more interesting now. and this
story here is about four years more
interesting than was the very good
"Philippa'S Fortune" of the earlier
date. One quite grown up vii; find
measure in this story. And the girls
will love it.
HEROES OF THE RUINS. BY Fran.
els Rolt- Wheeler. author of The
Aztec Hunters etc. illustrations
by e. \. Federer. New York:
George II. Doran Company.
Round the World with the Boy
Journalists" is a series of stories for
think mighty we'll of Francis Rolt-
Wheeler. For the latest of these the
author has used as setting the ruined
corner of France. Andre, the Mole. a
French boy of about thirteen. is the
chief one through which is gathered
up the life of the French boys and
Swls of that region, both during the
war and in the rebuilding that has
followed it. In war time Andre
learned to live mostly underground,
slipping from one dark passage to
another, hunting for his father. his
brother, lodging the German guns,
learning to escape danger in all man
Iler of ways. The story tells of the
cave schools, where children were
gathered in cellars for safety, mov-
ing out from one into another as Ger
man bombs gave the warning. II
Tells. too, of the courage of these
children, of the way they followed
directions for safety with an amaz-
the ardor and intelligence with
which they bent to their share of
clearing out the litter of broken
houses and fields and streets and of
setting up a new way of Life. 1t is
u wonderful story of adventure. of
hravery-and the great point of it Is
that 1t is in substance u literally true
story.
FAMOUS LEADERS OF CHARACTER.
BY Edwin Wildman, author of "Fa-
nous Leaders of Industry" etc.
Illustrated. Boston: The Page Com
pany.
This volume Is a part of the Page
Famous Leaders Series" In. it MIR.
Wildman has brought together, out
If public life. certain famous men.
These men he calls soldiers of the
spirit"-not soldiers. these, who fight
10 kill other men. but those who fight,
hstead, for honest dealing, for fair
treatment and kind actions and for
those things that will bring happi-
ness to a great number of people
rather than to themselves alone.
Among those whom one meets here
are Lincoln and Roosevelt, Cleveland.
Wilson and Harding. Here are
charles Evans Hughes and Judge Ben
Lindsay and Robert L. Lee and Leon
ard Wood. John Burroughs. the
nature lover. is here, also, and so is
Booker Washington. who dreamed for
his race a school which is today Il
noble reality. And there are others
Il this group. Since these stories are
designed. primarily, for boys, the
author deals with each of these men
chiefly through his boyhood and
outh. However, Che volume is bound,
often, to fall into the hands of older
folks. and they. too. will find in it a
i've interest. fresh information and
many a touch of new spirit and in
SDirattOn,