The New York herald., 1922-12-17
Children's Books
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book is illustrated with many drawings and
photographs from original sources, Be
longing to approximately the same period
is L. Lamprey's Children of Ancient
Rome" but here fancy has been allowed
more rein. and the aim has been to recreate
a possible life picture of the days OF
Romulus and Remus and the companions
with whom they grew to manhood. 1t is
absorbing reading and sure TO interest boys
and girls in the early teens or just before
that important age (Little Brown). An
other L.. Lamprey book is Days of the
Colonists," in her series Great Days in
American History (Stokes). She has a
faculty for making history fresh and at
tractive, for humanizing it, for bringing
out the essential thing and being neither
prosy nor superficial She is very good
indeed in these pictures of our beginnings
in number of isolated communities, and
she tells a great deal that will be new to
practically every one The volume is an
octave illustrated in color by Florence
Choate and Elizabeth Curtis
particularly handsome book is Virginia
Watson's With La Sale the Explorer
(HolD, in its fine cover, with its rubricated
title page, its box, its excellent paper. No
wilder life than La Salle's can be imagined
and it is told here with full relish for its
magnificent opportunities. A boy is asso-
ciated with the hero to add to the interest
of young readers. There are exquisite
illustrations in color and line by Henry c.
PITT. A fine present for boy or girl, and
good reading for every one.
Dillon Wallace himself an explorer of
Labrador and writer of many books on
his chosen country, has done a fine thing
in his boys life of DR.. Grenfell, THE
Story of Grenfell of Labrador" (Revell).
1t is stirring, wonderful story and it
leaves the Doctor still at work among his
people carrying on with courage and
humor and human sympathy, a man
among men. This is a book boys deserve
to have.
w. c. Jackson is the author of "A Boys
Life of Booker T. Washington" (Macmil-
LAM, which is written, as the preface tells
us. with the single aim of interesting
boys" in the life of this remarkable negro.
1t is simply and directly done and it tells
heroic story. Washington did more
than any other man in the world has yet
done to educate the negro and his success
was based on long and hard apprentice
ship. The book is meant for boys of eight
or ten.
OF course there are fairy tales in this
last roundup of Christmas books. There
is one volume full of stories coming from
Russia, Russia of the old days before the
Bolsheviks killed fairies with everything
else. Birds and beasts and butterflies and
other insects are the persons of the tales,
told with a delicious quaintness by Mamin
Siberiak, translated by Ray Davidson and
Illustrated by Boris NJ. Artzybasheff. The
book is most attractive, with decorations
in blue, amusing initial letters and fine
red and gold cover. The stories are delec
table and every child who gets them will
be happy (Dutton). Also from foreign
parts comes "The japanese Fairy Book"
rendered into English by Yei Theodore
Ozaki. This is a new edition of a great
favorite, with a new frontispiece by Tako
Sato, a glorious thing of brilliant colors
and lovely design. The stories are delight
full. told with a freedom that belongs to
tales for children who are not interested
in technical folk lore but in a good yarn
Some of them date from ancient days, all
are true Japanese. but the author has
given herself some liberty in adapting
them to Western understanding (Dutton).