The New York herald., 1922-11-12


tanning the loveliness of phrase that be-
longed to the Gaelic in his English rend-
ering, and has made book that is full OF
humor and tenderness and romance and
wildness that is tragic and savage, fit to
read on day of storm and sure of being
remembered. There is a decorated frontis-
piece by Grace A. Barron.
From foreign parts comes another little
book, "The Mouse Story" (Stokes), by
K. H. With, Danish writer, the author
lied translation being by Gerda Frederik-
sen Behrens and Dorothea Prall and the
charming pictures, half-tones and a colored
frontispece, by V. T. Fisher. This is an
old favorite in Denmark, and it seems
likely to grow to be one here in America.
1t is peculiarly appealing. the little mouse
family is so perfectly visualized, so indi-
vidual and the life story of the different
members of the family so filled with quaint
adventures. Naturally the story portrays
great deal of the home ways of Den
mark, but this is by the way. The only
trouble with the book is that it is ukelv
to arouse such love for mice in the heart
OF any one who reads it that the traps
will be banished and the mice made well
come. 1t is terrible when one of them
gets killed.
Quite fascinating is a small solid little
book, reprint from first edition published
in Boston in 1852, 1.-The Memoirs of a Lon
don Doll, Written by HERSELF and edited by
Mrs. Fairstar-delightfu name! Who she
was we know not, but the story she wrote
so long ago was discovered by Clara White
hill Hunt, who fell in love with it and
persuaded Macmillan to republish it. 1t
is the autobiography of Maria Poppet. born
perhaps hundred years ago. under the
clever fingers of Mr.. Sprat best of the doll
makers of his generation. Maria's life is
full of ups and downs, and she sees a
great deal before her retirement to the
country in her old age. Her life, indeed
is such that by the time the story is told
London a century ago is as familiar as
Main Street to-day and a million times
more interesting. This is book not to
be missed if you have little or a big
girl in your family. 1t has been brought
out to look as nearly as possible like the
original with adorably quaint pictures in
color and line and silhouette by Emma l.
Brouck
This is not the only doll book of the year
"Drusilla and Her Dolls (Four Seas) by
Belle Bacon Bond is the story, the true
story, of a small Boston maid of the sixties
and her family of dolls 1t too has its
flavor of the times it belongs to. and draws
pretty picture of the little girl, her
family, her life, her devotion to the make
believe children she loved so dearly. Mar
jorie Very has made the pictures, and they
are just the right ones.
Now for a number of fairy and wonder
tales, which must be briefly run over.
There are two new books in the Fairy
Series published by Stokes, the Danish
and the Norwegian Fairy Book Frederick
H. Martens has done the transations
and Clara Stroebe the editing and there
are six beautiful colored pictures for each
by George H. Wood These stories are
of the two countries in their own homes,
stories that have come down from mother
to daughter, that have been told by fisher
folk and woodsmen and farmers. They are
beautiful. vivid and full of variety.
Wonder Tales from Thibet" Gittle,
Brown is a collection of stories from the
Far East that have for hero one Siddhi-
Kur, older than any one known and a
strange jolly creature who tells endless
stories. These tales are the stories he
tells and has been telling to Indian boys
and girls for very long indeed. Eleanor