The New York herald., 1922-12-17

something that shall absolutely fill the bill
must turn toward books as the best solu-
ton. There is never the harassing ex-
haustion in shopping for books found else
where. A book store is good and pleasant
place. the seeking for the right volume is
an adventure of the most pleasurable, the
other shoppers are not pushing, dragging
and shrieking with haste and impatience
as in other stores. The terrors of the toy
shop during the final week or two do not
exist in the book shop. Come there with
me. Here are books for every age, the
final roundup Of the great Christmas lists
and just as good and beautiful as those
mentioned already
There are some really delightful Indian
stories that boys and girls both find full
of interest and glamour. James Willard
Shultz. who has been whiting of the Black
feet Indian for years and who is an adopted
Blackfoot himself has a fine new story
full of keen adventure in "The Trail of the
Spanish Horse" Houghton. Mifflin), where
his two characters, Tom Fox and Pita-
makan, reappear. Is-spai-u, Toms uncle's
favorite horse, is stolen by the Crows in a
night raid through the fault of young
Tom. The book tells the adventures of
Tom and his Indian brother Pitamakan in
recovering the horse. 1t Is thrilling. full
of real Indian lore and the wild life of older
days than these.
Moons of Long Ago" by Ellen Miller
Donaldson Milton, Bradley Company, is
a collection of old Indian stories about the
birds, animals and flowers known to them.
1t is filed with quaint imagination and
folk quality and is delightfully."- told in a
simple poetic English which will please
children nightly. more important col
lection is the one made by Elizabeth w.
De Huff, "Tay-Tay's Tales" from Hopi
sources (Harcourt, Brace). These stories
were taken verbatim from Pueblo Indians
and are illustrated most engagingly with
pen and ink drawings and color plates by
two Hopi Indian lads, Fred Kabotie and
Otis'P Polelonema. Here, too, it is animals
that play the largest part in the narra-
tions, though fire and water and wind,
magic rocks, witches and human beings
have plenty to do. The book is fascinating
from cover to cover and must have been
real labor of love. Grownup readers will
hnt it well worth looking into.
Another book that features the Indian
and the animals is Dusty Star" by Olaf
Baker, whose Shasta of the Wolves"
made many friends (Dodd Mead). Dusty
Star is an Indian boy who grows up a
friend of the wolf cub he had caught in
the forest and becomes a kind of half
friend and with an old bear. The illus
trations are by Paul Bransome and are
splendid. 1t is book you can give to
any boy or girl with the full certainty that
you are giving something really worth
while and tremendously interesting.
1.-THE Mohawk Ranger" by D. Lamge
(Lothrop. Lee & Shepard), and Three
Sioux Scouts" by Elmer Russell Gregor
(Appleton), are in a different class. The
former is laid in the days of the French
and Indian wars, and it's hero is friend
of the colonsts, an Indian hunter. Two
boys play large part in the incidents of
the story. More thoroughly Indian is the
second book, being one of Gregor's Indian
series and having for the hero White
otter. who has played the same part in
an earlier volume The Indian character,
with it's steadfast faithfuness to friends,
it's high sense of honor and dauntless cour-
age, is splendidly portrayed in the book
A tale Of Indians. but more especially of
a horse is the one by Forrestine c. Hooker,
"Star, the Story of an Indian Pony"
doubleday, Page). Mrs Hooker knows
both horses and Indians, for she has lived