Evening star., 1923-11-18
Books for Young
Folks

THIS SINGING WORLD, An Anthology
of Modern Poetry for Young PeO-
pie. Collected and edited by Louis
Untermeyer illustrations by Flor
ence Wyman WINS. New York:
Harcourt, Brace & Co.
r pr. LOUIS UNTERMEYER
NH hunted a back trail seventy
6N five years long to find the
poems that are gathered
here. for the use OF all of US young
folks. Never mind about counting
the years here. If tune still runs
through your heart, if the Tilt of a
song is on your lips and the tapping
measure of a dance is in your feet
why, then, this book is yours, too. A
good housekeeper, this editor. y good
poet, too, this man. SO, beside feeling
out for the real poems he, having
gathered these. has arranged them,
each kind in special quarters of its own.
~ beautiful book. One of delight and
complete worthwhileneSS In little
note Mr.. Untermeyer says: You
won't like all of these, poems. Even
though I'm not sure just who you are,
You couldn't possible care for every
single one of them. Nobody could.
There are, in this remarkable world,
as many tastes as there are flavors.
And that is why L have included so
many kinds of poems" If one likes
music he will read here for the sheer
sound of the words AIr. Untermeyer
goes on to say. Read'for the throb
and beat of the rhymes, for the little
linking feet that tap their toes to
an even measure" for the tunes that
shape themselves as the words sing
out. And there are castles in the
clouds here and pictures in the fire.
ballads, ringing ballads for the boys
ana laughing legends and rhymes
without reason" \ beautiful book.
We've said it twice now and it is
worth saying many timeS-a beauti-
ful book for boys and girls and the
rest of us. We are all in debt to Mr..
Louis Cntermeyer.
THE CALL OF THE WILD. BY Jack
London. Illustrations by Paul
Bransom. New York: The Macmil-
Ian Company
BY this time everybody has read
one or the truly great dog stories of
filled with pain and beauty A hard
story to read because of its reach into
ones pity and sympathy. Mention is
made of it now because it has Just
come out in most beautiful edition.
The pictures by Paul Bransom are a
marvel of expression and sentiment.
All the feelings that were stirred bv
former readings of this story of Buck.
the great dog of the KIondike, are
stirred even more deeply by the gen.
ulnely sympathetic art of Paul Bran
som. Buck laughed"-and that's eX-
actly what he is doing here. Along
1urther the whole realm was his
and 1t was. Again, Then the man
aadVanced and dealt him a frightful
blow on the nose"-almost too much
10 read, this. And so the pictures go
along with the story. and both are
beautifully set in this exceptionally
rlch book. If | were q boy. Id have
this book even if
THE ROSE AND THE RING. Bv
William Makepeace Thackery. IL
IustiatlonS by the author. New
York: The Macmillan COMPANY
When he wanted more play room
than could be found inside his own
proper name, Thackery. YOU recall
used to slip away into the name of
Mr.. Titmarsh, where he could frolic
ABOUT disregardful of the dignity of
the celebrated William Makepeace
fhackery. novelist. 1t is in one of
these excursions that he made nm
The Rose and the Ring" or THE
history OF Prince Giglio and Prince
Bulbo Mr.. Titmarsh. as for the mo-
ment he Is, calls this ''firesde pam
tom1me for great and small" which
turns out to be exactly what it is.
The pictures going along with the
make believe help out the action
the most of the talking in a play
that is, generally supposed to be
quite speechless. This story. selected
from the great number of stories that
this famous man wrote, is capitally
lifted to introduce younger folks to
this writer, and to refresh older folks
with this shining example of the
beautifully simple art of the great
novelist.
QUENTIN DURwARD. By Sir Wal
ter Scott. Illustrated by c. Bos-
seron Chambers. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons.
A handsome new edition for an old
story that. If read at the,right time,
becomes thereafter a most precious
possession. There is a right age to
read Walter Scott tales. IF this ex-
perience does not come in the early
years, before the Imagination has
been trained out of it's natural flexi-
bility, something is missed that cam
not thereafter be acquired. This fif-
teenth century romance, wherein
Louis XI plays SO important a part,
Is great story, provided it be taken
in time. sumptuous volume, this
one. of ample page and print the
pictures helping the text, and the
period most capably and satisfyingly.
WE EXPLORE THE GREAT LAKES.
By Webb Waldron. Illustrations
by Marion Patton Waldron. New
York: The Century Company.
A wtde-awake boy-anywhere from
dozen to six dozen years old
would be quite carried away with
this particular kind of travel book
The boy might, as a matter of fact,
be a girl-that Is, in so far as pleas
ure IN this adventure goes. 1t is
go-as-you-please excursion. That is
what one likes about it, A cut-and-
dried program of travel is a pesky
a trip on the great lakes. you set
out from Buffalo on a freighter.
Whom the boat stops you get
off. If you feel like it, and poke
around the country, talking with
every sort of person-farmer, trader.
miner, lumberman, idler-anybody at
all. You stop at cities-if you want
to-Duluth, Chicago and others. You
take a look at Milwaukee to see how
that once damp town looks now that
1t has been wrung dry. You go into
shops and mills and stores and out
again to talk with everybody in sight.
Stories, right at first hand, flock
around you, better stories, too, than
some OF those that people travel twice
around the world to get. You come
out Of this great outfaring knowing
a lot of things about a stretch of
your own country that-ten to one
you never heard of before. And,
what counts for quite as much, you
have a perfectly scrumptuous time
every minute from start to finish.
WONDERS OF THE PAST. Edited
by J. A. Hammerton. New York:
q. p. Putnam's Sons
This. the first Of four volumes,
which. when complete, will present a
pageant in picture of the marvels of
ancient civilizations. Pictures in col
or and monotone--more than a thou