Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-12-14
Lets get him a book. y
Hes got a book"

Hes got a book
Never mind. He'll be bent on hav-
ing another one when he sees the
book pageant just coming round the
Christmas corner.
At the head of this splendid line
marches Hans Andersen himself, JOY
of young folks clear up to 80 and
back again to IL, or thereabout. For
this festal time the great Hans is
gorgeous in silver and black and yell
low and red: sumptuous, too, in Kay
Nielsen pictures-soft gray and white
things tipped with black, alluring in
greens that start to be blues and
they stay greens. In his hand Hans
Andersen is bearing those immortal
tales of fairy and folk beloved by us
and our grandmothers, bound to be
loved by our children and their chill
dren. 4 prince of story tellers, Il
treasure of Il book. this Christmas,
Hans Andersens Fairy Tales"
Behind this leader a proud COM
pany marches. uniformed alike as a
proper company should be. All carry.
like banners pictures of great beauty
TO delight the eye and to lend a hand
to story itself. lust behind the great
Hans. indeed almost abreast of him,
marches Grimm. carrying his own
rich sheat of Fairy Tales" Then
the hooded and mysterious creator of
The Arabian Nights" That is John
athan Swift, his smile bit WHY. but
confident holding "Gullivers TRAY
els" Yes. Lewis Carroll doing his
best to keep up with the amazing adj
ventures of Alice in Wonderland"
Charles and Mary Lamb. heads to-
Cethcr, telling their Tales from
Shakespeare" That one Is Charles
Kingsley with THE Water Babies"
and THE Heroes" Last. comes our
own Hawthorne. under his cloak,
'Tanglewood Tales"
George I'll. Doran Co. has certa inly
done itself proud in behalf Of Christ
mas time and the young folks, as this
partial list of old and enduring
tales. CARRIED in a dignity compare
bic to their beauty and real value, SO
clearly proves.
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Who. that's alive, doesn't like adj
venture? Here it is, all sizes and
colors:
PORTO HELLO GOLD. (Arthur
Howden Smith. Brentano'sD The
story leads off in two kinds-of daring
that of the action itself and that
which makes il sort of foreWord to
Treasure Island" Pirates and the
Spanish Main; raiding of a Spanish
gold galleon: burying the treasure of
Dead Mans Chest. Great stuff
sPANIARD'S CAVE. Ralph Henry
Barbour. The Century Coz \ way
wise hand here provides a fresh set
ting for adventure. The island of
Bermuda. The situation puts it up to
young New York boy to turn a few
swift and important tricks when. by
mischance, he finds himself aboard
ship on his way to Bermuda alone,
when he had expo cted to find his ia
Their on the ship. There is nothing
impossible in, the exciting adventures
of Joe Whitman, just unusual. But
then, only now and then is a boy born
lucky, as this one was.
RARBROOkE GRUB. PATHFIND-
Err. Norman Davidson. George II
Doran Coz This romance will take
you boys and girls into South Amer
lea. among savage people. SO. get
ready to take on some pretty grilIing
days and nights with it. Full of ad-
venture that Will set you right in the
midst of il.
THE CASTtNAYS OF THE FLAG.
THEIR ISLAND HOME. (Two tales
by Jules Verne. G.. Howard Watt Coz
\ part of the old and familiar Swiss
Family Robinson is pre- sSed into serv-
ice here. They sail away from Eu-
rope for a land beyond the sea. Mu-
tiny on the Flag. The Robinsons es-
cape in open boat. These are The
Castaways." Coming upon IL lonely
island. the rest Of their adver tures
unfold in Their Island Home EN-
citing? Well. rather,
THE hoy SCOUTS OF RoUND-TA-
BILE PATROL. Charles, II. Lkrrigo
Little, Brown & Coz Another Ierri-
go Boy Scout adventure. This time
the matter gets afoot out in the
Ozark Mountain region. wherE a big
ranch gives Immediate backgr bund to
the innumerable things thai these
three boys find for them to thrry on
through Adventures, many ind eX-
citing, make an admirable st Try both
for Boy Scouts themselves and for
their friends the world over
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To be sure you like histbry No.
not that kind. Not the kirH that is
pulled out of dry books Il lessons,
with marks 70 show how impossible
it is to learn lessons that Iare dates
and names N things all mixed up.
Another kind of history. Something
like this:
THE RANGER OF THE STSQUE-
HAMMOCK. (Reginald W light Kauff-
man. The Penn Publish lg Coz Not
history. exactly. but on he enchant-
ing borderland, where history and
romance come together in adventre
whose background is al historic and
whose actions have mo se than a fla
vor of fact. A boy is at the center of
this story of early Pennsylvania in
the time of William Tenn. Finding
himself surrounded Fly an intrigue
that threatens the safety of the col