Evening star., 1925-11-08

by Harry Rountree. The Mac
milan Company.
The editor, mindful of the sleepiness
OF folks under the long sermon. has
lifted out of this story the longest OF
those with which the good Swiss
pastor entertained his children along
the way of making up for their pleas
ure the adventures of the Swiss Fam
lily Robinson. A delightful tale Of i'm
possible happenings that are offered
with so smiling a sincerity that ona
takes them, happily certain that they
all should have been true in any event
Read for more than a hundred years
by young and old, this IS one of the
very best books to READ for the next
hundred years.
RIP VAN WINKLE AND THE
LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW.
By Washington Irving. The Mac
milan Company.
On our own ground here with an
author who pays to be remembered
I We can visit Sleepy Hollow. We cam
see the places that Irving has mad,
SO mellow and soft and whimsicalIy
dear to US, a place TO which Joseph
Jefferson has added much to the origi.
nal charm set by the author himself,
place also which the pictures Of this
edition, by Eric Pape, bring out to a
new effect Of reality mingled with the
| fancy that Irving himself used so hap
| PLY in the stories and legends of the
Catskills.
KIDNAPPED. BY Robert Louis Ste
venson. The Macmillan Co.
Here Is Stevenson's own word for
''Ktdnaped": Kidnapped, you may
like to know, appeared to me infinitely
my best and, indeed, my only good
story" Take that modest avowal with
a grain of salt as you read again, OF
for the first time, the Scotland thar
/ Stevenson set down, alive, in this tale
/ of Alan and David Balfour, the David
who was. in part at least, drawn from
the spirit of the author himself.
fine adventure that one, knowing Ste,
venson's high opinion of 1t, reads Wi Il
an extra Zest.
WASHINGTON. BY Lucy Foster
/ Madison. Illustrated by Frank E
! Schoonover. The Penn Publishing
Co.
! Here is the purpose, set and met L.
4 humanize George Washington in or
der that he may become a more influ-
entail person in the life of the young
( reader. a good intent, well carried
out. The perfect Washington is cor
respondingly Intellectual with plain
mortals And that this author has
! from good sources of information re
/ produced 4 human being in the per
son Of George Washington TO take the
place OF the tutilIty of perfection, his
usual role in history and biography,
Is q good and useful piece Of work.
most interesting one as well.
GREAT PIRATE STORIES. GREAT
SEA STORIES. Edited by JOSEPH
Lewis French. BrentdnO'S.
Two volumes of prime adventure Sc
/ leCted from the historic ACCOUNTS OF
sailing ana piracy. Here is the story
OF the invincible Armada and its de
Struction in the days OF great Eliza
beth. stories of early Arctic adven
lures and stories of the days Of Nel
son. the hero Of the seas. Eictor
Hugo contributes the story Of '"The
Octopus" and Pierre Lott. Fishers of
the Deep" The pirate tales include
( John Paul Jones-Pirate and Priya-
/ teer, Jean Lafitte. the Pirate of the
Gulf. The Corsairs'' ana The Bur.
cancers" Exciting stuff. and true, lo
edge the reading Zest Of boys, some O..
them seamen and pirates al heart, ur
the way 10 being just good sailors. no
doubt. and fair tradesmen.
THE OREGON TRAIL. By Francis
Parkman. Illustrated by y. {.
WyeLh. Little, Brown & co.
Pure history by the great historian,
Francis Parkman. Yet this is per
sonal adventure, too. since 1t is an
account Of the author 5 own travels
and explorations out into the West in
company of a band Of Sioux Indtan
! Hunting buffalo in the Black Hills,
camping with trappers and stopping
with Iudians-these are the ground
work If experience upon which this
good historian and capital story tel
er has based the brine adventure Of
The Oregon Trail
GOLD-SEEKING on THE DALTON
TRAIL. BY Arthur *. Thompson.
Little, Brown x Co.
! Two boys. in the company of Their
| father, here so a-gold hunting up
| Alaska way, Everything is in the
story that is calculated TO make ad-
venture such as warns the heart Of
| the boy. Bears and wolves and E;4
kimo natives iCehergs and rough sail
: ing. blizzards and tough climbing
! these are accomplishments of the gold
quest that make the story quite as
well worth while as the mere finding
/ Of bit Of gold dust possibly could. Il
is the striving. after all.