Mapes Dodge from the treasures of St. Nicho-
las. It has been out of print for some time.
The pictures in the first issue are so well
known world-wide, in fact that about forty
pages of the present Baby Days are made up
of the very best pictures from the old book.
The balance has been chosen from later num-
bers of St. Nicholas. To continue the idea
and popularity of the first book the original
cover has been retained. It is full of de-
lights for the very little ones: jingles, pic-
tures, poems, and short stories, and many
noted authors are included in its list of con-
tributors. ($1.50.) Mrs. G. V. Jamison, who
gave us "Lady Jane" and "'Toinette's Philip"
to read to our children, has now ready Thistle-
dozen, of which the scene is also New Orleans.
Thistledown is a young acrobat who proves to
be the scion of a notable family. There is a
fine description of a great tidal wave. The
illustrations are by W. Benda. ($1.20.) A
wonderful idea is The Book of Children's
Parties, by Mary and Sara White, with illus-
trations by the author and Miss Gory. The
authors of this volume have had a wide ex-
perience in entertaining children, and they have
here gathered the result of that experience in
regard to the best means of entertaining chil-
dren. ($1.)
378
THE LITERARY NEWS.
[Vecember, 1903
From "Wallv Wanderoon." Copyright,
lyiW, by McClure, Phillips & Co.
THE STORY MACHINE.
Wally Wanderoon and His Story-telling
Machine. A new book by Joel Chandler Har-
ris is good tidings to the world of young
readers, and in Wally Wanderoon and His
Story-telling Machine there is a treat in store
for children of all ages. In his own inimi-
table style Mr. Harris tells how Wally Wan-
deroon started out to hunt for "the good old
times we used to have," and met Drusilla,
Buster John and Sweetest Susan, and how
they all sat down together and listened to the
story-telling machine, with its tales of fairies
and enchanters and princesses and the queer
masquerading creatures of folk-lore. It is
a clever idea most cleverly worked out, and
full of all the rich humor and story-telling
genius that made "Uncle Remus" one of the
classics of the children's world. Happy is
the girl or boy who finds Wally Wanderoon
in the Christmas stocking. (McClure, Phil-
lips & Co. net, $1.60.)
The Merrylinks. A most fascinating men-
agerie of beasts and birds and queer creatures
is that for which Alice Brown and Louise
Clarke stand as sponsors in The Merrylinks.
A Merrylink is a compound creature, of
mixed character and peculiar habits. Among
them we welcome the Gnunicorn, the Swall-
owl, the Pelicantelope, the Eliphanteater, the
Mastodonkey and the Buffaloyster, who, with
many others, are depicted for us in Miss
Clarke's lifelike drawings and Miss Brown's
droll verses. Surely no child can pass an ex-
amination in what Miss Brown calls "anim.al-
legories" until familiar with these delightful
creatures and their ways. (McClure, Phillips
& Co. net, $1.)
The Boys' Book of Inventions. For clever
toys, and their sisters as well, there can be no
more welcome or useful holiday gift than
Ray Stannard Baker's Boys' Second Book of
Inventions (net, $1.60), and if they are not
already the happy possessors of its predeces-
sor, The Boys' Book of Inventions ($2), that
is needed to make the gift complete. In his
first volume Mr. Baker told in fascinating and
instructive stories of the most notable achieve-
tnents in modern science liquid air, wireless
telegraphy, X-ray photography, the phono-
graph and in its successor he carries the ro-
mance of invention up to date, and tells of
such late feats of modem wizardry as flying
machines, harnessi-ng the sun with a solar
motor, and like marvels. (McClure, Phillips
& Co.)
McClure's Children's Annual for 1904. ed-
ited by T. W. H. Crosland, is another delight-
ful children's book. There are stories and
rhymes, full-page colored pictures, many of
them of the Noah's Ark type, and there are
funny little line drawings in the text. There
is a tragic story of Johnnie running away
with the circus, "The Puppykins and the Cross
Cat," and one of the woman who makes dogs
of door handles. Here is a poem of the yel-
low kitten :
I had a yellow kitty,
It was a little fright,
I sent it to the city
To have it painted white.
And OHl
Whatever
DO
YOU
THINK?
They went
And painted
l-ussy PINK.
N. Y. Times. (McClure, Phillips & Co.
$1-50.)
Kings and Queens. Small kings and queens
are these Beulah, Belinda, John and David
who are the reputed authors of the delicious
childish verses and jingles, transcribed by
Florence Wilkinson and delightfully illustrated
by Ethel Franklin Betts. The first king and
queen are the father and mother, who go on
their wedding trip and then settle down in
"the house of great content," where other
little kings and queens and their little royal
playmates soon come to share their rule and
double their happiness. All sorts of familiar
objects and everyday happenings are the sub-
jects of these fascinating verses. David tells
of "'Lizabeth's little dog:"
There is a little waddling dog
Ihat lives across our street,
He has a sort of hoary face
And funny big black feet.
Chickens, dolls, games, school and romps are
chronicled in a fashion that children will de-
light in and older readers will welcome with
a tender sympathy. (McClure, Phillips & Co.
net, $1.20.)
From "The Merrylinks." Copyright, 1903, by
McClure, Phillips & Co.
CHIMPANZEBRA.
December, 1903]
CHRISTMAS NUMBER.
379
Henry T. Coates' Books for Young People.
Boys especially are catered for in the new
books this year, but every girl likes her
brother's books, and would not mird having
all Edward S. Ellis's books for her very own.
There seems no slacking up of this author's
invention nor entertaining powers. In An
American King the author of "Deerfoot" re-
lates the trials and adventures of a couple of
sturdy youths, one American born, the other
English, during one of the most interesting
episodes of early Colonial history, bringing in
King Philip's war. Readers will
find it fascinating and incidentally
instructive besides. Perhaps grown
people will enjoy it as well as the
younger folk for whom it is in-
tended. It will rank with the best
of Mr. Ellis's books, (net, 80 c.)
Of more quiet character and of our
own day is Limber Lew, the Circus
Boy. There are no Indians in it,
but plenty of action and incident of
the kind that interests the young,
and the story is itself wholesome
and with a good moral. After many
trials the circus boy finds his own
people and all ends happily. Both
books are illustrated, (net, 80 c.)
Horatio Alger is another name to
charm with. Boys pronounce his sto-
ries "bully," girls think them "just
lovely." This year's Alger book is
Chester Rand, or a Nezv Path to
Fortune. The author is at his best
in the new work, unexpectedly thrill-
ing episodes and good advice being
in equal quantities, (il. net, 80 c.)
Children's Color Books. Of a
particularly graceful literary quality
is the text of Evaleen Stein's Troub-
adour Tales, a new volume of sto-
ries for children, illustrated in color
by Virginia Keep, Maxfield Parrish
and other famous American design-
ers. These stories, three of me-
diaeval France and one of Finland,
are of unusual excellence. They
are all about children children who
are loving, brave and faithful and
should appeal strongly to the ro-
mantically inclined little reader.
The illustrations are of as excep-
tional merit as the charming text.
Something entirely new is offered
in a large quarto volume under the title
of Songs of the Trees, adorned profusely in-
side and outside with bright colored designs.
Mary Y. Robinson, the author, aims to make
the little ones familiar with the trees identified
with the different months of the year through
songs, pictures, music and the tree's biography
in simple prose. The blossom or fruit of the
tree is also shown in the many full-page pic-
tures that give value to the work. In all the
"juveniles" of this house, the pictures are fine
color schemes, are most artistically worked out.
Do not overlook the new edition of Johnnie:
a Memory of Boyhood, by Dr. E. O. Laughlin,
with illustrations by Will Vawter, which in
its pictures of a country childhood has brought
back to many a middle-aged reader once- fa-
miliar scenes of farm and brook, schoolhouse
and country highway. (Bobbs-M. ea., $1.25.)
L. Frank Baum's Latest Charmers. ^The
Bobbs-Merrill Company have two new ex-
amples of the unique genius of L. Frank
Baum. This should be joyful news to the
youngsters who have revelled in the mirth
and odd conceits of his former volumes. His
very latest book is The Enchanted Island of
Yezv, whereon Prince Marvel encounters the
High Ki of Twi and other surprising people.
Fanny Y. Cory illustrates in vivid style with
the aid of brilliant color the altogether orig-
inal imaginings of the author. The other
Chester Rand." Copyright, 1903, by Henry T. Coates & Co.
'Yll have to leave you."
book Mr. Baum has prepared for this Christ-
mas season is entitled The Magical Monarch
of Mo. The marvellous kingdom of Mo is
the scene of fourteen marvellous adventures,
now related for the first time and fully illus-
trated in colors by Frank Verbeck. To these
two is added a new edition of "The Wizard
of Oz," now to be known as The New Wizard
of Oz, even more attractive in its new shape
than ever before. W. W. Denslow's illustra-
tions in colors still hold the affections, and
bear favorable comparison with anything new
in that line. Although a whole year in this
rushing age The Life and Adventures of Santa
Claus still holds its own as one of the most im-
portant juveniles of many years; and The
Master Key will enchant boys interested in
electricity. F. Y. Cory has made the illustra-
tions. (Bobbs-M. ea., $1.25.)
38o
THE LITERARY NEWS.
[December, 1903
D. Appleton & Co.'s Books for Young
People. A new series is introduced with The
Giant of Three Wars (General Winfield
Scott), by James Barnes. . Heroes of Our
Army Series will be devoted to great military-
leaders, (net, 80 c.) Revolutionary days are
revived in Hezekiah Butterworth's Brother
Jonathan and W. O. Stoddard's The Spy of
Yorktown. (net, $1.25.) Ralph Henry Bar-
bour's new book of stories of college life is
called Weatherby's Inning, and is devoted
chiefly to baseball, (net, $1.25.) Boarding-
school life for girls is the topic of The Three
Graces, by Gabrielle E. Jackson. Three girls
christened Grace are distinguished as "Grace,"
"Dis-Grace," and "Scape-Grace," according to
character. The story of the Hallowe'en es-
capade is quite worthy of a boys' school,
(net, $1.25.) Children from ten to twelve
years of age have had provided for them two
delightful volumes. One is Micky of the
Alley, and Other Youngsters, by Kate Dickin-
son Sweetser (net, $1); the other At Aunt
Anna's, by Marion Ames Taggart. The lat-
ter is the story of Ted and Dolly, who are
twins, while staying one summer in the coun-
try at Aunt Anna's, (net, $1.) It is a dainty
book for dainty children, rich in a love for
outdoor life and nature generally. The first
book by Miss Sweetser is illustrated in char-
acteristic style by George Alfred Williams,
and is a collection of tales widely varied in
subjects, being both pathetic and amusing.
We can say of one and all of the preceding
books that they are not only bright and
wholesome books, but exceedingly well made
in all their details.
Some of Lothrop's New Juveniles. For
quite a small child is Edith R. Bolster's
Ethel in Fairyland, a pretty allegory with an
impressive lesson. The scene is Dreamland,
where Ethel unexpectedly finds herself a
wanderer. Here she meets strange people,
personifying every day faults like greed, self-
ishness, bad temper, etc. (net, $1.) To be
recommended as most original and funny is
A Partnership in Magic, by Charles Battell
I^oomis, a realistic story with a fairy tale mo-
tive, the young hero having the marvallous
power of plucking fruit from the bare
branches of any tree, (net, $1.) Ahead of
the Army is a story of the war with Mexico.
A young American boy becomes a guide to
the American army in Mexico, (net. $1.)
The story comes from the pen of William
O. Stoddard. The Mutineers, by Eustis L.
Williams, is a lively boys' story of politics
and athletics in a large boarding-school (net,
$1.) ; Defending the Bank, by Edward S. Van
Zile, tells of some young people who turned
detectives and ran down a couple of bank
robbers who are planning to rob the bank of
which the father of one of the boys is presi-
dent, (net, $1.) A Japanese Garland tells of
a Japanese lad adopted by an American, who
relates to his young American friends stories
about the flowers of Japan, inculcating a love
of the beautiful along with many facts worth
knowing. Genjiro Yeto gives to the volume,
through characteristic illustrations, a very
Japanese appearance, (net, 75 c.)
Children of the Arctic. Here is a second
book about the Snow Baby little Marie
Ahnighito Peary, who nine years ago w^as
born amid the great ice fields, the glaciers and
the polar bears, far off in the Arctic Circle.
Now, with her mother's help, she tells the
children of warmer climes of another year
spent in the region of perpetual ice, of her
pla3^mates the Eskimo children, the queer
food and the queer dwellings, the hunting, the
games and the odd experiences of Arctic liv-
ing. The book is uniform in style with the
Snow Baby, and enriched with many photo-
graphs taken by Commander and Mrs. Peary,
showing their little daughter in her Eskimo
clothes, and her quaint child companions.
Simple, interesting, full of curious incidents,
this "really true" story will delight every child
fortunate enough to become its possessor.
(Stokes, net, $1.20.)
Frederick A. Stokes Company's Books for
Young People. Every child knows the im-
mortal "goops," their tricks and their man-
ners and their very bad examples ; and now
here is a new batch of them in More Goops
and How not to Be Like Them. Gelett Bus-
gess calls it "a manual of manners for im-
polite infants," and his pictures of naughty
round-headed little goops doing naughty
things, and little moral verses, are an unfail-
ing delight. ($1.50.) Quaint and curious,
too, are the doings in Gnome Man's Land, as
set forth by O. H. Gottschalk in amusing
verses and fascinating pictures of the Spring
Radish Band, the neat Carrot Soldiers, and
all the interesting inhabitants of Underground
Country (75c.) ; while older people will share
the children's enjoyment oiThe Humming
Top, Blanche Willis Howard's translation if
Theobald Gross's beautiful little allegory of
"debit and credit in the next world," with its
gentle teaching of love and consideration for
others. ($1 ; 50c.)
Henry Holt & Company's Treasuries for
Young People. This house needs no new
books for boys and girls while it has on its
list J. D. Ciiamplin's Young Folks' Cyclo-
paedias. The latest one of these fine compila-
tions of information for young minds is the
Cyclopcedia of Literature and Art. The older
volumes are all ready again also. They cover
"Common Things;" "Games and Sports;"
and "Persons and Places." (ea. $2.50; $3.)
Another always new and always beautiful gift
is the Anthology of Verses for Children,
compiled by E. V. Lucas, which year by year
puts on tempting Christmas trappings. ($2.)
The Country Boy. In a succession of
graphic sympathetic chapters, the author,
Forrest Crissey, traces the life of "Harlow,"
a boy raised on a farm, who was "disagree-
ably good and solemnly disagreeable." How
he meets a lion on the wayside escaped from
the circus, how "he wipes dishes for mother,"
learns to smoke cigarettes, gets his first gun,
visits the new teacher, etc., each makes a
story in itself, spun out of the memory of one
who was once perhaps "a country boy" him-
self. The illustrations, from the designs of
Griselda Marshall McClure, are as fresh and
original as the text. (Revell. $1.50.)
December, 1903]
CHRISTMAS NUMBER.
381
F. H. Revell Company's Other Juveniles.
In West Point Colors Anna B. Warner ap-
peals to the growing boys who are to defend
our expanding country. The story pictures
the pleasures, and trials, and temptations of
the life of boys around whose cadet days has
always hung a halo of romance ($1.50). The
Door in the Book, by Charles Barnard, is a
Houghton, MiMin & Co.'s Juveniles. Eva
March Tappan's The Christ Story is the story
of the Saviour from the Annunciation to the
Ascension, told in simple, reverent language
for children. It is a notable addition to Christ-
mas literature and most timely. ($1.50.) The
Curious Book of Birds, by Abbie Fajwell
Brown, is most decidedly amusing, both in its
From '*The Young
HoiiRhton, Mifflin & Co.
STERN all; cried JOE.
fascinating fairy tale of the "Alice in Wonder-
land" order, the little heroine being magically
carried into Bible land, where she meets
many of the child heroines of the Bible ($1).
Two Tramps describes a delightful ramble
about rural England of a small boy and his
uncle, both in search of health. They live a
gypsy-sort of existence and come very close
to nature (75 c.) Jill's Red Bag tells of the
doings of Jill, Jack and Bumps, three young
madcaps who get the best out of their young
lives. Jill's red bag was a real red bag into
which the three children put one-tenth of all
money that came to them, to be devoted to
charitable purposes. {y$ c.)
Froggy Fairy Books. Drexel Biddle be-
lieves in not letting go a good thing when
you've got it. His juveniles have a perennial
freshness, claiming attention as the festive
season comes around again, with a confidence
that is seldom disappointed. The Froggy
Fairy Book and The Second Froggy Fairy
Book are good books without doubt just as
funny and entertaining now as when first
published. And the same may be said of G.
R. Brill's Andy and the Ignoramus and Bobby
Bumpkin, and of Trotty's Trip, by Carolyn
Wells. Color has been used freely in the il-
lustrations of all these books, giving to them
a fine holiday appearance and recommending
them to youthful favor. Many more Biddle
books will be found elsewhere in lists. (Bid-
dle. ea., 50 c.)
illustrations, by E. Boyd Smith, and in its
comical text, which is wholly unscientific, fan-
tastic and charming. They are birds that
think and talk like people. ($1.20.) Boys
were especially considered in the writing
of The Young Jce Whalers, by Winthrop
Packard, and in Everett T. Tomlinson's A
Lieutenant Under Washington. Young read-
ers are introduced to wild beasts, wild men
and wild weather, in Bering Sea and the Arc-
tic Ocean, and on the shore of Alaska in the
first book, and are given a great deal of infor-
mation about the whaling industry and the
habits of whales. Mr. Packard writes from
his own experience, having sailed on whaling
ships and visited Arctic Alaska. ($1.20.)
The scene of A Lieutenant Under Washing-
ton is in the Middle Colonies, and the histori-
cal features are those of the campaign that in-
cluded the battles of Brandywine and Ger-
mantown. ($1.20.) The new edition of Scud-
der's The Children's Book revives one of the
most popular works of twenty years ago for
very young children. It is a library in itself,
requiring years of reading to exhaust. ($2.50. )
Miss Muffct's Christmas Party, by S. M.
Crothers, is a jolly party attended by people
of the nursery, showing the author's knowl-
edge of children ($1) ; Young People's His-
tory of Holland, by W. E. Griffis, telling of
the struggles of the Netherlanders against the
forces of Nature, has many historical pictures,
and is well calculated to appeal to the imagi-
nations of young readers. ($1.50.)
382
THE LITERARY NEWS.
{December, 1903
Orchard-Land. Robert W. Chambers will
be a favorite indeed when it is known that
he has prepared a companion volume to his
"Outdoorland" of last year, and that Regi-
nald B. Birch has again done the illustrations
for the new volume. In it the woodchuck,
the dragon-fly, the chipmunk, the jay-bird,
the big green caterpillar, and other animals
and insects tell the charming true stories of
their lives to two little children playing in an
orchard. There is a happy and humorous style
throughout the book which cannot fail to in-
terest and stimulate young minds. It is a
capital plan for instilling natural history into
childish minds, and the demand for this kind
of book, done with genuine knowledge and
skill, is large and continually increasing.
(Harper, net, $1.50.)
The Stories of Peter and Ellen. Gertrude
Smith, the author of "The Lovable Tales of
Janey, Josey and Joe," has prepared a com-
panion volume and E. Mars and M. H. Squire
have illustrated it. This story tells all about
the little doings of Peter and his sister Ellen
^of Peter's fat, white pony; of Ellen's pet
monkey; of the magic mud-pies they made;
of their visits to "Wyville, Pieville," to buy
tiny cherry pies; of how Peter induced Ellen
to give her most beautiful doll to the little
Lillie girl who lived in the woods and had
never had a doll ; of how Ellen's mama
changed their plans, and many other interest-
ing things. (Harper, net, $1.30.)
From "Orchard-Land.'
I opyrignt, i9\i6, by Harper <t brothers.
YOU PRETTY LITTLE THING.
Harper & Brothers Provision for Young
People. Bennet Musson has thought out a
story on the order of the one and only
"Alice," but it is by no means an imitation,
and its name is Maisie and Her Dog Snip in
Fairyland. Maisie's father was a poor wood-
chopper. When his work failed, brave, hope-
ful Maisie started off with Snip to get the
fairies to help him. and she found them away
up in the heart of the mountains, (net, $1.30.)
It is good news indeed that there is a new
Holiday edition of Thomas Nelson Page's
Two Prisoners, that exquisite artistic story of
kindness to others, now illustrated with pic-
tures in color by Virginia Keep. ($1.) Neville
Cain has furnished two books of fairies. The
Fairies' Circus and The Fairies' Menagerie,
for which he has drawn the pictures and
sung the jolly verses. They are companion
books. In the Menagerie is a great collection
of funny little insects and animals that have
their home in Fairyland, and in the Circus the
fairies do feats of skill before which all earthly
acrobats must hide their diminished heads,
(ea., $1.25.) About sixty pages of short fairy
stories by Mrs. Edey, illustrated by Beatrice
Baxter Ruyl, appear under the promising and
resounding name of Si.v Giants and a GrUHn
(net, $1.25) ; and George V. Hobart has some
rollicking verses for the smaller people, de-
lightfully supplemented by full-page pictures
by M. H. Squire and E. Mars, which he calls
Li'l Verses for Li'l Fellers. (net, $1.40.)
Four line verses by Thomas Stevens, illus-
trated by A. H. Collins, entitled
Children of the World, represent
children of every nation arranged
alphabetically A for American,
B for Boer, etc., each in typical
costume and attitude, combining
amusement and instruction after
the most approved plan, (net,
$1.40.)
With Fremont the Pathfinder,
by John H. Whitson. The mere
mention of Fremont the Path-
finder calls up adventurous and
stirring deeds of a kind to at-
tract and interest every reader.
Following the adventures of the
young hero the reader sees St.
Louis as it was in 1845, voyages
on a Missouri River steamboat of
that early period, crosses the
plains where buffaloes roamed in
unnumbered thousands, meets
strange Indian tribes, climbs the
Rockies, and later sees the stir-
ring struggles and battles against
the Mexican forces in California
and the opening up of this em-
pire of gold to the world at large,
but to the United States in par-
ticular. The pen portraits of the
great pathfinder, of Alexander
Godey and his fellow-voyagers, of
Kit Carson, Maxwell, Owens and
Fitzpatrick, the great border-men,
are true to life. A good book
from which to learn about the be-
ginnings of the Republican party.
(Wilde, net, $1.20.)
December, 1903]
CHRISTMAS NUMBER.
383
W. A. Wilde Company's
Juveniles. This house has
always a well-chosen list of
books for young people. The
Pleasant Street Partnership
is a story by Mary F. Leon-
ard, telling of a delightful
little shop opened right in
the midst of a most exclu-
sive neighborhood. At first
it causes great consternation,
but by its pleasing wares