Seawell, M. E. House of Egremont. Scribner $1.50 Romance of England under William of Orange, and the Jacobite court at St Germain, Shackleton, Robert. Toomey and others. Scribner $1.25 Stories of New York tenements and Blackwell's Island hospitals and almshouses. Generally pathetic and painful, sometimes humorous and never coarse. Smith, M. C. Mary Paget; a romance of old Bermuda. Macmillan $1.50 Introduces scenes and allusions from Shakspere's Tempest. Harper $1.25 a Spearman, F. H. The nerve of Foley. Ten vigorous stories of excitements, dangers and heroisms of railway life. Steel, Mrs F. A. Voices in the night. Macmillan $1.50 Anglo-Indian story. Somewhat confused and sensational in plot, yet dramatic in episodes and strong in local color and portayal of conflicting civilizations. Stephens, R. N. Philip Winwood. Page $1.50 Hero, an American revolutionary captain. Story told by a generous rival in love and enemy in war. Stockton, F. R. Afield and afloat. Scribner $1.50 11 characteristic stories of love or fantastic adventure on stream or ocean. a Tarkington, Booth. Monsieur Beaucaire. McClure $1.25 Bath in time of Beau Nash. Clever in repartee; dramatic in denouement. Thompson, Maurice. Alice of old Vincennes. Bowen $1.50 Love and adventure in Indiana in 1779. a Ward, Mrs M.. A. Eleanor. Harper $1.50 Of rare intellectual and emotional interest. Somber, but not disheartening in outcome to readers mainly interested in character study. Italian scene. Warren, Charles. The girl and the governor. Scribner $1.50 Independent stories, centering about a politician of high moral standards, and cach involving some question of right action. Weyman, S. J. Sophia; a romance. Longmans $1.50 Love in high life, England, 1742. Interest chiefly in succession of adventures. Wharton, Mrs Edith. The touchstone. Scribner $1.25 Skilful character study of relations between a wife and her husbaud, who to obtain money to justify their marriage has violated a sacred confidence. 244 292 372.3 398.2 Wilkins, M.. E. Heart's highway. Doubleday $1.50 Love story of colonial Virginia during tobacco riots following Bacon's rebellion. Wister, Owen. Jimmyjohn boss and other stories. Harper $1.25 Eight humorous, grim and pathetic stories of western frontier life. Zangwill, Israel. Mantle of Elijah. Harper $1.50 English politics and society. Lays scene in early sixties, but reflects present movement toward imperial expansion. JUVENILE BOOKS < Brown, A. F. Book of saints and friendly beasts. Houghton $1.25 Legends of the lesser saints and the animals associated with them retold as simple folk tales for children. Herakles, the hero of Scribner net boc Burt, M.. E. & Ragozin, Z. A. Ginn 45C Andrews, Jane. Stories of my four friends. Simple stories and sketches of nature and the four seasons, teaching children to observe and appreciate. Charmingly illustrated. c Canton, William, ed. True annals of fairyland: Reign of King Herla. Macmillan $2 Variants of old tales, held together by a new thread and freshly illustrated. Some versions are quoted with acknowledgements to Kiugsley, Carlyle and Mr Rouse. 599.3 790 Longmans $2 Another selection of old fairy tales retold and newly illustrated. Burroughs, John. Squirrels and other fur-bearers. Houghton $1 Habits of chipmunk, woodchuck, hare, muskrat, skunk, fox, weasel, mink, raccoon, porcupine, opossum, wild mice. 15 colored illustrations after Audubon. c Beard, D. C. Jack of all trades. Scribner $2 Boy's handbook. Directions for treetop and underground club houses, fishponds, workshops, toboggan slides, trapping and taming animals, indoor entertainments with chalk and scissors, circuses, Christmas doings, etc. 793 828.8 910.4 917.3 St Nicholas book of plays and operettas. Century $1 Simple plays, acted ballads, shadow pantomimes, tableaux, a children's symphony, etc. reprinted from St Nicholas, April baby's book of tunes, with the story of how they came to be written; by the author of Elizabeth and her German garden. Macmillan $1.50 Doings of three little German-English girls. Appeals chiefly to grown people, but may be made entertaining to children. Kate Greenaway colored illustrations. Tarr, R. S. & McMurry, F. M. Geographies. Macmillan 910 V. I Home geography and the earth as a whole. Textbooks treating geography broadly. Structure of soil and physi cal features, influence of physical facts on colonization and industries. Children are shown how to investigate and demonstrate statements for themselves. Fully illustrated and valuable as children's reference books in general library. Johnson, W: H: World's discoverers. Little $1.50 Voyages by Columbus, Vasco de Gama, Magellan, Verrazzano, Frobisher, Davis, Drake, Hudson, Sir John Franklin, Nordenskiöld and others. Maps and illustrations. c Brooks, E. S. Century book of the American colonies. Century $1.50 Young peoples' pilgrimage from Gulf states northward, tracing colonial history. Well illustrated. 917.98 Thompson, A. R. Gold-seeking on the Dalton trail. Little $1.50 Two boys' summer in Alaska. Full of genuine adventure, informa tion and interest. JUVENILE BIOGRAPHY Brady, C. T. Reuben James. (Young heroes of our navy) Mainly true story of a common sailor who participated in the fight between the Constellation and l'Insurgent, and once saved Decatur's life. JUVENILE FICTION Barbour, R. H: For the honor of the school. Appleton $1.50 a Eggleston, G: C. Last of the flat boats. Lothrop $1.50 Four boys' trip down Ohio and Mississippi to New Orleans during great flood. Interest sustained while much information is conveyed. Stokes $1.25 Information about Indians c Grinnell, G: B. Jack among the Indians. Continues Jack the young ranchman. authoritative and boy's adventures stirring. Jenks A. E. Childhood of Jishib, the Ojibwa. American Thresherman, Madison Wis. $1 An unusual book by an intimate student of Indian character. The simple narrative appeals to children and is singularly successful in revealing the real life and soul of an Indian boy. Illustrative pen sketches add much to charm. La Flesche, Francis. The middle five. Small $1.25 Stories by an educated Omaha Indian, of boy life in an Indian missionary school. Shows essential likeness of boy nature everywhere. Loomis, C: B. Yankee enchantments. McClure $1.25 Unbelievable stories told in a matter of fact manner. c Miller, C. H. "Joaquin Miller" pseud. True bear stories. Rand $1.25 He has tried to show us the bear as he is, not the traditional bear of story books. David Starr Jordan Morse, L. B. Road to nowhere. Harper $1.50 Fitly dedicated to its prototype, Alice in Wonderland. Illustrations in black, white and red specially happy. Pyle, Katharine. Christmas angel. Little $1.25 Adventures in Wonderland, with talking toys and Mrs Kris Kringle. For younger children. Smith, Mrs M.. P. W. Young and old puritans of Hat field. (Young puritan ser.) Little $1.25 Story of attack on Hatfield and Deerfield 1677, journey of captives to Canada and rescue. Stoddard, W: O. The Noank's log. Lothrop $1.25 Privateering during the revolution. Sequel to Guert Ten Eyck. a Thompson, Ernest Seton-. Biography of a grizzly. Century $1.50 Author writes as if he himself had been first a little, forlorn, soft ball of a baby bear and afterward an embittered monster, prowling for food. Literature < True, J: P. Scouting for Washington. Little $1.50 Boy's adventures as American spy about New York and with British in South Carolina. Spirited and wholesome, though improbable. a White, E. O. Ednah and her brothers. Houghton $1 Everyday doings of four children who flit between city and country with their artist parents. Entertaining and wholesome. COMPARATIVE TABLE OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 1900 These statistics are based on lists prepared according to varying classifications and methods. The figures should therefore be regarded as only approximate. See paper on Relative book production by Dr. E. C. Richardson in Publisher's weekly, 57: 805, and abstract in Public libraries, 5: 192. |