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gifted in writing for boys and girls.
In tbis volume he takes up the life
and character of the boys and girls of
the Bible and presents them so that
his young readers become well ac
quainted with them and are made to
see them as real boys and girls. They
and their doings are made so real that
they will fascinate youthful readers,
and carry valuable lessons to their
hearts.
The Story of Grenfell of the Labra
dor. By Dillon Wallace. Publishers,
Fleming H. Revell Company, New
York. Price |1.50. No missionary
of recent years has attracted more at
tention because of the character of his
work than Dr. Grenfell In his work in
Labrador, among .the natives and the
fishermen who frequent its waters.
This book gives a most interesting ac
count of his work. It is full of in
terest, for his work is unusual. It is
filled with enough adventure and real
devotion to his undertaking to please
any boy or girl, and its reading will
show what true consecration to a true
cause means.
Under Twenty. By Charles E. Jef
ferson, D. D. Publishers, Fleming H.
Revell Company, New York. Price
$1.50.' Dr. Jefferson has written a
number of excellent books, but it is
doubtful if he has ever written a book
that will accomplish more good than
these "Messages to the Young Genera
tion," if It shall be generally placed
in their hands. It is a series of ser
mons, each of which carries a strong
message to young people. The style
is virile and attractive. The truths
presented are the fundamentals of the
Christian faith. This is a book that
will interest and inspire any normal
young Christian, who is Just coming
into young manhood or womanhood.
Around the Campflre With the Older
Boys. By Margaret W. Eggleston.
Publishers, George H. Doran and Com
pany, New York. Price $1.25. This
book contains twenty-three excellent
stories, such as will appeal to real
boys. They are intensely Interesting
and any normal boy who starts to
read them will not stop until he has
read them all. And when he has read
them he will in all probability be a
better boy than he was when he
started. They will do much toward
developing his better nature, by show
ing what a true boy ought to be.
Becky. By Amy E. Blanchard. Pub
lishers, W. A. Wilde Co., Boston. An
interesting novel for young people. A
well-told story of love, romance, self
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sacrifice, disappointment and victory.
The leading characters are college
girls and college boys. They are very
natural, very human and yet inspir
ing. The story moves well with a
well-sustained interest.
l>o You Know Them? By Kitty Par
sons. Publishers, Fleming H. Revell
Company, New York. Price $1.25.
This book contains brief well-told
sketches of thirty-five men and women
who have outstanding characters in
the past few generations. They are
selected from various professions and
walks in life. Most of them were
Americans, but many other countries
are represented in the list, fn a con
cise way the important points in the
life and character of each are given,
presenting just such information as
old and young would like to have
about Joel Chandler Harris, Jenny
Lind, Daniel Webster, Confucius, John
Paul Jones, Phillips Brooks, David
Livingstone, Napoleon and many oth
ers.
Oanip Fire Yarns. By Frank H.
Cheley. Publishers, W. A. Wilde Com
pany, Boston. A company of boys,
under a wise leader go of for a camp
ing trip to the mountains. By way
of entertainment the leader of each
group is appointed to tell the best
yarn that he can, presumably about his
own experience in former camping
trips. These stories are well told.
They are full of thrilling experiences
and will do a boy's heart good as he
reads them.
Re<l Letter Testament. Many edi
tions of the New Testament are pub
lished every year, but none has ap
peared that Is more attractive than
a fed-letter self-pronouncing edition
that has just been issued by the A. J.
Holman Company, of Philadelphia. It
is only 2 5-8x4 1-4 inches in size, mak
ing it very conventient for carrying in
the pocket. The words of Jesus are
all printed in red. The type is un
usually large and clear for such a
small book. It is bound in various
styles of binding, so that any one may
be suited as to material and cost.
Boy Scoots at Crater Lake. By
Walter Prlchard Eaton. Publishers,
W. A. Wilde Company, Boston. Mr.
Baston knows how to write stories
that appeal to boys. Crater Lake is
in the Rocky Mountains of Oregon.
He takes a company of boys on a trip
to this lake on the top of a mountain
above the snow line. They have in
teresting experiences of many kinds,
but there is nothing marvelous or un
natural In it all. Life and wholesome
fun all the time. The boy who reads
this book will want to take the trip.
The Young Wireless Operator with
the Oyster Fleet, By Lewis E. Theiss.
Publishers, W. A. Wilde Company,
Boston. A book to do a boy's heart
good. A boy learns wireless and
many other things as he works in an
oyster boat. He gains the esteem of
his employer, he has adventures, falls
in love, saves him employer from h
nanclal ruin, and comes out victorious.
The book is exceedingly interesting
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and will help the boy who reads it.
The Most Wonderful Story. By
Amy L?e Feuvre. Publishers, Fleming
H. Revell Company, New York. Price
$1.50. Those who have read "Prob
able Sons" by this author will not be
surprised to And this children's his
tory of Jesus most attractively writ
ten. With wise discrimination she
has selected the important events of
HiB life and presented them in a way
that will appeal to the child's heart.
The Btyle is simple and yet dignified.
Themother will find it interesting to
herself as she reads it to her little
children, and older children will de
light to read it themselves.
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
What Then Shall This Child Be?
By Ernest Bourner Allen. Publishers,
The Pilgrim Press, Boston. Price 25
cents. This is an attractively made
little booklet. Starting with the stories
of John and Jesus, it becomes a heart
to heart talk with fathers and moth
ers. It shows parents that this ques
tion ought to be asked about their
child, and then shows how the child
can with God's help be made what the
parents and Qod would like to see it
become.
TtMi Children's Bible. By Henry A.
Sherman and Charles Foster Kent.
Publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York. A wonderful book. It is
the Bible story written for children,
and yet it would be helpful to many
grown people. Beginning with the first
of Genesis the reader is carried
through the whole Bible. The most
important parts of each book are
given. The record is simplified, and
yet the authors have maintained a dig
nified style which is not very com
mon in such books. Where the very
words are not Quoted, the style is so
Scriptural in its form, that it is some
times hard to tell where a quotation
begins or ends.
Verses for Children. By Cecil Trout
Blancke. Publishers, Westminster
Press, Philadelphia. Price $1.50. A
most fascinating book for the little
tots, but the grown-ups will get as
much pleasure out of it as they will.
It is a handsome book, beautifully
and appropriately illustrated. The
verses are original and full of gentle
quiet humor that will appeal to young
and old. The little folks are as natu
ral as they can be made in picture
and in verse.
A Wonder Book. By Nathaniel
Hawthorne. Illustrated by Arthur
Rackham. Publishers, George H. Do
ran Company. This is one of the
old classics dressed up in the best of
modern printing and illustrations.
The stories of this book are the old
stories of mythology, as they have
been preserved by the ancient Latin
and Greek writers. Hawthorne ha?
developed them in a wonderful way.
The artist's wierd pictures harmonize
well with the stories. Any one who
likes the old mythological stories will
find this book very entertaining, and
it will help them to understand many
of the allusions in good literature.
Bible Stories Retold for the Young.
Vol. III. By Alexander R. Gordon,
D. D. Publishers, George tf. Doran
Company, New York. Price $1.25.
This is the third volume of a series.
It gives the stories of the books of
Judges and Samuel. The stories are
well told in a way that will appeal
especially to boys and girls from eight
to sixteen years of age. The stories
are often illustrated with stories of
God's people of later ages. In this
way the reader will see how much
alike in character are men and women
of dicerent ages.
A Child's Ramble Through the
Bibta. By Robert Crawford Falconer,
'ubllshers, Fleming H. Revell Com
>any, N. Y. Price The old
stories of the Old Testament are told
again in a way that makes them new.
The stories are simply and clearly told,
and helpful, practical lessons are
drawn from them that will be worth
a great deal to young readers. This
book will be a blessing to a mother
who wants to teach her children the
Scriptures.
Jacinth and Her Fairy Friends. By
Nellie M. Pairpoint. Publishers, W.
A. Wilde Company, Boston. This is
beautifully printed, handsomely
bound, and quaintly illustrated. The
little girl goes into the Pixie Woods,
and has found a wonderful lot of
Pixie-kins there, and went to work to
make friends of them. These little
fairies lead her into a very active life.
Every little boy and girl in the land
will want to walk with her through
the Pixie Woods.
Peter Rabbit Books. Published by
Henry Altemus Company, Philadel
phia. Price 50 cents each. Many lit
tle boys and gins have -been made
happy by the Peter Rabbit Books, and
here are three more of them just fresh
from the press, beautifully bound and
printed with very striking illustra
tions: Peter Rabbit and Jack the
Jumper, Jack and the Bean Stalk? and
Jack the Giant-Killer. These books
are for the little tots and will greatly
delight them. They will want them
read over and over again.
Fast of the Sun and West of the
Moon. Publishers, George H. Doran
Company, New York. Price $ ? This
handsome volume is a selection of folk
lore tales from the North of Europe,
selected and illustrated by Kay Niel
sen, and it is hard to tell which are
most interestingly grotesque, the stor
ies or the illustrations. Mr. Neil
Ren is thoroughly familiar with the old
stories and the spirit of the people
among whom they originated, and he
tells them well. To most American
young people these stories will be new,
and this will add to their fascina
tion.
Tales Told by the Gander. By
Maud Radford Warren and Eve Dav
Company, New York. Pries $2.60.
This is a large volume handsomely
bound, beautifully printed and pro
fusely illustrated. Mother Goose
adopts a Gander, and makes him her
constant companion. After awhile a
baby boy comes to her house. The
Gander helps Mother Goose to take
care of him. and when he is old enough
tQ have stories told him, the Gander
takes the old stories of Mother Goose,
which all boys and girls love, and
tells them over again, adding many in
teresting features, which tell the chil
dren just what they often want to
know and which Mother Goose left out
when she told the stories.
KIjKINBERG SCHOOL FOR GIRIA
Will begin work after the Christmas
holidays, January 2, 1923.
For catalogue address
Miss Constance \^*iles, or B. M.
Walles, ?
Schuyler, Va.