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November 25, 1914.
A FAMILY PAPER.
%%,W'%/%'%^'%^-%-%'^^-*-'%%' pincott Company, 50 cents) is an at- able who has anything to do with lit- Cossack, and a real man, but more
n n n DAAI/ T i D i r # tractive volume of 153 pages, with erary matters, whether as a writer, a famous in Byron's poem; and, the
111 n fit 11 IK I AflLh S numerous illustrations, and substan- speaker, an instructor, or even as a very last in the book, Zuleika, in By-
^ tially bound, which presents a collec- reader with any degree of taste for ron's "Bride of Abydos."
tion of the very best stories ever writ- accuracy. Mr. Walsh has had a wide
"Elizabeth, Betsy and Bess," by ten for children. They are arranged experience as an all-around literary "The Honorable Percival," by Alice
Amy E. (Blanchard, (W. A. Wilde Co., and "simplified" by Elizabeth Lewis, man, a reviewer, and a newspaper Hegan Rice. (Century Co., N. Y.,
Boston, $1.00 net), is one of a series who alsc^ provides one-page biogra- man, and with such a varied training, $1-00.) This book is a revelation of
of books denominated the Girl's Popular
phies of the authors represented. The a man is more likely to appreciate the difference in the bringing up of
Bookshelf, and is a story of three place of honor is given to that iminstinctively
just what the difficulty VOung people; between conventional-
girls who attend Miss Jewett's pri- mortal "Alice in Wonderland," and is for some inquiring but not too ity and the utter lack of it. The two
vate school. They were small girls "Alice Through the Looking Glass," scholarly mind that is seeking inforwhich
young people who are the principal
but differently situated as far as
supplies no less than six mation, than some excessively learn-
characters, furnish many humorous
worldly goods are concerned; Elizaher
stories, and the biography reminds us ed professor who assumes that the passages; but although the Honorabeth,
the leader, being of a poor but that Lewis Carroll was really Charles average reader knows a lot which he ble Percival is the victim of a too reintelligent
family, whereas Bess has Dodgson. Then the old classic myth knows very dimly if at all. Mr. Walsh fining process during boyhood, as a
every want gratified. EUzabeth is a of "Pandora's Box," as presented by keeps himself modestly in the back- prospective peer of England, which
fine character, buit fond of using big Nathaniel Hawthorne, is given, tell- ground, not even writing a preface, ^^s the effect of turning a naturally
words which do not always convey ing how troubles first came into the but the manner in which the work splendid character into somewhat of
meaning. She is also apt at quo­
world, according to Greek mythology, has been carried out is sufficiently in- a prig, yet we deplore also the laxity
tations, but which are very often mis- and also how cheery little Hope also dicated in the sub