Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-09-19 | Page 34 | From Boy to Man

PROM BOY TO MAN. Boy Life: Stories and Readings Selected from tho Works of William Dean 1 low-ells low-ells and Arranged for Supplemenlarv Reading in Ek-mentarv School?, b'v JcrclyI Chubb. Director of English i'n t lie Jahicul Culture School, New York Illnstraled.. Published by JIarpcr and Brothers, New York. This work is divided into five parts, after Mr. Chubb 's well written introduction. intro-duction. First wo have "Adventures in a Boys' Towni" telling how Poiiv Baker camo pretty near running off "with a circus; then of the Circus Magician; then of Jim Leonard's narrow escape. 'Ihe second pnrt pictures "Life in a Boys' Town," telling of the town, earliest memories, the river, swiinmiii", skating, manners aud custom!,-, girls,, mothers, a brother, a frioud. Then wo have "Games and Pastimes," Pas-times," including marbles, races, a mean trick, tops, kites, the Butler guards, pels, Indians, guns, nutting, the lire engines. The fourth part gives "Glimpses of the Larger World," telling about the traveling" circus, passing shows, the theater comes to town, the world opened by books. Tho fifth part is "Tho Lnt of a Boys' Town," reminiscent of the departure from boy life and the entrance upon the life of a man. It is all vory finely written, as one would naturally exnoc't from the excellent work always (lone by Mr. Howolls, and deftly put to-. to-. get her, showing well Mr. Chubb 's skill and taste.