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Show SPLENDID CHILD'S BOOK. "The- Kingdom of the Winding Road." Ev Torn elia MaIzf. Published by the Marmlllan Company, Nw York. Plumed knlehts, a mUer. a beggar that, walks Through t!iA oountryside scattAr-!ng scattAr-!ng happiness, and a beautiful princess are rharafiTH in This most delightful storv of talrv lor and deeds done In the brave, dark apep. The tai opens in "The Twopennv Town." Every hod v is moderately poor and therefore happy. A famine comes and the children cry for pudding and go 'to bed hungrv. A heugar knocks at the 1 door of the miper's-otUge, and finds him si-k unto death. He stays with him and nurt-As him ba. R to mental and physical ha!th. Then he answers I he 'all of the winding road and goes forth to The a.a-1 a.a-1 fit a nee oT a prince who is battling asainst a giant king. The whole storv is well written and original The il)u?trai ions by Frances U'htte add to the at trasrlveneus of the book. |