Show Early i Colonial Life Depicted JL I hI Iii New Book for Children I By MARY GRAHAM BONNER BONNEE Author of oC A Parents Parent's Guide to Childrens Children's Reading Heading etc dc For Tor NEA Service I P ARENTS always are eager to see sec their boys bos and girls Interested in worth while books Boys Coys and girls always ways are arc eager for stirring stories Interesting episodes a feeling of reality about the book world With With- Without out ut delving very ery far into the sub- sub subject parents have been known to assert that these th two factors do not combine any too satisfactorily But Buti Butin tn in i so many cases eases such discourage discourage- discouragement ment meat comes from Crom a a. lack back of Information information tion on or unfortunate experience People eople come across a few Cew books that are arc senseless and stupid and they hey build a barrier against books booksIn In hi general Nothing Is Ls so 50 pitiful and non constructive as wholesale elation STRIKING ILLUSTRATIONS Among the most striking lons of oC books that are arc worth while and entertaining Is the Beacon Deacon Hill Bookshelf a series of books book well vell worth orth the attention of those who v wish trials to see s their young people edl fled led entertained and initiated into good literature The books arc are well welt printed satisfactorily Illustrated and their heir reading matter of oC the best Little Women Eight Cousins Rose In Bloom are included anc and these books of oC Louisa M. M Alcott are still so popular as to form bras an argument argument ment meat in themselves against those who deplore the tastes of the ever ever- abused young generation Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail and George F F. Tuckers Tucker's The Boy Whale Whale- man are also In the serIes all of them published by Little Brown Drown A. A Co This past year ear a prize of 2000 was offered for a new volume worthy to take its place with the others and the he winning book has Just been pub pub- It is by Cornelia Comella Meigs an author of singular achievements In In her chosen line and Its title is The Trade Wind Henry C. C Pits has Illustrated the story with spirit and vigor ADVENTURE E ASCA SC It Is 13 the story of oC David Dennison a New England boy 00 who inherits from his father of whom he is think thinking ing at the opening of the story a alove aloe alove love lo of the sea tea and adventure He is awaiting t the close of the tue strict Sab Sab- Sabbath Sabbath Sabbath bath observances The reader feels a little the same way way the the beginning of the book is slightly dreary some some- somewhat somewhat what slow chow But not for long Soon plans are afloat and the boy not yet et eighteen Is afloat too off for a long cruise which is rich with adventure escape trading bartering and singularly sIngularly singularly arresting characters The twists and turns of the story are engross engross- engrossing en engrossing oss- oss ossIn ing In natural and frequently intensely exciting But the high water mark of the story is the capture of the prize which comes about with the most unexpected suddenness Noth Noth- Nothing NothIng ing could make me divulge this turn in the story role FOX GIRLS TOO Boys will exult in the tale its glamorous stimulating trade sea thrills its terrors its accomplish ments Girls will like it because the heroine who keeps out of the way most of the time is a II sane level- level levelheaded levelheaded headed quietly brave young oung woman Parents will like it because it plc- plc pictures tures those days Just before the Rev- Rev Revolutionary Revolutionary War in a way that teaches both old and young something of oC the early American trading days anc and therefore has a background of definite nile alto value And nd it is Js written with a afine afine afine fine gusto to and md literary ability |