Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1922, Page 73

Christmas Books HE days have come around when holiday books, dead ripe, are falling from the Christmas tree of every book house, with a sound that recalls the din of the millions of dropping nuts, & thunder of noise, which, far from land in the South Seas where he was cruising, led Dr. Traprock to the dis- covery of the now famous Filbert Islands. There is no escaping this general downfall of Christmas books. But, then, nobody wants to get away from them, since there is no doubt at all that—day by day. in every way, they are getting better and better. Just at this moment, with a gay flutter of color and a sociable flirt of leaf, a bunch of them tumbled down right in front of us. Nothing 10 do, save to see what is going on here. ' A puzzle the first thing. What in the world is a “Diggeldy Dan?" Something, certainly, to chase down. So, here we go: THE ADVENTURES OF DIGGELDY DAN. By Edwin P. Norwood. Ii- lustrations by A. Conway Peyton. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. It is a man. as one suspected. animal has fun. Only a man s a | . Just the | kind that every boy in the world has, ! at one moment or another, longed to | be. For Diggeldy Dan is a clown, all | dressed up in the queer clothes that | clowns have worn since ages and ages . ago, when it was discovered that lhei world could not get along without this very kind of fun-maker. The adventures set down here are not a part of Dan's regular circusing. Iij turns out that. away off somewhere. | is a king of the clowns. Too-Bo-Tan. | Now this king had an eye on Dan for | a long time. And. one day, he sent out this word: “On the day when Dig- geldy Dan has been a clown for a hundred years and a day, as a reward for the great joy that he has given little children through all his merry life, he will be granted the privilege of releasing all animals from their cages at every setting of the sun.” Now you know what the adventures i are. Every night in that little stretch | of twilight, so fleeting, the cage doors were opened. And out. into a little broader space of freedom, trooped the “monk and lions and tigers and things.” And the games they playved! Did you know that no better “London | bridge” can be found than the noses of two glraffes, meeting, or the trunks of two elephants, touching? 1L 15 true, as you will ses. Once, the | lion was ring-master, with Dan and | the tiger and a zebra dancing to the crack of his whip, while the elephant and the seal and the monkey made music_ on drum and fiddle and horn. The pictures show, beautifully, a part of these glorious games. This is enough to hint at what Is waiting for you in “The Adventures of Diggeldy . It would be downright mean to spoil the book by telling you more. Great adventures. though, and one comes out of them quite in love with Diggeldy and all those free and pla; ing animals. Mixed up with this love is an odd little feeling that makes you think vou are going to cry. if you don’t watch out. BLACKBEARD BUCCANEER By Ralph D. Fai Ilustrations by} Frank_E. Schoonover. Philadel- The Penn Publishing Com- A few vears after a bay has had to give up the notion of being a clown. he | gets fired all over again with the pas-| n to be a pirate. But. this is & for boys. Fvery single ile has either gone out | wholly out of reach. So. as a last re- sort. a boy is compelled to settle down to the second-hand pleasure of reading the adventures after whose reality his soul hungers and thirsts. And. Eere is a first-rate chance for him. For this is a regular pirate story, with the notorious Edward Teach, “Blackbeard,” in his infamous role of boldest and wickedest buccaneer that ever sailed the seas. Jack Cockerel. salling from Charles Town colony for school in Eng- land, will be counted a lucky fellow by the boys. For his ship fell into the ‘hands of Blackbeard and his monstrous crew. Such a to-do as there was! Hand-to-hand fighting, of course. And, after any number of near-death haz- a there was Jack's escape, along ‘with another boy who had been made a pirate against his will. (Something queer about that boy.) At any rate, they got away together and drifted, for days. on a raft before bringing up on the edge of a South Carolina swamp. No, no, it has only just begun. For. later, there was the pursuit and cap- 1ure ‘of Blackbeard. abetted, in valiant and ingenious manner. by the two boys. The story swings forward with snap and vigor—about it an astonishing ! manner of being all quite true. Some! other time and where Ralph Paine was, ! nndoubtedly. a perfectly good pirat himself. { PUPPY DOGS’ TALES: And Stories of Other Animal Friends. Selected and edited by Framces Kent. New York: The Macmillan Company. [ As a matter of cold fact, a boy is finally obliged to come out of hi dreams of being a ciown or a pirate, or both, and settle down. As a rule, he does this by settling down with a dog. A boy without a dog is un- zht | lchildren this promised to 1vided for the story market. actual experience. ing the boy scowl, that it has a sort of baby title. But, happily, the book goes much beyond the title. The maker of it has gone io great trouble and peins to gather interesting things about. the animals that chil- dren know best and like best. There is information here, also, for older folks about certain animals. Again, one meets “Rab” and “Grayfriars’ Bobby” and “Owd Bob as a Puppy.” Beyond this, the book gathers up cats and rabbits and ponies. geese and goats and chickens. And all along the way there are charming pictures of many of these friends of the children. The quality of friendli- ness lies in the book—the friendliness that exists. in fact. between children and these companions of theirs. LD A BOOK oF CHRISTMAS. Compiled by J. C. Dier. New York: The Macmillan Company. - A Christmas book with a special character and distinction of its own. Many sources of time and place and authorship come together here for the sake of helping the children to a wider outlook upon this annual festi- val to a deeper sense of its meanin, and therefore to a keener personal Joy in their own share of it. Here are stories from China and Japan an tories from the places where Jesus Spain and England, Holland and France and Mexico contribute to this sum of Christmas lore in legend and custom from the writings of many well known authors. Scott and Irving and Dickens are among the most familiar of those who have helped to make this book. In so far as this was possible the author's own words were used, 2 point of extreme usefulness. The pictures are from the work of such artists as Titian, Corregio, Veronese, Bernardino, Ghir- landajo. From every point of view an admirable book for Christmas and for all the other days of the year as well. CHRISTMAS CAROLS. Selected and edited by L. Edna Walter. Hal monized by Lucy E. Broadwood. ted by J. H. Hartley. New The Macmillan Company. been ce feasting, dancing and singing. Often the dancers formed a ring and sang as they danced, first the dance and later the song being called a carol. The carol was not always strictly r ligious. although in the old times both the singing and dancing often took place in cathedrals and churche: Some of the carols that we still kno are connected with times before the Christiun era. They have now lost their dance and the melody has changed. but the ideas are very ai cient. The holly and the Ivy sugge: the old Druids, and we still put up holly and ivy in our houses just as people did before the time of Christ. We put them up at Christmas, and we sing the carol at Christmas, but the idea at the back of it is older than Christmas.” The book—most beautifully illustrated—contains old English carols for Christmas and other festivals, carols ‘“htat have been sung through many. many vears at times of festival and mirth.” A carefully produced book of special in- terest and value, HALF-PAST SEVEN STORIES. By Robert Gordon Anderson, author of “Seven O'Clack Stories,” etc. Tl- lustrations b New York: G. P. Putnam'’s Sons. You already know those Green chil- dren — Jehosophat, Marmaduke and Hepzebiah. They were the three happy children of another of Mr. An- derson’s_books, “Seven O'Clock ries.” Here they are again. “three” and s happy.” and _still running their corner of the world in vi bound to make a lot . too. Our favorite story bere—mavbe it will not s “The Little Red Fox.” Marmaduke was sitting on the fencs g trying to get a look at < away over across the fields. All at once there was a little red. furry streak of pure terror com- ing across the lot right hi 2 You finish the story when you get the book. so_that you will have a chance e Marmaduke and -to be proud of him, to0. What you feel about a bunch of grown men who elimb up then go out to hunt a little animal— no, we are not going to tell. but we know exactly what you think and how vou feel, because we do, too. All of these stories are good, but we have picked this particular one. TALES TOLD BY THE GANDER. By Maud Rwdford Warren and Eve Davenport. Illustrations by Charles A. Federer. New York: George H. Doran Company. This of i was the way Either { Mother Goose could think up no more new stories or she had worn herself completely out telling the old on over and over. A dark moment for ut, just then, along came the gande: wearing the important manner of th male and declaring that he had pro- ‘There was to be no Christmas shortage whatever. Then, taking up matters just about where Mother Goose had left them, he certainly did account for some thin, that Mother Goose her- self had left quite up in the air. For instance, he gave one quite a new line on the man in the moon. One hears thinkable. ~A dog without a boy 1s one of nature’s few mistakes. Here is a dog book to add to the boy's here a lot more about the old woman ‘who sweeps cobwebs out of the sk: He knew Taffy well and Little Mi d |child would ke glad to have for one's Dorothy Hope Smith. | still | onto horses and call their dogs and { The Perfect Gift for Christmas Give The Outline of Science for Christmas and be sure that it will bring enduring delight and satisfaction. Never before has a work combined with so happy a result the authoritative word of lcaders in every field of science with an informal readable style which makes it understandable even to the child’s mind. Four volumes of fascinating reading— : THE OUTLINE OF SCIENCE Edited by J. Arthur Thomson . Professor in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland In a simple, flowing story Professor Thomson gives you the whole glorious romance of man’s conquest of the universe through his mastery of science. He throws open the doors to’thé whole world of science and re- veals its mysteries for all to understand. Acclaimed with Enthusiasm William Beebe, in the N. Y. The N. Y, Herald: “An epoch- Times: “Written by the right making performance of incaleu- Muffett better. He was quite onto| the curves of the three blind mice and |- a host of others about whom, and which, there are many things yet to be set- tled. The gander covld remember, too —that is, he could remember well One"admits, see- |enough for story .purposes—away back when he had been a real prince, and stories about princes can go on and on forever. One would hate pot to miss Mother Goose—but i great sander. And thia s a very utiful book, also, just to look l::da“ feel of, and to hold within one's nds. STORIES BY MRS. MOLESWORTH. Complled by Sidney Baldwin. Plc tures by Edna Cooke. Duffield & Co. These are stories for thelittle chil- dren—stories about dwarfs and fairies l and princesses and one about the per- sisting wonder of the cockoo clock. Some of them are, on the other hand, set in the make-believe world where children go when they want really to be most themselves. There is a talk- ing look about the book that one likes. Everybody has a chance to say what he wants to, instead of having some one person fill up the pages with talk that looks heavy and tiresome— that is heavy and tiresome. This talk, put to the proof, turns out to be about the things that children turn to naturally, that they chatter about in ease and freedom when left to them- selves, So here are good storles and good play time and good fun tucked away in a handsome book that any own. BOOKS FOR THE KIDDIES. RAINBOW GOLD; New. Selected for bo By Sarah Teasdale. tions by Dugald Walker. York: The Macmillan Company. BURIED CITIES. By Jennie H: thor of “Four Old Greeks" etc. With many drawings and photo- graphs from original sources. New York: The Macmillan Company. THE CHILDREN WHO FOLLOWED THE PIPER. By Padriac Colum. Illustrated by Dugald Walker. New York: Tiae Macmillan Company. THE BOY JESUS AND HIS COMPAN-/ ION:! By Rufus M. Jones, author of . 1 the Hero,” etc. New York: The Macmillan Company. JOHNNY MOUSE AND THE WISH.| ING STICK. By Johnny Gruelle, “Orphant Annle Story Book,” etc. With illustrations by the author. Indianapolis: Bobbs- i Merrill Company. author of By Lucy Fitch Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. STORIES FROM THE OLD TESTA- MENT; Telé for Little Children. By Caroline Kellogs, author of “Storfes fromn the Life of Jesus,™ etc. Illustrated by W. R. Lohse. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Com- pany. H THE ROAD OF THE LOVING HEART. By Annie Fellows Johnston, author of “The Littie Colonel Series,” etc. 1llustrated by Winifred Bromhall. Boston: The Page Company. THE _SANDMAN — HIS FAIRY! STORIES; Or, Joyce in the Land of | Nod. By Helen I. Castella. Illus-| trated by the author and Jane Grant. Boston: The Page Company. | | THE CROCK OF GOLD. By James| Stephens. Illustrated Ly Wilfred Jones. New York: The Macmillan Company. LIGHT INTERVIEWS WITH SHADES. . By Robert Webster Jones. }‘hnu-l delphia: Dorrance & Co. DRUSILLA AND HER DOLLS; A el Story of a Little Girl of Boston In the Sixties. By Belle Bacon Bond. Foreword by Mrs. Dallas Lore Sharp. Illustrated by Marjoriel Very. Boston: The Four Seas Com- | pany. THE MERRY ADVENTURES OF ROBINHOOD AND SANTA CLALUS.! By J. Edgar Park. Illustrated by W. H. Montgomery. Boston: Houghton Mifin Company. - PETER RABBIT AND JACK-THE-) JUMPER. By Linda Stevens Al- mond. Illustrated by J. L. 3 Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Com-l pany. JACK THE GIANT-HILLER; A Bal-! lad Arrangement for Young Chil-, dres. By Reginald Wsight- lc..u!»r man. Illustrated by Margaret Campbell Hoopes. . Philadglphia: Henry Altemus Company. dren. By Reginald Wright Kauf man. Illustrated by Willlam A.} richne THE ‘WADDLE. By Dolores McKenna, MR. WIDDLE WADDLE BRINGS LITTLE MISSY. WHITEFOOT THE WOODMOUSE. By [bane.” CINDERELLA; And Five Other Fairy | {1 CHILDREN OF ANCIENT ROME. By THE LAND OF PUNCH Book of Puppet F JESUS OF NAZARETH; A Blography, THE BOY WHO FOUND THE WONI E The twins had gone in swimming without mother's perm anticipated trouble. W 1y, “we're both in the same boat, any- | sitive, unsatisfi ver quite fin himself unti! ‘es,” returned Ray. the humorist | for sel! ion. of the family, “but I'm afraid it's a !scale than ‘My whaleboat - Dopee BroTHERS Many women who could well afford more expensive closed cars prefer the sedan for their personal use. Roach. Philadelphia: Henry Alte- mus Company. ARRIVAL OF MR. WIDDLE - THE PUBLIG LIBRARY. SOME INTERESTING BOOKS OF 1022. On the chance that the titles on this week’s list may be used sugges- tions for Christmas buying, the pub- lshers and prices bave been included. author of “Mr. Widdle Waddle Brings the Famil. Illustrated by Ruth_H. Bernett. Phfladelphia: The Penn Publishing Company. THE FAMILY. By Dolores McKen- na. fllustrated by Ruth H. Ben- nett. Philadelphia: The Penn Pub- lishing Company. 2 THE PUSSY-CAT PRINCESS; A Falry | pogger, E. S. Eminent Europeans, Tale for Boys, Girls, Parents and | B0 O SOC, Other Children. By Edward An- thony, author of = “Merry-Go- Roundelays,” etc. Illustrated from Photographs by Harry Whittier Frees. New York: The Century Company. Vivid portrayals of Venizelos. Con- stantine, Masaryk, Queen Marie and other prominent figures of south- eastern Europe. Drew, John. My Years on the Stage. By Maud Lindsay.. ~ Dutton. E-D822. Florence Liley| “Memories of one of the least criti- Lothrop, Lee & |cal of dutobiographers as well as one of the most cheerful, kindly and ur- A. 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