(p. 136)
charming natural style.

JEWETT, S.O.
Betty Leicester.
Houghton. 1.25

Fifteen-year-old Betty spends a happy and satisfactory summer at
Tideshead with her two aged aunts, bringing brightness and pleasure
into their quiet lives.

JOHNSON, ROSSITER.
*Phaeton Rogers.
Scribner. 1.50

Phaeton was so inventive that he was always in hot water. Boys love to
read of his pranks and pleasures.

LUCAS, E.V.
Anne's Terrible Good Nature, and Other Stories for Children.
Macmillan. 1.75

The atmosphere of these eleven tales is decidedly English, but they
are so unusually good that our children will read them with enjoyment
notwithstanding the unfamiliar setting. The Thousand Threepenny Bits,
The Anti-Burglars, and the uncommonly funny one called The Monkey's
Revenge, are among the number.

MARRYAT, FREDERICK.
Masterman Ready.
Illustrated by Fred Pegram.
Macmillan. 1.50

As children we parents learned to love old Masterman, the faithful (p. 137)
and resourceful friend of the good Seagraves. Even now our eyes grow a
little misty as we think of his brave death.

Marryat began a continuation of The Swiss Family Robinson for his
children, at their request, but its geographical anachronisms were too
much for him, and he decided to write this story instead. No one will
find fault with the change of plan.

MORRISON, S.E.
Chilhowee Boys.
Crowell. .75

This account of pioneer days is essentially true, having been gathered
from family records which tell how, in 1811, "Parson Craig," with his
wife, six children, and a number of friends, made the four-hundred-mile
journey from North Carolina into Tennessee.

PAGE, T.N.
Two Little Confederates.
Scribner. 1.50

While this description of the life of two boys on a Southern
plantation during the Civil War is dramatic and full of pathos, it is
hardly necessary to say that Mr. Page, with his unerring touch, has
not overdrawn a single detail of those days, happily long gone.

PHELPS, E.S. (Mrs. E.S. (P.) WARD).
Gypsy Breynton.
Dodd. 1.50

Every girl will love impulsive, careless Gypsy with her many (p. 138)
faults and the many more winning qualities of her warm-hearted nature.

Wherever there is mischief, there is Gyps