Book Reviews So many books are sent to this department of EDUCATION that it is impossible to review them all. Naturally we feel under obligation to give preference to the books of those publishing houses which more or less frequently use our advertising pages. Outside of the limitations thus set, we shall usually be able and glad to mention by title, authors, and publishers, such books as are sent to us for this purpose. More elaborate notices will necessarily be conditional upon our convenience and the character of the books themselves. THE YOSEMITE AND ITS HIGH SIERRAS. By John H. Williams. Published by the Author, at San Francisco, California. A new edition of a most beautiful book, in which every patriotic American should take real pride. No pains have been spared to make the fascinating illustrations with which the volume teems, both accurate and adequate. The lofty crags, the magnificent forests, the mighty cataracts, the giant trees, the tremendous glaciers, the superb cloud effects, the unsurpassed beauty of the mirror lakes, impress the reader with the lavish bounty and beneficence of the Creator. The text and the illustrations worthily reflect the glories of the land of liberty and bounty in which we live. HISTOIRE DU PETIT NEGRE SAMBO. Par Helen Bannerman. HISTOIRE DE PIERRE-LAPIN. Par Beatrix Potter. These two little books "traduit de L'Anglais par Madeleine Blériot Johnson," and published by Frederick A. Stokes Company (New York), are positively delightful in their quaint humor, choice and amusing illustrations, and artistic binding. They allure the young reader to a knowledge of easy French. For children's rooms in libraries, for reading circles and primary schools, and for holiday gifts for children of primary school age, they are unsurpassed by anything we have yet seen. THE PILGRIM SPIRIT. The Tercentenary Pageant. By George P. Baker. Marshall Jones Company, Boston. The Pageant given at Plymouth, Mass., in July and August last, was witnessed by thousands and read about by millions of people. It was a production that worthily expressed the conceptions of modern times in regard to the sturdy, heroic and self-sacrificing deeds of the founders of the new world, that have resulted in so much that is of the utmost consequence in the history of human life, both here and abroad. The public is in debt to the author of the Pageant, who caught the spirit of the theme and worked out so well the historic details. The publishers have made this wonderful story and the spirit of this historic celebration available to English-speaking people everywhere. This book should have a wide sale in this and other countries. It makes vivid the life of those who for conscience sake, for God and humanity, gave their lives to the founding of a new nation that should realize all the highest and best aspirations of the race. The following books, published by T. Y. Crowell Company, have been received by us for review in EDUCATION. We have examined them all with deep interest and wish we had space to review them all as they deserve. They are peculiarly appropriate for Christmas purposes. Teachers and parents can safely trust the Crowell Company's imprint as a guarantee of the healthful, wholesome character and tone of any book. They have specialized in character-forming books for young people. The volumes mentioned here are attractively bound and most of them are illustrated. They can be had direct of the publishers or through any book store: ALL ABOUT PETS. By Lillian Gask. Illustrated by Barbara Briggs and Savile Lumley. WELSH FAIRY TALES. By Willam Eliot Griffis. THE ADVENTURES OF JANE. (Sage Brush Stories.) By Gene Stone. Illustrated in color by George Carlson. BLUEBERRY BEAR'S NEW HOME. By J. L. Sherard. Illustrated by Carlson. TISS, A LITTLE ALPINE WAIF. By the author of "Heidi." Illustrated by Carlson. THE STORY OF BOBBY COON. By Crawford N. Bougholtzer. Illustrated by Carlson. AESOP'S FABLES. Large type text and 100 line drawings by Edwin Noble. Also for older readers by the same publishers: WORK-A-DAY HEROES. By Chelsea Curtis Fraser. A story of human bravery and heroism by such workers as firemen, miners, divers, etc. SECRETS OF THE EARTH. By the same author. Stories of the coal, gold and other mines. A book that a boy will love to read. STORIES OF AMERICAN INVENTIONS. By Inez N. McFee. Illus trated. A TREASURY OF MYTHS. Same author. Illustrated. 75 cents. A TREASURY OF FLOWER STORIES. Same author. 75 cents. A TREASURY OF INDIAN TALES. Same author. 75 cents. MASTERFUL PERSONALITY. By Orison Swett Marden. Price $2. WHAT IS SOCIALISM? By James Edward LeRossignol. Price $2. A clear, logical, understandable exposition of socialism that should be widely read wherever English is spoken. WHAT JAPAN WANTS. By Yoshi S. Kuno. A timely book on a subject about which the public in America wants to form a sound opinion. Other excellent volumes for the holidays are received, as follows: BOBBY BLAKE ON THE SCHOOL ELEVEN. By Frank Warner. Illustrated. Barse & Hopkins, publishers, Newark and New York. $1.00. THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS AMONG THE GYPSIES. By Grace Brooks Hill. Illustrated. Same publishers. $1.00. SHAGGO, THE MIGHTY BUFFALO. By Richard Barnum. Same publishers. 75 cents. In Macmillan's "Peeps at Many Lands" series, we have the following: ITALY, by John Fennemore, and GREECE, by Edith A. Browne (1 vol.) with 16 full-page illustrations in color. NORWAY, by Lieut.-Col. A. F. Mockler-Ferryman, and DENMARK, by M. Pearson Thompson. Same number of illustrations. CHINA, by Lena E. Johnston, and JAPAN, by John Fennemore. Illustrated. AUSTRALIA, by Frank Fox, illustrated, and NEW ZEALAND, by P. A. Vaile. |