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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, OCTOBER 10, 1915 2S4 FIVE HUNDRED LEADING BOOKS OF THE SEASON (Continued) care and training of children. The author is the director of the School of Mothercraft. New York City. HOW TO KNOW TOUR CHILD. By Miriam Finn.

Scott. Little. Brown A Co. $1.23. Instructs mother In how to develop the beat in their children and how to prevent the gi-owth of what ia bad, aa well aa how to unxpoil the spoiled child.

The book ia the outcome of many yeara of work with children individually and In groups, which have enabled the author to aee how great ia the waste of good potentialities In children because of the lack of care and understand-" ing on the part of their parents. THR ART OF THK STORT-TELLER. By Muric Shedlock. D. Appleton tc Co.

$1.30. Taks up the art of aa It has been developed of lite years Into an important feature of the educational system, showing its difficulties, essentials, and artifices, givinir a number of stories which the author has found effective and presenting; classified lists of story books suggested to the story-teller and of books referred to in the lists of stories. THE HIGH SCHOOL. A Study In Origin and Tendencies. By Frank Webster Smith.

Sturgig Walton Co, 11.75. The author traces the history and Interprets the varying tendencies of secondary training from early tlmea to the close of the Renaissance, when it assumed its modern typical form, and closes with a survey of education in this country and chapter -n the tendencies of the present day American high school. TASSAR. 3y James M. Taylor and Ellxa- teth H.

Oxford University Press, American Branch. A new volume In the series dealing with Ihe history and development of American colleges and universities. QUILTS AXD THETR STORY. Marie t. I Unstinted in colors and black -and white.

Doubleday, Pasre Co. $2.50. Limited edition de luxe, $3. Tells the history of quilt-making aa one of the old time crafts of the home with all the pleasunt pentitnent connected with them and ttteir makincV It also deals with the practical niile of quilt-making- in modern times and sives full directions for those who are interested in establishing Village indus-. tries.

KOT Br ERKAD ALONE. Bv Harvey W. Wiley. Hearst's International LKirury Company. $2.

An exposition of the principles of human nutrition showing- the importance and values of various kinds of food and the causes and results of faultr nutrition. The volume contains the results, written in popular style, cf the author's life-long investigations of the subject. OUT-DOOR SPORTS, NATURE, AND GARDEN WilP BIRD GUESTS. By Ernest Harold Haynes. New edition, with preface by Theodore Roosevelt.

Fully illustrated with photogravures and drawings. E. P. Duttou Co. $2.

A comprehensive book on how to attract wild birds to the vicinity of one's home, whether in city, village, or country, and whether srrrout.ded by extensive acrea or a few feet of ground. Treata fully such matters as tho focdins of wild birds, getting their confidence, preparing their nests, and protecting them from their enemies. HOW TO PLAY TENNIS. By Jamea Burns. Illustrated.

Outing Publishing Company. TO ccnta. Gives simple, direct instructions from the standpoint of the professional on the fundamentals of the came, telling the reader how to hold the raquet. how to awing It for different strokes, how to stand, and how to cover the co'irt. THE HUNTING WASPS.

Bv J. Henri Fabre. Iodd, Mead Co. $1.50. A new volume in the aeries of translations Into Enjrlish- of the entomological studies of M.

Fabre. which is marked by the same exhaustive knowledge, sheer interest, and literary value, as the books which have preceded it. WILD FLOWERS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN MOI'XTAIKS. By Julia W. Hen-shaw.

Many illustrations in color and in half-tone, from photographs by the author. Robert M. McBride A Co. $2.50. Affords a guide of scientific accuracy, but written with special reference to the needs of the untrained obwrvfr, to the wild flowers ef the hills and mountains, of both the United States and Canada, with simple and complete descriptions, and a reference color key.

THE GARDENING BLUE BOOK. By Leicester B. IJoiland. Many Illustrations and a color chart- Doubleday, Page Co. $3.50.

A book of reference for the gardener, both linreiwionai and amateur, containing full Information for the growing of hardy perennials of all kinds. It lias a color chart, which show at a ulance all Ihe facta and features of each of the two hundred perennials Included. THE AUTOMOBILE BOOK. By James E. Hornans and Charles E.

Duryea. Illustrated. Sturgis A Walton Co. $1.50. A practical treatise on, the construction, eperatioti, and care of motor cars, with full explanations of the essential parts.

It Is written in non-technical language and alma to present all the important facta concerning the gasoline automobile, in convenient" handbook form, that the amateur driver needs to know. OUT OF Bv Emerson Hough. D. Appleton Co. $1.23.

The first of a serious by Mr. Hough concerning life. work, and pleasure out of doors. It Is a handbook for the woods and fields, with practical advice on what to eat, what to wear, how-to cook, and how to liva In the open, with regard to the various activities upon which the reader may be bent. Mr.

Hough has been a sportsman all his life, has traveled In all parts of the United States and Canada, lived much out of and ritten much, although usually anonymously, pon out-of-door life and ADVENTURES AMONG BIRDS. By W. H. Hudson. Photogravure portrait.

Mitchell Kennerley. $2.50. A gallery of bird life, consisting of twenty-aeven chapters, each complete in itself and combining description -with philosophy and comment upon human life and literature. READING THE WEATHER. By T.

Morris Longntreth. Outing Publishing Company. 70 cents. Oives In detail the various signs of cloud, sky. and wind which presage specified kinds of weather, nets forth rules by which character and duration of storms may be estimated.

discusses origin and development of preva-' lent storms, gives weather averages for dif--ferent parts of the country at different times of the year. andoffera advice for campers, sportsmen, and others concerning; what kind of weather to expect. RIFLES AND AMMUNITION. By H. Ora-' mundsen and Ernest H.

Robinson. Eighty platos. Funk WagnaJLs Company. $5. Traces tha evolution of the rifle, first as a sporting then as a war weapon, to its modern development as a weapon of precision, dealing afterward with tha practical side of shoot-Ins on the range, in tha field, and In war.

BEAUTIFUL GARDENS IN AMERICA. By Louisa Shelton. Profusely illustrated in color and from photographs. Charles Scriimer'a Sons. $5.

A collection of pictures of a great -variety of gardens in this country representative ot tho possibilities of gardening under our diverse climatic conditions, accompanied by brief but illuminative text which deals somewhat with the effect of climate in various sections upon practical gardening. THE MARVELS OF INSECT LIFE. By Ed- ward Step. Introduction by Raymond Ditmars. Profusely illustrated with many colored plates and more than floO other Illustrations from life photographs and artist's drawings.

Robert M. McBrfdo -Co. $3.50. The author has spent many years in the study and photographing of inBecta and he describes many kinds of them at work. In their homes, In their social relations, and at war, in untechjjical language but with scientific accuracy.

GARDENING FOR AMATEURS. Edited by H. H. Thomas. illustrated.

Funk WairnaUs Company. Two volumes. $10 per set. A complete account of how to lay out a garden and how to cultivate It, written by experts upon every phase of gardening and uicn the crowing of different kinds of plants ana no' WINNING THE SHOT. By Jerome D.

ers ind Grantland Rice. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page Co. $1.25. Mr.

'Travers has been four times amateur polf champion of the United States, and has played against and watched the play of the best golfers in England and America. In this book he and his collaborator aim not so much to present definite instruction as to range out into the less familiar field of golf psychology and show the value of concentration and control of nerves, illustrating their argument with incidents and anecdotes. MODERN TENNIS. By P. A.

Valle. Introduction by Max Decugis. Profusely illuHtiated. Funk A Wagnalls Company. $-'.

A practical guide for both amateur and professional, dealing with every stroke and having the Instructions illustrated with instantaneous photographs of great tennis player in action. NEW EDITIONS LITTLE WOMEN. By Louisa M. Alcott. New edition with eight illustrations in color from paintings by Jessie WiUcox Smith.

Little, Brown Co. $2.50. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BROWNING. The Macmlllan Company. Cloth, $1.75.

Leather, $3.00. New Globe edition containing also the additional poems first published last year. THE GOLDEN AOB OF MYTH AND LEGEND. -By Thomas Bulflnch. Edited by Gecrge Illustrated with thlrty- six reproductions of famous paintings and statues.

Frederick A. Stokes Company. $2.50. An enlarged edition of this classic work containing new material in the chapters on eastern and northern mythology, while -the chapters concerned with Greek and Roman mythology have been enlarged by the insertion of additional verse extracts. LA VTTA NUOVA THE NEW LIFE OF DANTE.

Translated by Dante Gabriel RoHsetti. Illustrations in color and illuminated decorations by Evelyn Paul, rcpro- duced and heightened in silver after the manner of medieval manuscripts. With music for incidental songs by Alfred Mer- cer. Brentano's. Cloth, $3.50.

Medieval leather, $0. Limited editions on Japan vellum, bound in Roman vellum, deco- rated in gold and colors, $17. ILVNS BRINKER. OR THE SILVER SKAjTKS. By Mary Mapes Dodge.

Eight illustrations in color, and head and tail pieces in black and white by George Wharton Edwards. Charlea Scribner's Sons. $2. CHRISTMAS CAROL. By Charles Dickens.

Thirteen illustrations In color and many In black and white by Arthur Rackham. J. B. Lippincott Company. $1.50.

MORALS IN EVOLUTION. By I T. Hob-house. Henry Holt ae Co. $3.

A new edition, revised and presented in one volume. KNICKERBOCKER HISTORY OF NEW YORK. By Washington Irving. Full- paire illustrations by Maxficld Parrish. Dodd, Mead Co.

$2. HISTORY OF BABYLON IA AND ASSYRIA. By Robert W. Rogers. Illustrated.

New edition, revised and largely rewritten. Two volumes. The Abingdon Press. 1. This Is the sixth edition of this standard work, which the author, who is Professor of Hebrew in Drew Theological Seminary, has revised and rewritten to such an extent that It now contains 4f) more pages than did the original publication.

DREAMS. Bv Olive Schreiner. New edition with an introduction by Amy Wellington. Little, Brown Co. 73 Leather.

$1.25. THE SONG OF THE CARDINAL. By Gene Stratton-Porter. Many illustrations in color and In black and white. New and revised edition.

Doubleday, Page Co. Cloth, Leather. $2. The author has rewritten this, nature book and in this edition it stands in the form she wishes It to have permanently. OSCAR WILDE'S WORKS.

Ravenna Edition. Red 'imp leather. Thirteen vol- umes. G. P.

Putnam's Sons. 11.25 per volume. A new edition, complete and uniform, of the writings of Oscar Wilde, presenting for the first time a uniform edition of liis works in which the single volumes are sold separately. A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES. By Oscar Wilde.

Sixteen full-page illustrations in color by Jessie M- King. Brentano's. $3.73. FOR YOUNG READERS THE ROCK OF CHICK AM AUG A. By Joseph A.

Altshelef. Illustrated In color by Charles R. Wrenn. D. Appleton Sc Co.

$1.90. This is the sixth In the author's series of juvenile stories dealing with the civil war and carries on the fortunes of the young heroes of previous volumes In Central Mississippi, where they are engaged in scouting operations. BOYS AND GIRLS' ASK AT HOME QUESTIONS. By Marian Elizabeth Bailey. Fifteen fun-page illustrations.

Frederick A. Stokes Company. $1.25. Answers three hundred and more of tho auestlons about every day things that cnil-ren are constantly wantlnr to know In a way that will satisfy and Interest the questioner without going too deeply Into the subject. Among the questions are: What makes seeds growT "Why Io leavea drop off trees 74 Why Is the sky blue? Can a chicken smellT RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES.

Translated from the original by R. Niabet Bain. Illustrated In color and line by Noel L. NLs-bet. Frederick A.

Stokes Company. $2.5. With one exception the fairy tales In this book have never before appeared In English. The translator has selected the best and most suitable stories for children from the rich, and as yet but little-explored, storehouse of Russian folklore. LEFT TACKLE THAYER.

By Ralph Henry Barbour. Illustrated. Dodd, Mead It Co. $1.25. The background is that same Brimflefcl Academy which furnished the setting for Mr.

Barbour's Left End Edwards," and the story Is concerned with the trials and struggles of a Virginia boy during his rise from the most awkward member of the football squad, to its leadership. THE SCARECROW OF OZ. By Frank Baum. Rellly Brltton Co. Another Oi book having characteristics similar to those which have preceded tt.

AMERICAN BOYS BOOK OF BUGS, BEETLES, AND BUTTERFLIES. By Dan Beard. Three hundred illustrations, some in color. J. B.

Lippincott Company. $2. A practical book about butterflies, bugs, and beetles which aims to arouse boyish interest in them and to tell boys all the things about them they want to know. THE FUN OF COOKING. By Caroline French Benton.

Illustrated by--Saran K. Smith. TheMTentury Company. $1.20. A children's cook book which serves as a primer of the art of cooking at the same time that it tells a sprightly story of the adventures and experiences of two girls and a boy who have much fun learning to cook.

HEROIC DEEDS OF AMERICAN SAILORS. By Albert F. Blaisdell and Francis K. Ball. Illustrated by Frank T.

Merrill. Little. Brown Co. 70 cents. Tales setting forth dramatic and picturesque events in the lives of American sea heroes, which are also of historical importance.

Among them are such stories as those of the feats of Old Ironsides." the destruction of The Gaspee and Decatur Burning the Philadelphia." THE STRANOiE STORY OF MR. DOG AND MR. BEAR. By Mabel Fuller Blodgett. Many illustrations by L.

J. Bridgniaa. The Century Company. $1. A book for very little folk which tells of the wonderful adventures of Mr.

Bear and Mr. Owl and Mr. Red Fox and various others when Air. Dog came to live with Mr. Bear and do his work for him.

THE BOY SCOUT YEAR BOOK. Profusely illustrated. D. Appleton Co. $1.50.

Contains one long story, eleven short stories by well-known juvenile writers, special articles by famous Americans, much material on woodcraft, carpentry, and other practical SJbJects, and other including a special boy scout department devoted to boy acouts and their dolnrs in all countries. Among the men who have contributed to the text of the book are President Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Perry, Josephus Daniels. Orville Wright, William T. Hornadav. D.

C. Beard, Paul J. Rainey. and many others. BEDTIME STOUT BOOKS.

By Thornton W. Burseas. Illustrated by Harrison Cady. Little, Brown Co. 50 cents each.

Two new titles In Mr. Burgress's series of stcry books for very little people, which tell, respectively, The Adventures of Chatterer, the Red Squirrel," and The Adventures of -Sammy Jay." TOMMY AND THE WISHING STONE. By Thornton W. Burgess. Forty-eight full-page illustrations by Harrison Cady.

The Century Company. $1. Tommy finds out that Hy sitting on a certain stone he can m'ish himself Into any kind of animal and then back Into a hoy again, ard so he has no end of fun and learns a great many thimrs by being a squirrel, a fox. a rabbit, a wild goose, and many other animals. CAMP BOB'S HILL.

By Charles Pierce Burton. Illustrated by GorJon Grant. Henry Holt Co. $1.23. A new story in Mr.

Burton" Bob's Hill Series of stories for boys in which there is a strong boy scout appeal. THE EVERYDAY FAIRY BOOK. By Anna Alice Chapin. Full-nage illustrations In rolor bv Jessie Willcux Smith. Dodd, Mead Co.

J2. Fairy stories for little folk written by MiBJ. Chapin. whine Nowadays Fairy Hook was much loved by thera. with pictures of children and for children by Jesale Willcox Smith.

BABY BIRDS AND BEASTS. By Pauline Clark. Illustrated In color by E. Yarrow Jones. Frederick A.

Stokes Company. $2. An account of the life of baby animals of many kinds, from the infant deer to the gorilla and from the tiny swan to the penguin. The author tells how they are fed and educated, how they work and play, how they differ from or resemble their fathers and mothers. TELL ME WHY STORIES ABOUT COLOR AND SOUND.

By C. H. Claudy. Illustrated by Thomas Wrenn. Robert M.

McBride Co. $1.23. A new volume in Mr. Claudy's Tell Me Why St-ries which takes up the origins of art and music, and by means of the questioning of its little hero and the wise and simple answers of its big hero, tells young people about the first paintings and the first musical Instruments and the seven colored rays of the Eunbeam. and other such matters.

JACK STRAW. LIGHTHOUSE BUILDER. By Irving Crump. Illustrated by Leslie Crump. Robert M.

McBride Co. $1. A new volume in Mr. Crump's Jack Straw Series in which his young hero takes a position for the Summer with a crew of lighthouse builders who are constructing; a beacon on the Maine coast. He meets a young swordfisherman, a lad of his own age, and the two of them learn much about lighthouse building and service, and have many interesting and thrilling adventures.

LUC1LK THE TORCH BEARER. Bv Elizabeth M. Duffleld. Ulumrated. Sully Sc.

Klelntelch. $1. An out-doors. Campfire Girl's story of a girl who is held in sreat affection by all her associates THE LAST DITCH. By J.

Raymond Elder-dice, Illustrated by James McCrackeav Hand. McNally Co. The youth who la the hero of this try achieve three big ends. leaving college under a cloud he redeems himself by har work on the Panama Canal, where a new and Intense patriotism la born within him. and afterward he returns to college and regains his lost place.

The story portrays the building of the canal as a colossal engineering eat from the standpoint of one of the workers upon it. THE WHITE CAPTIVE: A. Tale of the Pontiac War. By R. Clyde Fort.

Illustrated by C. L. Cole. Rand. McNally Co.

$1. A story for boys of the life and adventures of an English boy, who. redeemed from captivity among the Indians in service of the Quartermaster of rort Itrol and endeavors afterward through many thrilling experiences aa clerk, frontiersman, and soldier to find and rescue his mother from Indian captivity. GREEN ACRE GIRLS. By Ixola Forrester.

Illustrated. George W. Jacobs Four wide-awake. Jolly, girls, transplanted by reason of their father's ill health from a comfortable New York home to an Inconvenient New Eneland farmhouse, make the best of even-thing, become the social centre of the rural community, live very useful lives, and have much wholesome fun. GREAT AUTHORS IN THEIR YOUTH.

By Maude Morrison Frank. Illustrated. Henry Holt Co. $1.25. Taking up Scott.

Dickens. Thackeray, Stevenson, Tennyson. Browning, Mrs. Browning. Lamb.

Charlotte Jane Austen, and Ruskin. the author has made interesting for young people the story or their youth and furiished a setting ror the reading of their works which suggests the life of their period. Her aim is to lead young readers to wish to know more about these authors and to stimulate an interest in their works. LITTLE FOLKS OF ANIMAL LAND. By Harry WhitUer Frees.

Illustrated with sixty full-page half-tones from photographs bv the author. Lothrop, Lee Shepard Company. $1.50. The author has costumed, posed, and photographed a great number of pet animals, especially kittens and puppies, and written a descriptive story about each one. RED ARROW.

By Eimer Rusaell Gresor. Illustrated. Harper Bros. $1. A story for boys of the exploits of two Indians whose scene Is laid in the West In the days before the white man had killed all the buffalo.

It tells how a Sioux boy in his teens recovered from the Pawnees, who had stolen it years before, a valued medicine trophy, the Red Arrow. DWCL WOODS. By Latta Grlswold. Illustrated by Maurice L. Bower.

The Mac-inillan Company. $1.35. The fourth in Mr. Griswold's series of stories for boys centring about his imaginary school of Deal, the theme of this new story is the friendship which arises between two lads of very different temperaments and the effect which it has upon them. HOME-MADE TOYS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

By A. 'Neely Hall. Profusely Illustrated. Lothrop, Lee Sc Shepard Company. $1.25.

Shows the young people how to make a great variety of toys from the simplest te quite complex out of the materials that they can pick up at home. THE ADVENTURES OF KATRINKA. "By Helen E. Haskell. E.

P. Dutton Co. $1.25. A new volume in the Little Schoolmates Series which describes the life of a little girl in a snowbound Russian village and later In Petrograd where she grows up, thus treating a wide range of Russian life. THE TOY SHOP BOOK.

By Ada Van Stone Harris and Mrs. C. T. Waldo. Illustrated in color.

Charles Scribner'a Sons. $1.25. Easy readings about the various activities of child life supplemented by selections from Mother Goose. Stevenson, Kingsley. and others and illustrated with pictures of children at play.

THE KING OF THE FLYING SLEDGE. By Clarence Hawkes Illustrated by Charles Copeland. Henry Holt A Co. $1.25. Narrntes Uio biography of the reindeer ia a graphic story, full of Incident and dramatis situations, which sets forth all the fine characteristic qualities of the reindeer against the background of the Far North.

THE BOY SCOUTS OF SNOW-SHOE LODGE. Bv Runert Surirent Holland. Illustrated in color and lilack and white by Will Thompson. B. Lippincott Company.

$1.25. With its scenes laid in the Adirondacks In the Winter time, this story is full of boys enjoying such sports as sledding, snowshoe-ing, skiing, and tra; jing. MARK TIDD IN BUSINESS. Bv Clarence B. KeUaiiJ.

Illustrated. Harper Bros. $1. A new tale of the fortune 'and activities of the ingenious fat hoy whom Mr. Kelland has carried through numher of stories.

It tells how Mark takes hold of a business enterprise with his chum in orJer to keep it soifirf while th father of that chum is at ay. and finally is successful with it after showing rnih-h inisemiitv and resourcefulness in the meeting of unfair competition and other trouhles. PEG O' THE RING: OR. A MAID OF DENE WOOD. By Kmilie Benson Knlpe and Alden Arthur Knipe.

Sixteen full-page illustrations hy C. M. Reiyea. The Century Co. $1.2.1.

The-third and final story in the series these authors have written centring about Dene-wood." The first was "A Lucky Sixpence," the second Beatrice of Denewood." while in this new one PcRgy of Denewood meets with an exciting series, of adventures in which are unfolded the further fortunes of other characters in the previous stories, while the background of life in the days of General 'Washington is kept historically, accurate. INDIAN WHY STORIES: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodxe Fire. By Frank B. Lin-derman. Illustrated in color by Charles M.

Russell. Charles Scribner's Sons. $2. War Eagle is a fine old Indian chief who tells the young people around his lodge fire In the long evenings a succession of stories out of the Indian world of myth. The author Is an authority on Indian folklore.

THE STOFir TELLER FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. By Maud Lindsay. Twelve illustrations In color by F. Llley Voung. Lothrop.

Lee It Shepard Company. $1. A series of fanciful stories for little children having poetic and imaginative appeal. THE TESTING OF JANICE DAY. By Helen Beecher Illustrated.

Sully Kleinteich. $1.2.1. Another Do something book, a sequel to "Janice Day." thin new. story about that capable young heroine carries through the good work started in the previous story and through some misunderstandings makes a severe test of her character..