Four Books for Manly Boys TORRANCE FROM TEXAS By Joseph B. Ames A boy from Texas walked into a New England school feeling pretty big. Why not? Had n't he been a cowboy, doing practically all that a grown man can do in the hardy life of the plains? Did n't he know horses, cattle, and how to take care of himself under all circumstances? No, he did n'tnot under these circumstances. He had had some intention of running that entire school, but found he did n't "know his way around" here, at all. BROTHER ESKIMO By Alan Sullivan He has some rather bad times for a while, until he had learned not to try running the school, but to fit in. Later, however, his turn came. He no longer bossed or swaggered-but well he might have crowed when the school went into camp in the summer and he was easily the best outdoor man in "the bunch." But he had learned his lesson, and instead he made his knowledge the means of proving himself a thoroughly good fellow. Is a story of the far north by a man who knows it well. Two Eskimo boys are broken adrift from the rest of the village on the ice and floated far from any place or person they have ever known. They have many adventures which are thrilling reading. Illustrated. $1.75 Illustrated. $1.75 DRIFTWOOD By Raymond S. Spears A boys' book of more than usual interest which tells the authentic story of a great Mississippi flood and the practical heroism of two fine American boys who are carried off on it but become themselves rescuers and assistants to a Government river engineer in his flood work. Illustrated. $2.00 ANIMAL IN GOLF FOR YOUNG PEOPLE THE BOYS' BOOK OF By Jean-Henri Fabre This charming naturalist has written a delightful story-book of the creatures-four-legged, winged and crawling-whose life-habits affect the fruits, vegetables and grains the farmer raises and upon which man lives. He has made his talks with two little boys about the myriad creatures of field and garden as interesting as any fairy-tale—and far more astonishing, because absolutely true. Illustrated by a great number of clear pictures of the insects, reptiles, animals, and birds about which M. Fabre talks. By Francis Ouimet GOLF FACTS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $2.50 A fine and most enjoyable book for all who love golf. Mr. Ouimet has been generous not only with his acquired wisdom of the game but with good stories and examples about and from the many famous players he has known, and with his own most interesting experiences. The illustrations are a valuable part of the book, for they are carefully chosen really to illustrate it. By Francis A. Collins FRANCIS QUIMET $1.75 Supersedes Mr. Collins' two earlier aeroplane books for boys. Many will find a new world of interest in the book, finding that there are clubs, races, AEROPLANES tournaments and prizes for makers and fliers of model planes. Fully and practically illustrated. $2.00 By Mary R. Parkman A fascinating book which tells how man has made CONQUESTS the forces of the world serve him, has adapted his environment to himself; how he has given himself wings like a bird, speed faster than the lightest greyhound, has caused his thought to travel unseen through the air, has conquered nature so that there need be no suffering from famine and cold. OF Illustrated. $2.00 At All Bookstores THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue New York City Worth-while New Books for Girls The Luck of EB Knipe AA Knipe THE LUCK OF DENEWOOD A By Emilie Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe Authors of "Beatrice of Den ewood," etc. NOTHER of the popular Denewood group of stories. The "Luck of Denewood" is the half of a silver sixpence which has been lost. When charming young Beatrice de Soulange comes to her cousins in America, she finds the great old place rented to a girls' school and the family fortunes at low ebb. Beatrice is sure this is because the "luck" is lost. The following of a chance clue to its whereabouts leads to the most exciting adventures two girls ever "saw through" in a spirit of sheer pluck to a completely unexpected happy ending. Illustrated by Emilie Benson Knipe. THE DRAGON'S SECRET By Augusta Huiell Seaman Author of the "Boarded-Up House," etc. Price $1.90 HE author has a large following among young folks who eagerly devour one of two girls and a boy on the trail of the mystery of a seaside bungalow where strange things happen, is one of her most successful thrillers. Illustrated by the author. THE HAPPY VENTURE Price $1.75 By Edith Ballinger Price Author of "Silver Shoal Light," etc. a CHARMINGLY told story of some lovable people-chiefly a manly big boy and his sister and little blind brother, who have some stiff grown-up problems to face for a time, and find themselves in the midst of exciting happenings. Illustrated by the author. KIT, PAT AND A FEW BOYS ΚΑΙ By Beth B. Gilchrist Price $1.75 But it Author of "The Camerons of Highboro," etc. ATHERINE EMBURY was charming, sophisticated, correct. had never occurred to her that brothers could be close friends, that members of families could know each other intimately. What a summer with a real family in a mountain camp taught her, what this knowledge brought into her life, makes a deeply absorbing story. Illustrated. Price $1.75 At All Bookstores THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue Published by New York City Books of Delight for Boys and Girls TALES of TRUE KNIGHTS By GEORGE PHILIP KRAPP TH HE author has beautifully retold, in language easily understood by boys and girls of to-day, sixteen of the most charming legends and allegories which have come down to us, mainly from the Middle Ages, through minstrels and old chroniclers. Following is a list of the tales included: Sir Cleges; King Horn; Havelock the Dane; Adam Bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesley; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Launfal and the Elf-Queen; The Rival Friends; Sir Orfeo; Eustace; Constance; Patient Griselda; Gargouille and Romaine; Werwolf; The Three Revelers; Sparrowhawk Castle. Illustrated. Price $1.75 GOLF FACTS for YOUNG PEOPLE MANY By FRANCIS OUIMET ANY leading players agree that golfers should be caught young by the lure of the game, for best results, since it is very difficult to acquire the true golfing swing once the muscles are "set." Travers, Evans, Sawyer, started golf in their 'teens, while Herron began at eight and Bobby Jones at six! Ouimet himself played golf in season and out of season as a boy. Francis Ouimet, veteran of hard-played matches and one of the greatest of amateur golfers, gives in this book the richest fruits of his experience especially for boys and girls. Illustrated. Price $1.75 THE BOYS' BOOK of MODEL AEROPLANES TH By FRANCIS A. COLLINS HIS book succeeds the author's two books which have heretofore been published under these titles: "The Boys' Book of Model Aeroplanes" and "The Second Boys' Book of Model Aeroplanes." Mr. Collins, in combining the two books, has dropped all material that is not entirely up-to-date, has added much new matter, and has revised all the material from the two former books which has been retained. At All Bookstores Illustrated. Price $2.00 THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue New York City One of the Most Appealing Heroines of All Fiction THE CRYSTAL HEART MISS By PHYLLIS BOTTOME Author of "The Dark Tower," etc. ISS BOTTOME has never done more absolutely distinguished work than in "The Crystal Heart"; distinguished for its portrayal of character, its extraordinary nicety of craftsmanship, its interest of background and its poignant livingness. From the first word the opening chapters administer a sort of electric shock of sheer delight. Miss Bottome gives to the reader an unforgettable reality. Price $1.90 And So He Made Love to His Wife THREADS By FRANK STAYTON HIS is another English novel of unusual finish, fresh it has already been dramatized and goes on the stage there this autumn with a remarkable cast. Its central figure is a man the threads of whose life are suddenly seized by fate and broken and tangled. He must weave a new pattern or perish as a personality. Price $1.90 At All Bookstores THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue New York City |