A Mother's List of Books for Children

by Gertrude Weld Arnold

Finnemore, John.

France.
Illustrated by Nico Jungman and Others.
Macmillan. .75

Three chapters are devoted to the Loire country, and we are told of Normandy and Brittany, as well as other parts of France, including Paris. There is a sketch of boy and girl life which will make our young people glad of their freer environment. The twelve colored pictures add to the book's interest.

Horton, Edith.

The Frozen North.
Heath. .40

This account of Arctic exploration consists of a series of sketches of different Polar expeditions, from the days of Sir John Franklin to the Ziegler-Baldwin and other undertakings of 1902. Here children may read consecutively of Kane, Nordenskjöld, Greely, Nansen, and others, and acquire a general view of Polar discovery.

Kelly, R.T.

Egypt.
Illustrated by the Author.
Macmillan. .75