A Mother's List of Books for Children

by Gertrude Weld Arnold

This eighteenth-century Colonial narrative gives a vivid description of Roger's Rangers. The Rangers were for the most part New Hampshire frontiersmen.

Coolidge, Susan (Pseudonym of S.C. Woolsey).

What Katy Did at School.
Little. 1.25

The sequel to What Katy Did tells of the boarding-school days of Katy and Clover Carr. While the story is interesting and amusing, it is at the same time an advantage to any girl to make the acquaintance of these two delightful sisters, with their simple honorable standards.

Cooper, J.F.

The Deerslayer.
Houghton. 1.25

"The incidents of this tale occurred between the years 1740 and 1745. ...Broad belts of the virgin wilderness ...affording forest covers to the noiseless moccasin of the native warrior, as he trod the secret and bloody war-path."

Cooper's style is, according to present-day standards, somewhat pompous and stilted, but all boys should read this account of the New York settlers' warfare against the Iroquois and know Deerslayer, the picturesque frontiersman.