Dana, R.H.
Two Years Before the Mast.
Houghton. 1.00
It does not often happen that a young man of twenty-five writes a book which becomes a classic in the language.... Yet this is the history of Dana's Two Years before the Mast.--Biographical Sketch.
The author, a boy of nineteen, left Harvard College in 1834 and shipped as a sailor, hoping by this open-air life to cure a serious weakness of the eyes. He sailed around Cape Horn, coasted along the California shore, and returned home by the same route.
Eastman, C.A.
Indian Boyhood.
Illustrated by E. L. Blumenschein.
Doubleday. 1.60
Dr. Eastman is himself a Sioux, and this account is the record of his own youth among this wild people when their warriors went on the warpath against the "Big Knives," and his highest ambition was to join them.
Finnemore, John.
India.
Illustrated by Mortimer Menpes.
Macmillan. .75
We journey to the court of a native prince, travel through the bazaars, and visit village, jungle, and even the great Himalayas themselves. The book is particularly interesting, because India is less well known to young people than many other lands. Of the twelve colored pictures, two are specially good,--a tailor at work, and a Sikh warrior.