A Mother's List of Books for Children

by Gertrude Weld Arnold

Moffett, Cleveland.

Careers of Danger and Daring.
Century. 1.50

Vivid accounts of the courage and achievements of steeple-climbers, deep-sea divers, balloonists, ocean and river pilots, bridge-builders, firemen, acrobats, wild-beast trainers, locomotive engineers, and the men who handle dynamite.

Carnegie Library Of Pittsburgh.

Morley, M. W.

Grasshopper Land.
McClurg. 1.25

Not only the grasshoppers but other family members of the Orthoptera are here described, including mantes, walking-sticks, katydids, and crickets. There is a long and interesting account of locusts and their migrations. The text illustrations are many and satisfactory.

The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead
In summer luxury--he has never done
With his delights, for when tired out with fun,
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

Keats.

Parsons, F.T. (S.) (formerly Mrs. W.S. Dana).