Garland, Hamlin.
The Long Trail.
Harper. 1.25
Develops from a conventional and unpromising opening into a vivid realistic story of an ambitious youth's perilous journey to the Klondike. Author writes from personal experience of the overland route, and principal characters reveal qualities of unselfishness, perseverance, and pluck.
New York State Library.
Gaskell, E.C. (S.).
Cranford.
Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Macmillan. 1.50
Mrs. Gaskell's masterpiece, which Lord Houghton described as "the finest piece of humoristic description that has been added to British literature since Charles Lamb."
Calm and composure breathe from every page of this picture of life in a small English town during the first half of the nineteenth century. Have we not all in imagination visited Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty, played preference at Miss Betty Barker's, and helped the Honorable Mrs. Jamieson into her sedan chair? Many girls of fourteen are quite able to appreciate the book's charm.