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OLCOTT, HARRIET MEAD. Whirling king, and other French fairy tales. il *$1.50 Holt
20–16112
Ten fairy stories adapted from the French and illustrated in silhouette. The titles are: Prince Rainbow; Bleuette’s butterfly; The frozen heart; The elf-dog; The whirling king; The magic mirror; The queen’s treasure; The stupid princess; The flying wizard; The forest fairy.
OLDMEADOW, ERNEST JAMES. Coggin *$1.75 (1½c) Century
20–818
The meeting of two human spirits for mutual uplift, development and regeneration is the theme of the story. The Reverend Oswald Redding, rector of a fashionable Episcopal church in Bulford-on-Deme, discovers in little Harry Coggin, son of a rags-and-bone man, a prodigy in intellect and spirit. In awarding him a scholarship at the grammar school, he has thrown a bombshell into the society of notables and inflamed the class hatred of the lowly. The story records Harry’s brief and distressing career at the school and shows how his rare gifts and spirit pierce the crust of the rector’s conventional Christianity, turning him from the well-worn ruts of his career to find God along new paths. Harry in turn receives the courage, the incentive, the divine impulse for his genius, from the rector’s enveloping love.
“The clever, respectful little boy, in this bit of his life, is perhaps a less interesting study than the more substantial figure of the rector. The case of the misuse of endowments and charities is intelligently argued; but we cannot believe in the ‘conversion’ of the socialist house-painter, and the definition of agnosticism would not satisfy an intelligent schoolboy.”