“There is a breath of the mountain freshness which suggests ‘Heidi.’ The translation of the children’s speeches into formal English gives them sometimes a rather stilted effect.”
+ − Booklist 17:163 Ja ’21
SPYRI, FRAU JOHANNA (HEUSSER). Toni, the little wood-carver; tr. by Helen B. Dole. il *$1 (9c) Crowell
20–15071
From earliest childhood Toni had carved animals out of wood and his dearest ambition is to be a wood-carver. But the cost of instruction is beyond his mother’s means and he is sent up into the mountains to herd the farmer’s cows. Here, overcome by the loneliness, he breaks down and falls into a lethargy from which nothing arouses him. He is taken to a great sanitarium where he finally recovers and finds a good friend who provides the money for the desired training.
Wis Lib Bul 16:199 N ’20 90w
SQUIRE, JOHN COLLINGS (SOLOMON EAGLE, pseud.). Birds, and other poems. *$1.25 Doran 821
(Eng ed A20–244)