Woodruff, Anna Helena. Pond in the marshy meadow. $1.50. Saalfield.
A book to open the eyes of children. An “ordinary pond in an ordinary field, belonging to an ordinary farmer” furnishes the objects for lessons of observation and the author is guide and teacher.
“A book with plenty of entertainment in it and considerable instruction put so pleasantly as to be entertaining too.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 772. N. 24, ’06. 140w.
“Has the indefinable touch which will commend it to the minds of children, but the little folks to whom it is dedicated will have to share their pleasure with every one who can remember brooks and pasture-lands, and all the sweet, lazy experiences of childhood in the country.”
+ Outlook. 84: 532. O. 27, ’06. 210w.
Woods, David Walker, jr. John Witherspoon. **$1.50. Revell.
The great-grandson of John Witherspoon has written the first story of that able Scotsman, Presbyterian and American ever published, in which is given a full account of the part he played in the struggle for popular rights in the Church of Scotland, his administration as president of Princeton college, his work in the organization of the American Presbyterian church, and as an active man in the conduct of the revolution and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.