“The reproduction is, in every respect, worthy of its original, and in its new and convenient form the ‘Historia’ should meet with many readers, as an achievement of the highest interest in itself, and as the beginning and foundation of all true knowledge of the pattern people of the twentieth century.”
+ + + Ath. 1906, 2: 6. Jl. 7. 2610w.
“For the reference library and the philosophical student of the Japanese, the work is invaluable.”
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Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.). Joey at the fair. 75c. Crowell.
Boys in the early “teens” will enjoy this story of a New England farm and of Joey and how he attained his great ambition of raising a calf which should win the blue ribbon at the county fair. The achievement is made more difficult because of a young city cousin who is a mischief maker from the time of his arrival and who almost succeeds in maliciously diverting the blue ribbon from the sleek Betty; but Joey and the calf win out in the end.
Kaler, James Otis (James Otis, pseud.). [Light keepers: a story of the United States light-house service.] †$1.50. Dutton.
How Cary’s Ledge light was kept according to the “rules an’ regerlations,” by its three old keepers, Cap’n Eph, Sammy, and Uncle Zenas, third assistant and also cook, is here told in a fashion pleasing to young folks. How they blamed themselves for neglecting the day’s routine in order to risk their lives to save the victims of fog and wreck, how the boy whom they called Sonny drifted to their ledge, stayed there and became a joy to them, how the government came to appreciate and reward them and many other matters of human interest furnish a pleasing variety in their bleak existence.