A book for girls which tells the story of a child’s loveless training among grandparents and aunts who were “doing their duty” by the daughter of the departed member of their family who had married a man unfit, so they believed, to be responsible for the child. The father returns, carries his daughter off to India with him, and there, thrown upon her own resources, she tries and succeeds in righting a life whose warped beginnings furnish but poor encouragement.
“This might have been an innocuous book for girls just turning up their pigtails, had not the author apparently believed Darry’s truthfulness justifiably wrecked for life by the tinned salmon.”
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Bourke, S. Ten Eyck. Fables in feathers. il. †$1. Crowell.
7–24036.
Children will be delighted with these fables, which tell them why the swallow wears a forked tail, why the robin wears a red breast, why the woodpecker goes a-tapping, why the owl can’t see in the sun, why the peacock wears eyes on his tail, why the crow’s feathers are black, how the mocking bird got his name, and how the parrot came to wear a hooked beak, and why the jackdaw hides everything bright.
Bousset, Wilhelm. Jesus; tr. by Janet Penrose Trevelyan; ed. by W. D. Morrison. *$1.25. Putnam.
6–21195.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.