. The Argonaut . g*, vould seem to indi-cate that the book is founded on truth. Awell illustrated book of fanciful tales, byViolet acob, author of The Interloper,- the favor of children who love:it--, for all the old fairies, sorceresses,itches are there under new names andand the stories are toid with much<kill (Doubleday, Page & Co.; $). Ernest Thompson Seton has new stories totell about his animal friends—although notthe same individuals whose life historieshave become part of our literature. AnimalHeroes (Charles Scribners Sons; $)is something of a departure from Mr. Setonsforme
. The Argonaut . g*, vould seem to indi-cate that the book is founded on truth. Awell illustrated book of fanciful tales, byViolet acob, author of The Interloper,- the favor of children who love:it--, for all the old fairies, sorceresses,itches are there under new names andand the stories are toid with much<kill (Doubleday, Page & Co.; $). Ernest Thompson Seton has new stories totell about his animal friends—although notthe same individuals whose life historieshave become part of our literature. AnimalHeroes (Charles Scribners Sons; $)is something of a departure from Mr. Setonsformer stories, in that many of its dumb char-acters circle more or less about the hauntsof man. A slum cat and a homing-pigeonare new characters, but their adventures,though novel and interesting, make tame read-ing, compared to those of the vulpine heroesof Badlands Billy and The WinnipegWolf. Mr. Seton has so many imitatorsthat the originality of his methods is nowless marked. His best stories are perhaps all. Illustration from Animal Heroes^ by Ernest Thompson-Seton. Published by Charles Scribners Sons. told, but he still brightens the once formalpages of animal literature. There are several new books devotedto exploiting the feats of animals, wild ortame. One, a small volume by KatherineChandler, entitled In the Reign of the Coy-ote (Ginn & Co.; 40 cents,) is a very de-sirable addition, both to the Indian folk-lore and to the child literature of the PacificCoast. It consists of a collection of Indiananimal myths, which are arranged in theform of a series of stories told to a coupleof Spanish children by the Christianized In-dian servants on their fathers ranch. Themyths are so carefully selected from approvedsources that, in their collected form, theycan not fail to prove interesting to the studentof Indian mythology. Sa* Zada Tales, byW. A. Fraser (Charles Scribners Sons;$), is suggestive of Kiplings Jungle-book, by which it is plainly inspired. SaZada is the keeper of t
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