. Review of reviews and world's work . a-tions master of fiction. Then there is a beautiful new fairy story, whichwe might rather call an animal story, by SelmaLagerlof, Further Adventures of Nils, the boywho was turned into a pigmy, called Thumbietot,and learned the language of the animals and hadfellowship with them (Doubleday, Page). This isa masterpiece of mellifluous simplicity. MissLagerlofs writing is as clear as a Bible France, like Miss Lagerlof, is the pos-sessor of a perfect style, and I\Irs. John Lanestranslation of his Honey-Bee, illustrated byFlorence Lundburg (
. Review of reviews and world's work . a-tions master of fiction. Then there is a beautiful new fairy story, whichwe might rather call an animal story, by SelmaLagerlof, Further Adventures of Nils, the boywho was turned into a pigmy, called Thumbietot,and learned the language of the animals and hadfellowship with them (Doubleday, Page). This isa masterpiece of mellifluous simplicity. MissLagerlofs writing is as clear as a Bible France, like Miss Lagerlof, is the pos-sessor of a perfect style, and I\Irs. John Lanestranslation of his Honey-Bee, illustrated byFlorence Lundburg (Lane), makes musical reading,but the story itself hasnt its root in MotherEarth, as has Further Adventures of Nils. USEFUL BOOKS And the useful books, they, too, have becomeliterature. Mr. Francis A. Collins The Second BoysBook of Model Aeroplanes (Century) reads like 1 From Mrs. Frances Hodgson nurnotfs inlriKluctioii toThe Heart of Youth, Poems Gay and Crave for VoiinRIeople, edited by Jeannette h. Gilder (Sturgis & Walton). 7(A. From The Further Adventures of Nils the report of an expert correspondent of a moderndaily, describing with ultra-picturesqueness someevent in the days news. He quite convinces youthat aeroplane building is both the finest sport andthe finest mechanical training that a boy can for Handy Boys, by A. NeelyHall (Lothrop, Lee <S: Shepard), is a compan-ion volume to last gears The Boy Craftsman,and contains hundreds of illustrations anddirections for building both useful and pastimenovelties. Some thirty pages, for example,are devoted to model aeroplanes. .Another book of thesame character is DanBeards Boat-Buildingand Boating (Scrib-ners). Mr. Beards in-terest in the Boy Scoutsguarantees that he is insymjiathy with out-of-door life, and the explicitdirections he gives indi-cate that the author hasjnit in practice histhorough diagrams. Two \aluable books Historic Inventions, by Rupert S. Holland (Jacobs), and Stories From Honey-Bee of U
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