. Review of reviews and world's work. He took thelesson to heart, and forthwith reformed. SOME STORIES OF ADVENTURE FOR BOYS-HISTORICAL AND OTHERWISE. The Last of the Flatboats (Lothrop) is a first-ratebook, by George Gary Eggleston, the well-known brother of Dr. Edward Eg-gleston, who knows asmuch about old timeson the Ohio and Mis-sissippi rivers as MarkTwain himself. Thisis a tale of five youngHoosiers who load aflat boat and take itfrom Indiana to NewOrleans — a sort ofjourney that Abra-ham Lincoln oncemade. There is plentyof healthyadventureand excitement in thisbook, and also a greatdeal
. Review of reviews and world's work. He took thelesson to heart, and forthwith reformed. SOME STORIES OF ADVENTURE FOR BOYS-HISTORICAL AND OTHERWISE. The Last of the Flatboats (Lothrop) is a first-ratebook, by George Gary Eggleston, the well-known brother of Dr. Edward Eg-gleston, who knows asmuch about old timeson the Ohio and Mis-sissippi rivers as MarkTwain himself. Thisis a tale of five youngHoosiers who load aflat boat and take itfrom Indiana to NewOrleans — a sort ofjourney that Abra-ham Lincoln oncemade. There is plentyof healthyadventureand excitement in thisbook, and also a greatdeal worth knowingabout the Mississippi,and the other watersof which it is theFather. There isa boy called Ed in this story, who has brains, and issaid to be drawn on the model of the author of TheHoosier Schoohnaster himself ; that is to say, the dis-tinguished Dr. Edward Eggleston. Not to take the order of arrangement too seriously,the next adventure book in the pile happens to be one SQUIRRELS and other Fur-Bearers. JOHN BURROUGHS. Cove-r design (reduced) BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE, 777 3by Arthur R. Thompson, called Gold-Seeking on Trail (Little, Brown & Co.). We accompany aparty made up of two New England boys, with theirfather and uncle, on a trip to the Alaska gold go from the Dalton trail to the Klondike, shootinggame of all kinds, crossing mountain ranges, takinglong trips on snowshoes, and also having their share inthe search for gold. Kirk Munroes book. Under the Great Bear (Double-day, Page & Co.), has for its hero a young mining en-gineer, just graduated, who is sent by a firm interestedin copper and iron to Newfoundland and Labrador tomake an examination of certain mines—an errand thathappens to require secrecy. The young engineer iswrecked in mid-ocean, is rescued, reaches Newfound-land, has adventures with icebergs, Indians, and Eski-mos, finds rich oie deposits, gets back safely, is dulyTewarded, and made manager of the mines. A
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