"BUT YOU'RE LIKE SOMEBODY I KNOW, YOU'RE JUST LIKE ME" FROM "NORA'S TWIN SISTER" BY NINA RHOADES Lothrop, Lee & Shepard NORA'S TWIN SISTER, a delightful story for small girls is of the "Lord Fauntleroy" type with a little reporter mama, a modern edition of "Dearest" but quite as nice, and two instead of one principal. Any little girl can imagine what fascinating complications will arise when the twins, who have been separated from babyhood because of the adoption of one into a wealthy family, manage to change places. But any little girl will not be able to imagine half of the amusing predicaments of Nora and Kathleen nor to guess just what the end of it all will be. Nina Rhoades is the author and Nina French Bickford the illustrator. (Lothrop, L. & S.) FROM "A LITTLE MAID OF OLD PHILADELPHIA" A CAVALIER MAID. The Knipes, Emile Benson and Alden Arthur, can be depended on to present history both authentically and picturesquely. This story interprets the spirit of the times of Charles the First in warring England and bleak New England. The unscrupulous servants of Charles the First lead the young heroine, Georgiana, into many perils in the hope of securing her fortune for the cavalier cause. She is kidnapped and eventually goes to America in disguise on a Puritan ship. Her adventures make a dramatic story for young people. (Macmillan.) "AH THERE, GIRLS, HOW ARE YOU?" FROM THE LIBERTY GIRLS" BY RENA I. HALSEY Lothrop, Lee & Shepard THE LIBERTY GIRLS. Teen-age girls who thrill to the experience of other girls who have given themselves to patriotic service will enjoy Rena I. Halsey's story of a seventeenyear old girl who forms a club ca led the "Liberty Girls." A peculiar will, offering a prize for a certain discovery. and mysterious happenings connected with summer guests at a well-known resort add zest to the tale. (Lothrop, L. & S.) DOROTHY DAINTY AT THE STONE HOUSE. Dorthy Dainty has become a very popular young person thru Amy Brooks' many stories about this unselfish little girl. All Dorothy's numerous young friends will find the very latest news about their favorite in the new book, with its scene laid in the little heroine's beautiful home at Merrivale. (Lothrop, L. & S.) PATTY AND AZALEA. Possibly the mail of Carolyn Wells is not quite so overwhelming as that of Mary Pickford, but it is no less appreciative. Readers of the Patty Series in particular are insatiable in their demands for more and more Patty. "Is there going to be another one? I certainly hope so because I'm anxious to know what hap pened to Patty and Billee in France." has been the burden of Miss Wells' correspondence of late. And she has obliged with an account of the later doings of the happy young couple and the romance of their guest Azalea as well. (Dodd, Mead.) MARGERY MORRIS by Violet Gordon Gray. Altho a newcomer in the town, Margery was popular. What with skating and the good times at Polly's and a very jolly au tomobile trip to Princeton, life looked easy to her. Then Bunnie came, and everything wadifferent, and even the idea of being a mascot did not work. But there was a way out. (Penn.) THE SLIPPER POINT MYSTERY. Augusta Huiell Seaman's latest addition to her long list of popular mystery stories for girls has no boy characters, but it has a cave, an underground passageway, a secret code and all the elements that go to make up an exciting yarn which never verges on the melodramatic or false heroic. (Century.) TAMA is a Japanese school girl diary, written from day to dav by the girls of a school in Japan and compiled for American reading by Florence Wells. The text is in delectable "pidgin" English and the illustrations are from photographs of the actual girls mentioned. As a Japanese child story, it is unique among our juveniles. (Womans Press) "WHY, IT'S A ROOM!" SHE GASPED FROM "THE SLIPPER POINT MYSTERY" BY AUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMAN Century Co. THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN. Just why Jack o' lanterns, spooks and witches have come to mean part of Hallowe'en fun, together with the "why" of many other customs of this October holiday is told by Ruth E. Kelley, of the Lynn Public Library. Starting with a brief account of sun-worship, her book describes the rites of the Druids on their autumn festival, now Hallowe'en. Down the centuries to the "holydays" of All Saints' and All Souls', it reaches the survival of mingled superstitions in our own land. The work is freely supplied with quotations from the classics and from modern authors.. There is a full index to these quotations, a list of recreational readings and another of magazine references to Hallowe'en entertainments. (Lothrop, L. & S.) Girls who CAPTAIN LUCY IN FRANCE. remember in "Captain Lucy and Lieutenant Bob," Lucy Gordon's first reluctance to part with her father and brother for duty overseas will be eager to learn how Lucy herself found her way to France. Aline Havard tells how Lucy goes to see her wounded father in a little town, near the front and how the capture of the town by the Germans gives the girl heroine a big problem to solve. (Penn.) The NAN SHERWOOD AT ROSE RANCH. jolly heroine of the Nan Sherwood Series appears in the fourth volume at a western ranch, just the place for things to happen. And happen they do. Nan and her chums go out on the ranges with the cow boys; they see a cattle round-up and they almost come to grief in a tornado. (Sully.) MARY LOUISE ADOPTS A SOLDIER. Edith Van Dyne, author of the popular Aunt Jane Series, has added a new volume to her new Mary Louise Series. Girls of the age of this young heroine will enjoy the situations which develop around her.. To the variety of experiences thru which the first four volumes of the series carry Mary Louise is now added this new one which will appeal to all patriotic girls of thirteen and upward. (Reilly & L.) THE SLATE-COLORED CLOUD SEEMED TO SHUT OUT George Sully & Co. KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE. From the great mass of King Arthur legends, Rupert S. Holland has selected those which make a special appeal to young readers and arranged them coherently. The book deals in turn with the coming of Arthur, the adventures of Arthur and his knights, the founding of the Round Table and the passing of Arthur. Malory, of course, provides the source of most of the selections, although The Mabinogian has been drawn upon to some extent. This new "King Arthur" is issued in the Washington Square Classics. (Jacobs.) PEACE AND PATRIOTISM. To teachers and other workers with boys and girls this timely collection of approximately 150 selections-poems, speeches, and other materialgrouped under the headings: patriotism; peace and international good will; national songs of other lands and service will prove a gold mine. Elva S. Smith, of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, has made the selections which range from Homer to Woodrow Wilson. The selections are especially well adapted for boys and girls in the seventh and eighth grades and high schools. (Lothrop, L. & S.) THE CART OF MANY COLORS. The Little Schoolmate Series, edited by Florence Converse, has added another to its glimpses of little people realistically pictured in the settings of their native lands. This time Nannina Lavilla Meiklejohn carries boys and girls away to Sicily. The story is about Nello and his little cart, the gayest of all the five thou sand or more gay little painted carts in the city of Palermo. It was a fine cart and worthy of the occasion for which Nelo painted it-the wedding of his sister Mara. (Dutton.) THE MAID OF ORLEANS. There is always. it seems, room for one more story of France's heroine, particularly when it is pleas antly written and well illustrated. M. S. C. Smith tells once more the story of the maid who listened to the voices, a story which never. ceases to be inspiring and she tells it having girls specially in mind. The pictures which are numerous are from photographs for the most part of the historic spots which figured in the life of Jeanne d'Arc. Without detracting from the romanticism of the narrative they give it an atmosphere of reality. (Crowel'.) BROAD STRIPES AND BRIGHT STARS. Carolyn Sherwin Bailey tells the story of our ideals and deeds from the time of our infancy as a nation to our growth as a world power, from Plymouth Rock to the arrival of our soldiers in France. It is the story of achievement in many fields-social, ethical industrial and scientific-made alive for boys and girls by the hand of a practiced story-teller. These history pictures illustrated by Power O'Malley. (Milton Bradley.) THEY SEATED THEMSELVES, REDMEN AND WHITE, |