An
absurd Ku-klux incident and an exciting experience with counterfeiters
add to the volume's interest.
THOMPSON, A.R. (p. 196)
Shipwrecked in Greenland.
Little. 1.50
With photographic illustrations of great interest. There is just
enough story to hold together the very entertaining chapters of
adventure--"based in part upon the experiences of that
unfortunate expedition which, on board the steamer Miranda, came
to grief off the coast of Greenland in the Summer of 1894."
Manners and customs, flora and fauna, Eskimos and cameras,
icebergs and polar bears, make this a capital book for boys and
boys' sisters.--_The Nation._
TWAIN, MARK (Pseudonym of S.L. CLEMENS).
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Harper. 1.75
Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one
or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who
were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom
Sawyer also, but not from an individual--he is a combination of
the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore
belongs to the composite order of architecture. The odd
superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and
slaves in the West at the period of this story.
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