MISS EDITH HOWES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 148, 20 December 1930, Page 21

MISS EDITH HOWES

A BOOK FOR BOYS A new book by Miss Edith Howes has just been published. This book has been written at the request of the head of the publishing firm of Messrs. J. M. Dent and Sons, and is a work for boys who are old enough to wonder about the problems of fatherhood. Mr. Dent commissioned Miss Howes to write '.'Golden Forest," when, on a visit to the United States, he was shown a copy of "The Enchanted Road," a book by Miss Howes on motherhood, which has had a ready sale in the United States. , "The Golden Forest'" docs for boys what previous of Miss Howes's books have done for girls and for younger' children. Its purpose is to instruct, but it has another aim, to entertain, and in both it is admirable in achievement. The story is of a little London waif, Jack Rendy, who is discovered by a wealthy naturalist, a Mr. Morne, and taken to his coastal retreat in Now Zealand, in which he has a veritable paradise for animals of all kinds —and, incidentally, for small boys in search of adventure. ' It is interesting to note that Miss Howes has recently had published in America "The Ldng Bright Land," a beautifully-illustrated book of Maori tales selling in the States at 12s, 6d. The New York "Herald-Tribune" devoted a page to its review of this book, describing it as of permanent value. "The Cradle Ship," Miss Howes's well-known book on motherhood, is becoming increasing popular, and is shortly to be translated into French. At one important school in England each child, on leaving the kindergarten, is presented with a copy of "The Cradle Ship." The welcome it has received from mothers desirous of imparting to their children the. knowledge of life which they feel they ought to have is attested by the.fact that in the war years,'when the book went out of print owing to the paper shortage, tho women's journal, the "Queen," took the matter np and by its agency mothers in possession of copies were induced to lend them to others.