ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE.
"GENTLE JULIA." Mr Booth Tarkington is said to be the only living novelist who has something of Mark Twain's genius. That is a big claim to make, but there are many readers of Booth Tarkington's novels who are willing to say that he possesses a very delightful sense of humour and is adopt at reproducing it in the written word. "Penrod," "Seventeen" and "Gentle Julia" arc three of his novels in which he shows how shrewdly "he understands children, 'rind the last of these, "Gentle Julia," is one that has just been reprinted in Messrs Hodder and Stoughton's "2/6 net" library. The Australian office of this well-known London firm forwards a copy through Mr F. W. Reed, Whangarei. "Gentle Julia ,, is the story of tne prettiest girl in a small American city —a girl of twenty, whose admirers are legion. Gentle and kindly, sue hesitates to hurt any of them. Julia's relatives bulk largely in the city's population, and prominent among them are a nieee and a nephew, cousins, who at somewhere about thirteen years of age arc certainly most entertaining children. The young folk are responsible for much of the startling action that the author narrates so cleverly, and from their mouths issues much of his irresistible humour. It does no* require any great effort of the imagination to conceive of incidents that would develop around these two striking little personalities and their charming aunt; but only so vivid an imagination as Mr Booth Tarkington's could elaborate the plot in the way he has done and yet keep within the bounds of the natural. "Gentle Julia." is a fascinating, book, and it has. the great merit of being as wholesome for young readers as it is for their elders. Now, that it is obtainable in a cheap edition it should win much fresh popularity. > Augustine Birrell, who is better known as a writer than a politician, has followed on his volume of essays "Obiter Dicta" with a companion book "More Obiter Dicta. ,, None of the aew es-
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Northern Advocate, 23 August 1924, Page 9 (Supplement)
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341ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE. Northern Advocate, 23 August 1924, Page 9 (Supplement)
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