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Kirk Munroe went to China especially to write this book of adventure and travel for boys. The heroes are an American boy and a Chinese boy who become fast friends at an American school. Later the scene is transferred to China, and the siege of the foreign legations at Pekin plays an important part in the narrative. A delightful story, full of information about the great Chinese Empire.

This delightful book tells about the animals living in and around the streams, and the same attractive plan is followed as in Mr. Chambers’s “Orchard land” and “Outdoorland”—that is, the animals tell their own stories to Peter and Geraldine, two little children. The plan of these nature books is an original and valuable one, and has proved most successful. Miss Green’s pictures alone insure a wide popularity for the volume.

Every child who has read the “Lovable Tales of Janey and Josey and Joe” will be eager to know what new adventures these delightful little people next experience. In this story Janey goes on a long trip with her parents to California, where she has many new experiences, but she misses Josey and Joe so much that the other children are sent for. The trio are overjoyed to be united again, and they immediately set about having the best times imaginable.

Josephine and her little sister go to live with an uncle in the East. He is somewhat dubious at the prospect of adding two more boys to his family, for the names—“Jo and Georgie ”—naturally lead him to think the new-comers are boys. When the two girls arrive, their appearance causes some consternation, but they win their way into every one’s heart, and everything comes out all right.