Part 13

And all the people in the church, both his friends and opponents, abandoned their doubts and conjectures. They cried as with one voice, transported by God’s miracle: “God willed it! God hath testified for him!”

Of Raniero there is now only a legend, which says he enjoyed great good fortune for the remainder of his days, and was wise, and prudent, and compassionate. But the people of Florence always called him Pazzo degli Ranieri, in remembrance of the fact that they had believed him insane. And this became his honorary title. He founded a dynasty, which was named Pazzi, and is called so even to this day.

It might also be worth mentioning that it became a custom in Florence, each year at Easter Eve, to celebrate a festival in memory of Raniero’s home-coming with the sacred flame, and that, on this occasion, they always let an artificial bird fly with fire through the church. This festival would most likely have been celebrated even in our day had not some changes taken place recently.

But if it be true, as many hold, that the bearers of sacred fire who have lived in Florence and have made the city one of the most glorious on earth, have taken Raniero as their model, and have thereby been encouraged to sacrifice, to suffer and endure, this may here be left untold.

For what has been done by this light, which in dark times has gone out from Jerusalem, can neither be measured nor counted.

THE END

THE HOME BOOK OF VERSE FOR YOUNG FOLKS

Compiled by Burton E. Stevenson, Editor of “The Home Book of Verse.”

With cover, and illustrations in color and black and white by WILLY POGANY. Over 500 pages, large 12mo. $2.00 net.

Not a rambling, hap-hazard collection but a vade-mecum for youth from the ages of six or seven to sixteen or seventeen. It opens with Nursery Rhymes and lullabies, progresses through child rhymes and jingles to more mature nonsense verse; then come fairy verses and Christmas poems; then nature verse and favorite rhymed stories; then through the trumpet and drum period (where an attempt is made to teach true patriotism) to the final appeal of “Life Lessons” and “A Garland of Gold” (the great poems for all ages).

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Mr. Stevenson has banished doleful and pessimistic verse, and has dwelt on hope, courage, cheerfulness and helpfulness. The book should serve, too, as an introduction to the greater poems, informing taste for them and appreciation of them, against the time when the boy or girl, grown into youth and maiden, is ready to swim out into the full current of English poetry.

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LIFE-STORIES FOR THE YOUNG

Dean Hodges’ SAINTS AND HEROES: To the End of the Middle Ages.

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Biographies of Cyprian, Athanasius, Ambrose, Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, Columba, Charlemagne, Hildebrand, Anselm, Bernard, Becket, Langton, Dominic, Francis, Wycliffe, Hus, Savonarola.

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The new volume includes biographies of Luther, More, Loyola, Cranmer, Calvin, Knox, Coligny, William the Silent, Laud, Cromwell, Fox, Wesley, Bunyan and Brewster.

John Buchan’s SIR WALTER RALEIGH

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STORIES FOR GIRLS

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Years ago, a manufacturer built a great dock, jutting out from and then turning parallel to the shore of a northern Michigan town. The factory was abandoned, and following the habits of small towns, the space between the dock and the shore became “The Cinder Pond.” Jean started life in the colony of squatters that came to live in the shanties on the dock, but fortune, heroism, and a mystery combine to change her fortunes and those of her friends near the Cinder Pond.

THE CASTAWAYS OF PETE’S PATCH Illustrated by Ada C. Williamson. $1.25 net.

A tale of five girls and two youthful grown-ups who enjoyed unpremeditated camping.

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Four young girls secure the use of a tumbledown cottage. They set up housekeeping under numerous disadvantages, and have many amusements and queer experiences.

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THE ADOPTING OF ROSA MARIE A sequel to “Dandelion Cottage.” Illustrated by Mrs. Shinn. $1.50.

The little girls who played at keeping house in the earlier book, enlarge their activities to the extent of playing mother to a little Indian girl.

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Interesting, amusing, and natural stories of a girls’ club.

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An out-of-door story for girls which tells how Dorothea Marden went, under protest, from the city to spend the summer at a farm in the New Hampshire mountains; how she met Jo Gifford from South Tuxboro, who had red hair, and knew she shouldn’t like her, but did; how Dorothea and Jo, at the farm, fell out with the young folks close by at Camp Comfort; how they carried on the war, with varying success, and how they were sorry that they did so, and how they were glad in the end to make peace.

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BY ALICE CALHOUN HAINES For Young Folks from 9 to 16 Years old.

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COMPANION STORIES OF COUNTRY LIFE FOR BOYS By CHARLES P. BURTON

THE BOYS OF BOB’S HILL Illustrated by George A. Williams. 12mo. $1.25.

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The “Bob’s Hill” band spend a vacation in Illinois, where they play at being Indians, hear thrilling tales of real Indians, and learn much frontier history. A history of especial interest to “Boy Scouts.”

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The “Bob’s Hill” band organizes a Boy Scouts band and have many adventures. Mr. Burton brings in tales told around a camp-fire of La Salle, Joliet, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Northwestern Reservation.

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SHORT PLAYS ABOUT FAMOUS AUTHORS

(Goldsmith, Dickens, Heine, Fannie Burney, Shakespeare)

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The Mistake at the Manor shows the fifteen-year-old Goldsmith in the midst of the humorous incident in his life which later formed the basis of “She Stoops to Conquer.”

A Christmas Eve With Charles Dickens reveals the author as a poor factory boy in a lodging-house, dreaming of an old-time family Christmas.

When Heine was Twenty-one dramatizes the early disobedience of the author in writing poetry against his uncle’s orders.

Miss Burney at Court deals with an interesting incident in the life of the author of “Evelina” when she was at the Court of George III.

The Fairies’ Plea, which is an adaptation of Thomas Hood’s poem, shows Shakespeare intervening to save the fairies from the scythe of Time.

Designed in general for young people near enough to the college age to feel an interest in the personal and human aspects of literature, but the last two could easily be handled by younger actors. They can successfully be given by groups or societies of young people without the aid of a professional coach.

LITTLE PLAYS FROM AMERICAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS

By Alice Johnstone Walker. $1.00 net.

Hiding the Regicides, a number of brief and stirring episodes, concerning the pursuit of Colonels Whalley and Goff by the officers of Charles II at New Haven in old colony days.

Mrs. Murray’s Dinner Party, in three acts, is a lively comedy about a Patriot hostess and British Officers in Revolutionary Days.

Scenes from Lincoln’s Time; the martyred President does not himself appear. They cover Lincoln’s helping a little girl with her trunk, women preparing lint for the wounded, a visit to the White House of an important delegation from New York, and of the mother of a soldier boy sentenced to death—and the coming of the army of liberation to the darkies.

Tho big events are touched upon, the mounting of all these little plays is simplicity itself, and they have stood the test of frequent school performance.

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