The Boyhood of Living Authors

IN "The Boyhood of Living Authors" Mr. Rideing has called our attention to one of the most pleasant features of literary life and character. After reading his "Boys Coastwise" and his "Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains," we are quite prepared to regard him as an authority on boys, a sagacious student of human nature in its first forms. The special interest of the volume before us lies in its distinctively literary type, and in the fact that the authors discussed are living and moving ...