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ie Deluge, by David Graham. Phillips.
IHustrated by George Glbbs. The Bobbs
Merrlll Company, Indianapolis,
never, audacious, intensely interesting.
but sensational. That is the uppermost
thought one gets after carefully reading
"The Deluge," a novel describing a period
of industrial panic and frenzied finance.
The hero is Matthew Blacklock, a man
whose career is evidently patterned after
the famous Thomas W. Lawson, of Bos
ton Out of this remarkable material Mr.
Phillips has written a great American
novel, par excellence one that will be
among the big sellers.
Hackneyed readers have not quite re
covered yet from the astonishment they
experienced when they stumbled on Mr.
Phillips' previous successes, "The Cost"
and "The Plum Tree." The question im
mediately arose: "Who Is -Phillips?". He
has answered the query by writing "The
Deluge," a novel about a typo of men
and women who "would sell everything
i they hold precious in tills world for
gold. The kernel of the novel. Is the odd
courtship and subsequent marriage of
"Black Matt" Blacklock, financier, and
! Anita EUersly, aristocrat. The first time
she came ftito his life, he said to him
self; 'When a man has money and la
willing to spend it, he can readily fool
himself into imagining he gets on grand
ly with women." This bonmot has the
real Lawson cynicism. IBacklock was a
poet and didn't know it, for the first
time he looked into Anita's lovely eyes
his inmost thought was: "I have heard
oi you oiien. xue cuuaren ana ine Low
ers have told me you were coming."
Even la those early days, Blacklock
was a money king in the domain of fren
zied finance, and when he made up his
mind that Anita was the woman he want
ed and loved, he set about to realize his
hopes by making his money work for
him Just as he would buy a corner in
the stock market to get at and crush a
rival operator. Blacklock wondered in
his crude way if he were a gentleman?
Am t I got as propor a country place
as there is a-going?" he reasoned with Sam
Ellersly. "Ain't my apartment at the
WMoughby a peach? Don't I give as ele
gant dinners as you ever sat down to?
Don't J dress right up to the Picadllly
latest? Don't I act all right?" So as a
j first step Blacklock lent the needy male
I members of the Ellersly family large
J sums of money, and forced them to ln
i vlte him socially to their home, where he
made love at long rango to Anita, She
was like a statue of snow, and her man
ner was proud and repellant. Indeed, she
thought herself in love with a married
man, Langdon, another wealthy frenzied
financier. Once, Blacklock. while visit
ing the Ellerslys, came suddenly on
Anita, and to his astonishment found tho
fair patrician smoking a cigarette.
"You smoke 7" anked be.
"Sometimes," she replied. "It's soothing
and distracting. I don't know how it is
with others, but when I smoke my mind is
quite empty."
"It's a narty habit smoking." he said.
"Especially for a woman."
You are one of those men who have one
code lor themselves and another for wom
en, si)e answered.
"I'm a man. AH men have . the same
codes all men of decent ideas.'
Here was the ideal Anita he saw: "Her
eyes were strangely variable. I have
seen them of a gray, so pale that it was
almost silver like the steely light of the
snow-itne at the. cugo of the horizon.
Again they shone with the deepest, soft
est blue and made one think as ono
i looked at her ,of a fresh violet frozen, in
I a block of clear ice." Then ho proposes
I to her ip this fashion, fully persuaded
that she only wants to marry him jfor his
money:
"I see you are nervine yourself." said I
with a laugh. "You are perfectly certain I
I am going to propose to you."
She flamed scarlet and half started up.
"Your mother, in the next,rom, expects 1L
too," I went on. laughing .even more dis
agreeably. "Your parents need mpney they
have decided to sell you, "their only large Income-producing
asset. And I am willing to
buy What do you say?"
Her eyes blazed, and she eaid: "You are
f rlghtfu' "
I suppose If I came lying' and Drctendinr.
and let yau He and pretend, and let Tour
parents He and pretend, you would and me
I almost tolerable. "Well, I am not that kind.
When there's business to be transacted. I
am ousinessiiKe; Let's not begin with your
thinking you, are deceiving me and so hating
and despising me and trying to keep up
the deception. 'Let's begin right."
-i must warn you that I shall never lnv
you There are many things which mean so
much to people brought up as we are," she
cam
That was tholr engagement, and a
runaway match "from home, in Black
lock's auto followed. She occupied one
portion of the Blacklock apartments and
her husband tho other, Ihe two. meeting
at meal times.
In tho Interval, Blacklock was Dlayin
frenzied finance for all it was worth, and
once nis enemies, lea by Langdon and
aided by Roebuck (Rockefeller), nearly
ruined him. Then it was that he started
I on a campaign of publicity and retalia
tion a la Lawson, and hammered at his
enemies' stocks. A panic resulted and
his luck helped him to make a new for
tune. Hero are a few Blacklock opl
j grams:
No woman is worth a serious man's while.
Believe In everybody. Trust In nobody.
A man never makes a complete fool of
himself about a woman but once in his life.
Jane was aottne ordinary woman. -who .la
every crisis with man Instinctively resorts
to weakness strongest weakness tears.
Men to cross swords with, to amuse
oneself with. But dogs and horses to live
with.
Tho conclusion reached in tho novel,
when Anita is persuaded by her good
sense aaglnst divorce and wins her hus
band's love, is reached in an original
way. There la more love than frenzied
finance in tho book. But when finance
is on the stage tho language Is expressed
thus: ?.
Oriental Studies, by Lewis Dayton Burdlck.
$1. The Irving Company, Oxford. ST. T.
If you are not familiar with Latin, Greek
or ancient Elgyptian tongues and Jore, and
wish to study, apart from the Bible, va
rious events in early Biblical history, read
this most interesting and suggestive book
by Mr. Burdlck. It consists of these four
papers: "Antiquity of Our Ethical Ideals,"
"Some Variants of the Talo of the Kings,"
"Notes on Faiths and Folk-Lore of the
Moon," and "Epics Before the Iliad."
Mr. Burdlck commences by observing
that the world has no knowledge at tho
present time either of the Exodus or its
leader, outside of the record h and tradl
ditionc of th Hebrews. Ha htHpb ht
it is peculiar that no Egyptian monument,
tomb or inscription has yet revealed aught
of Moses, and that no trace of tho He
brews having been in Egypt has yet been
found in Egyptian story. In this man
ner, the author has opened up a wide field
for discussion, where for ages wise and
unwlso theologians havo battled to tholr
heart's content. The beliefs of various
nations are noted and discussed with re
markable ability.
Hore is ono thoughtful paragraph:
If we are chocked that the caotured King
Ashurbanlpal, who gathered and preserved all
the known literature of the world In his
time, recorded In his own annals boastincly
that he "pulled out the tongues" and "flayed
oft the ekln" from nonconform lats In Arbela,
we may not cease to remember that It was
Charles V, defender of the faith, master of
German. Spanish, Italian. French and Flemish,
who Introduced the Inquisition, and under
whose edicts the people of The Netherlands
were hanged, burned and buried alive for
heresy; nor may we forget that In tho century
later it was New Englandera who founded
universities that tied to the tails of their
ox-cartu, cropped the ears off, and hanged
dissenters.
Mr. Burdlck refers to the old belief that
tho moon is the abode of departed souls.
He writes: "Plutarch held that the earth
furnished man his body, the moon his
soul and the sun his mind; the first death
took place on tho earth, tho second In
the moon. In the former the soul is sep
arated from the body hastily and with
violence; jn the latter. Persephone gently
and slowly loosens tho mind from tho
soul." .Enough has been quoted to show
that the book is liberal to a marked de
gree, and that It should havo no difficulty
in finding an audience.
Rose O the IUver, by Kate Douglas Wiggln.
Illustrated in colors by George Wright.
$1.25. Houghton. Mifflin & Co., Boston.
Roso Wiley was a dutiful grand
daughter to two of the most irritating
old people In th county, but sho
was as neat as wax, merry, amiable.
She wore neither a brooch nor a pair
of earrings, 'because any ordinary gems
would eem dull in comparison with
her bright eyes. The local milliners
said it was impossible to get Roso an
unbecoming hat. "For," said they, "on
ono occasion, being in a frolicsome
mood, Hose tried on all the hoadgcar
in tho village emporium children's
gingham Shakers, mourning bonnets
for aged dames, men's haying hats,
and visored caps and she proved su
perior to every test, looking as pretty
as a pink in the best ones and simply
ravishing in the "worst."
An ideal person, such as we read
about and fain would meet in real life
not to fall In love with or marry but
Just to look at. She is tho heroine of
"Roso o the River," the habitation of
which iff a Maine village of the-Saco
Valley. Jn short, an angelic girl in
whoso mouth butter would not melt.
That "was the Roso at tho commence
ment of the story, hut before the end
is reached it is a chastened Rose that
.peeps but of the picture, and she ad
mits that she was a common llttla
prickly rosebush until love camo and
shed his effulgence. A charming novel,
which Is also notable for its amusing
character sketches of New England
folic Th fine literary work shows
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It is announced thac over 1,000,000
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The Spanish Settlement. Within thn Trt-
rat Limits ef tho Unite SUte Florida,
1562-1574, by Woodbury Lowery. With
maps. 52.50. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York City.
Florida is associated with tho fame of
Ponce de Leon, and quite recently was de
scribed by a humorist as a place of al
ligators, mosquitoes and dear-priced ho
tels, where only millionaires could live.
But thero is a serious side to historic
Florida, and, dealing with the period from
15G2 to 1574 Mr. Lowery with commend
able accuracy and fairness writes about
the French colony, tho Spanish colony
and the Guale and Virginia missions. Mr.
Lowery has lifted tho curtain of realism
covering the romance of the aborigines
of Florida.. They certainly needed the re
fining influences of European masters.
The author says that these natives did
not believe in clothing. Tho men were
of an olive hue, very corpulent and hand
some. They painted the skin about the
mouth blue, and wcro tattooed on the
arms and legs with a certain herb. Their
sense of smell was highly developed, for
they were able to follow an cnomy by
his sclent. Tho women were tall and
painted llko the men, but much whiter.
They could with agility climb trees and
were so robust they could swim across
broad and shallow rivers, carrying their
children in one arm. Both men and
women allowed the nails of tholr toes
and fingers to grow long, and their finger
nails were sharpened to a point so that
they might havo additional aid in fight
ing. The Spanish fathers must certainly
have found a field white unto tho har
vest. The book abounds in historical refer
ences, and the general reading is most
interesting.
SInr the South, by Judd Mortimer Lewis.
1.50. J. V. Dealy Company, Houston. Tex.
Has a new Eugene Field arisen in the
South? It seems to be so, and his name is
Judd Mortimer Lewis. Readers of the
Houston Post and Fort "Worth Record are
familiar with Lewis' name. Every day in
tho week, except Monday, for some time
past, Lewis has beon filling a column in
these papers "with poetry and prose humor
under tho caption of "Tampering With
Trifles." And because of his work being
so tender and heart-stirring, the paper is
worth far more than the price paid for it.
Like Field, Lewis is in his happiest and
most tearful vein strange paradox when
ho Is singing about children. His lines
have a delicious swing and fine sontlment
so much so that Lewis is hailed today
by a large constituency as the South's
most popular poet. To a larger circle he
Is known and loved as a typical American
poot and verse-Jingler. His poems sing,
and the music they make rings gratefully
in the memories of all who hear their
message. Ho kindles lost fires in one's
heart, anew.
The book, which will make a most ac
ceptable holiday present, contains over 103
of Mr. Lewis selected poems, and the lat
ter are so unusually good that if one
wished to quote the best, ono would ex
haust the space allotted to this review.
The titles of the best are: "Father's
Voice." "Peek-a-Boo," "Lonesome."
"When T Lay Mo Down to Sleep." "A
Boy's Whistle," "Tho Earth," "Regret,"
"That Sweetheart of Mine" and "Sing
the South." It Is notorious that poets do
not have money. May fate bo different
with Mr. Lewis. May his book soil so
well that hp will be able to start a small
hank, and bo its first president!
Spanish Influence on English Literature, by
Martin Hume. $2.50. The J. B. Llppln
cott Company. Philadelphia.
Tho Iberian peninsula has;undergono
greator racial and social changes than
any other country in Europe. Think
of tho wave after wave of immigration
sweeping over it Iberian, Celt, Phoe
nician. Carthaginian, Greek. Roman.
Afro-Semite, Goth, Frank, Vandal and
Turk and wo get the race wo call
Spanish that has profoundly modified
thought and literary form. Many of
tho best Caesars were Spaniards.
Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas
two well-known writers had Span
ish blood or Spanish instinct, and their
romantic school of fiction and drama
seized hold of Fraace, and thence
spread to England, where it left its
mark and influence on the Anglo-Saxon
tongue as It Is written "and spoken to
day. Nor Is this alL Spanish litera
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in 'intervals between the stabbing of
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upon all living European literature of
this age.
Mr. Hume was extension lecturer on
Spanish literature in the "University of
London, and this valuable book of 322
pages Is mainly the substance of ten
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careful scholarship. His stylo is easy
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become lost in a mass of historical
generalities. A useful book to those
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Tho Dak of Xelchttodt, by Edward de
Wertbelmer. Illustrated. John Lane Com
pany. New York City.
Seventy-three years ago, one would
havo been pardoned for saying that
the young Duke of Relchstadt was
probably the most fortunate young
man in the world, and was probably
destined to be a world conqueror. But
today, what does tho average reader,
or even the studious schoolboy know
about the Duke? Very little. Ho was
the son of ,Napoloon I and Mario Louise
of Austria. Born in the year 2S11 to
the glorious Inheritance of the French
empire, the young Duke was destined
to oblivion from his very birth. When
yet a baby In arms, his father's armies
were dashed to pieces at Waterloo.
Growing to manhood, and bent on en
tering army life to emulate his great
father, Relchstadt died from the effects
of tuberculosis Jn the year 1S32.
Mr. do Wertheimer is quite a cele
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preparation for this work has had ac
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less fortunato biographers. He has
written with fine literary skill, and
has pictured a human Relchstadt, with
his faults, virtues and boundless am
bitions. As an historical study, the
book is a valuable one. because it
treats of matters concerning1 inner Eu
ropean politics not usually given in or
dinary histories.
The Mj terl on s Stranger, and Other Car
toons, by John T. McCutcheon. McClure,
Phillips & Ox. New York City.
McCutcheon has a peculiar, irres I st
able humor all his own. To read his
jokes and look at his cartoons is an
unique experience. His book contain
Ing 150 cartoons, contributed to and
lately published in tho Chicago Trlb
una and the Chicago Record-Herald.
will undoubtedly add to his increasing
reputation, and will give his able
work of a more permanent Interest
and value than it has hitherto enjoyed.
The caption, "Tho Mysterious Stran
ger," refers to tho sudden appearance
of Missouri in the band wagon of Re
publican states. Tho sketches lncludo
sidelights from the Russo-Japanese
War, the St, Louis Exposition, eta,
whllo President Roosevelt is by no
means- overlooked. The cartoon, "Four
Years More of Teddy," is very clever,
while one of the most amusing scries
are those pictures describing a boy, in
the glad Springtime, falling in love.
Do you remember this McCutcheon
Joke? "Every time I think of her, I
nave tno queerest feeling kind o like
a painless stomach ache, only not so
much. I wonder why?" And there are
cartoons describing the visits of the
many states of tho Union to the St.
Louis Exposition, but Oregon Is not
mentioned. Oh, Mr. McCutcheon!
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One volume more, and this encyclo
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There are 690 pages In this, tho elev
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Vivien, by W. B. Maxwell. D. Appletoa &
1.-0., -ew lorK City.
People have been wondering when a
novel describing aristocratic England
during the period of the Boer War would
be published. Here is one now.
Curiously enough In the first chapter, a
company of fairies assembles to wish va
rlous gifts to a newly born baby girl and
ho? name Is Vivien Shclton. tho heroine
of the story. Her father is Colonel Sbel
toa and her mother Is descended from one
of tho English Kings. But tho Sheltons
ultimately experienco financial reverses.
and Vivien secures employment as a sales
girl in ono Prings dry goods store. The
author attractively describes London's
submerged tenth those who work for
starvation wages In the stores or factories
of a large city. How Vivien's aristocratic
friends find her, restore her to her own.
and where she meets her Princo Charm'
Ing this all makes very entertaining read
ing. The anxiety through which England
.passed during the period when the Boers
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the Allied Arts, by Ralph Adam Cram. CO
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company. Jew Tcnc city.
The memory of Japaa asd what she tats
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about the land of the Rising Sun.
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He Is now recognized as one of this
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The Mountain of Fran, by Henry C Jtow-
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"Doctor," said my shipmate. Dr. Ley-
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On tho Brooding Wild, by Rldgwell Cullatn.
91.50. L. C- Page & Co., Boston.
From the beginning. Nature has spoken
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and, when they discovered they both loved
her, a fight took place in which Nick Wiled
his brother. This part of the story is told
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mountain live. The last chapter is beau
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The Art of the Notional Gallery, by Julia de
Wolt Addison. Illustrated. $2. L. C
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It was Ruskln, tho great art critic
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Caesar: Episode From the Gallic and the
Cirll Wars, with an Introduction, notes
and vocabulary by Dr. Maurice W. Mather,
formerly instructor In Latin in Harvard
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No more amusing fairy tale can he
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life la the Eighteenth Century, by George
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Most of us aro familiar with history
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It is a regrettable fact that tho exami
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Heart's Haves, by Katherlne Evans Blake.
Illustrated by E. M. Ashe. The Bobbi-
MerrlU Company. Indianapolis.
Harmonic, tho first village of the Rap
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After all, the Rappltes find that they lovo
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It Is remarkable that for reliance on
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One of tho American "crises biogra
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Farragut, of Tennessee. In the 407
pages will be found statements con
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aro not usually found In hlstory-bl-ographles.
The book Is tho very thing1
for a boy fond of reading- about the
making- and welding of our country.
Jelea of the Great Heart, by Lawrence Mott.
21.50. The Century Company New York
City.
When British and Americans Jointly
claimed the Oregon country as their own.
Jules Verbaux and many a free and easy
trapper llko him. must have lived, warred
and passed on. Mr. Mott tells this story
of "Jules of the Great Heart;" who was
considered an outlaw by the Hudson's
Bay Company and treated as such. His
fights with hostilo factors, shifty Indians
and other forest people aro told with
marked ability. This i3 a book of the
trail and is sure to bo among the big
sailers. It pulses with life.
Twisted Eglantine, by H. B. Marriott Wat
son. Illustrated by Frank Craig. $L50.
D. Appletoa & Co., New York City.
Within an ace of being an historical
romance. Instead. It's a most enjoyable
novel about Sir Piers' Blakiston, beau,
of the time of one of the Georges, cf
England, and Sir Piers' cool, romantic.
sentimental personality Is most at
tractively drawn. There are highway
men who stand in the King's highway
and say "Deliver L" and hapless maid
ens whp are rescued against immenso
odds. Full of love, duels, wit and de
scription of an interesting era.
Th Secret' Passage, by Fergus Hume. O. W.
Dillingham Company. New York City.
Twenty-six chapters of aristocratic
England, the kernel of the novel being
the murder of Miss Loach, an elderly
woman who, in the second chapter. Is
found stabbed to the heart. The hunt
for the' assassin I3 described with tho
skill of a practiced story-teller, and tho
book work is 50 good in this respect that
it reminds one of Anna Katherlno Green
or Miss M. Ev Braddoh. . Those who llko
th unraveling of tangled skeins will en
joy this book. It adds to Mr. Hume's
literary reputation.
Tho PoUtlcal Development of rorto Itlco, by
Edward S. Wilson. $1. Fred J. Heer. Co
lumbus. O.
Although Undo Sam started to Teforra
thlng3 In Cuba and Porto Rico almost
simultaneously, most people are not so
well Informed as to Porto Rico. Mr. Wil
son has from tho Summer of 1500 to last
May served a3 United States Marshal at
Porto Rico, and has had exceptional ad
vantages to study conditions in that
Island. In his well-wirtten book of IK
page he thinks tho tlmo. has come for
an advance stop and his suggestions aro
worth consideration. j
Deerfoot In tho Forest, by Edward S. Ellis.
Illustrated by J. Steeply Davis. $1. The
John C Winston Company, Philadelphia.
This is the first volume of "Tho New
Deerfoot Series" and abounds In ' thrill
ing Incidents and adventures. Two boys,
George and Victor Shelton. who had gone
on a hunting- expedition where thero was
an Indian uprising, wero rescued by a
Christianized Indian, Deerfoot. The three
friends meet with many hair-breadth es
capes, but tho cunning of Deerfoot sur
mounts all obstacles. The book la one
which a boy at any ago would like to
read.
Rnrarod Jones, by Robert BJalock and edited
by Clinton Oiddlngs Brown. Illustrated by
E. S. Paxson. $1. The Saalneld Publish
ing Company. Akron. O.
Sam Houston, tho Toxas revolution
against Mexico, and the battle of San
Jacinto are dim topics now to students
and readers of tho great Civil War be'
twecn North and South, and other world
famous wars that camo after It. But San
Jacinto, fought April 20, 1S36, is still a
glorious page. This book of 321 pages tells
about the eventful conflict, from the view
point of frontier life. Just the book for
boys. It Is a well-told tale.
Tho Boy Captive In Canada, by Mary P.
Wells Smith. Illustrated by Arthur E.
Belcher. JL25. Little, Brown & Ce.,
Boston.
This is tho second story in the Old
Dcerfleld Series, and a sequel to "The
Boy Captive of Old Deerflcld." It tells
about the capture by the Indians of
Stephen Williams, the Doerfleld minis
ter's son, and strange thing that hap
pened him. It also pictures his re
demption by Governor de Vandreiul
and his happy return to his people. A
book that all boys, would enjoy reading.
Sunrise Acres, by Benjamin Brace. $1.50.
Dodd. Mead & Co.. New York City.
A well-constructed novel of rural life
In Indiana, the motif being tho denoue
ment of an old feud wherein Robert
Chandler leaves $500,000 to his nephew
Chandler to thrash his ancient enemy,
Samuel Harbridge. How Chandler finds
and defeats his man and wins the affec
tions of the hitter's daughter makes re
freshing and amusing reading. The de
scription of the boxing match in the 32d
chapter has the true sporting ring. It Is
also clean and free from bad slang.
Mrs. Jim and Mrj. JImmie, by Stephen Con
rad. $1.50. L. C Page Sc. Co., Boston.
In a 6ense, this attractive book of 236
pages Is a sequel to "The Second Mrs.
Jim" and glve3 enjoyable glimpses of
that loquacious stepmother and her phil
osophy. It is almost of the Mrs. WIggs
brand. Tho pages teem with wholesome
fun of a domestic nature, just the sort
of gossipy writing that most women like.
Indeed, It Is more a woman's book than a
man's, and Is sure to be In demand. A
frontispiece in colors, from a drawing, Is
the work of Arthur W. Brown.
Amy in Arcadia, by Helen Leah Reed. Illus
trated by Katharine Pyle. $1.50. Little,
"Brown & Co., Boston.
The first volume of a second series of
the popular "Brenda" book3. The
scene of the story is laid In Acadia,
with Its beautiful scenery and historic
associations, In wheh French and Eng
Hsh have almost equal portions. Amy
and her girl friends are bright, genial
and intelligent, and their experiences
among the descendants of the exiled
Acadians mako wholesome reading.
Frances and tho Irrepressibles at Baena
Vista Farm, by Frances Trego Montgom
ery. Illustrated. $1-50. Tho Saalneld
Publishing Company. Akron, O.
A large and unusually interesting book
for boys and girls, telling of numerous
experiences of Frances and her girl and
boy friends, on an Ideal farm. All tho
children, pets and animals are real and
even tho farm is not a fictitious one.
There are 75 text illustrations, all repro
duced from photographs of the characters
of tho story, along with tholr pets.
The Homo Kindergarten, by Katharine
Beebe. $1. The Saalneld Publishing Com
pany, Akron. O.
The author of this book: of 130 pages
was the president of tho first kinder
gartcn association, and has written
these nlno chapters of valuable In
struction in answer to requests from
mothers, who. while unable to send
their children to a kindergarten, aro
willing to devote certain hours each
day to their education at home. The
book Is a mother's help.
Real Boys, by Henry A. Shute. Illustrated
by F. It. Gruger. $1.25. G. W. DllUng
hara Company. New York City.
"Wero any of you born Jn New England,
in tho good old catechising, church-going,
school-going, orderly times?" asks Mr.
Shute. If you were, you will appreciate
the description of Exeter and Its youth
ful characters, their habits, their dress
and their many humorous adventures.
The book is written in .a most attractive
fashion and can bo enjoyed equally by
young and old.
The Star Jeweln.'by Abbie Farwell Brown.
Illustrated by Ethel C Brown. $1. Hough
ton. Mifflin & GoJ, New York City.
Flve-nolnted Jewels set In the sky were
the origin of starfish and this Is the
theme carried out In "The star Jewels.
Thero are live little stories, five tiny
do ems. five largo pictures and five small
ones. Each Is complete In Itself, yet a
part of the scheme of the book. The
whole makes a chain of little jewels
strung together for the pleasure of all
little children.
La Fttle de Thnlskon. edited by Katt ThecIa
Conley. The American Book -Company
New York.
A collection of Teuton Ideals In French
prose. The author. Labrunle, who died
In his native Paris in lS53,'was considered
by his contemporaries to' be-in point of
style one of the most elegant writers of
his country. All the selections, are within
easy reach of those who have only ac
quired an elementary knowledge of
French. The vocabulary is" complete and
correct.
Immortality, by Joseph Jefferson. Decorated
by Henry Holcomb Bennett. $1. The
Baalfleld Publishing Company. Akron. O.
A handsomely decorated and pictured
gift book, the motif being the legend
of the two caterpillars who mused on
death, and after a sleep,, found them
selves handsome butterflies.
Sir Galahad of New France, by William
Henry Johnson. $1.50. Herbert B. Turner
& Co.. Boston.
Whether or not this book: is an his
torical novel is Immaterial It speaks
about stirring times, a land that was new
in its day, and Its men and women mako
their history. The" motif is furnished by
tho attempts of French Huguenots to
settle In North America In tho 16th cen
tury, and sea life in the far North Is
vividly pictured. Romance and a Httlo
comedy are skilfully blonded and "Sir
Galahad" ought to bo a good seller.
Tho Complete Calendar of Revised Wisdom
for 1900, by Ethet WatW Mumford. Oliver
Herford and Addison M liner. Illustrated.
Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco,
God gives us our relatives thank God
we can choose our friends.
If the wolf be at tho door, open It and
eat him.
Some are born widows, some achieve wid
owhood, while others have widows thrust
upon them.
Friendship is more to be valued than love,
for love is a thing a man can buy and a
woman ean get for nothing.
Women change their minds a dozon tlmea
a day that's why they are so clean minded.
Such are a few extracts taken at ran
dom from this most amusing calendar. It
is a clever little book. Its wit Is keen
and Its brightness most welcome. It ought
to have a largo sale.
Tlia Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories,
by Margaret Collier Graham. $L25.
Houghton, Mifflin & Co Boston.
Six clover little stories exhibiting much
pathos and humor, and told in a manner
that captivates attention. "TEe Wfawxd'a
Daughter" tells how an old professor of
science visited California and sedd he
would revolutionize the country and make
the land blossom as tho rose. II proposed
a new scnemo for irrigation, but the peo
ple wero skeptical about it and thought
his theories impracticable. However, the
wizard, with his magic touch of science,
produced tho desired result Tho kOpfe
J3 ono which will bo much enjoyeil tta
light reading.
Tho Green Shay, by George S. Wassoa.
$1.50. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., New York
City.
George S. Wasson depicts present condi
tions along the Maine coast, whero ha
lived for many years. Tho characters la
tho book aro mostly those of retired fish
ermen, and a striking portrayal of their
life and character Is given. A lively hu
mor and shrewdness Is displayed In "The
Green Shay," and the book adds to the
long list of novels dealing essentially with
passing types of American life The book
Is moral and entertaining.
Our Little French CouIn, by Blanche Me
Manus. Illustrated. CO cents. L. C Paga
& Co.. Boa ton.
Within the compass of "lis pages the
author tells in plain, simple language
something of the dully life of a little
French girl living In a Norman village,
In one of the most progressive and opu
lent sections of France. The seven
chapters form a connected story filled
with Interesting incidents, one of the
bot chapters being "To Rouon on a
Barge."
Onr little Korean Cousin, by H. I,so M.
Pike. Illustrated. 60 cents. L. C. Page Sc.
Cr.. Boston.
This little book gives a glimpse into the
mode of llfo. habits, customs, traditions .
and superstitions of the Corouns. It can
not fail to awaken an interest in 1ho -minds
of young readers and inspire them
with a desire for further knowledge of
their cousins In this Far Eustern land
who will some day occupy a largor placft
In the world's history than their fore
fathers. The Greater Waterloo, by Robert Richard
son. $1.50. G. W. Dillingham Company,
New York City.
To Wellington and Napoleon thero was
only one Waterloo in historic Belgium.
In this pleasantly-written novel of 271
pagos, Mr. Richardson follows the Inci
dents of a lovo story, the scene being tho
city of Waterloo, Canada. Karl Kranz,
poot and lover, and other Germans aro
attractively sketched. A book with good
local color.
Back to A ready, by Frank Waller Allen.
$1.25. Herbert B. Turner & Co.. Boston
The story of a bachelor, who, in the
days of his youth, loved and lost and be
comes the guardian of tho daughter of
her whom he lost. Ho tells tho story
himself and In Its telling Incidentally re
lates his own romance. The book recalls
Ike Marvel's "Reveries of a Bachelor,"
but has a charm all Its own. It Is doo
oratod exquisitely and would mako a,
pretty gift.
Boys Who Became Famous Men, by HarrleB
Pearl Skinner. Illustrated by Sears Gal
lagher. $1.25. Little, Brown & Co.. Boston.
Very interesting and instructive sto
ries about the childhood of eight fa
mous men Giotto, Bach, Byron, Gains
borough, Handel, Coleridge, Canovx
and Chopin. The stories are told with
much color, and will be appreciated by
lovers of theso poets, musicians and
artists.
The Rejuvenation of Annt Mary, by Anns
Warner. Illustrated. $1.50. Little. Brown
& Co.. Boston.
A clever story, and brimful of hu
mor, with a vein of love running
through It. "Aunt Mary," with her
nephew Jack and his college friends,
have delicious experiences in Now
York. The book will appeal to all wha
are fond of light, cheerful reading.
Tho BIblo Beantlful, by Estella M. Hurll.
Illustrated. $2. L. C. Page & Co., Boston.
The aim of this book Is to trace tho de
velopment of Bible illustration from the
cruIo pictures of tho catacombs to the
great art which embodied In visible form
"The Bible Beautiful." Tho illustrations
are from subjects of Old Testament story
and tho life of Christ- The book will bs
appreciated by lovers of art who are also
Biblical students.
The Strange Story of tho Quillmores. by A".
L. Chatterton. The Stltt Publishing Com
pany. New York City.
A dramatic tale drawn out to the extent
of 272 pages, about a rural mystery in the
State of Indiana. Skill is observed Jn
the general treatment of tho story, and
Mr. Chatterton Is sure to write ono of
better merit when bo has more experi
ence. The Ward of tho Sewing: Circle, by Edna
Edwards Wylle. $1. Little, Brown & Co..
Boston.
A little .orphan boy Is adopted by the
members of a sewing circle, who take car
of him in turn, for periods of two months.
The story Is well told, the characters are
realistic and the ending Is a romantic and
happy one.
The Deep Sea's Toll, by James B, Connolly.
Illustrated. $1.50. Charles Scrlbners
Eons, New York City,
Tales of seafaring life, written with the
freshness of the sea breezes, and abound
ing with love for the adventurous sailor.
There Is not a friend of the mighty sea
who will fail to be delighted with this lit
tle volume.
Tho House of Merrtlees. by Archibald Mar-
shall. $1.50. Herbert B. Turner Cq.
Boston.
A mystery story, full of action and noE
at all Improbable. Tho scenes are Jaid In
the. .beautiful . English lake district. TheT
ending of the story Is satisfactory, for
the House of Merrilees becomes a .para-;
dlse.
Representing John Marshall Co by Earl
Underwood. Illustrations by Gordon H.
Grant. G. W. DllUngham Company,' Newr
York City.
A merry little volume containing the
confessions of Edward R. Ward, drum-:
roer. In nine chapters the author gives
lively tales of the road, warranted to
raise laughter;
Telephone Investments and Others, by Fred
erlck S. Dickson. 25 cents. The Cuya
hoga. Telephone Company, Cleveland, O.
A mass of well-selected Information
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