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THE BOSTON GLOBE SATURN A MARCH 14, 1914. 4 30 0 000 0BH0IMBS3SI3BEHSSI3BDSQEffiaaaQaQE30S! I THE LATEST NOVEL Overland REVIEWS OF THE LATEST BOOKS OBG QJ3 GGGGD GOnGGOSOC BBS LQE3ES3E3! Red far into the night frequently, for I LAID IN BLEAK SETTING. But the Story of "Over the Hills," by WINS $10,000 PRIZE, Miss Dalrymple's Novel, ''Diane of the Green Van." ENTITLED "GRANNIE." Announcement of the Publication on March 18 of a Charming Story by Mrs George Wemyss. Readers of fiction will no doubt be pleased to learn of the announcement from the Macmillan Company of New York of the publication on March 18 of WHITE pressed ror time. Miss Dalrympie is the daughter of a well-known lawyer of Passaic.

She is a good jsianist and organist, playing in the Unitarian Church of Passaic on Sundays. Not infrequently she spends her evenings accompanying Clarence Wilson, her fiance, as he plays on the clarinet or 'cello. She is a good cook and a neat housekeeper. Her prize novel was the best of more than 500 manuscripts, some of which came from places as far away as Canada, Great Britain, South America and Egypt. Written Within Six Weeks and Chosen Above 500 Manuscripts.

Mary Findlater, Possesses Action Tat Holds the Interest. i It is a bleak setting in which is laid the story of "Over the Hills," by Mary findlater, and the bleakness seems to "iav.e, settled in the weave of the story itself. Yet it is not wholly cheerless, and i it possesses action that holds the in-i terest. The character of Annie Fraser a sort of scotch Becky Sharp on a smaller and less cosmopolitan scale Is so well drawn as to linger in the memory after the book is put back on the shelf. Indeed, she stands out above Dinah Jer-ningham, the heroine, as does that of Becky above Amelia.

About these two girls and Lewis Campbell, who loved first one and then the other, the story moves, and when at last Lewis and Dinah are off on an emigrant ship for America the reader will wish them well, though he may doubt if they frove highly entertaining to each other. New York: J2. P. Dut-ton Co. BP BY "DEAN OF TRAINERS." "Athletic Training" Embodies Lessons Learned by Late Michael C.

Murphy in 30 Years of Work. "Athletic TraininK" is the title of a "Diane of the Green Van." This Is the title of the novel written by a 28-year-old woman. Miss Leona Dalrympie of Passaic, J. which won the prize ot $10,000 offeree a year ago for an open novel competition by the Reilly Brit-ton Company of Chicago. The book was published last week.

By GEORGE BARR MeCUTCH EON Author of "Qraustark "The Hollow of Her Etc. From the opening chapter, from the first scene In which twoold men sit a whote evening before an open fire, guessing, puzzling, wondering about the contents of a wireless telegram which they dare not open, BLACK IS WHITE has the Mst of all qualities for a story INTEREST. Jlluttrationa in color by A. I. KELLER.

Price net. Publishers DODD, MEAD COMPANY New York 'THE C0NGRESSW0MAN. book just published under the authorship of the late Michael C. Murphy, for many years coach of the athletic teams of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania and trainer of the teams which represented the United States at the Olympic games in 1908 and 1912. This volume embodies practically all the lessons which the "dean of trainers" learned and applied to his profession during the SO years with which he was connected with the game.

The book is particularly adaptable for the use of the beginner. It is simple and direct in style and exhaustive in treatment. Yet laden with the reminiscences of a generation and a half from an athletic idol, it will find a warm welcome with the old school. And again, though the major part of the book is a discussion- of track athletics, who of all clean-living men cannot enjoy the great coach's hints on diet and care of the body? New York: Charles Scrib-ner's Sons, "BLACK IS WHITE." EVERYONE Should read this new anonymous story of adventure and daring in the ranching country and the hidden canyons of the Far West. Isabel Gordon Curtis Again Proves Skillful Artist With a Story of Another Woman in Washington.

Isabel Gordon Curtis gave the public some time ago a picture of a woman's I life In Washington in "The Woman From Wolverton." Now. in "The Con-j gresswoman." she again takes a woman to the Capital, but on her own account and not merely as a Congressman's side- partner. mm MBS GEORGE WEMYSS. a new novel by Mrs George Wemyss, who will be remembered as author of OVERLAND RED Is a novel of instant and strong attraction. It is thrilling from start to finish, full of adventure, of hairbreadth escapes, of true love and of the finest types of manhood.

At all bookstores. Illustrated. $1.35 Net. Houghton Mifflin Publishers Georqe B. McCutchcon's Genius for "The Professional Aunt.

The new novel is entitled "Grannie," and is said Creation of the Original Apparent to be a charming story of an old lady Ul. I Wnrk -w III 111. "OUR MR WRENN." Sinclair Lewis' Story Deals With Commonplace Clerk, Whose Dream of Happiness Was to Travel. "Our Mr Wrenn," by Sinclair Lewis is the story of a commonplace clerk whose dream of happiness was to travel. Finally he was able to break his humdrum life because of a small inheritance.

He went to England in a cattle steamer, but foreign scenes were not up to his dreams until he met an unusual woman. They went gypsying through England and his viewpoint of life broadened as the days went by. sills vifirs8 'JHj That seemingly inexhaustible fertility of imagination and special genius for the creation of the original which characterized "Graustark," "Truxton King" and many of his most popular novels, is once more apparent in "Black Is White," the latest thing from the prolific pen of George Barr McCutcheon. A BOOK TO DELIGHT. MISS LEONA DALKYMPLB.

IN ITS FOURTH PRINTING. Ruth Holt Boucicault's "The Substance of the House" Is an Unusual Story. "The Substance of the House," Ruth Holt Boucicault's unusual story, which has caused so much comment, is now in its fourth large printing. It is an account of the experiences of a woman of American training with English relatives, who marries an EnglislMnan her senior in years. She is happy until a member of Parliament appears: she fights this new love, and even when her husband gives permission for divorce, she refuses.

But he dies and later she I 'SCRIBNERS' SPRING LIST. Books for All Classes of Readers, Announcement Being Strong In the I Serious Works. An unusually attractive list Spring publications has been Issued by Charles Rrrlbner'H Sons. The lover of fiction mny always wait such a publication Rs with assurance, for there are sure to be found in it the usual novels by the Kt hu hom-and this year offering If anything above the average-and he rosrch specialist and the student uf history will not be disappointed. Possibly the most attractive announcement under biography JgK? "The Notes of a Son and Brother, by Henry James, which Is a continuation the account in "A Small Boy and others" of the early years of am Henry James and their brothers Part of the story deals with their life In Cambridge, which introduces such characters as Ralph Waldo Emerson md Prof Charles tfllot Norton, and relates some of WUklnson James experiences In the Civil War with Col HUaWi colore regiment.

Another volume of local ferMCM "The Narratives of Witchcraft, edited by George D. Burr, professor of medieval history at Cornell, which contains In the original contemporary narratives, with notes and descriptions of wttcB-iraft cases In Massachusetts and other There are several works o'mely interest, the much-discussed Autoblog-raphv of George Dewey with his description of events leading SurfnC the Spanish War; several works nn T.nlln America. "hv United States and Mexico. 1821-1848. by Deorire L.

Rives, former Assistant Secretary of State, and "The Panama Gateway," by Joseph Bucktln secretary of the Isthmian Canal Com- 'nder tbe same heading should be pi.ntloned "Early Memories. by Sen TALE OF GRIPPING ACTION. "Overland Red" Has Pulse Throbbing With Good Red Blood and Deals With Fearless Men. A story tingling with the virile life of the great West in the days when a steady eye and a six-shooter were first aids to the law, "Overland Red" should be a widely read piece of fiction. It has a pulse throbbing, not with blue, but good red blood.

It is a tale of thrilling and gripping action, dealing with fearless men and their adventures, and with bravery and bravado there goes a pretty romance along. The scene Is laid in California and carries the reader from the ranches and the desert to the canons that conceal gold mines. The central figure is of the type which novelists with a fancy for the West attempt to paint in some of his variable guises, but rarely has one of them given this particular hero of the trail and spur a clearer or more fascinating individuality. Overland Red is not an ordinary cowboy. He has the elements of poetry and philosophy in him.

His yarns, his allusions to people and nature, are tinged with a shrewd and droll wit that adds spice to his daring. The author prefers to withold his name for the present, for reasons which he also declines to make known, but wishes to assure the reader that his book is in a sense biographical and based on his actual experience as a tramp of the plains, even to the picture of the broncho which he drew after his own. The love story centers about a girl of womanly qualities whose path joins that of the hero's after the vicissitudes necessary to engrossing fiction. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Company. ISABEL GORDON CURTIS.

-r asm Leslie Moore's "The Peacock Feather," Ingenious Romance Which Pictures Unusual Wooing. Leslie Moore's "The Peacock Feather" is a curiously Ingenious romance. It Is called a romance, although It pictiir a wooing out of the ordinary. The hero staggers valiantly under the load of false accusation and unjust imprisonment Forgery had been the charge. Let the reviewer hasten to assure the reader at the outset that the hero never committed the crime at all, so that for 275 pages or more out of 300 all hope Is not destroyed of a possible hero in deed as in name.

How Peter, the piper, who Is a wonderful performer of music as well as writer of books, effected the recognition of his family and the society which had been his. Is contrived with not altogether concealed, but nevertheless considerable skill by the novelist. Both the pipe, no disrespect prompts the admonition that this Is not the kind common to tramps, and the book, "Under the Span of the Rainbow," by Robin Adair, accomplish this feat. His incarceration over, Peter takes up his abode in an abandoned hut at the outskirts of a village, which rumor reported to have been inhabited once by two unhappy creatures, mother and daughter, who camo to a miserable end. Their revisiting spirits do not deter Peter nor palliate his loneliness.

His book leaps into extraordinary notice, and his mail one day contained a letter from a woman touched by the beauty and sincerity of his writing A long correspondence ensues. One day he is asked to play for a fine lady In the great house in the park near at hand. His next letter tells how his correspondent had heard a tramp play wonderfully upon a pipe. Of course she ultimately is the woman. A good Irish priest is concerned in unearthing evidence to clear him.

Much of the pleasure to be derived from the book lies in the literary charm, the beauty of stvle, the play of Imagination of these letters. A book to engage and delieht fastidious taste. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

mi i in I. ''mi The story tells how Cynthia Pike, left a rich widow at 36, hating the "dog-goned, dismal, dry, red-dirt country" of Oklahoma, was led to join the Suffrage League, won the Republican nomination for Congress as their candidate, then won the election after a very hot fight, and took her place in Congress as the first woman member. Not all her troubles were over then by any means. The fanatics of "the Cause" made her life a burden. The black-mailing father of her secretary involved her in a graft investigation.

She broke with the Suffragists because of her opposition to militancy and to universal suffrage. And at the last she left Congress, to marry William Prince of Orange McCroy, the gentle, whimsical "joke" candidate whom she had defeated. The story is an interesting one and so well told that it draws the reader on through all the 500 pages of the book. And the characters, whether denizens of Oklahoma or of Washington Suffragists, politicians, Congressmen and their hangers-on are all drawn in a way that again proves the author a skillful artist. Chicago: Browne Howell Company.

GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON. SINCLAIR LEWIS. "FORTY YEARS OF IT." Their wanderings are told in a half humorous sympathetic style which is sure to be appreciated by the reader. Life really begins for the clerk when he returns to his position and to his old surroundings, because he Is bigger and better for his experiences. New York: Harper Bros.

Philosophy, Humor and Philanthropy in Delightful Volume of Reminiscences by Brand Whitlock. Altogether human is Brand Whitlock's "Forty Years of It," a volume of reminiscences. Nothing more delightful of its kind has appeared in many a day. Former newspaperman in Chicago, then lawyer, then Mayor of Toledo, for four terms, and recently appointed United States Minister to Belgium, Mr Whitlock has seen life from "many angles. He is philosopher, humorist, humanitarian of the broadest sympathies, and he believes in democracy.

Mystery and romance, elements In which Mr McCutcheon dearly loves to deal, pervade his most recent novel, the scenes of which are laid for the most part in New York city. Its story centers about the strange career of James Brood, American millionaire, disappointed, embittered husband and soldier of fortune, whose second marriage, contracted in middle age, leads to such strange and altogether unexpected developments. There is excellent scope for Mr Mc-Cutcheon's able powers of character drawing and "Black IB White" presents some singular contrasts. What more striking than that between James Brood, hard, imperious man of wealth, who has seen all phases of life in many different countries of the world, and the son whom he secretly hates, young Frederick Brood, sensitive, high-strung, romantic and ardent? In the two old men who saved James Brood from the abyss into which he had fallen during the misery following the separation from his first wife and who were rewarded for their faithful devotion by a shelter beneath his roof in their old age, the author has depicted two real characters who cannot fail to touch the heart of every reader. New York: Dodd.

Mead Co. "SUCCESS AT GOLF." RUTH HOLT BO0CICADLT. marries again and finds adversity conquering love. A new tragedy appears, she denies her marriage and disappears, to save him from prison; and only as death approaches is happiness fouad. Miss Boucicault, who is an actress as well as an author and who is a Belmont girl, thus described the motif of her IN HEART J)FTHE WILD.

"The Primal Lure" Is a Lively Romance of a Hudson Bay Fur-Trading Post. A throbbing romance of the primitive Northwest is told by Miss V. E. Roe in "The Primal Lure." Fort Lu Cerne, one of the Hudson Bay Company's fur-trading posts in the very heart of the wilds, is the stage on which the drama is played. Lois Le Moyne, the striking French-Canadian girl of the colony, found In the headquarters of the factor, Angus McConnel, is accused by him of having stolen the book of accounts which is 2f He casts her into prison, from which she Is liberated only through the offices of Richard Sylvestor, an authority from the central post, who has fallen madly in love with her.

Lois, with a secret love for McConnel. but a pride and distant reserve that conceal her passion effectually, sets out to play a game which will ultimately command the admiration of the factor, who at first will not deign to look at her. The characters of this book are strong and finely drawn. The tenseness of the chronicle of the plague and subsequent attack of the Indians and that of the struggle between Sylvestor and Is admirable. New York: Dodd Mead Co.

i dook: i Deueve it is mat sumie, occuit, indefinable thing we call love which produces the greatest crises in our lives. And it is thej blundering way we I treat this greatest of human forces that causes most of the misery." Boston: Little, iSrown Jo. SOLVED BY THE DAUGHTER. What She Did in Joveph C. Lincoln's New Book Is the Reason for Reading It.

A new novel by Joseph C. Lincoln is an event sure to please the army of readers who have come to recognize old friends among the Cape Cod characters which this prolific writer has created. His latest book, "Cap'n Dan's Daughter," is just as breezy and entertaining as its predecessors, although there is a new note in the song it sings. There Is, of course, the retired sailor man, but he finds himself in a new role. Cap'n Dan was prevailed upon by his wife to quit the sea to become a merchant.

And the fact that he consented becomes the theme of Mr Lincoln's story. Woman is the dominant power; Cap'n Dan sails on a ship but he is no longer the commander. The store did not prove a success, but this difficulty was soon remedied by the Inheritance of a fortune, which included a mansion with a butler, in a neighboring city. Cap'n Dan's wife, already Interested in clubs, immediately aspired to a high social life, and they moved into their new house. Mere man became the traditional cipher, and his life became a burden, but it did not last.

The Cap'n's daughter, who was away at college, heard of her mother's doings and of her father's consequent unhappiness, and she came home to see what could be donebout it. She solved the problem, and what she did is the real reason vf or reading the book. She started a campaign which resulted in the return of the family to the Jittle town down on the Cape" where everybody was satisfied, contented and happy. New York: p. Appleton Co.

BEST SELLERS OF THE WEEK Oulmet, Vardon, Herd, Reid, Duncan, Ayton and Anderson Among Contributors to Helpful Volume. "Success at Golf" Is the latest and one of the most practically helpful of the many books that deal with the art of playing the "royal and ancient" game, Although primarily intended for the novice and the player of moderate ability, the book may be read with profit by the expert golfer. The six chapters are written by sir masters of the game, each of whom tells how he plays shots for which he is more than ordinarily renowned. Francis Ouimet. the United States open champion, explains the methods of putting that he has found most successful; Harry Vardon gives many valuable suggestions on the art of driving, Alexander Herd gives sound advice concerning the spoon and the various irons, Wilfred Reid discusses the use of the mashie.

George Duncan gives lucid instructions for making the "push" shot and Lawrence Ayton tells how the ball should be played out of hunkers and other hazards. There Is also an Informative introductory chapter by John G. Anderson. Boston: Little. Brown Co.

FICTION ator Henry i anot iouKe. Years as a French Woman," by Mary King Waddington, who was the daughter Pres King of Columbia and the pranddaughter of Rufus King, the sec-end United States Minister to England. One chapter describes the Berlin Congress during negotiations which ended the treaty of Berlin. "The Lives of the Presidents of the United States," edited by James Grant Wilson, covers in four volumes the entire period of our National life. It contains short biographies written by such Mithors as John Flake, Carl Schuiz.

ieorge Bancroft and Johi Hay. There re more modern ones by Owen Wister nd Sec of the Navy Daniels. Under Government and Politics are to be found such timely works as The American Japanese Problem by Prof Kidney tt. Gullck, DO, MA, who lived for many years in Japan and presents both sides of the question; A New Hook by Ex-President Taft," a collection of his essays; and "American ami English Studies" by Whitelaw Reid former Ambassador to the Court of bt lames. Possibly there is one announcement Which should precede all the others, rven though It will make Its appeal to a more limited number of readers.

No lover of art can fail to appreciate the imbrication of "New Guides to Ola Masters" by John C. Van Dyke. These sketches, presented in 12 volumes, the first of which on the London collect-lions will be ready immediately, are the result of Prof Van Dyke's 30 years ot tudy of European picture galleries. He made his notes in the presence of the pictures themselves. Under sport and travel come such works as "Life Histories of African Game Animals," by Theodore Roosevelt niid Edmund Heller, "African Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt, and Hudson Stiick's thrilling story of "The Ascent of Denali." His expedition was the first to attain the summit of Mt McKinley.

"Athletic Training," by the late Michael C. Murphy, better known to the followers of track athletics as "Mike" Murphy, 1 edited by E. R. Bushnell end has an introduction by R. Tatt M.Kensie, professor of physical education a the University of Pennsyl- aula.

There are a number of attractive announcements under the heading "Es-savs and Poetry." while under "Drama" there nre available works of the leading foreign dramatists. There are editions of the plavs of August Strlndberg. translated by Edwin Bjorkman, and those of Rjornson, translated by the fame author. "The Fugitive" is the latest addition to the plays of John Galsworthy. For fiction there is the third large edition of Galsworthy's "The Dark Flower." "The Custom of the Country." by Edith Wharton; "Rung Ho," a thrilling story of love and adventure in India, bv Talbot Mundy; Marion Har-land's charming essay on old age, ''Lookini "A Day With Father, by Francis E.

Deupp, and many others. In this held also some of the best foreign writers are made available to American readers. There is a series of short stories by the great Russian author. Anton Tchekoff. entitled "Stories of Russian Life." translated by Marian Fell and "A Vitlaa" Komeo and Juliet.

Dv the Swiss novelist, Gottfried Keller, with an introduction by Edith Wharton. In a long list of works of fiction are to be seen "The Dong Road," by Richard Harding Davis; "The Adventures of Captain O'Shea." bv Palph D. Paine; "The Heart of the Hills," by John Fox Jr and more sea stories. Sonnle-Boy's People," by James B- Connolly. Years ago, when tradition seemed to mark the burden of maturer years as an essential of successful novel-writing, it would have been considered the hlght of effrontery for a woman not yet 30 to venture to thrust herself into the charmed circle.

But now the world simply looks on in amazement and applauds. And well may the public applaud. The judgment of critics like Samuel S. Mc-Clure, Miss Ida Tarbell and George N. Madison, who were judges in the contest, should be sufficient to guarantee the worth of this book.

But Miss Dalrympie has written a book that is extraordinary and of great proportions. It is extraordinary because in the Everglades of Florida it finds a bright background in a field of romance that the average reader had thought exhausted, and through the injection a Magyar king, a prince, a duke and others, whose true importance is enshrouded in mystery until the denouement of the plot, it develops a romanticism all its own. It is a big book because it deals with Trig problems healthy romance and not the "sentimental gush" which Miss Dalrympie herself deplores in modern novels the power of friendship and its place in the scheme of things that i make men better, and one phase of the sex problem treated in a new and reverential light. Diane is a beautiful girl of good social position with a bit of the unconventional in her ethical heritage. She longs to throw off the rigors of city life and live in the sylvian dell like the gypsy.

With this purpose in mind she starts from her Connecticut farm in a green traveling van, driving along the sunny roads toward the South by day and sleeping under the open heaven by night with none but "Johnny," her old family servant, guard her. With the overland voyage commences an appealing romance. Philip Poynter, because of his vague understanding of Diane's position of danger through her connection with a problem of royal succession in a Hungarian monarchy, has appointed himself the girl's guardian. Through thick and thin he follows her, traveling in a haycart. The ending of this romance among tjie Indians in the Everglades, where a strange mystery is cleared up, is admirable.

Coexistent with this plot is the problem of Carl Granberry, Diane's cousin, the illegitimate son of a rich but unconventional mother, who is fast going to the dog3 from drink and dissipation simply because he has no friend, no father or mother to understand his plight and sympathize with him. Diane's flippant disrespect does not help him any. But in the end there comes an understanding between those two and a vigorous affection arises between them. Miss Dalrymple's story of the trip through the EvergladesCof Florida is marvelously complete and detailed. It is so good that one compares it readily to other descriptions of a similar sort and wonders at the compact ensemble.

Yet, strange as it may seem, the author never was any nearer to the Everglades than her own back yard and acquired her atmosphere entirely from reading. "Father is a regular she said one day when questioned on this point. "He has been gathering books ever since I can remember. There are about 8500 in our library. I just read and read all I could find about the Everglades and then I thought and thought about them, and that's the way I created my local color." distinctly new means' of acquiring background for a novel could hardly be employed by a woman with a less vivid imagination than Miss Dalrympie.

This is true in spite of the fact that the author makes Bo claim of being temperamental. "When the news of the award got out somebody said I was Must a nice, wholesome she wrote a short time ago. "That pleased me more than anything that could have been said about me." But every reader of "Diane of the Green Van" will agree that its author must possess a remarkable imagination, that should contribute heavily to temperament. That her studious reading of the past has given her a marvelous store of information Is undeniable, too. Another circumstance that seems hardly consistent with the excellence of the novel is the fact that it was written within the space of six weeks.

"I was reading a magazine one evening after a pleasant afternoon's walk," the successful contestant explains, when I noticed an article telling of the J10 000 prize. I had then but six weeks in which to write the book and take the' chance. I had nearly completed the writing of nother novel, but I thought it was too quiet a story to win, and so 1 wrote a gypsy story and sent both manuscriptsin competition." The "quiet" story of which Miss Dalrympie wrote bears the title "A Peck Maut" It is indeed remarkable that the judges of the competition vacillated for some time between this story and "Diane," the successful novel, before awarding the great prize to the latter. Surely this is an unexcelled commentary upon the skill of a new and unknown writer, that both of her manuscripts stood out as superior to all others of the more than 500 turned in. "A Peck o' Maut" is to be published by the Reilly Britton Company.

Miss Dalrympie is by no means a novice in the literary field. In 1898, while a High School freshman, she won first prize of $5 for an imaginary life of Dickens' "Scrooge," in a contest in the school paper. The Quill Later she wrote several lays for amateur theatricals which were published in book form. Among her short stories that have met with very favorable comment are "Uncle Noah's Christmas Inspiration" and "The Heart of the Christmas Pines." "Traumerel." a romance written about a Stradivarius violin, was her first novel. The young author describes her writing habits as follows: 1 once read William Dean Howell's ndvice about writing regularly, and I made up my mind it was wise counsel.

As a rule I work a certain number of hours every day. I don't wait for an inspiration or a mood. I go at it as a business mar, goes at his business. People who talk about my dashing off a novel would be surprised to see how I go over what I write, correcting and relishing it as carefully as I can. When was working on 'Diane' I had to work BOOK OF STRONG CONTRASTS "The Full of the Moon," by Caroline Lockhart, Story of New York Girl in the West.

"The Full ofc the Moon," by Caroline Lockhart, is the story of a New York society girl who was tired of the conventional life of the East. She decided that life in a Western cattle town would be worth trying, and in spite' of the protests of her family, set out alone to find a life of freedom. She was charmed with the country, but soon found the standards differed from those she was used to and became the victim of many annoyances. She entered into the life freely and became much interested in a cow boy. Soon her lover from the East appeared and she was forced to choose one of two representatives of totally different civilizations.

It is a book of strong contrasts and the life of the West is portrayed with picturesque frankness. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. "When Ghost Meets Ghost," by William de Morgan.

Henry Holt Co. "Cap'n Dan's Daughter," by- Joseph C. Lincoln. D. Appleton Co.

"The Rocks of Valpre," by Ethel M. Dell. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

"The Lodger," by Mrs Belloc Lowndes Charles Scribner's Sons. "The Light of the Western Stars," by Zane Gray. Harper Bros. "The Treasure," by Kathleen Norris. The Macmillan Company.

"Initiation," by Robert Hugh Benson. Dodd, Mead Co. "The Best Man," by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz. J. B.

Lippincott Company. "Miss Billy-Married," by Eleanor H. Porter. The Page Company. "The Butterfly," by Henry K.

Webster. D. Appleton Co. BRAND WHITLOCK And a Small Relative at tbe Zoo. EQUALS HIS STANDARD.

HEPURN'SAFRICAN HUNT. Banker's "Story of an Outing" Full of Interesting Adventure on the Dark Continent. A most entertaining- account of a hunting expedition Into the heart of Af-fig in search of big game is found in The Mory of An Outing" by A. Barton Hepburn, a New York banker and a thorough going sportsman. The adventures In bringing down lions, zebras, elands, buffalo, impala.

wildebeest, crocodiles, and all sort of wild animals are more Interesting than the stories hUnt in tne Dark With the author were Samuel C. Pirie K.mu 1i H- LIyl Folsom and John Terry Jr, the last three named graduates of Yale. The party roughed ft and taced danger and peril as true sportsmen must. ue The story is well told and the Illustrations show that the party went far outside the pale of civilization. New York: Harper Bros.

INSIGHT, HUMAN SYMPATHY. Harvey J. O'Higgins Volume of Short Stories Entitled "Silent Sam" Is Full of Power. As a writer of short stories, Harvey J. O'Higgins looms large on the horijon of fiction; he has Insight: he has human sympathy; he also has the ede-In the volume of short stories put oat by the Century Company, bearing the name of the first one, "Silent Sam," he displays the gifts bom both of nature and of discipline.

His power to obsei and to record is photographic, but bald and searching narrative is veiled in ths philosopher's cast of thought. By his sequence of ideas, his faithful and illuminating dialogue, his Just and apt choice of a word, he comments upon the trend, of the drama which he seem obviously only to relate. The NONFICTION Albert Jay Nock, who writes a rather pedantic introduction to the book, calls it "the history of Democracy's progress in a mid-Western city." And it is much more than that, for it discusses sanely many acute social problems. Recollections of Gov Altgeld, Tom Johnson, Joseph Medill, "Golden Rule" Jones, Mark Twain and other celebrities abound in the volume, but particularly vivid are Mr Whitlock's stories of his lively experience as Mayor of Toledo. Throughout the book the influence of Emerson, Walt Whitman and Howells is plainly visible.

But the author has a delicious nterary style of his own, simple, clear and flowing, which adds great pleasure to the reading of his narrative. "Forty Years of It" may be heartily commended with no mental reservation whatever, for it is a sincere, genuine and helpful book. New YorkJ' D. Appleton Co. "CLEEK OF SCOTLAND YARD." Series of Good Detective Stories That Will Hold the Closest Attention of Readers to the End.

"Cleek of Scotland Yard." by T. W. Hanshew, is a series of rattling good detective stories so closely related to each other that the reader finishes one and eagerly turns to the next to see what is going to happen. Interest in the personality of "Cleek," whose real history is one of mystery, is sharpened by the pursuit of a band of Apaches who seem bound to get the life of the wily detective. He not only escapes, hut always lands the criminals into the hands of Scotland Yard, to the consequent delight of the chief.

New York: Doubleday, Page Co. "What Men Live By," by Richard Cabot. Houghton, Mifflin Company "The Life of Florence Nightingale by Sir Edward Cook. The Macmillan Company. "A Year With a Whaler," by Walter Noble Burns.

Outing Publishing Company. "The Ascent of Denali." bv Hudson Stuck. Charles Scribner's Sons "The Phillipines, Past and Present by Dean C. Worcester. The Macmillan Company.

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4 old man proved to be a gentleman and 1 a. man of character. They quit the excessive drinking, went into business and the young man regained his place in society. There is woven into this unusual plot the love story of the rich young man supplemented by the love affairs of th adopted father. The real mother had a love match which will prove as much of a surprise to the reader as it did Ui the son.

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