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.1 18 BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER. 2, 1903 Books of Fiction ZHE ensuing- list of current volumes forms the second of four summaries of the literary field to appear in the Transcript on successive Wednesdays. It is devoted to recent works of fiction, and is intended to offer the holiday purchaser a birdseye view of the books with which die Christmas shops are now crmvded. The reader will find below, in alphabetical order, so that any volume especially sought may be easily discovered, a series of brief reviews describing and commenting upon the novels, romances and fiction of every variety which have appeared during the present season.

It is hoped that the list will prove to be interesting reading as well as a serviceable guide. QTke third list to include biographical and miscellaneous books will appear in die Transcript next Wednesday, Dec. g. three marriages In eight and tha one unhappy character starting tor Europe with a matchmaker. Except In Its ndmlmble style the hook little resembles its author's earlier work.

HONOR DEVEREL: Barbara Yechton. A fascinating description of the life of a large family on a plantation in St. CTolx frames tha story of the daughter's gracious growth. The and la not quite certain and one suspects a possible sequel. IN BABEL: George Ade.

Very brief Chicago stories, related In ordinary English and resembling the authors Fables" in little hut tameness. IN OLD ALABAMA: Anna Hobson. A difficult but admirably maintained Negro dialect la the vehicle which the author uses tor stories of Ufa among Alabama Negroes, showing their superstitions, and relating their pleasures and their griefs, some of which are peculiar to them. to INTERFERENCE OF PATRICIAl Lilian BelL Patricia, tha daughter of a Denver capitalist. Interferes with her father's efforts to swindle a young Englishman, to whom she has given her love, and, having completely outwitted him, makes him consent to her marriage.

JEWEL: Clara Louise Burnham. The pretty, voluble, perfectly self-posses red and extremely wilful heroine, an accomplished Christian Scientist of nine years, being sent by her mother to visit her grandfather, cures a sick horse', recovers from a cold by means of distant treatment, reconciles her grandfather to bar mothers marriage, and widens tha breach between him and the widow of hto dead son. besides Incidentally sobering a drunken -i1--. and having her own way In everything. The incredible thing In the stray to the Inability of any of the eons, able-bodied groan persons to find an answer to the childs remarks or to control her actions.

JOHN MAXWELLS MARRIAGE: Stephen Gwynn. The hero Jilted at the altar to manoeuvred, while Intoxicated. Into marriage with the slater of hla faithless betrothed. Aa soon os ha la sober ha makes over all hto property to the girl and goes away, returning after owns eighteen years to find that he has a daughter and to prevent her from being forced Into aa fortune and a pleasant country house, establishes herself In it In spite of all temptations to remain at vork. Tha unexpected advent of kinsman, whose natural claim to tha estate to batter than hen somewhat disturbs her and hla determination to marry her still mors disquiets her, her intentions as to matrimony being similar to those of Denys of Burgundy.

GORDON KEITH: Thomas Nelson Page. An lmpovsrtohad Confederate general so trains hla eon that whan the boy leaves him to bo educated and to outer business circles; he carries with him tbe finest Idsala and remains true to them la spite of temptation every species. Both finance and society enter Into tha construction of the story which, like The Vagabond and The Little Shephard of Kingdom Come," is biography. GORGO: Charles K. Gaines.

The heroine to Spartan meld, the beautiful and patriotlo daughter of Braoldaa. The hero la an Athenian, whose life includes the period of the Peloponnesian War. The romance of the two lovers, beautiful in Itself, moves to Its conclusion through great scenes, and among famous personages, end the naval battles are related with extraordinary spirit. The strong point of tha book to Its exhibition of the Joyleasnesa of pagan life; especially for the moot thoughtful and sensitive spirits. One of the characters, an old sen dog.

la genuine creation, and tha prologue showing how the hero comes to write hla own story in this century to highly ingenious. GRAY CLOAK: Harold McGrath. Cardinal Richelieu, French conspiracy within conspiracy, frequent encounters and curiously entangled Intrigue are the elements of this story which haa not much originality. HARVESTERS: Aubrey Langston. Donald Bax, tha son of aa earl, elopes with tha daughter of a curate; Intending to marry her.

Her father compels him to carry out hla Intention, after his project haa been Interrupted In such manner as to moke tha girl averse to It and to him. Tha two remain estranged after marriage and he. that tha Prince of Wales to calling upon his wife furiously assaults hto future sovereign and to compelled to leave the country In hot haste. The remainder of the book to occupied by hto wife's sffarts to obtain hto pardon. The prince to called Prince George, and although Bax to only the Honorable Donald hla wife to called Lady HEART OF HYACINTH: Onoto to an American gM.

reared In Japan, regarding herself ns Japanese, and educated In Japanese habits of thought, and the revelation of her real miss try and the demand that she shall depart from her her American father gives her Intense lng. The book has marginal decorations In Japanese taste and la Illustrated with pictures by Japanese artist learned In the art of both East and West. Tha story ends happily for everyone. HEART OF ROME: F. Marion Crawford.

An Impoverished Roman family, aa upstart financier ready to make profit of their misfortune. a civil engineer set upon discovering treasure buried beneath the family palace and a mason attached to the family and determined that tha treasure shall not be taken away are tha chief persons moving about tha heroine, the daughter of the house. The moving force of the story to the Mdden water, a stream running under the palace. This novel to of the same school as tha tour of tha Sarscinesca series, but it to not connected with them. HERMIT: Charles Clark Munn.

The hero, after twelve years of absence from hto country birthplace, returns, finds hto old sweetheart faithful In spite of hto long silence, and wooes her mice more In the simple old-country fashion. The hermit, and hto hermitage and tha Incidents connected with their discovery are the central Interest of the story, and a third la furnlshsd by ths evil-. doings of aa old miser, against whom mischievous boy plots In boyhood's pitiless fashion, and tha threo threads are at last skilfully twined into one. HESPER: Hamlin Garland. The hero; expelled from West Point tor piece of boyish tolly, drifts Into the position of ranch foreman In the arid regions of the West and there meets a classmate and companion In punishment, and sees him endeavor to control a strike among Ignorant miners by making himself the head of Its armed forces The male characters are forcibly described, but the heroine to stiff and unnatural.

HIS DAUGHTER FIRST: Arthur Sherburne Hardy. A piece of high comedy, played In a country house belonging to (ho woman beloved by the hero and disliked by hto daughter. The lose of the giri's own heart reduces her to a state of entire Indifference to everything but the man whom she loves, and the tale ends with II. ADVENTURES OF GERARD: Sir Conan Doyle. Gerard la a soldier of Napoleon, whose achievements are hardly less extraordinary than the Uttle Corporal's.

He relates hla adventures brilliantly, and the author manages to allow him to boast like Pal staff without weakening the reader's conviction that he Is as brave as Fluellen. ALAIN TAINGERS WIFE: J. H. YoxalL A well-veiled mystery extends throughout this story, most of which Is In autobiographical form and tells of an Englishman who, marrying a rich woman at her request, was deserted almost at the altar, and pursued her through many Intrigues, personal and Orleonist, to discover at last that her reason for marrying him was creditable to her, and that. Ilka him, she loved at first sight.

Ifucb of the story Is related In a quaint French-Engl lsh. A LISTENER IN BABEL: Vida D. Scudder. A college graduate, listening to the many world voices calling to her, decides not to follow a scholastic career and not to plunge Into any of the existing currents of charity; but to learn a number of the Industries In the hope of discovering soma way ofvltallxlng them with art. In the course of tbd story a score of Interesting current problems come under discussion.

AMBASSADORS: Henry James. A cover of blue buckram with a cloth Jacket of a darker shade Incloses a novel of at least twice the ordinary bulk. The Ambassadors are the various persons whom an anxious mother sends to Paris to rescue her son from a French woman of whom she knows nothing and naturally suspects the worst. The Ambassadors effect nothing except their own complete discomfiture, and one of them ends by admonishing the young man to remain faithful to the French woman, who It 1 may be mentioned incidentally has a husband by no means moribund. All the personages outdo Burke In their capacity for refining, and as a school of word play the conversations are unequalled.

APRIL PRINCESS: Constance Smedley The nameless Princess converses with half a score of other nameless persons, showing a new phase of frivolity In each of the twenty chapters, occasionally fitting her action to her speech, but ending by bestowing herself, pretended foolishness, actual cleverness, end all. upon the person who has striven lfast to possess her favor. AWAKENING OF THE DUCHESS: Frances Charles. A beautiful widow, absorbed in the routine of a wealthy women's lifei is suddenly awakened to the conviction that the little girl whom she has left to the care of good servants is really he most attractive being in the world. The story is told very tenderly.

Is beautifully illustrated, and is as good os a fairy tale for a child's reading. BARBARA: A WOMAN OF THE WEST: John H. Whitson. The author's aim is partly to show a self-dependent woman at her best, and partly to portray the environment in which such a nature as hers is best developed. Western city life and life In a mining town and on a ranch are the phases chosen, and the chief events are those tions remains mystery until a late stags of tha story.

DOMINANT STRAIN: Anna. Chapin Ray. The hero, a great singer, behaves in exemplary fashion through many temptations, chief among which are those arising from hla relations with the' heroine, who has married a dipsomaniac, expecting to reform him. The question of conduct, and its effect upon the singing voice Is considered. DOWAGER COUNTESS AND THE AMERICAN GIRL: Lilian Bell.

The girl, the wife of an earls younger brother, narrowly escapee being killed In consequence of her mother-in-laws Jealousy of her good looks, her cleverness, her wealth, and her clothes. The author compares British and American manners and makas some very plain statements of Southern reasons for refusing to admit tha Negro to social equality. DR. LAVENDARS PEOPLE: Margaret Deland. Long experience has given the keen-eyed and gentle pastor of the most Important church in rad Cheater such Insight Into tha needs of hie people that on occasion ha can veptura to aid them.

when they seem to lack counsel. Dr. Holmes's Byles Grldlsy, Rev. Theodore Pemberton. and hla old physicians, find a worthy comrade In him.

Other characters, many of whom appear In nil tha stories, are much more clearly outlined before the reader than tha actual acquaintances whom he sees through hla own two eyes. DUKE AND HIS DOUBLE: E. 8. Van Zyle. A Chicago millionaire, relying upon a ducal visitor to aid him In entering New Tork society, and unexpectedly disappointed, substitutes hla English butler for the expected guest with restate even mere agreeable than ha has expected.

EARTHS ENIGMAS: Charles D. Roberts. few animal stores, studies of apparently needlem pain, some fantastic and grotesque tales; and brilliant Uttla tales of tha perils of forest and shore, the actors being humble folk with but few Interests and having an ever present sense of danger. They are written with exquisite cars and taste and are illustrated with tan pictures by Mr. Charles Livingstone Bun.

EDGE OF THINGS: Ella W. Peattle. Sixteen abort stories, briskly written, and dealing with phases of life thoroughly understood by tha author, who la prodigal of her knowledge; giving each story tha material for two. ELEANOR DAYTON: Nathaniel Ste phenson. The story of a great beauty and of her family, presenting an admirable picture of tbe best American family life tn one of the great Western cities before ths war.

All the chief characters are personages still known In the traditions of their State, but the things which distinguish tha book are Its description of girl's education, and Its account of the behavior of brave men, and two men living In fear of loathsome death. A battle scene. Including the picture of an Irish brigade making a first charge so fatal as to be Its last. Is found In one of the closing chapters. FLAME OF FIRE: Joseph Hocking1.

The hero, one of Elisabeth's soldiers, enters Spain almost alone and bears away a Spanish lady whom the Inquisition has marked for its own. Ha is tha friend of Drake and talks familiarly of him and other great folk. His Spanish experiences are amaslng. FLORESTANE THE TROUBADOUR: Julia de Wolf Addison. The lores of Blatts de (BeUefranche, and of Florestane.

and tha trials which they fflfjer-went between betrothal and marriage are set forth In a pleasant tale in which Clmabue, Dante as a child, and Bordello play parts, and a Court of Love la held. The book to written in quaint but good English, and well sets forth the ways of courtly circles when 8t. Louis was king, and the lawlessness that hovered close to the walls of palace and monastery. FOUR-IN-HAND: Geraldine Anthony. The reader la Introduced to a large circle of ladles and gentlemen, nearly all members of a country club, and nearly all carrying on at least one doubtful love affair.

Tha threads of these entanglements are traced through many windings, and the end of the story leaves ths hero virtuously separated from tha exquisite and blameless married woman about whom he haa hovered tor years, and betrothed to his ward, an unformed girt of uncertain temper. FREE NOT BOUND: Katrina Trask. The struggle of wills between wife, heterodox in religion and Tory In politics, and a husband following tha strictest letter of the law In religious matters, and patriot by sympathy In the theme of this story, which begins Just before tha outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Time teaches both husband and wife forbearance. and she makes tha yielding very easy tor him by a piece of heroism which the author describes admirably.

GALLOPS 2: David Gray. Seven stories of the horse show and the hunting field and of that very hone-loving bit of country In which lived the good-folk of Gallops. This to a good hook for the literary, the artistic, the worshippers of wealth, the gentle souls who amuse themselves with the poor, and the painfully mthetlc. It Shows them one and all. that there are folk in the world who care not one horse shoe nail for them and all their works, and yet live.

GAY: A STORY: Evelyn Whitaker. A lonely young author searches out the grandparents of an orphan hoy whose acquaintance he has made In his lodgings, and In so doing meets Miss Right and happily escapes from a selfish girl Intent upon marrying him. Miss Whitaker Is best known as the author of Miss Toosers Mission," and she writes In the graceful, easy style, familiar to her olJ readers. The story Is a novel not a chill's book, although Oay 1s a highly agreeable boy. and to very prominent In the pictures.

GENTLEMAN OF THE SOUTH: William Garrott Brown. The Southern woman before the war and the power exercised by her, and tha high Ideals of honor entertained by Southern gentlemen are set forth In a brief but admirably constructed story. GOLDEN DWARF: R. Norman Silver. The dwarf.

Immensely wealthy, profoundly malicious, and determined to marry a poor and pretty girl, casta upon her lover the suspicion of a murder which he himself has committed. and Incidentally kills or kidnaps several humble personages. He harbors a German doctor who 1s making experiments with colore I lights and electricity upon living persons, but the machinations of (he two end In their own destruction and clear tha way for the hero's happiness. GOLDEN WINDOWS: Laura E. Richards.

Brief apologies with no word wasted in conveying their leseon, ohlch Is sometimes sometimes ironical, sometimes encouraging. hut always logically deduced. Tha pictures by Mr. Arthur E. Becher.

are clever, and the decorations by Miss Julia Ward Richards are admirable. The Initial letters alone would Interest a clever child tor years, and although the highest merit of the book to beyond child's perception, very few of the stories are above child's capacity for enjoyment. GOOD-BYE, PROUD WORLD: Ellen Oilier Kirk. A brilliant Journalist, inheriting a little BONDAGE OF BALLINGER: Roswell Field. Ths hsro Is a bibliophile who cannot persuade nlmself to sell hla books even although ths pries of keeping them Is hunger and cold for himself and for his devoted and devout Quaker wife.

At last a young girl whom he has taught to love books persuades her rich father to allow her to make the Old man's declining days comfortable and happy by a plan of relief which does not separate him from his beloved collection. The story la kindly and genial. BOOK OF GIRLS: Lilian Bell. One of these girls Insists on marrying to please herself, leaving her mother to wed the rich old man designed few her; another, an Twdiswj bids her lover free her father from prison If ha would win her; a third, a lady's maid, contrives to marry her mistress to a bashful lover; and the fburtp, a Palish countess, rescues her American lover from ths grasp of ths secret pollen BOOK OF MONTHS: E. F.

Benson. Portly a garden chronicle of months, covering a period of two years, during which a supposed diarist loves, fiqds himself supplanted by a friend, oral loses both rival and beloved, he dying In South Africa, and She of grief. Consolation comas In the shape of a girl closely resembling the beloved. The book Is decorated In eglantine pink, leaf green, the sere tone of autumn foliage and the white lights and blue shadows of snowdrifts. BOSS: Alfred Henry Lewis.

Ths hero, an Irish Immigrant. meets New Tork civilization In ths shops of tbs Boss, ths well-meaning but ignorant taxpayer, and the reformer with a keen eye to the main chance, before he has attained mans estate, and ha wins the favor of the hose by hla ability to keep silence. He devotes himself to politics with such success that be supersedes his benefactor, and shelves the taxpayer In Congress, but by virtue of superior brains, the reformer usee him for his own profit both In filling his purse and In carrying out his measures. 'It Is meant to be as a picture of real personages In a real city. BUBBLES WE BUY: Alice Jones.

A doctor becomes the family physician of the woman whom ha has loved, but could not marry on account of poverty, and honorably advisee her In her with her Insane husband. One result of his unselfishness is the acquisition of an lllgotten fortune, and his eventual happiness. The evil genius of the book la a tyrannical woman of mixed blood. BUTTERNUT JONES: Tilden TUford. The story of the Oklahoma run ends a tala of cattle ranch life related without especial consideration for the ghost of Llndley Murray, but Including some excellent episodes, and the best bear story of the season If not of the history of the United States.

Soma of the Incidents contain evidence that on occasion tha poor, artless ranch owner can outwit the Eastern capitalist, end one forgives the solecisms for the oaks of the sparkling animation of ths spirit. CALL OF THE WILD: Jack London. This best of all ths dog books describes ths adventures of a dog stolen from his loving owners and pressed into service as one of a sledge team in the Northwest. Slowly, In ths fights with his mates and the elements, ha returns to the wildness of the wolf, and at last breaks away and rejoins hla comrades. Tha author leaves sentimentalism to Its lovers and confines both event and comment to actualities.

CANDLE OF UNDERSTANDING: Elizabeth Blzland. The memories of a Louisiana girl, daughter of an Impoverished Confederate, continued from her childhood Immediately after the close of the Civil War, through her girlhood and young womanhood, compose this story. She has a sentimental affection for a man much older than she. but after he la murdered by a Negro she tries to be an actress, sees something of the ludicrous side of life among the aspiring Ignorant and at last marries an old playmate. The author describes life In the Black Belt as It seems to a Southern woman.

CAPTAIN: Churchill Williams. The captain' la General Grant in the days between hie retirement from the army and his offer of his services to the Federal authorities, but the author continues the stray long enough to give himself an opportunity to show hla hero as a President. This book was published earlier in the year than the Grant books for children. He is shown as shrewd, silent and unworldly in private life. CAPTAIN SIMEONS STORE: George Wasson.

All the conversation and the stories told in the store are written in Gloucester dialect, which the author renders with perfect accuracy. It furnishes an interesting subject for comparison with the dialect of Hoeea Blgiow, but the stories are good aa stories. CAPTAIN'S WIFE: W. Clark Russell. Phyllis, the heroine, plays stowaway on her husband's vessel, which Is bound to Staten Island to recover treasure from a foundered vessel.

When discovered she Is annoyed by ths Insulting attentions of the insurance companies agent, and by a worthless mate, and after the treasure Is discovered these persons Join hands to rob the owners and murder ths captain. Interesting details in regard to diving. and criticisms of tha British navy and her chart marine diversify the story. CAREER TRIUMPHANT: Henry Burnham Boone. A study of life In a Virginian district, ths scene of some of Che authors former books, and the question aa to a wife's liberty of ho Ice between her husband and her work as an actress divide this book between them.

The characters are far superior to the plot. CASTLE OF TWILIGHT: Margaret Horton Potter. Life In a mediaeval castle Is the theme of a story In which the women seem to be possessed by the restlessness of the nineteenth century. The chatelaine rebels against her loneliness; her daughter retires to a nunnery and elopes with a troubadour, hut returns after some months, and the wife of the heir is discontented both as wife and as widow. The picture Is prettier than this prosaic rendering, and parts of the book have much pensive beauty.

CASTLE OMERAGH: F. Frankfort Moore. The horrors of Droheda are impressively related In such a way as to explain the persistence of Irish hatred for Cromwell. A clever priest la of great assistance to his Protestant friends In their evasion of the English soldiers, and a wide, quaking bog fa an Important adjunct of the plot. CHASM: R.

W. Kauffman, E. C. Carpenter. The heroine, a well-bom young girl, perceives the chasm between her and an Irish boro, but not until she has been favorably impressed by him.

Reformers as unscrupulous as the boss attempt to ruin him by bringing his cherished son Into opposition with him, and the girl weakens hla nerve by her frequent appeals for rs-form. but In the end he wins eon, girl and election. CHERRY: Booth Tarklngton. The most thick-skinned of bores describes his wooing of a beautiful girl beloved by a dashing gallant Whom aha loves. Her father, condemned to bear the burden of the bore's eloquence.

Is as Joyful as tbs lovers when they at last come to an exchange of vows, but the author does not make him unendurable to tbe reader. CHRISTIAN THAL: M. E. Francis. An English girl, meeting a brilliant young pianist at a foreign hotel, falls In love with him.

Her affection la returned, but She dls- covan that he la really married to a woman many years Ms senior, whoa As has sup posed to be his patroness. Ths descriptions of music and its effects are very beautiful. CLIVEDEN: Kenyon West. A very well-written and weU-balmnced story of tha British occupation of Philadelphia, showing ths relations between Jhe Loyalists and patriot Inhabitants and using many real parsonages as characters. COLONEL CARTERS CHRISTMAS: Hopklnson Smith.

Tbe Colonel and Miss Nancy entertain their i friends, among them a financier whose flinty nature becomes aa wax In tha warmth of tha Colonel's geniality. Chad, most delightful of self-respecting body servants, la contrasted with a misguided youth possessed with the theory that emancipation from slavery means lawlessness, and to both of them and to tha financiers little daughter the Colonel tells a story while hla friends listen and delight in him. COLONELS OPERA CLOAK: Christina Chaplain Brush. This new edition of an Old favorite In the Nameless Serim Is Illustrated by pictures by E. W.

Kemble, portraying tha moot Important Character, and other pictures by Mr. Arthur Becher exhibit white folk In bewildered amassment. CONGRESSMANS WIFE: John D. Barry. Intent upon surrounding Ms wife with luxuries and giving her social advantages, a Congressman becomes a lobbyist's tool, and places his wife In a compromising position, from which she escapes unharmed, thanks to bar good sense, but he narrowly avoids permanently alienating her affection, and ruins himself politically.

COUNTRY BOY: Forrest Creasy. Harlow, a disagreeably good and solemnly disagreeable Child, Is described at considerable length, and hla Mow growth Into a rather pleasant person devoted to nature study is pictured without much toleration of hla de-fepts. Ha has so much difficulty with tha religious ideas presented for hla acceptance by hla elders, and both hla comments and theirs are ao unrestrained that tha book ean hardly be regarded as suitable for children, hut the triumphant Issue of his naughtiness Is delightful to ths unregenerate adult. COUNT ZARKA: Sir William The prince of an Imaginary kingdom is kidnapped by a Russian agent, why by throwing suspicion upon an Innocent woman, endeavors to frighten her Into marrying him. He la frustrated by the hero after some violent scenes.

Granting the Incredible premies of such a castle aa the villain's, the rest of the stray Is possible, and It la lively reading. DAMSEL AND THE SAGE: Elinor Glyn. The sage dwells In a cava with a doer that can be slammed and Is useful whan he has finished answering the damsels questions, which she always couches In tha form of transparent allegories; implying that she repents her choice and wishes that she had selected the other man. In the end the hermit appears to be (ha other man and goes back into tha world with the damsel. DAPHNE: Margaret Sherwood.

An Italian nobleman, playing shepherd to a sick man's flocks, meets an American girl but slightly acquainted with Italian and announces himself as A folio. The two play a pretty game of pretence for a few days, and It la charmingly described and ends In perfect happiness. Two Italian servants and their more sophisticated son supply the element of comedy by their futile attempts to understand American ways, but tha boofc narrowly escapes being a poem. DARREL OF THE BLESSED ISLES: Irving Bacheller. An Irish clock maker, wandering through New England and exchanging clever sayings with the natives, becomes ths guide and friend of his own son, who has been stolen from him In Infancy.

His pilgrimage and his exile from his friends are acts of expiation duly explained at tha proper time, hut it la In hla shrewd sayings, not in ths plot, that the best of (ho book must be sought. DAUGHTER OF A MAGNATE: Frank H. Spearman. The hero, a civil engineer. Is building a difficult section of one of the magnate's railroads when he meets the daughter, who la won by the spectacle of hla bravery and resourcefulness.

Tha volume Is a series of brilliant episodes of railway building and management. DAUGHTER OF THE DAWN: R. Hod-der. The scene Is laid among the Maoris, for whom the author Invents not only a religion but temples with underground hydraulic arrangements of incredible delicacy and power, and wonderful pieces of sculpture, both good and evil. A man who has lost all memory of many years of his life, and poisoned arrows that destroy ths will power are among the small Incidents of the story, which Is so elaborately and Ingeniously wrought that It la easier to believe It than to find a flaw In Its verisimilitude.

DAUGHTER OF THE PIT: Margaret Doyle Jackson. The heroine is an English school teacher, a person entirely unlike the American profes- rtonal woman, and her life Is passed in the English colliery district. Her father Is a coal miner, and labor troubles and her heroic rescue of her lover from a burning mine la tha climax of the tale. DAUGHTER OF THESPIS: John D. Barry.

A tmthful presentment of the life of a hardworking and self-rcspectlng actress, playing with managers and In companies of the best sort. Clear statements of important principles of acting are Introduced, and also an excellent description of that species of female Journalist which counts Its salary as the least of Its means of purport. DETACHED PIRATE: Helen Mllecete. (The heroine's detachment is her separation from her husband, her piracy Is flirtation aided by painting, extravagant dressing, and equally extravagant frankness, and the reader constantly expects her to become actually Immoral until she Is reunited to her husband, and she seems to intend the deception. DIARY OF A YEAR: Mrs.

Charle Brookfield. A woman with only tha ghost of any principle. during one of many trivial quarrels with her husband, meets a man with no principle whatsoever, and promises to elope with him. Ke does not keep the appointment, but that does not cure her Infatuation; but before the man die she decides to amuse herself by loving her husband. Her Inconsequence Is often highly amusing.

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY: Cyrus Townsend Brady. The doctor is a girl of mixed blood, who supposes herself to be whits. She obtains her degree for a paper In defence of creating equality between black and whits men. and kills herself when she discovers her own origin. DOCTOR XAVIER: Max Pemberton.

A beautiful girl casually encounters a person representing himself as a physician desirous of making an experiment In bringing beauty to lie highest perfection, and, being on the brink of starvation, consents to become hie subject. In reality he means to use her to ruin his sovereign, the prince of nameless kingdom, whose marriage to a foreigner Is capital offence, bat his plan falls and the people gladly acoept tha girl ns their princess. The descriptions of the beautifying process are excellently and the mystery of tha doctor's inten for her bus-memory has loos of BARLASCH OF THE GUARD: Henry Seton Merriman. One must go to French literature for a more vivid story of the retreat from Moscow and for a clearer picture of the workings of the French peasant mind after being submitted to military drill. A love story gives some brightness to the grim chronicle, and Barlasch becomes the da-voted servitor of a brave woman.

BAR SINISTER: Richard Harding Davis. The doggish autobiographer describes his education and relates his adventures, which culminate In winning a blue ribbon from his pure-blooded father. He speaks In ouch language os he has acquired In the stable, and In the kennels and from his adoring mistress, and has perfectly assimilated the New Tork east of thought. In the preface la an account of the dog from whom the supposed writer Is drawn, but wi he acquired the knack of writing with great spirit and vividness la not revealed. The book has some very good but absolutely needless illustrations In color.

BEATEN PATH: Richard L. Makln. The plight of a manufacturer beset by the union on one side and the trust on the other Is ably set forth, but a personal story Involving a mill-owner's wife and an unknown cousin, the legal heir of the min and the business, divides the Interest. The former part Is the better managed. BERYL STONES: Mrs.

Alfred Sldge-wick. Going to the wedding reception of a rich cousin, a poverty stricken young girl steals a beryl necklace and sells It to save her father from literal starvation. Her secret comes Into the possession of an exceedingly obnoxious young man, who attempts to compel her to marry him, through fear of betrayal, and returns again and again to the attack. The heroine's entrance upon a stage career and her gradual advance therein are described with uncommon clemency for the oft-abused manager. and the whole story Is written with marked elegance.

BLACK FAMILIARS: Mra. Walford. A Catholic lady of the time of Elisabeth, being furiously Jealous of her husband's affection for her daughter, endeavors to marry the girl to a Protestant lover Jn the hope of angering her father. Defeated In this attempt, she imports two familiars of the Inquisition to carry off the girl. The lover contrives to borrow the robes of the familiars and carries the girl off himself, and the thwarted mother commits suicide to escape the rustics who advance on the castle to inflict punishment on her for her dealings with the Inquisition.

The prleets and the parsons are equally queer and the lay characters wear their religion as carelessly as If It were a glove. BLOUNT OF BRECKENHOW: Beulah Marie Dlx. The full title of this book sets forth its contents as the life, treason and death of the hero. but his' treason is nothing worse than taking upon himself the blame of a military blunder made by his commanding officer, the husband of the woman whom he loves; he stands a court-martial trial for the fault, and is drummed out of the army, but he reCnltots as a private and again serves his lady nobly. The time is the period of the strife between Charles the First and his Parliament, and the actors tell the story In letters.

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JOHN PERCYFIELD: C. H. Henderson. This autobiographical novel describes the growth of privately educated hoy whose childhood la passed partly In the South and partly In the North, so that he Is in sympathy with the people of both sections. Hto education la conducted on principles vary pleasant la hto exposition, and to continued by a long aejourfi In Europe during which he learns to play the piano while trailing himself writ then comes hto love story.

The book to a chronicle of happiness and goodness. JUDGMENT: Alice Brown. All the characters, among whom are strang-wlllad. unbending father, a gentle stepmother. disposed to Interference with loving Intent, an uncompromising and door-eyed daughter, and revengeful enemy, are taught by events the perfect futility of attempts to svade providential Justice, and the father also learns the evil wrought by over severity, which fault of hto leads to all the unhappiness In the etory.

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