Show STUDENT LIFE ton and our American Hawthorne will long find a welcome among readers and for younger patrons it will be hard to supersede the vivid the winpioneer tales of Cooper or tt ning home pictures of Louisa Some novelists must be conon tent to rest their permanent fame Black-more hut one great story as docs with his Lorna Doone AJrs Craik with John Halifax and Goldsmith with the sweet and homely of The V icar of character-wor- k Wakefield The work of two popular novelists comes to ns from the French the extensive production of Dumas and Victor Hugo brimming with adventure and told often in a fascinating fashAl-co- de-serve- dlv ion As we approach the fiction of the present dav the situation becomes Yet more and more bewildering each one of us is likely to crave an occasional new book if only to keep up with the times These late novels have usually appeared in groups or classes according as some one successful story has started the vogue Another arrangement might divide them by the regions whose life and history they portray James Lane Allen and John Fox Jr have told the tale of Kentucky while Winston Churchill Mary Johnston and Geo W Cable have given us Virginia and other portions of the g South Allen’s dreamy and Churchiirs elaborate character development contrast strikingly with the rapid procession of incident in To Have and To Hold and word-paintin- Sir Mortimer The quaintly sweet n little stories of Kate Douglas Wig-giand Mary E Wilkins have gone fafar to make New England life as miliar to everyone and such men Bret Harte and Owen Wister play the same part in the rugged young civilization of the west Gilbert Parker and Jack London have found their way 'far into the snows of the north and brought back to us the love and hate and activity of that A recent clear crisp atmosphere interest in Scottish peculiarities has material given us the clever dialect of Barrie and Maclaren and later still that very human youngster “Wee Macgreegor” Some of our greatest recent writers remain unmentioned refusing to acknowledge the trivial bounds of — space and time Stevenson poor Stevenson— suffering has found the way to many a young heart — and old one too —with his stirring narrative and keenly apKipling preciative description has as well caught as novelist poet the spirit of English military service and portrayed for us both its bright and seamy sides Mrs Humphrey Ward has given us some care-in ful studies of great characters conflict with overpowering circumstances while Conan Doyle with as much success has built up complicated situations that they may be blandly untangled by his intellectualis monstrosity Sherlock Holmes It a poor court without a jester and we must always find a place for humor on our bookshelf whether it big-soul- ed |