Show I Books of the Day I A NOVEL OF UTAH Jerd Cless by Pearl Dale pub published published by Cochrane Publishing com corn company pany Vall New york Jork Jerd Cless Is a story of life lite In Utah most of the scenes being amid country life with really beautiful descriptions of scenery and surroundings Many rany of the people with whom the reader is made acquainted are rude and uneducated uneducated all 11 are of the same general Char Character character har acter and seem to have been studied in life and reproduced as typos types The hero the will of o his former friends One night they made m de a descent upon his farm beat him severely bound him and then set him up against a tree that he might watch them while they the destroyed all his melons meloris and fruit But his mother had es ped from the house and brought the assistance of neighbors who came caine running to he ht rescue firing their guns as they ume One of the girl marauders was struck In the face by a buckshot and her looks forever ruined There are many other ther thrilling incidents In the story but butmore butmore butmore more than anything else the book is concerned with the growth groth In r rand rand and manliness of the hero from very unpromising beginnings There ore are really two heroines of most opposite oPP HIlte character one a a companion of his town n class and training who has grown up I and ancl an been his companion for years |