| Show LITERATURE JOA Christmas tale of the Wasatch By Alfred Lambcurne Chicago BedfonlClarke compauy Saltxake D 1 McAllister t Co The local public is mora or leas familiar with Mr Lambournes descriptive writings writ-ings through his contributions to the magazines and the newspapers and all that he has written has boen eagerly read and greatly enjoyed the gentleman being as entertaining artistic with his pen as with his brush In this little story Mr Lambourne has strolled into another part of tho field of literature that of romance and has given us a story which Antt1Ac tn nnn tn + 1 n above W many of the writers of fiction of the day The tale is a delightfully pleasant one and it is so carefully and artistically constructed that the interest is sustained through all the pages the denouement de-nouement being as happy as it is clevely concealed until tho finallines The authors descriptive powers are frequently employed in the delineating of many vivid and charming charm-ing pictures which the frequenters of the majestic and aweinspiring Waaatches will at once recognize We are certain that many of our readers will want to follow the rising young artistauthor through his first novel and we know that all who do so will be delighted with the story The volume is published by the BedfordCiarKe company Chicago and is so handsomely gotten up as to serve for a giftbook THE AMERICAN GIRL IX PARS A Novel of Affectation and Fashionable Afectaton LIe From the French of Alexander Dumas the younger Translated by H Llewellyn Williams Chicago Chi-cago Donohue Hennebery Co Price 5 cents Prce It is possible there are such American girls as Dumas hero describes but i so tney ao not develop in this country but go aoroad to display their wildness and do those things which would be frowned upon in America quito as much as in the French capital It strikes us that it is an altogether alto-gether impossible American girl who after a month of married life with a rich miner would leave him save the life of a worthless French adventurer and going to Paris bring about the marriage of the girl the fellow loves to a decrepit duke then bring about duel between the duke and her own exhusband then marry tho Frenchman whose life she had saved to the widowed duchess and then remarry the man from whom she was divorced The story is interesting in-teresting solely on account of the grotesque ideas which the author entertains Airier leans and their life in the far west THE CORPORATION PROBLEM The Public Phases of Corporations their Uses Abuses Benefits Dangers Wea ti and Power with a Discussion of the Social Industrial Economic and Political Questions to which they have given rise By William W Cook of the New York bar New York G P Putnams Sons Price 1150 The six chapters into which the work is divided are entitled Introductory Various Controversies to which Corporations Corpora-tions have given rise Remedies for the Railroad Problem Corporations as the Owners of Natural Monopolies Trusts and Corporations and the Republic and these titles best give an insight to the scope of the treatise The public phases and business methods of corporations rather than the law bearing upon them are here discussed and remedies are suggested sug-gested for the evils which have grown up as the result of these creations of modern times |
