Show I I bA NEW NOVEL BY MAJOR I i J A Forest Hearth a Ilomanco of Indian 4 in tli1 Thlrticn Bv Charles Major author f 4 au-thor of When KnlRhthood Was in I Flowvr etc With illustrations by 111 t Clyde O DeLnnel The Mnomlllan Com ny publishers New York I 11 A now novel by ths noted author Js sure fX 1 1 O t uttract tho attention of tho literary I fforU but w fear that thin one will not J p ftlsfv It The hero and heroine arc both trui Jr f oid by onlnar nH Ian McLaren would mj 5ey Tljey Jiml each other only to lose Juid It Is as lnrd to place them nn It la 1 rJii to locuo tho pea under tho cup of the thlinblerlsROr The younp man aid als > o 1111 girl bear an iitnount of imposing upon I I tlsal Is simply Inconceivable1 In tho free I ant iiidnpfflde llfeof tho Vest In tho W tti oM day youiiK follcs were not built that c 1L iray and the de is ex machhia of the plot It jD 3 llir Little was quite right in luylng J v that the male of thin romarkahlo pair Ir I OT 0 mor kinds of a tool than ho had ever IW rt conic across before though ho loved him j 1 well and did him chief Peirvice That as 1 11 torilalihur young hero with t he old En aI tlta t rUth peasniit name of Dlccon j robably r rtvcr hcurd in this country was con z t ftnntly lured from his own true love by att tt f n jlrcn for whom 1m cared not a vyu ttt Jf t i maw and tvmed to think It curious that ifll f anyone shouhl think he neant anything let t r bII or tint there vas any danser to his Pw 1 t real lop affair until Dually he 1 wan iP t brought to boo In a fashion Unit allowed rty IL him to hI a far worse donkey than I any TO on had ever suppoucd him to be And I4a Alter all he grti Ills girl because MH friend Yo 1 Billy Little showed hOI the only thins I to t do and she went to her lover across lots nail < l under hit guldunoe She herself was f a good deal of a chump and stood for any iraoutil of nonsense nml humbug but tool I the decisive step at last though o ore rot in all suro from the working of the plot and Uiu dispositions of the two that tho step was the right one Il is very J llfcely that I she would have fared bettor and Iion far happier In the Ions run 1 ivlth the other fellow aly and designing nf he is made to appear As n picture of the country and of the jful people of the time and place the work ail hM merit but is 1 too scrappy and it Introduce tj4 t In-troduce too few types and tO little action IPj ac-tion asldo from that which strictly per Jh tnlw to the two central characters to Ivi c of much cope The story lu one of interest rJg in-terest to ho sure lint it Is not ono to urn either male or add to a literary reputation of reputa-tion And wo may say that the character hI of Hilly Little Is too soft and sentimental to allow of his being a storekeeper I and II waking money In a COT1 mUll It such an 1 the author would have us acquainted with as fornilmr the local color with the scenic and homo nurroundlnus and busl i nrps methods for a utory of Indiana In LI the Thirties r h I I 1 4 4 I L tir i t h J J I 4 4 J 1 4J r J 3e L THE CONQUEST Block and White Reproduction of Be auliful Colored Frontispiece in the Book |