Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-10-23 | Page 27 | A Story of the Levees

A STORY OP THE LEVEES. Tho Rivers' Children: an Tdyl of tho Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. By Ruth MoEnery Stuart With Pictures by Harry C Edwards, Tho Century Co., publlshors, Now York. Blended humor and pathos mako this a most readable book, Tho sccno Is on tho lower Mississippi, and tho wayB and tor-rors tor-rors of tho dwellers on Ita banks aro vividly viv-idly portrayed. Tho awful horror of tho groat water in Its floods was over all. And tho scenes of frenzied work to strengthen tho leveos and hold In tho stream aro given In their plcturesquo settings. Thoro ia much character-making, all of It good; much patois which ono strango to it cannot can-not Judge, and a deeply pathotlo story of tho faithfulness of an old negro couple. Tho hints of tho secession fever that swept ocer that country, tho awful losses of families, tho ruin and desolation of tho country, and the magnlficont opportunities opportuni-ties that wero In the way of thrift, energy, and ability, aro indicated. It ia a powerful power-ful sketch, and one which every reader Is certain to enjoy.