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Show "Fuel of Fire," Ellen T. Fowler's latest addition addi-tion to brilliant character novels, is just being published by Dodd, Mead & Co. of New York. Readers of Miss Fowler's novels are accustomed to hearing her characters talk, and while much of this talk is so peculiar, suggestive and brilliant that one would think her people would be rather trying to live with for any length of time, rather wearing on the nerves in fact, and apt to keep an ordinary mortal strung up to too high a tension to enjoy much of the dulce far niente of life. However How-ever her latest story is very human in its character charac-ter handling and well worth readers desiring to be amused and interested. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. of Boston and New York have just placed on the literary market the long expected volume on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Long-fellow which is the last of the series up to date of "American Men of Letters' and is written by T. W. Higginson, although much of the biography covering sketches of the poet's earlier years is credited to the poet's brother, who compiled much of the material nearly twenty years ago. The suburbanite and commuter have been the butt of jokes and funnyisms for many years but a writer has dawned above the horizon who makes the cause of this much abused class of pilgrims, her own. "Little Stories of Married Life" is the rather misleading title of the new venture and contains storiettes, breathing real life and its suburban sub-urban struggles in every line. It is written by Mary Stewart Cutting and published by McClure, Phillips & Co. of New York. Paul Leicester Ford's old-time magazine stoiy, "Wanted A Chaperon," has just made its appearance ap-pearance in full dress volume with striking illustrations illus-trations in color by Howard C. Christy. It is exactly ex-actly fitted for a hoMday gift and is meeting with rapid sale by its publishers, Dodd, Mead & Co. of New York. "Far Past the Frontier," by James A. Braden, is all that its name would indicate and deals with the heroic and tragic days when the lives of men and women were offered' on the altars of self sacrifice, sac-rifice, and hardship beyond description in the founding of a new empire in the then western wilderness. It is just received from the presses of the Saalfield Publishing company, Akron, O. "The Mishaps of an Automobilist," by M. J. Moses and Dewitt C. Falls is being offered the public by F. A. Stokes company, New York, and is written in a light, racy vein which appeals to the reader who prefers the lights rather than the shades in modern literature. "The Rosy Cloud" and "Three Little Marys," published by Dana, Estes & Co. of Boston, and a couple of bright little childrens' volumes which are full of catchy stories and apt illusions in child life. They are quaintly told stories and will prove acceptable additions of the little ones' holiday libraries. li-braries. "Mind Power and Privileges" by Albert B. Olsten Ol-sten is the latest addition to the literary realm of Suggestion and is rather heavy reading for anyone any-one not interested in phychic delvings, and carries the reader well beyond the theories and practices of so-called Christian Science, handled, however, from a purely materialistic standpoint. Crowell & Co., Now York, are the publishers. . "Captain Craig: A Book of Poems," by Edwin Arlington Robinson, and published by Houghton, Mifiln & Co., Boston, is an ordinary grouping of verses, neither very good nor very bad, but without with-out the fire of genius sufficient to ever permit their author to see a second edition of his volume. |