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Show NEW BOOKS. The Macmillan company, New York, has issued is-sued a cheap edition of Gertrude Franklin Ath-erton's Ath-erton's great historical novel, The Conqueror. The theme of the story is Alexander Hamilton, and while' a fiction, all the ground work is fact. It is a vivid portrayal of the events and customs and masters and people of one hundred and one hundred and fifty years ago. It is most strongly written thou in places the author has a habit of using language that is a bit obtuse, but it is an enchantment to read it all the same. It was -ono hundred years on Tuesday last that Alexander Alexan-der Hamilton died. What ho was to this coun try and the world not many people have any idea. This year, tho centennial anniversity of his death and a Presidential election year is a gooa one In which to review the wonderful man's life The Conqueror is a novel, but woven into it are many truths of history and some of them are so Yital that every American should be familiar with them. Then there is word painting in the book to charm the reader. The description of the scenery of the West Indies and of a tropical hur ricane; the change to the banks of the Hudson war pictures and the fierce contests in convention and on the Huskins, the pen portraits of men and women all give to the book a perpetual charm. ' |
