Show I I D I Books Just gust u R Right for f or Christmas I I The lie Hock tok of fir General Gener l Charles King Ian who has contributed con con- so man many soldier r stories to tho the literature o of th the nation makes mattes another hid for popularity In n The Rock nock of or Chickamauga This Is a story of or the tho Civil war nI and is especially attributed to General George c II Thomas who Is regarded aa as an ideal by hy General King King- The stol story Includes studies of or Stanton Grant and Sherman with all nIl of whim the author was in contact during dur dur- ur- ur ing the warThe war wear The Rock of oC Chickamauga Is taken as a whole rather the best besl of or war storIes which has como from Crom General Kings King's pen It will be lie useful to students stu- stu tu- tu dents of or American history and un w will be a admitted as Interest Interest- Ing The rhe hook book IH l-i handsomely Illustrated b by Gilbert it Gaul and Charles J J. Post t rile Making of a It Cn Casper per S. S Yost has haa laid the reading pu public under obligation In a singularly h happy haplI appy degree lie Ile has made two books booles w which everybody should rend read Every Every- b bOd body ody who does doc read them will be hotter better for It 11 One Is called Tho Making of or a Successful Husband the other Tho The M Making aking of a Successful Wife Both noth i are In th the form p jit of otters letters from n a a certain tain John Snood Sneed In tho the ono one case caso he tl addresses his hlson eon son In the Intimate fatherly fashion which all wise old m min know Imo ho tells tho the bo boy things thinG's which If IC observed will result In n makIn mak- mak i In ng married lire life successful ful and happy Old John Sneed does docs not pretend to e c an au angel fro lie does doe not pretend to lo I always have havo horn been as good as ho I Is now But all the tho way through his letters let I while you laugh at his humor you know h he is telling whole r pages ages a es of or sound horse sense Ho Ito IH Is just u wise old man with a n pure guru your young oun heart and antI he lie Is helping his hI goy hoy and anti girl to mak J life hap happy Of the Honey Hone moon he hc says Put It on Ice and kee keep It i t there as long a as aH you live Ho lIo toil tells g the thc boy to go JO to housekeeping never ne r to bO board He lIe tells him to give hc his wife e pocket money Ho lIe tells him tt tO bo be pa Jm- dent tient with the young oung wires wife's housekeep ing He lIe tolls tells him to be more moro polite t to u his ow own i wife than to any other mans man's s wife All 11 through gh thu tho little Volume h ho o convinces con one of the happiness that ea ran can n como come b by following his hit advice And so with tho fife dau daughter At Ors first I he ho can con hardly realize that his its little e girl Is 18 going to be he tried married He lie r ra s way away from tu homo hoe himself and antI the hc nc nv nO 9 1 s I tomes comes like something of oC a shock But nut ho rises to the occasion as fathers Cathers have alwn always s 's done and anti he tells her a lot of thin things 8 that ci a n father can tell to his daughter who is just going to be marred mar- mar red and which nobody else can put Into words He lie wants her to bo ho married married mar mar- ried In a n church He docs does not think the they will 11 lie be any more securely married that way but he thinks a 11 wedding Isa Is Isa a pretty big thing and antI whatever will wilt make malee serious g and b beautiful thoughts cluster about it is desirable Mon Many a time In reading th the e letters I you OU will laugh while the t a ar are running running run run- run run-I ning down cloum your our cheeks k and always you ou will know w that there Is Js a wise and und loving 10 father talking plainly tb fb his children ren out in t tee e world worM w John Colin Dane Dano has made a now new automobile story tor It Is all In tho the first person and the tho Itself Is speaking It remembers something about the thc preliminary steps In its and manufacture and one ono gets Jets an nn increasing ing Idea of or a n. machine machine- in tho the making as the goes story on on It Is a clover young In Englishman to too capable to rust in the tUo society t which his family pro provides pre vides and ami too proud to shame them 1 by letting the world l know ho has hns turned mechanic Yet ho he has and he ho constructs con con- construct a it machine which easily beats all competitors in a a. a famous French race But just lust In tho the moment of vl victory vic vic- tory a 3 thug employed cn by a rival strikes the maker malter and driver r dT Champion n Oittila at aL a n. 11 hidden portion of or the to road The mac It tires Is J a rca rea coning creature and promptly prompt kills the Intended mur murderer After which It vcr very sensibly and ver very cleverly crl proceeds to tn win the race There Is a food good love lov tiler aril antI one ono that Is not so good running r through h tho the book J And 1 it is Illustrated by W. W Y F K E Webster rite ll of the tile Silences Silence Far find awa away tho the he best hest t of ot the nature nature e books that hav have be here given cn 1 to th the press pross this year ear Is Tho The Haunters of or tho fife Sll Sll- a book of animal life b by Charles G. G I D. D It tells tells' of or the tho birds bird s and 1 animals of or tho ho very velY fat far north tho the region of profound 1 stillness and add profound pro pro- found cold It tolls lolls of at boars bears ff and antl wolves ad eagles s and lynxes h lynxes and fishes and all nil manner manneh of life lito In n the far away rr r reaches g of ot the tine north In only ono of all o of them does docs a man figure Thorn Thero Is no woman 1 In n n the Look book frown from beginning to ent end dt them herd Is nothing more thrilling or I convincing or OJ Impressive than this story o of the creatures who know thelong the tho long ela day and equally eq all long night Of or orall all the tha th j bool books 1 that have hl come to the tho table of The Republican n this year ear we wd I know of oC nono none which Is more likely t to please se both boy bo and girl and which I Iso Is isso so s suro ro to Instruct instinct and anti delight lt as this Then pictures arid add thO they are many man many an and fine are aro b by Charles Bull th publishers are aro L. 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C Page P an and company tany of ot Boston TIte hc of fit Merlin Morlin Charles Stoke Stokes Wayne Vayne tells In The Th Marriage of ot Mrs alts Merlin a sort o of and En version of oC th theold the tho old story of Claude Melnotte Mrs hs Mer in tn was unhappy In ht her first t mar mar- r but but- managed to tor r redeem deem herself before the tho end of the book It ally re-ally Isn't much of or a story either In ort original scheme or treatment The Th rho C dons arc are by Louis I Gr I The Sheriff of or Charles Ross Jackson tells tolls us about abou J The of or Vasco Rasco It Is ln tn Oregon Ore Ore- gon gout story of or tho frontier The plains plain I and Hpe it De hills and the forests f are ore ore-I big In Its makeup Tho The woman In tho the case I la an especially well drawn Ch 11 character so true to lo nature and so 80 strong strong- that one Is glad t to know she he 1 is h lovery rather ather more earnestly than is tin the u s of of w en sIt It ends happily happy and as much surprise as ono ns ono can expect Tho The plc- plc turen are olO h by Louis F. F Grant re tilt the lied Pour Tills Is a romance of oC the Civil war ChaaW el Is t tho e author Th Tito rho hero Of the story Js is a German man tonai exile r much like Carl Schurz In ht r and origin He Ito er enlists enlist In the l Union army and sen servos serves s through tho tu lie He le finds tho the ono woman and anti her The rue book is helpful as a n. sides side on history and a as jug Ing rUe rile assistance which ny mC foreign foreign- or ors rendered to the tune national cause causo in the tho CK CI war This co comment ment Is la brief hut but we wan want to Imbres tho the fact that the tho book tv veil wel I dp 1 rrell erves a most hearty heart commendation All Ml of ir the the- above are I Rues from Crom the tho th Wing house of D D. W. W ham I of or N y w York The They mark a. a continua an of the superior class of or fiction t I is characteristic of oC this house 1 |