| Show Standard Examiner Standard Examiner Book ook Re Reviews Edited by Maurice Howe Howo I THE T rouLs COULS HOUSE MYSTERY ton Dut-ton by Charles Barry E Id P But Dut- Dutton ton Sr Co N New ow ew York One of ot the most gripping detec of th tive detective stories In many aday a day Is ot- ot feted the public In this book l was released by the thc publishers publisher February 18 IS To pick up this mystery story tor br tora bra tora a casual glance means that It will not no be laid down until It Is fin In finished for tor the author has instilled curb an on element clement ot of suspense that ono on Is loath to quit until the de- de de denouement can relieve the anxiety ot of the reader and settle the tin tin- un uncanny canny affair In a plausible manner Mr Barry Barry Is also also aio the author ot of The Detectives Detective's Holiday He fe has hasa hasa a wife who has a 0 keen mind for sleuthing and she assists him In hi battling baffling writings writing The author I- I an art English journalist who ho has traveled widely and has done actual service as a 0 member of ot the Intel Intelligence department ot of the British government go There Is a queer angle ot of love Intrigue and counter plot that fas Cas fascinates tes the lovers ot of mystery tic tic- fic fiction lion tion The book bOOle Is written In let pleas pleas- pleasing ing log stylo style and anti jumps Into the tho sub sub- subject sub subject matter at the very ery beginning without a moments moment's hesitation The flow Clow of words is smooth and the plot sequence Is easy to follow tollow Detective Liddell looked across tho th bay boy Crom from hi his hotel window one dark night and attracted by a alighted alighted alighted lighted window In the old House saw with the aid ot of o his binoculars a man with a a pointed beard at the throat ot of o Treathe Treathe- na-j na ay a wealthy Englishman lIshman On investigation It was discovered that buthis had disappeared but buthis buthis his battered car ar was found at the ot of a nearby cliff Three men each of ot them the possessor of ot a 0 pointed beard are suspected of oC having knowledge of ot shat hat hap hap- h happened happened p that night The solution ot of the rice ries the reader through a series series ot of exciting adventures and Is finally unravelled by Chief Detective In- In Inspector Inspector Gilmartin To tell more would spoil the storI stor- M I II H S S S THE rilE COWBOY A AND D S IX IN- IN 1 by Douglas Branch Appleton Published by D P Apple ton Co New York The vigorous picturesque life lite ot of the American cowboy I Is related ed In a cautious deft manner by Douglas Branch Dranch as ho also takes time to criticize the tha varied types ot of western stories from the tho var var- varied led pens ot of the popular maga maga- mag magazine sine zine writers Itt Ills HII book Insists that the tho cowboy represented one i ot of the most manly types of ot Am- Am American American Am American citizenship and calls at attention to Theodore Roosevelt's regretting the tho passing o ot of their nomadic life liCe Interpretation In Branch's Dranch's Inter Inter- Interpretation interpretation originated with the set set- set settlement ot of o Texas fexas where the Mexican can herder the vaquero with the Spanish cattle from Spain had Other crossed over the Rio Grande Oth er traditions authors have o traced Its chiefly for romanticizing their stories to the chivalry of ot of medieval tIn Pl 0 m u code of ot honor came with the branding of ot mavericks maverick when the cow puncher returned Iron front the tho Civil War Var to reclaim the three thre million head ot of cattle which had lad been left lect for tor the tho mot met North and South met In la battle He smiles In a pleasing way oy ot of the misrepresentations of fie fic- fic lion Few ot of 0 the cowboys mar mar- ned ried there being first of ot all a a noteworthy lack of ot womanhood in the cow camps But Dut fiction writers naturally enough must must not neglect romance The dangers which the cowboys which encountered 1601 and the hardships they endured are arc a n part port ot of o Branch's Branch book The quiet gl gil ral-antry ral lantry of ot the tho cowboy rather rother than tt n h sl ai commonly common ther thought sh ot of are lre also parts parts- Keith or er was th tho cowboy so 80 friendly and gushing with strangers atran as one on would wo bo be prone I le to think His loquaciousness i after actor dinner Is not no to be denied 11 when their t cow cow- I boy cowboy fraternity Is gathered about Ills His book Is enlightening In his Cowboys knowledge knowledg- ot of th life liCe Cow Cow- boys eang loudest during the long IonIC ot of the tho night after aCter tile the cat had The sound their voIces n to sooth Booth I the tho herds herd's nerves and at the t thestine stine time helped smother any little noise which might again send them Into contusion confusion Owen Wister's Virginian and ad Emerson Houghs Hough's North of ot 21 are both spoken of ot at length by Branch Dranch Charlie cowboy Is also at length An An- acquaintance An-acquaintance acquaintance with many many- ther cowboys Is also atso made bandits bandit such as M Sam Sara Bass BaSl Tho Illustrations are by Will James Joe de Young and Charles CharlesM M Charlas-M M I Russell all aU masters of ot their art and lowers losers 0 ers of the the life life liCe of ot t the e The long drives of ot cattle over the northern trails the cattle cattlemen men and disputes the roundup the the cattle market towns and the VIrtuosity demanded of ot the tho cowboy In later days as Eastern men chose choso to torun torun torun run the ranch with Ith well pt ledgers are arc all parts ot of- the tho book And those old cowboy songs Many ot of them are given hen hen my old soul hunts range rangi and rest rut Beyond the last diVide Just plant me In some oC west That's sunny lone and Id wide Let cattle rub m my tombstone down kinLet And coyotes coyote mourn their their- kin Let hawses paw and tromp the tho moun But Dut dont don't you fence tence It itin In InAnd they And one they sang In driving cattle to Wyoming yea Hoo travel Doe glee Hoo de travel along long long- ho rca Hoo deI step to It it cattle For old Wyoming 1 be obe your your- new home The book has haa recently ben bc n added to shelves of ot the n Public Wll-kinson Wll Robert library library Robert A A sil kinon |
