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R SOUTHERN AND ROMANTIC no Nobody by Virginia D lt Published by bj byJ J a apr rv r Brothers Trice io I This tine fino old romance of ot t tho south tells the st story ry of ot a n. beautiful girl supS sup- sup supposedly S with Ith no negro ro blood In her veins Iwho Who fights against the taint but with f the full Zuil knowledge of at the prejudice r F r that obtains among her white while neigh neigh- bors bore She Is taken up by a A. neighbor woman who has bought an estate c tate or U plantation and tho the brother of ot this wom- wom an also Is Interested when he comes I for tor a visit during the vacation from his bank The manner In which the brother takes up the tho cudgels In behalf behalf be- be I half halt of at the beautiful young woman whom he believes es to be pure Caucasian the narrow escape ho he has from being t I lynched by his white neighbors and ami too the final discovery that the young youn I woman J Is the thc daughter of at a haughty ht II southern planter through liI his daughters daughter's Illicit love e affair affair Is Is well vell told No Nob b bod s Is destined to have havo a consid- consid vogue It Is as well written I as as The Clansman which has delighted delight delight- ed cd- millions both as a star story and as a aI at I drama and the problem which It ap- ap apI t I Is the tho same sarno although it Is talc talc- I lien en UP from tram a different angle The Theauthor author t shows an un excellent Insight Into when he ha describes the tho misery misery mis mis- ery en of the young oung woman who Is constantly constantly con con- fighting I against her love for tor or her protector because she knows l noW's that marriage is Impossible because of or the supposed taint In her blood There Is Isa Isa Isn a n ch clever cr bit of at detective work In the story and it contains much nuch that will vill t Interest all classes of at r readers aders The reI re- re 1 viewer Is much mistaken If It It does docs I F not prove to bo be one ono of the famous j books of the year ear COLLECTION OF GOOn GOOF STORIES S. S I Tho SIck A L LAd by Eleanor f Abbott author of or Molly lne Pub Pub- lIh l by bv Century company New ew York Price 20 1 Illustrated The Bed A SIck Lady Lad Is the story of a n. mysterious woman who Is brought in a critical condition by the old village vii vil lage doctor to his Ills home for tor treatment treatment treat treat- ment It tells how the tho old doctor be before before be- be fore tore making Im known wn her identity y sc sets s himself to cure her physical ailments aliments and how the young oung doctor who has hns taken taken tak talt- en her In charge falls In love with her during her months of or delirium At the end the mystery Is cleared and the happiness hap hap- Ti of at all accomplished The book i Q 44 contains a number of ot charming stories I among them The SIck Bed Hickory Dock The Very Yen Tired Girl Something Happened In October October Octo Octo- ber her The Tho Amateur Lover Heart of ot I the City T The Tho he Pink Sash Womans t Only Business All aro told In the excellent excellent ex ex- c manner that distinguishes Molly and each is a gem gemIn gemIn Amateur Lover Lo tells In itself Tho The the the stor story of at a girl who disappointed in her fiance burns all her bridges and decides to marry marr a childhood lover hoping that happiness can be found In that wa way sa She visits his office and anel persuades persuades per per- him to marry her despite the fact that she does docs not love him Al Although Although Al- Al though the old love returns the husband husband hus hits band Is able to turn her to himself and onel to make for or himself a place In her affections The stories are arc all excellent excellent excel excel- lent a a. statement unnecessary for tor those who ha have YO read Molly lal ebelle e SOME IE EXCELLENT S That Ilist Reminds Me Me Il n a r collection c Uon of or after dinner after lories Published hed by II H. 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I ell i Co n. n This is a collection of excellent aCter after after aft aCt er dinner stories suitable for fOl any occasion occasIon occasion oc oc- oc- oc casion where natured good-natured and anel modest conviviality rel reigns ns Some of or tho stories arc are old old but the most of oC them If 1 tare are new and the old ones are arc told in a aI at t I mew vein that is refreshing The public public pub pub- lic ilc speaker who desires to open his after arter aft art I er dinner linner talk with a good story to toI I put his hearers In happy vein will find 1 t I much in this little book that will be of ot otI R I use to him Tho The speaker who Is subA subJect sub- sub f A to an nn attack of oC stage stag fright at the open Ins Ins- of his remarks finds that the thet t telling of ot a good story stan tides him over r I the dangerous moment and puts Urn Im en ent enI t I rapport with his hearers That Reminds TIeI Re TIe- I I minds Me Mc will be of oC help to all as giving lag Ins material for tor these little stories A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT Th The Awakening bj- bj Maui Maud Diver Direr Price 51 30 Published by br the John company S Those familiar with the customs of India with their caste system and the pl place ce which woman occupies in the thc scheme of life lIe in that vast empire will find In The Awakening something of at ofa a great Ireat deal o of Interest to them Those Those- i who are not t familiar with It will find much in this story that will be in informing Informing Inv In- In v forming as well as entertaining Tho The prejudice against the Indian woman hoping for any career outside her home among amon her own people and the prejudice prejudice prejudice dice on tho other hand of at the tho Caucasian 1 races rI against close ties lies with what the they re regard ard as an inferior race creates reates a situation which the author has handled and unraveled with consummate skill The marriage o of the tho only llau daughter of at a 1 high caste cultivated Hindu to the scion of ot an art old En English lIsh house forms torms the story An English artist of or indo indo- j n lO arm ami or a ab b wealthy and arid noble house house- whose relatives relatives rela rela- I tives tI aro are aro all prominent in politics andIn andin and andin in government falls in love with this beautiful woman of or India at a a. resort I where she Is come to study medicine i and ond fit It herself for tor work among amon the women o of her hr race and after atter she has broken away from the first caste ca cn te ties tics The reque request t that lie he be permitted to paint her picture and tho the finally granted grant grant- ed permission remove her still more from her position as a woman of ot In In- In dia The author finally marries the loving ln couple and sketches In an InImitable Inimitable in inimitable In- In imitable wa way the tho Hindu girls girl's reception reception recep recep- tion at the hands of at her husbands husband's English English English Eng Eng- lish relatives She Bhe is finally nall successful In overcoming o the obstacles o stacle In her herand way and smoothing her journey through the thorny thorn path o of lIC life In a foreign country coun coun- try The people there ore are strange to her and their views of ot life lite are arc such as a she cannot comprehend Right flight and ju Justice tice triumph however cr In the end over prejudice and narrow Insular British prejudice goes down be before before hc- hc fore tore her and antI the author settles at nt least to he her own o satisfaction a problem with which England En has been grappling ever e since the days dars of at Chive e MI i YIT 1 g II I E. E I Th Iron Woman h hr hy Margaret tot hr Harper Broilers Now York Price Jl Z by bj F. F F Taylor The Iron woman oman Is a female emale of ot exceedingly ex cx- ly strong personality whoso whose chief aim In life lite seems the tion of money not so tOO much for tor what money will buy or for tor the love lo of at It but hut I Jr merely reh for the pleasure of or making makin it It the demands It makes upon unon her vitality and ml her H r Intelligence She has married a D. widower tho the heir to a large e Iron Ironwork work ore who dies In a short time leav- leav her ier r one son whom sIte she leaves CS dailY dally to the care and teaching leaching of ot a nurse She takes personal charge of at the Ule busl- busl I WILLIAM 31 JOHNSTON Author othor of The Yellow T Letter ness but the son from whom she had ha expected great things thinS's develops to have no business ability He Ho Is rather of an artistic temperament disposed to tobo bo he a n. L dilettante but she is determined to make a man of oC business of ot him at I any cost Ills His final act of ot Indiscretion In eloping with the fiancee tl of ot his best friend lea loatis his mother to cast him off oft entire entirely 1 and to disinherit him The mother Is finally killed In an accident In the factory and the tho son whose wife has In the meantime repented of at her In Indiscretion Indiscretion In- In discretion decides to give sl the back to her former sweetheart and goes abroad with his stepsister who has Inherited the tho bulk bull of at the tho mothers mother's fortune Th The Tho story ston is as stron strong as might be expected from the pen of this author who has written nothing that Is ts I not worthy of at extended attention There Ther 13 is a 8 wealth of detail which assists In Inthe Inthe inthe the establishing of ot the local color of ot which the tho modern author thinks so much and there is an absorbing interest interest inter inter- est ost in the story star all aU the way cay wa The development de do- cI c- c o of the young oung mans man's character I Is limned by a master hand and the stor story will be found well worth while A nOOK FOR YOUNG FO FOLKS IS The at Castaways by br Frederick One Orin Bart But lett Published by the Century company Price Irice 1 CO 0 Illustrated d by Geor George C Varlan t This story of or adventure Is Is' Is Isa a a. good wholesome book for tor young oung people ana auG there Is much In it of oC Interest to ad adults Two youths at school both In rather bad health are taken b by the father atone of at one ono of at them to the Maine woods for tor a asea sea season on of hunting hunting- with a camera While in pursuit of or a huge hUSe moose to get et a picture of or it they become lost and find tind finda a cabin In the woods on the shore ofa ata of at ofa a lake The They meet there an escaped convict con who ha has been convicted con o of the robbery robber of ot a bank He lie finally helps them through the winter one of ot them themIs Is Injured and he tenderly tender nurses him then dares arrest to get a doctor The rhe boys bos are rescued and the convict who proves to bo be innocent Is pardoned by bythe bythe bythe clean and ancI the governor o The story ston Is wholesome and It makes an en excellent gift to r for some hearty heart bo boy who likes sport for Its own sake STORIES OF THE TilE AVEST ESl Em Emersons Emerson's Wire Wife and Other Western Stories StorIe by Florence I nce Finch Kelly Kell Published by A Ar C. C McClur 0 Co Ce Chicago Illustrated by br Stanley L. L Wood This collection of or stories of or the the b Is excellent each of at the stories be beIng beLog being ing Log particularly Interesting and i thrill-I Ing It shows the life of the border as asIt as' as asIt It Lt was years yen rs ago aso and there Is If a eln eln Df ot f sentiment through each of or the little tales that appeals to the discriminating discriminating- reader In Emersons Wife two western stern men peace officers are determined determined deter deter- mined rained upon the arrest of some desperate desper desper- ate te Mexicans They usually have ha been accompanied on their raids by b Emerson Emer Emer- son ion a friend but hut hesitate to call ll upon him bim because he ho ha has but recently been heen married and the they feel he has no right to risk his hi life lire One of them imbibes too toI freely and sends a worded cleverly telegram to Emerson telling him hire what they are arc about to do but avoiding asking ask asle- I ing lug his assistance Emerson appears appearson on the tho scene and plays his part In the tho melee- melee that follows s the effort cHart to arrest the Mexicans He attacks one of ot his frIends because the latter tries trips to shield him tim on account of or his wife The Thc arrest Is Ls made and none of the three Is son son- Injured Injure That is the tho first stor story Df or t the lot but b by no m moans ans tho the best al although hough all are good gooel A r rIF IF OF OLD OIn KENTUCKY lUCKY I Grandmother by Sue Forman Matthews I Published Pub by the J. J S. S O Publishing company Price U. U 1 This story of ot old Kentucky has its equal share of romance and adventure and contains much of or interest that will appeal to all On first blush the author seems to have told It In a disconnected manner that would detract from lom Its but further examination shows that this tills is not the tho case The widow of oC a clergyman man has hns taken the son and daughter dau of ot her doad dead child to raise on their small plantation in Kentucky At about the tame same time a a. Louisville doctor falls Calls In love o with a n beautiful society girl Irl there but falls fails In iii his Itis suit and marrice marries marrIce mar mar- rIce ries another woman whose whoso fortune lie ho believes belle exceeds that of ot the girl who re refused refused re- re fused him The latter marries the brother of oC tho the phy physicians physician's wife The flie doctor has never forgiven his sister sister- law in-law and when a Q child Is born to hor hir he substitutes a dead baby bab and gives Ives her lIvin living one to an accomplice The latter ships it away r b by steamboat with some old furniture out of or a Louisville Louis Louls- yule ville church and the child Is delivered to to the clergyman's widow v who brings it up with her two grandchildren That Thatis is the groundwork ground of ot tho the story and it furnishes man many possibilities which are fully r realized b by r th the tho author The rite story Is excellently t told ld and the sweet southern southern south south- ern em all air about it Is not the least of ot its many good qualities MOTHER U. U LOVE Mother Careys Carey's Chickens by Y K Kate te Douglas Price 15 12 Published by y the Hough Hough- ton too Co Boston While this story stor by tho the author of ot Mrs of ot the Cabbage Patch docs not bull as largely largel as did her earlier work vork that is no ItO reflection upon It because o tho ho author set not with Mrs Irs s a high mark marlc which few tew authors author attain Mother Careys Carey's Chickens tells the story of ot an Ideal family the tho th dominant note In which Is mother love lo In the opening chapter the tho father dies leaving leaving- the widow with four tour small children chil chil- dren to be bo raised and cared for on tho Interest accruing front from This meant mant the tho surrender of at many little luxuries the children had hael grown to ex expect expect ex- ex as a n part df dC the dally daily routine and necessitated their removal to a cheaper home The They finally decide to lD move mo to toa a It village where they would not be bo Imo known n and where little would bo ho expected expected ex ex- O of them in the wa way of or outward show The Tho story tells how lion they all worked wonted together to make malce both bot ends moot moct and of tho happiness which the found f In thc the little v village e where thc thor they I were loved b by all It is IR a pretty story of ot home life And there thero Is a wholesome atmosphere about It that Is distinctly refreshing without being maudlin or over It Is a book that leaves each reader better In mind and spirit than titan when the book was picked oel up a consummation which every oven sincere sincere sin sin- cere core author |