The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-11-20
Literature.
New Books.

CAsrLE NOWHERE: Lake.Country SkctCnes
BY COnetance Hennimorc Woolson, NeN
York: Harper & Bros. Chicago: A. Mc
Clurg q Co.. ll7-lsl Wabash Ave. fr'ee
4i.W.
This Is a volume Of nine sketches O
short stories of the Upper Lake region
Aackinac and vicinity. Mostof them have
already appeared In some Of the MONTH,
magazines; but readers Of Miss Woolson'
works will be glad to find them gathered
together, as they are, under artistic covers
and dressed In handsome type. In MI line
of story writing Is Miss Woolson more sue
cessful than with short stsrles, and those
who have read her "Southern Sketches
will find this new series fit companion to
the other volume for they present pictures
of the Lake Region as novel, as picturesque
and Us thoroughly readable as we're those
of the far South, while those who have vi
tied that part OF our country called here the
Lakecounhy, will enjoy to the full the new
charms Of romance she weaves around
.eapss fw which nature has done so much
20 NJ AXE attractive to summer visitors We
know of no volume of sketches that has
appeared this year more thoroughly de
Iightful tnsn these.
LOVE- AND LUCK. The story Of Summers
kOu,rinR on the Great South Bay. BY Rob
ert 3. Roosevelt. New York; Harper ~
Bros. Chicago: A. G. McClurg Il Co., III
I3l Wabash Ave. Price, sl0O.
"Love and Luck Is book that makes
one doubly regret that the summer has
gone, and the boating and shooting season
over. 1t IL the story Of pleasant party
of Old and young people, who after u week
at Saratoga Ia midsummer, vote it the hot
est place In creation and also the most
thoroughly unenioyable sumner resort in
Am -rlca. and seek relief by flying 10 Long
Island, where yacht Is built, in which the
succeeding summer Is spent on the great
South Bay, 10 ishng and shooting, and in
all the delights of a life on board pleas
IRE yacht on seas Astounding In fish and
game. Mr.. Roosevelt Is AN expert hunter
and fisherman, the author of several valua-
bic volumes on game and fish, and knows
tn Great South Bay thoroughly. And the
sport Is described In delightful way,
while woven through it all is a pretty love
story. or rather the trials OF four lovers,
adding charm to the story, which Is rs
breezy as a summers day and as enjoyable
rs the cheerlest of them all.
The Dial, Chicago November, has It's
usual reviews OF books and fresh informa
son OF new books No book buyer can
well get along without il.
The new Scribners Mdgasiae is an
aounced for December 10Th, prospectus of
which will be found elsewhere. 1t will be
An illustrated magazine OF general litera
lure.
We can supply our readers with the
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Jour.
nj, Que year for both, at 81 %, postage
. aid, or the FREE TRADER, Chicago
Weekly Jcarnol and "Our Family Physi'
clan" all for 1915. One of the cheapest
offers ever made.
The Office, 205 Broadway, N. Y, Is a new
journal for business managers, accountants
and office men. 1t fills an entirely new
field. and arguing from the number at
hand. ii must be said that at Sl,0Oa year
few business offices can afford to be with
out 1t. while every book keeper should take
It by all means.
The cleverest of the six short stories in
Horper's Magasino for December is
"Polly."a Southern Christmas story of an.
te-bellum days, by Thomas Nielsen Page,
the young Richmond lawyer, who is rap
idly rising into prominence US n skilful
writer Kemble's five illustrations evince
the true Virginian spirit,
", y. Lilly, one of the foremost philo.
sophicA thinkers and writer's OF England,
has prepared for the Decembe number Of
Tbe Forum an article which is likely TO
command wide attention, on "The Present
Outlook for Christianity" He holds that
the belief Of Christendom stands absolutely
Intact and unassaiiable from the point of
view Of science.
The chronological Joprnai for Novem
Der has as Its leader portrait and sketch
Of Edward s Morse, Of the American
Scianoe Association. George Eliot and
Phranology" and Thoughtful and Positive.
Men," and 1.-THE Value of Phrenology" are
chronological articles. Among other care
ful studies are Decline Of Population IL
Rural Massachusetts" 1.-TWO Ancient ph4
raohs," "Moiern Sociology" The Pres
aud Public Health" etc.
allow 10 Convert Tenement Houses into
Homes for Working People, is shown in
that popular story, "The Full Stature of a
Man." There Is large proportion of the
working class that gladly hail any cuance
Of owning home; they are disalrected
now, but give them an interest In the prop
erty Of the country and you change theil
radtcalism to conservatism. Make these
people property holders as fast rs you can
Tho moment q man owns few feet o.