Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-01

hidden and the reader is kept in suspense
to the last page, and yet there is nothing
of the vulgar sensationalism in the story to
maintain interest. Laird & Lee, Chicago.
SO cents.
In the Would Any Man? ?" of Charles
Peale Didier the question asked is inciden-
tally answered, or rather the reader is forced
to make for himself the answer. 1t is a
love story, an intense love story, at times
bordering on the dangerous and forbidden.
and yet never quite overstepping the mark.
TIL character around which the story il
built is one that has never before been por-
trayed, a beautiful young woman subjected
to temptation and yet resolute in her pur-
poses, but swayed by mighty emotions. The
plot is original and the treatment of the
theme free and fearless. Mr.. Didier has not
before attempted anything so serious nor
assuming, but this short novel, illustrated
by himself, shows that he can do work en-
titling him to a place among the present
day fiction producers. Williams & Wilkins
company, Baltimore.
Paul Tyner has written a mystic tale OF
Through the Invisible a tale of love in
the springtime-strangely dramatic and vet
entirely natural. In easy, lowing narrative
is pictured the soul awakening of a world
ling. The characters are all very real men
and women, even If what they do is mystic,
and from opening to close the action Is
brisk, the dialogue natural and the descrip-
ton vivid. There Is a decidedly oriental
flavor about the hero's adventures, In the
astral body, on the other side of the curtain
dividing the seen from the unseen. The
book is finely illustrated with half-tone en-
| CRAVINGS from lra u,ipu lY IyII, \, mn
Continental Publishing company, New York.
rs cents.
Announcement has just been made that
the author of THE Chatelaine," which was
published last fall by the Peter Paul Book
company of Buffalo, credited simply to &C.
r. X.," is l.. Ethel Il. Painter, a woman well
known in Cleveland, o. She has Travelled
extensively, especially in Europe, and as a
memoria to her children of their many
pleasant journeys together she collected this
series of essays and reflections on things
and persons. 1t Is a book of philosophy and
poetic expression, first published in a
limited edition, but finding many readers
outside the circle of the authors acquaint-
ance.
A Nebraska writer, Mrs. May Roberts
Clark of Lincoln. is the author of the drama
tC Shtltu, FdItNtIl 4 IL buDoDus,
which is among the contents of the Me-
mortal day number of the Youths Com
panion. Mrs. Clark hopes through her
sketches and stories give Nebraska folks
a larger place in American literature than
they have had heretofore.
Admiral George Dewey. the hero Of
Manila. is the subject of a character sketch
in the June Review of Reviews by Winston
Churchill. This Is the only time that the
life story of our modest Yankee admiral has
been told In print with any completeness
His boyhood days in Vermont. his schooling
at Annapolis and later stirring experiences
under Farragut in the civil war. are all
passed In review. Mr., Churchill is himself
a graduate OF the United States Naval
academy and the author of the very success
full novel entitled THE Celebrity" He has
had unusual facilities for getting informa-
ton relative to Admiral Dewey's interesting
career and antecedents.
Books received:
The Waters OF Caney Fork. by Opie Read.
Rand, McNally e. Co, Chicago, $l.2J.
The Incidental Bishop. by Grant Allen.
d. Appleton & Co. New York. 81.
Pearce Amerson's WIN. by Richard NAL
com johnson. Way G. Williams. Chicago. 81.
1t Was Marlowe, by Wilbur Gleason Zeig-
Ter. Donohue. Hennebery & Co., Chicago.
The Standard Bearer, by s. II. Crockett.
ID. Appleton & Co, New York, $3.50.
The Gods Of Our Fathers, by Herman L
Stone. Harper & Bro, New York. sj.ie.
Christian Science and its Problems. by J.
II. Yates. Eaton & Mains, Cincinnati. 30
cents.
The Secret of the Rothsehilds. by Mary
Il. Hobart. Charles ii. Kerr & Co, Chi
cago. 10 cents.
Evolutionary Politics. by Walter T. Mills
Charles IL. Kerr & Co. Chicago. rs cents