The times., 1899-09-24

with ali sorts of proofs to open his eyes,
persists in being as blind as a bat. and
thereby incurs innumerable dangers
Among these are several attempts to kill
him by poison and bullet. and by the agree
able method of leaving poisonous snake
IN his bed. AS may be supposed, the young
man has, during his stay on his fathers s
plantation, most interesting time OF il.
Inc story ends happily, however-that was
also certain from the beginning-and every
BODY except the villain lives happy ever
after New York. d. Appleton & Co.
S1.00.)
The Voyage of the Pulo Way is a
story of the high seas, by Carlton Dave,
author OF "A Bride of Japan" and some
other tales of the ends OF the earth. MIR.
Dave has brilliant though not always
reserved style, and he can tell story. The
book will interest those who are fond OF
sea literature. (New York: R. f. Fenno
& Co. $1.25.)
Fighting in Cuban Waters is a book
for boys, whose character is sufficiently de-
| scribed by the subtitle, Under Schley on
the Brooklyn % The author, Edward
Stratameyer, has written several other
books, one being Under Dewey at Manila
and another "A Young Volunteer in Cuba,
and the stories form part of the "Old Glory
Series of historical tales for boys. tBos-
| ton: Lee Shepard. $1.25.)
My Scottish Sweetheart" is a romance
by an author with the very Scotch name OF
Charles Reekie. 1t is a love story pure
and simple, and, as the title indicates the
scene is laid in Scotland. New York: F,
Tennyson Neely. $1,000
"a Military Belle" is a love story OF
military life, whose chief claim to distinc-
ton is that it is the work of a soldier, Hen
ry Clinton Parkhurst, of the Sixteenth
Iowa Infantry. (New York: f. Tenny-
son Neely. $1,000
"A Mountain Europa is reprint of a
clever little story by John Fox, jr., which
appeared some time ago. The scene is laid
in the Cumberland Mountains, and while
Mr.. Fox's point of view is more that of an
/ outsider than it ought to be for real art,
the tale is still happy in its rendering of
local color. New York: Harper &
Brothers. $125)
1t is some time since new hook from
the pen of Charles Egbert CraddocE has
appeared, and if this clever woman were
to cease writing it would be rather a loss
to American literature. While her range
| is not wide-she writes only of the Ten
| nessee and Kentucky mountains-theye is
still occupation enough for one author in
| that strange Rip Van Winkie region, with
/ its superstitions, its barbarisms and its
unsupported refinements. We can hardly
/ have too many faithful studies of any sort
of American life during these years OF
! transition. They viii be invaluable To the
/ historian and novelist of years to cone.
The BuShwhackerS" is a volume o,
| short stories, three in number, and it may
/ be remarked in passing that the cover
| of the book is remarkably pretty. 1t is
1 seldom that complicated mountain view
| can be suggested with so few lines as the
artist has used in this design. The first
story of the three is not only the most
ambitious, but the best, and Miss Murfree
has seldom done a better bit of work II
| is the story of a Tennessee lad who joined
after much fretting at home during the
| earlier years of the war a troop of Con-
! federate irregular cavalry, and did good
! service therein. 1t contains the same care
! fulness of character study which was to
I be found in The Prophet of the Great
Smoky Mountains and ether works of this
| author; and the same exquisite power OF
! description. Charles Egbert Craddock is
one OF the few remarkable exceptions to
| the ruse that no modern authorfca make
| the public read descriptions of mountains
and skies. One falls insensibly into the
/ lazy movement OF the narrative, and watch
es the opalescents word -mazes unfold as
| in the indolenta lard of which the tale is
| told, he might watch mountain and cloud
! shadows move across the landscape. There
| is more human interest in this story, more
over, than in some of the writer's former
works. 1t is not so much a psychological
1 study as a sketch of deeds and emotions
/ lChicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co S1.00O