Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-18
NEW BOOKS And MAGAZINES
Fall Season of the Year Brings Forth a
World Of New Books.
VALUABLE WORKS OF VARIOUS KINDS
writers of Fiction Present n Number
of New works-Boys' hooks in
PIenty-Popular New Play Will
lie Presented in Omaha.

PIenty-Popuiar New Play Will
lie Presented in Omnhn.
Mr.. Anthony Hopes new book The
Kings Mirror" is bold departure
from the ordinary canons OF novel
writing and from his own habit o.
composition. There is. strictly speaking, no
plot in THE Kings Mirror; and in the
place OF that world OF swift adventure 10
which the author has accustomed his read
ers he presents us with quiet and careful
study Of the private life of a king. King
| Augustin Is a monarch, presumably, OF the
present day and reigns over an imaginary
kingdom of which Forstadt Is the capital.
The narrative is told by the king himself,
and has the effect rather OF a discursive
personal memoir than OF story the char
acters being more like the personnel OF
diary than the mainstays Of intrigue The
| effect is, of course, intentional, and If the
admirers of THE Prisoner Of Zenda' may at
first be little surprised at the character
of THE Kings Mirror they will be graft
fed to realize that Mr.. Hope is, after all,
| as willing to appeal to their sensibilty as
to their love of excitement. King Augustin
| tells us in many words that because he
is king we must not think that his lot is
any happier than our own. he has his pomp
what is that to the joy peculiar to "our lit
tleness,' of making and preserving our own
| friendships of choosing wife after our
own hearts? In vein somewhat of this
| kind. helped by a variety Of pleasing incl
dents and dialogue as crisp and to the point
as we expect from Mr.. Hope the king tells
his tale of divinity that doth hedge him
round and grows even a little sad, though
he feels it is more kinglike to be cynical
| nta1 IA Of ht
anCholy but engaging Augustin the author
has added other characters worthy of eXhibi-
tion in the same gallery as the Princess
Flavia, Rupert Rassendyl, or the Princess
Osra. Among the best is the iron chancellor,
Hammerfeldt, who reminds us not little of
Sapt; the witty and ironical Wetter who
shows us the best side of radical, and the
Countess Won Sempach, who IL good but
dangerous-the more so for that impression
OF naivete in her character. which Mr..
Anthony Hope so we'll knows how to convey.
| Appleton & Co., New York Cloth, S1.50
One of the best bits OF recent American
fiction is "a Mountain Europa" by John
Fox, jr 1t depicts life in the Tennessee
mountains with the clearness and sharpness
Of photograph, yet at the same time with
so much sympathy with the mountaineers.
that one cannot fail to understand them
better, after making the acquaintance of
his characters His story Is old in plot,
but 1t is new in all its features There
, seems to be no deliberate attempt to paint
word pictures of the beautiful scenery OF
these mountains but in few lines Mr. Fox
sketches a scene that serves to bring into
stronger relief the personages in his tragic
, story. All the phases of unspoiled nature
, in these remote mountain Businesses are
, sketched so sharply that we know the places
and the people as though we had seen them
with our own eyes. The story turns on
the adventure of a New York mining en-
gineer in the Cumberland mountains who
encounters a beautiful girl, becomes inter
9 ested in her, stimulates her to study and
unconscously separates her from the rustic
lover who had know her all his life. Clay
o ton, the engineer, first met Easter Hicks
, as she was riding home on a bull, modern
Europa with grist from the mill. The bull
| charged the stranger and burst the meal
| bag, greatly to the annoyance of the girl,
| but she is not so much preoccupied as to
r fail to note the clothes of the stranger or
o | to speculate on his reasons for lifting his
$ hat when he took leave OF her The ac-
q | quaintance rpens rapidly, much to the dis
o comfture OF Sherd Raines the young lover,
n who Is studying to be circuit rider. Much
Y | of the story Is written in dialect, but it is
n a dialect that like Uncle Remus' negro
:. talk, may be easily understood. The story
is we'll worth careful reading for its literary
o art and its truth to phase of little known
e American life. Harper & Brothers, New
e York Cloth, ST.
C The third volume in the new library edi-
J. tion OF Edward Everett Hale's works is
Ten Times One is Ten and Other Stories ;
n estng account of the remarkable develop.
n ment of schemes of practical charity ant
e helpfulness from this story. The Lend {
d Hand" societies spread from city to cit,
d and some years after they were increased
e | by the Look up Legion" 1t Miss
id Ella Elizabeth Russell OF New York wht
al in May 1870, formed the first club from he
At Sunday school class. She had read the stor.
al to her pupils, who were boys between thu
- ages OF u and II, and they had been mucl
er struck with the good work done by Harr,
e. Wadsworth, the hero of the story. So tn
10 society was formed. the first of many hun
~ ~ dred. 1t Is curious fact that the book wa
~ popular in prisons, and one club of youn
p, women devoted themselves to circulating tn
- story among prisoners. FINALLY these so
~ cieties grew so numerous that Dr. Hale wa
induced to start a little journal called Len
| q
- | Charities Review, but the central office G
the clubs in Boston still publishes the Len
m a Hand Record Among the work performe
lie by the united clubs were hospitals for col
- ored people in the southern states, schoc
at Manassas and recently care of the sick
ia the Spanish war. This is remarkabl
H. and noteworthy work to come from on
ce story. Among the other stories in this boo
ON are Neither Script Nor Money Stan
en- and Wait" "Hepzibah's Turkeys" and "ou
n | New Crusade" They are all marked b
e. that breezy realism which is one of tn
,ss great charms of DR.. Hale's style and seN
n eral of them have genuine pathos tn
story of Hepzibahs Christmas dinner
on particularly good The volume is upifor>
he with the others in this handsome new ed
M tlon, which ought to bring many new reaC
ID ers to DR. Hale and thus spread the infuen'
ice of some OF the most wholesome books of oil
icy day. Little Brown & Co., Boston Clot
Ct $3.50.
The title of Maurice Hewlett's new book
ant | Of ba ''litt