Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1899-11-16
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ANAhO StolACd up JllS dDDtbiZlnk
book for youthful readers, and it is an
attractive list. Whether writing of
the Rocky mountains or of New York
or New England, Mrs. Foote keeps her
foot on the solid ground; she is very
truthful story-teller, and very inter
esting. Her stories grow out of her
own rich experience and careful obser-
walton, and it is believed that these
Fig-tree stories will easily rank among
her best. A pretty cover design and
illustrations add to its attractions.
Children of the MIST" by Eden
Phillpotts, author of "Down Dartmoor
Way" "some Everyday Folks" My
Laughing Philosopher" etc, comes
from the press of G. p Putnam's Sons,
New York and London. The work is
one of exceptional merit. II. d. Black
more, the author of Lorna Doone,"
writes concerning the book: know
ing nothing of the writer or his works,
l was simply astonished at the beauty
and power of his novel. But true as it
is to life and place, full of deep inter
est, rare humor and vivid descriptions,
there seemed to be risk of it's passing
UNDECIDED in the crowd and rush and
ruck of fiction. Literature has
been enriched with wholesome,
genial, and noble tale, the reading of
which is pleasure in store for many"
Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and
New York, have published "Contem-
poraries," by Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson. 1t consists of number of
interesting sketches which have APP
peared at different timesin the leading
magazines. These sketches deal with
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Anna Brown
Alcott, Theodore Parker, John Green
leaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, Sidney
Laurier, Mrs. Hawthorne, Helen Jack
son, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell
Phillips, Charles Sumner, Ulysses
Simpson Grant, and side lights are
thrown upon the lives of these men
and women which prove highly inter
esting to the reader
1t is very considerable in Mr.. f. Hop
kinton Smith, when he cannot give us
a novel, to do the next best thing,
namely, give us volume of short
stories. The difference between his
stories and novels is not SO great as
that of some writer's. He is an engine
with full head of steam, and he
strides through short story with the
same irresistible swing which makes
his novels so absorbing. The nine
stories in his new book, which for some
reason not to be stated here he calls
"The Other Fellow" offer fine variety
of subject, but all have the trenchant
qualities which make all his stories so
intensely wide-awake.
Sarah Orne Jewett's benefaction to
readers tins season is largely like the
quality of mercy,-it is twice blessed,
once for those who shall read 1.-The
Queens Twin and other Stories" and
this ought to be generous multitude;
and again for those youthful readers
who shall enjoy Betty Leicester's
Christmas" The young people are
sure to be charmed by Betty Leicester
and the good, interesting times she
had. Her story is told in a most win
ming style, and is printed in very
pretty book with a suggestive Christ
mas appearance. Published by Hough-
tom Miffiin & Co., Boston and New
York.
Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Boston and
New York, have recently issued beau
tiful holiday edition of "The Tent On
the Beach," by John Greenleaf Whit
tier, with twelve full-page photograv-
ure illustrations by Charles III. Wood
bury and Marcia o. Woodbury.. The
illustrations and printing are as artis-
tically done as the best work of these
publishers, and as the binding is also
very tastefully done, it would make an
exceptionally nice Christmas present
With the probability that the cam
paign of next year will again be fought
on the money question, it is well that
the study of the money question be
made thorough by the people, that
they may not be swayed by prejudice
into a belief that may be founded up
on false conceptions of the facts. &.
p. Putnams Sons, New York and Lon
don, have recently published a book by
Henry A. Miller, entitled Money and
Bimetallism. 1t is story of the uses
and operations of money and credit,
with critical analysis of the theories
of bimetallism, and a study of SYM
metallism, and of the tabular standard
of value.
Doubleday & Mcclure Co., New York,
announce the publication of The
Court of .Boyville," by William Allen
White, and illustrated by Orson Low
ell. Ever since that flaming editorial
"What's the Matter With Kansas"
went through the country, Mr.. White
editor and owner of the Emporia
Gazette) has been particularly inter
esting figure in the literary world.
His stories of the joys and woes of
Peggy Pennington" 'Mealy Jones"
and the other inhabitants of Boyville
are written with very sure hand and
with real humor and feeling. Special
features of the book are the poems
which preface each chapter and the
unusually attractive illustrations.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York,
have issued in pamphlet form "Our
Right to Acquire and Hold Foreign
Territory" an address delivered before
the New York State Bar Association at
its annual meeting at Albany, January
10, 1899, by Charles A. Gardner, of the
New York bar, author of 1.-THE Race
Problem of the United States"
National Aid of Education" "The
Proposed Anglo-American Alliance"
etc.
"Dorothysand Her Friends, by Ellen
Olney Kirk, author of Dorothy Deane,
has just been issued by Houghton,
Miffiin e. Co. A lady who had read to
her eight-year-old boy again and again
Mrs Kinks story of Dorothy Dean"
wrote to Mrs. Kirk to express her obi
CATION to her on the ground that there
are so very few bright, healthy, child
like stories, though plenty of childish