Omaha daily bee., 1900-02-07
new BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Some Valuable Publications for the Current
Week.
NEW EDITION OF EDWARD EVERETT HALE
Prairie Folks Brought out in n New
Dress-swedish Poem In English
Prose-Maga1inc Notes
for February,

The fifth volume in the new edition Of
Edward Everett Hale's works is Philip
Nolan's Friends" The author furnishes
a new introduction in which he calls at
tention to the episode of the shooting OF
Nolan and the imprisonment Of his twenty
followers as a specimen OF the bad faith
of the Spanish that has led TO the hatred
of that nation among all Americans OF
the southwestern states. No justification
OF these acts was ever made by Spain, and
there could be no justification, for Nolan
was provided with a pass from the Spanish
governor of Orleans to go into Texas. The
colonization of Texas and the Mexican war
wero the legitimate fruits of this bit of
Spanish treachery. Such Incidents as this
Nolan tragedy show the real cause of tho
absolute unauimlty OF feeling in the south
west that Spain could never be trusted"
DIR. Hale has taken the historical facts in
regard TO Nolan's career and has woven
them into a fine romance OF adventure in
Texas. The story of Nolan's exploits and Of
his heroic death is related in graphic style.
The book should have a revival OF its first
popularity, now that Americans have had
ample revenge for such bad faith as led
to the death of Nolan and the ten years
Imprisonment Of his men. Little, Brown &
Co.; price $3.50.
prairie Folks" by Hamlin Garland has
been brought out in a new edition, revised
and enlarged. The stories which make up
the volume were written at about the same
time with those contained in Main Tray
elled Roads, and the volume may be con
sidered a companion piece or second series.
In the first volume some stories not of the
prairie country were included, and the plan
of the book brought together stories pc
culiarly sombre in effect. In Prairie Folks
the tales are nearly all of the prairie lands
of tho west and include many ruder as
well as younger types. Both books refer
TO conditions that have already passed or
are passing away. Some of them refer to
border life of twenty or thirty years ago,
others OF more recent date. Twelve years
ago Hamlin Garland was unknown to the
American public. Today he is one of the
most successful Of the younger writer's and
his clientage is increasing with every book
that he publishes. He believes in knowing
thoroughly what he writes about and put
ting his facts in the strongest way. He
knows life on a western prairie farm, for
he spent his boyhood in Wisconsin and
Iowa. Eery word that he writes on the
subject rings true. Two years ago he
wanted to see the great rush of gold-seekers
on the way to the Klondike. He joined a
party bound for Dawson by the Stickeen
river trail, and though he never reached
the Klondike he saw enough of misery and
death to make the best book on the Klondike
rush that has yet been printed. Mr.. Gar
land believes in realism, but he has so much
imagination that his pictures are never
wearisome. He is a literary
artist, and especially in his verse he re-
fleets perfectly the hopes and yearnings OF
the young west.
1t is a comparatively long time since
there has been a work of fiction from Max
well Gray. author of The. Silence of Dean
Maitland" and much interest will therefore
be felt in a new work from her pen. which
bears the title, The Worlds Mercy. It
has been brought out as a part of Appleton's
we'll known Town and Country Library. It
is really a volume of stories, The initial one
furnishing the title for the book. They are
all interesting stories with a good, moral
tone, somewhat tinctured with a spirit of
sadness. d. Appleton & Co. Price, $1.OO.
Students of Swedish literature have az
frmed that the nineteenth century has pro-
duced no finer poem than A. Tegner's
"Frithjof and Ingeborg." 1t tells in the
most delicate verse the story of two chill
dren, a son and a daughter Of vikings. Zen
aide A. Ragozin has reduced the story Of
this poem to English prose suitable for
children, and it is a very pretty and t UGH
ing story. The author has also included
in the same volume the story of Roland,
the Paladin of France, the poem, "Chanson
De Roland, " being treated in the same way
as the Swedish poem first mentioned. The