The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-26

THE FLOWER OF THE FLOCK. by W.
e. Norris, author of ..NIdle De Mer-
sac The Whoever" etc. New York: D.
Appleton and Company. Paper. Price,
so cents.
This is the latest addition to Appleton
Town and Country Library. THIS series
mas attained a well-deserved popuiaflty'
the novels issued in this form being OF
high class and always entertaining. Read
ers Will find The Flower OF the FLOCK
no exception to the general rule. 1t IS q
bright little story Of the experiences Oh
a rich American widow in London society.
The Flower of the Flock is something
of a scrapegrace, but withai an attractive
one wi o falls most violently IN rove
with the little American widow, while
She But the reader must find out that
for himself.
THE GIRL AT THE HALFWAY
HOUSE, by. E. Hough, author of the
Story of the Cowboy" New York: d.
Appleton and Company. Cloth, l2n1o'
81 pages. Price. $50.
Mr. Hougn modestly calls his BOOK "a
Tale of the Plains. IS III reahty d Sc
ries Of pictures drawn by Skilled az
fist.
The time is imniediat ely after the war be-
tween the States, when the movement
TO ..the nonadic and untrammc:,-d West
became SO marked.
The introduction is q brilliant "oiu
painting of a battlefield. Following tnls'
the author draws with bold uniateflhs
stroke a picture Of the Convoy on iiS
native range: the wild life OF the buhdio
hunters; the perlls OF the e'hlsi>'i,es .'s
the strange scenes of the pioneer days OF
the Western plains pass in succession pc
fore us. and this picture is called Ihe
Day OF the Buffalo
One step further and we see Inc DAY
of the Cattle:'' the time when the range
cattle covered the plains and the COW
bows owned the towns. Look at this picture
of "Ellisville the Red, a tyIlcai elu
town. of the frontier.
The town became loadstone for the
restless population, ever croWdinS OUT
upon the uttermost frontier. The men
from the farther east dropped their waist
coats and their narrow hats at El!sVllle.
All the world went under wide felt ana
bore a jingling spur. Every man was
armed: the pitch of life was high. 1t
was worth death to live a year in such
a land! The rangemen. acquainted
with danger and risk, loving excitement.
baked at no hazard. knowing no settled
way of life, ignorant of roof, careless
of the ways of other lands this town was
a toy to them, q jest, just as all life,
homeless womanless, had been jest. BY
day and by night, ceaseless. crude. bar
barrie. there went on a continuous carousai,
which would have been joyless backed by
vitality less superb. an experience less
young. Over all the world, unalded
by a sensational press. there spread the
fame Of Elisviile the Red. the lustful, the
unspeakable Here was a riot of animal
intensity of life, a mutiny of physical man,
the last outbreak of the innate savagerv
OF primitive man against the day of
shackles and subjugation. The men of
that rude day lived vehemently. They
died and they escaped. The earth is
trampled over their bold hearts. and they
have gone back into the earth, the air.
the sky and the wild flowers. The
social compact was stu in embryo. Life
was very simple. 1t was the day of the
individual. the day before the law"
'.Ihe Day of the Plough is the title of
the fourth picture. Here the colors are
less crude the stroke not quite SO bold.
for the era of towns and land booms has
begun; the picturesque cowboys are pass
ing. the buffalo is gone, the West is civil
lied.
THE Girl at the Halfway. House" is
a Young southern sirl. who. having lost
her boy lover on the battlefield of Louis
burg. refuses to admit. even to herself
her love for a man who. though now 2
ranchman, was once Union soldier. II
is essentially mans book, however; for
! CAPTAIN Franklin. our hero. Colonel Bat
i4tersleieh, of THE RiIe Irish: Curly, the
, cowboy; Juan the half-witted Mexican
giant; White Blanket, the last chief OF