Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-10-19
NEW BOOKS.

author OF 1.-The sorrows OF Satan.
In vigor of style, in daring concep-
ton, in tenderness and pathos, and in
it's wide appeal, 1.-THE Master Chris
tian" presents features of extraor-
binary interest. 1t Is impossible 20
sketch the outlines of this romance,
and it is enough to say that it deals
with the great problem of humanity
and religion, the eternal struggle be-
tween The spirit and the flesh. Az
allegory of striking beauty runs
through the book. 1t will appeal
with an irresistible attraction to the
Roman Catholic, to the Anglican, to-
the Nonconformist, to the agnostic
and the bigot, to the wording as
well as to the religious. This book
will inspire the keenest and most sus-
tanned interest, and will excite eager
discussion. 1t puts into articnlate
language the inarticulate thoughts OF
the majority humankind. 1t is prob
able that this book will be one of
the most widely read books of this
century.
college Administration" by Charles
F. Thwing, Ill. d., president of West
ern Reserve university and Adelbert
college, is announced by the Century
Co., New York. college Administra-
ton" is the ripest fruit of DR..
Thwing's pen. 1t is the work of n
man we'll qualified to judge of the
needs of college presidents and
teachers, and competent to express
those needs in plain, concise, and
no less business-like than rhetorical
;e, w
lege Administration should not be.
come a textbook among teachers
generally. The topics treated are
vital. 1t is as necessary for the COL
lege president to understand the adj
ministration of the affairs of his
school as it is that a demonstration
of anatomy should be able to dis
criminate between the metatarsals
and the metacarpals. Two chapters,
"The College President" and admin
istratiye and Scholastic Problems"
for this reason, establish the books
chief claim upon the attention o.
public educators. ,a. ..5-5 a.. -
"Hard-Pan," by Geraldine Bonner,
is story of the San Francisco of to.
day. The heroine, Viola Reed, is the
beautiful but unspoiled daughter u
one of the bonanza kings, now, and
for years past, "fallen on evil days"
The supplemented old gentleman car
ries his head high in his poverty, but
for the sake of his daughters COM
fort does not scruple to borrow
money from her rich lover, John
Gault, on unendorsed 1. o. US. When
she accidentally discovers this, and
learns that John has half suspected
her of knowing and approving of her
fathers living at the lovers expense,
she insists upon the sale of their
little house, the return of the bor-
rowed money, and their removal to
another city. How the matter is
Strengthened out in the long run, or
whether it fails to be cleared up at
all, we must leave the reader to find
out for himself, only warning him
that it is love story lure and sim
ple-not a novel of plot, or purpose,
fury Co., New York.
Theodore Roosevclt's new book,
The Strenuous Life" also comes from
Che Century press. Mr.. Roosevelt is
the best illustration of his own ideal
of the living of the strenuous life. 4
phrase with which his name is insep-
arably connected. The volume SO ell
titled is the latest of the many naval,
military, political and personal
themes which he has found time to
turn out in the past twenty years,
while serving the city of New York as
police commissioner, the state as leg
nd
as civil service commissioner, assist
ant secretary or the navy. and colonel
of volunteer cavalry regiment. In
addition to being soldier, politi-
cian and an author, he is also ranch
man, IA sportsman and a lawyer. Few
men, therefore, can look at any sub
ject from so many points OF view,
and it is this personal "alf-round-
ness,", no less than the lteenness of
his observation, the strength Of his
feelings, and the force of his literary
that commands wide
audience for everything he writes.
Miss Ruth Hall has shown in her two
books for boys she has good grasp
with a facile aginution-to weave
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Scrooby' and I'm the Brave Days of
Old" have proved popular with youth
full readers and With older ones who
like plenty of adventure and heroic
young fellows with genius for COM
ing out of tight places in good order.
Miss Halls new book, 'The Black
Gown" is intended for older readers.
though most likely boys and girls will
read it and find it quite worth while,
1t deals with the old Dutch life and
society in and about Albany Il hum
dred and fifty years ago; and as Miss
Hall has spent her life mostly in the
region covered by her tale, she has
been able to give to it a freshness and
familiar knowledge which render il
very attractive. The hero is u capital
fellow, who proved his vaIor in the
battle of Fort George. Published by
Mitflin e. co., New York.
A large company has come to expert
every year a new story-and - thor
oughly good one--from Mr.. Everett
r. Tomlinson. Two years ago he told
the story of 1.-THE Boys of Old Mon
tale of Westinghouse cam
paign in New Jersey in 1778. Last
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