The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-19
NEW BOOKS.

'sThe wonderful Wizard of o." by L.
Frank Baum with pictures y W. W
Hill Co, Chicago and New York In his
introduction to The Wonderfu wizard
OF o." Mr. Baum saws the book was
written solely to pleasure children Of to
day. IT aspires to being a mondernized
fairy tale in which the wonderment and
joy are retained and the heart-acheS ana
nightmares are left out That 1t will
accomplish its purpose and pleasure the
children there can be no doubt From
cover TO cover the adventures are thrill
ing. and the interest unfailing
4 cyclone carries the heroine, Dorothy.
and Toto, her smSU dog, from their home
on the gray Kansas praiTieS to the won
der world of fafryiaH0~ There are wicked
witches and good W1gcheS ana me great
% himself, who turns OH 70 oS a 9eIlSIII3-
fui old humbug. There are the MULCH
kins, the QuadlingS, and the Ninkies ana
their respective countries. &iefe are the
Winged Monkeys and there Is the Won
the children have charms ana magiS SIP
Ders and a wishing cFSWn; the good PEG
rid the beautiful are dreams OF love
iness, and the ugB are Mucous. All
these delights are woven 5lzIO tale of
fascination, but the greatest charm Of
the story lies in fhe travelling cOmpan-
ions Dorothy diScOve rs along heT way
First there IS the ScareCrOW-Ine- man
stuffed with StraW-hfS head with DralnS
rather than straw-a quaint and loVabie
figure to find its way 70 the heart OF
childhood. The scarecrow Is on his way
to ask o. TO substitute brains for straw
in his head Stuffing, and In the mean
time shows himself an ingenious and use
fll COMPANION ir the adventures that be
fall. The Tin Woodman is the second of
the travellers. He is made entirely Of
tin jOinted properly and he finds an oil
can most important part OF his equip
ment- He is siven TO tears that cause
the hings of his jaws to rust. making Sc
riOus trouble but for the oil can, and he
goes to the Wonderful OF, this too sym
no
search of heart.
The best of the company. however, is
the Cowardly Lion; VINO roaTs very ioudly
to conceal his panic, and wipes his tears
of modification with The end OF his tai
until he has TO betdke QlmSelt 10 me
sunshine to dry this usefui piece OF FUR
niture. He proves a StauCh protector
and brave: nevertheless he is on his way
to ask the SOrcerer for courage.
And so they wander through new
FaiTyland, these fOur-DOrOthy, the
ScarecrOw, the Tin WOOdman, and the
C0wardly Lion. and, Of course, there is
Mr.. Denslow's pictures are as attract
i've as the text, as charming as his Illus
tratfOns of Mrs. Baum $ last year sue
writer and illustrator. show in the won
derful Wizard Of or an appreciation OF
child nature in its Old-as-the-Tace likes
and dislizes. its loves and its hatreds.
And they have added to TINS knowledge
the sense of ''mOdernity'' that gives char
acter to KiDling's Just So Stories
It has been said that the field of Fairy
land was exhausted by Grimm and An
dersOn-but the children of the TWEEN
tieth century have the promise of a new
wonder world where the saving grace OF
humor adds reality to the magic hSures-
From the Land of the shamrock, by
Jane Barlow Published by Dodd. Mead
Miss Barlow has already won a reDu-
tatiOn by her tales of the Irish peasants
gathered in the volumes called Irish
IdyIs'' and "BOgIand Studies The new
collection has the same literary duaI1ty
and humOT, in power OF description ana
in character sketCfimg- 1t contains PIC
lures of the wide fields, the Dogs, the
nuts. the meagre food and fuTuis hings
selves occupy Miss Barlow. Without
ditatic philosophjZiug, there Is shown IN
several of the tales the tragic contrast
between the gentry ana the peasants
The stories in which the children appear
are among the most charming put al OF
them are worth the reading. all OF them
are wholesome. alive, and told WIthai
with a sense Of humOr and loving sym
pathy that gives them power
..wanted-A Matchmaker" by Paul
Leicester Ford. Illustrated by n g
Christy- Published by DOdd. Mead & Co
The announcement Of the author and On
maker is a guarantee Of good things
and the reader finds no diSaDDOlntment
between the artistic green covers. The
story itself Is a Wholesome attraCIye rove
story. with a fine young, woman OF large
fortune as the heroine, and a DTltildnL
Young doctor of no fortune, except MS
gifts of mind and body as the hero. a
street waif. with a Chimmie Fadden dia-
lect, is the cupid of the action, ana a
by no means unattractiVe cupid either
The setting of the story is. IN the main;
q New York palace and q hospital all
drawn with Mr.. F0rd's knowledge of this
material.
Mr. Christy's pictures are unusually
fine in their appreciation of the intent
of the story. as well as in their execu-
n "a rs ~ @
to them the finest of etchlngs. Margaret
Armstrong has made the decorations OF
the beautiful green and black borders
that surround the pages. The book, as d
whole. in its mechanical finish does great
credit to the press from which IL comes.
Half Portions Published by the Life
PubiiS hing company.
\ glance at The table of contents ex-
plains the title of the pretty brown vol
ume Just received from the Life punish
ers The FIRST story. or rather sketch It
will be seen. is Our James, by Robert
Hanna. Another is called "BTlblng a Pa
triot." and is from the pen of Roberta
F. Watterson, with pictures by Irving
Tom Mason is responsible for the text
of two of the studies. Tudor jerks OF an
other. And the readers OF Life VIII
have recognized in these names some old
and some new faVOTiteS that appeared
first in that periodical
"ApriTs Sowing" by Gertrude Hail
Published by Mcclure, Phillips & Co
There was once a girl, VINO, IN neI
l9tter-day fashion. answered rather Wei
to the description of that princess in old
tales who was very pretty, and the only
child of a dOting DCtentate; and could
have whatever she would. and for whose
hand vast numbers OF asplrants contend
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The authoress thus presents her hero
inc, who proves to be, in spite OF all her
OpDortunitieS to be otherwise really
charming girl at heart Her interest IN
John Hector Holmes ana his worship OF
her are evident in the hrSt CHAPTER Dut
the reader is left in doubt as 10 the out
come until he has followed Nelly away
from her butterfly life to Germany where
she studies furiously for d year. and then
TO Vienna. where. after an adventure or
] two. she meets John Hector and the skies
/ are again serene. The simple story; the
! chara cteTizatiOn of the heroine ana the
suggested contrasts OF character are cleN-
/ erly done. The book itself Is a pleasure
I in its typographical work and its chapter
/ heads
Love and Mr. Lewisham" by RI. G
! Wells. Published by the Frederick A
, Stokes company. For sale at DerSe s.
Mr.. Wells work in The War OF the
: Worlds has given him position among
the English writer's of fiction The pres
ent volume contains the love story of Mr.
/ LewiSham from its dawn in MS early
| student days, when he had dreams OF .
4 the rather dreary days of his courtship
/ to the sOrdidness of an uncongenial mar
! riage. hampered by poverty and his wife
| relations. In the last pages, however, IhC
with a wand Of unselish love that leaves
/ a more pleasant impression upon th'
| reader. 49,