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ssThe Making of Warehouses" BY
Frances Hodgson Burnett New York:
Frederick A. Stokes company. LILO.
seThe Making of Marchioness" is an
entertaining bit of fiction In the authors
usual charming style. It does not evil
dence the power which Mrs. Burnett, In
her previous work. has proved herself
to posses, but her cleve~ess in delin-
eating character is again shown in the
several types here presented as tie MEM
bers of the English house party.
The heroine, Emily Fox-Seton, sweet
and real, If somewhat simple. woman,
has the good fortune to meet man who
is of the great world but whose delicacy
of feeling has not been dulled by the life
he has led and who evinces an apprecia-
ton of the value of sweet simplicity that
is unusual in men of his type-the cos
mopolitan. This discernment on the part
of Lord Walderhurst makes possible a
delightful ending TO the story.
'"The Sweet Orchard" By Agnes and
Egerton Castle. New York: Frederick
A Stokes company. $1-5o.
In this day of new women who find
their way into problem novels, it is good
that supreme womanhood which has the
power to love humanity, to suffer and to
forgive diSinely. In this story-romance
the central figure is the Duke of Cheny.
a descendant of the Stewards, from whom
he inberits the power to win the love of
beth men and women, a power which in
him rs in those hap1ess royalties, is only
equaled by his total disregard of moral
obiigations-his willingness to pluck "the
fruit that grows in that sweet orchard
%hich every man has at his back of the
open garden of his life When, how
ever, the crisis comes, brought about by
this inherent weakness Cor strength), and
threatens to cruelty and completely de-
story Helen,s happiness, he rises to a
dignity which almost justifes the deep
love 1t is the gift of his fetal inheritance
to aspire.
The style is extreme individualistic
The seemingly staid prose has at times a
subtle, haunting quality as appealing to
the senses as a strain of music. The
Sweet Orchard is well worth a second
reading"
"on the Great Highway By James
Creelman Boston: Lathrop Publish
ing company.
ION the Great Highway is a recital Of
the personal experience of special cor
respondent who has laid the world under
contribution for copy. He has ranged
from zone to zone in search of the mighty
events that make history. A knight ar
rant of the press, he has stood before
kings, has talked with the great of the
earth, has lain in the trenches of con-
tending hosts, has been swept to and
fro with hostile armies struggling for the
life of empires, has lived to the last
| notch Of human capacity, and all this,
or part of it, he has told in "On the
Great Highway
Wonderful as the book is, it is but a
glance into that storehouse of experience
which falls to the lot of those special cor
respondents of whom Creelman has shown
himself one of the most versatile.
''The Life Work of William Mckinley
By Edward t. Roe. Chicago: Laird &
Lee.
Hardly had the funeral bells ceased
lives of Mckinley All but the last
chapters dealing with the assassination
and burial of the third .martyred" presi-
dent, had been waiting in type for the
| curtain to fall on the last act. AS a bio
graphical sketch of William Mckinley
these hot-house books will pass muster
with others of their kind, campaign eu-
logies and pre-mortem estimates. Mr..
Roe has done no better and no worse
lie recognition in the literary field at
such time and with such a subject.
American Boys Life of William Nc.
Kinley." By Edward Stratemeyer. Bos-
ton: Lee Shepard. $1.25
This book, as its name indicates, is a
books for boys. Mr. Stratemeyer has writ
ten voluminously and often well. The
present volume seems to be the first of
a series of biographical sketches for
boys. No better subject could have been
found to fire the ambition and arouse the
patriotism of the boys of America than
the life Of William Mckinley. The book
however, deals all too sparingly with the
boyhood of the subject. 1t is in these
details that any book pretending to be a
boys book should be rich. It is true
that the boyhood Of Mckinley was. in
way. short. He became a man early
in life through the hardships and re-
| spopsibilities of war. The book, however,
| is replete with anecdotes, full of human
interest, and adapted to the understand
| ing of the average boy.
Colonial Fights and Fighters BY Cy.
rus Townsend Brady. New York: Nc
Ciure Phillips. 81. IS.
Colonial Fights and Fighters Is a
unique compilation of historical matter
Mr.. Brady has entered the romantic
| realm of American history, taken there
| from the dramatic incidents and grouped
| them into whole that is particularly
| interesting to the student of early colo
NAL days He does not pretend to give
| to his readers a connected historical ac-
count of a period or Of a people. There
is no thread connecting his narratives
They are simply mixture of biograph-
| zeal sketches of men and a description
of unusual incidents. The influence of