The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-23

THE NIGHT-HAWK-By Alix John.
Published by F. A. Stokes company,
New York. Cloth, $3.50. For sale by
B. e. Calkins
1.-THE Night Hawk" is story woven in
and about the civil war. The heroine,
beautiful Southern woman, is first intro
duced to us in Paris, where she is leading
the life of a society belle. This tires her,
however. and she urges her husband, to
whom she has but recently been married,
to take her to his Southern home, where
she believes he should take his place in
the world. He complies with her wish,
and we next see them as they arrive at
the great plantation home.
Antoinette, for this is the name of our
heroine, learns things of her husbands
earlier life which cause her to wish she
had never left Paris. They quarrel and
he goes away, ostensibly to hunt. Dur
ing the absence of her husband Antoin-
cite comes near being poisoned by the
housekeeper-a handsome mulatto wom-
an-who is jealous of her new mistress.
The mulatto woman fails in her designs
on the life of her mistress through the
faithfulness of an old servant, who warns
her.
Mrs. Castelle escapes at night from her
home by the aid of an old friend, whom
she has known in Paris, and who hap
pens to be in the neighborhood. He pur-
posely, however. takes the wrong road,
and they come upon her husband and his
hunting party. A duel follows then
divorce. Mrs Castelle takes her maiden
name of LIE Moine and returns to Paris
Here, however, her old friends try to os-
tracize her from society but she Is
| wealthy and forms her own circle of
| friends, among whom she is very popu-
! lar. .at-.
| Shortly after Antoinette's return to
| Paris the civil war breaks out, and she
returns to the South to do what she can
for her country. On account of her wit
and beauty she is sent by the confed-
eracy to do many delicate tasks, tasks
which take her into different parts of the
world. She finally returns to the South
in the blockade runner, the Night Hawk
whose captain, an Englishman--is an
old friend.
The perils Of this last trip of the Night
Hawk, the many adventures Of our he
roine and the love tales of number of
the characters who take an active part
in the story, are all strongly and inter-
estingly put by Mr.. John. The book Is
strong and emotional. and has an added
merit In that it relates many of the in
| side workings of the confederacy during
those troublous times.
URCHINs AT THE POLE-By Marie
SOverton Corbin and Charles Buxton
Going, with drawings by F. l. Bennett.
| Published by Frederick A. Stokes &
Co., New York. Price, $1.10. For sale
by Montana Book company.
"Urchins at the Pole" is one of the
| choicest childrens books that has been
! issued this season, and will be a welcome
1 addition to the treasures of any of the
| little folks, especially those who are fond
| of the adventures of their friends, the
| animals.
| The book deals with the adventures Of
| Fopsy, Pudgy and Jimmy, three little
black urchins (who must be seen to be
| fully appreciated), whose home is in the
sea. On the letting out of school the
three urchns start on a trip to the pole,
where there are six months of night and
| then six months of day. Almost the first
thing the urchins do is to get tangled up
with a sword fish, with whom they take
long ride, the fish furnishing the mo-
| tive power, of course.
| The sword fish carries them up into
! the Arctic regions, where they meet seals.
walruses. polar bears and the like, with
which they have much fun. Racing, with
nice, fat polar bears as their steeds,
proves a popular amusement with the
| urchins, who finally make the bears be-
lieve they have fallen through great
hole in the ice, and they stand behind a
| big iceberg and giggle with glee while
papa brun and his family conduct a
| search for the supposed drowned ones.
The urchins amuse themselves by tack
ing notices of all kinds to the north pole,
| and have so many adventures with the
various queer Arctic animals and fowls
| that the half cannot be told here.
! At last they get on an iceberg that
strikes their fancy, and much to their
surprise are carried home.
! LAZARRE-Ry Mary Hartwell Gather
wood. Published by the Bowen Merrill
company, Indianapolis.
| In "LaZarre," Mrs. Catherwood has
, given us a most excellent book-full of
life and movement. The love story itself
is a most charming tale, but this able
authoress has woven early American his
tory in with the story in a manner which
| charms the reader.
The story tells Of the lost dauphin Of
France Louis VII, an. .iow he was
brought to America and raised among
the Indians as one of them-for this UNI
| fortunate child. but years old at the
| time of the Terror-was mentally un-
sound, due to the tortures to which he
had been subjected by the agents of the
| Ronapartes.
| The Inuians gave him the name of
Lazarre. and the added name of Will
liams. which was the name of the half