The age-herald., 1901-11-10
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 Tor so many years a professor in Wash ington University of St. Louis. has worked up his subject into almost epic form. The subject deals with the Louis iana purchase which gave to us most of the western half of our country. and ad- venture and conflict mark every stage of the getting, holding and settling of this vast territory. Mir. Hosmer is now librarian of the public library at Min neapolis and in this position has had the richest historic material to draw upon. and has produced work of high iit- srary character. Those who have read his His History of German Literature.' win appreciate the value of his work
 W. D. Howells Is always delightful in whatever character of work he essays to write, and certainly under no ciroum- stances could he be more captivating than In writing of 'TIeroines of Fiction" for, who will deny that the most delight full people that they have ever met are the heroines of fotion7 MT. Howells Is never more interesting than when he strolls along the by-paths of literary achievement and in gathering together the charming heroines of fiction within one cover he gives us the most enjoya- ble piece of work that has been pub lished in many a day The fashions in heroines have changed almost as rap idly as the Fashions in gowns and the types of femininity from the "Clarissa Harlowe" of Richardson, to the "Elean- or of Mrs. Humphrey Ward have been numerous indeed. Possibly no other hand could have done the work Mir. How els has here done and made such a se- lection of the salient types; and certainly no one could have exceeded the broad and sympathetic comprehension with which MT. Howells has treated his sub jects. The book is most exquisitely H. frustrated by Henry Hut, H. c. Christy and others and will undoubtedly be a great favorite during the holiday selec- tions. st45@.s.
 Mrs. Mary 1artweil catherwood spent a year in writing "Lazarre" but the book has become famous in a much shorter space of time. She relates that the first suggestion of the material of the story came to her when she was A girl of twelve, while reading maga- zine article, asserting that the little Dauphin. Louis XVII. did not die. but was brought to America Mrs. Gather wood has visited all the scenes dealt with in her story, even to the Green Bay vi- cinity. She Is a Western woman and
 
 for ten years has lived in Chicago, and 1t Is said that her heart as we'll as her pen, was in the writing of "Lazarre." The story of the lost Dauphin is a fas- cinating one, and in France there ex- ists party who support the claims of the descendent of the little Louis XVII for the throne of France
 Tn these days of intense interest for foot ball and all that pertains to college life. Jarvis. of Harvard" story of college life. ought. to win immense pop- ularity. It was written by Reginald Wright Kaufman and published by I. c. Page & Co. The author Is a member of the stan of the Philadelphia Press and familiar with the society of the Quaker City. While 1t deals with the loves of college life society and the follies 1t abounds with healthy college life and Jarvis. physical giant, figures in the athletics as we'll as the ethics of his day. The book is already much talked about.
 Miss c. M. Clark, who has owned and managed popular book store and sta tionery shop in the Back Bay, Boston,