The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-11-17

became a novelist but he has delighted
a larger congregation than he could
ever have reached in the pulpit. His
stories are all wholesome and human,
most of them dealing with adventure in
an original manner. Mr.. Brady COM
bines history and romance with the
skill that marks the perfect pharmacist
who mixes medicine, the difference be-
ing that Mr.. Brady's always leaves a
good taste in the mouth.
The Quiberon Touch is a sea novel,
and contains description of great
sea fight that is drawn with master
hand The period of the story is that
of the English conquest Of Canada in
1859, and Wolfe's military success at
Quebec is the subject of several STIR
ring, absorbing chapters, but England
would not have been able to hold New
France had not Admiral Hawke de-
stroyed French fleet off the Bay of
Quiberon on the French war. The bat
tie was fought in great storm and
was one of the most destructive, to the
enemy, of any sea fight in which Eng
land had been victorious since the de-
struction of the Spanish Armada. The
love story is as sweet and as beautiful
as the description of the sea fight is full
of action. The accuracy of the sea fight
is perfect the technical description be-
ing without a flaw. The love story
shows Mr. Brady to be past master in
the technique of the heart.
BEFORE THE DAWN, a story of Rus
sian Life by Pimenoff- Noble Crown
Svo. Price, s1.5O Publishers: Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and New
York.
Just now books treating of Russia and
Russian subjects are the rage every
where. The new star, Maxim Gorky,
went up like a meteor, but his realism
was so real that American readers have
found in it much to criticize. The au-
thor of Before The Dawn is author OF
other popular Russian stories and his
Russia and the Russians" has come to
be standard book Before The Dawn
is a story that deals with the political
excitement of thirty years ago when
plottings followed the denial of reforms
The scenes are strongly drawn and the
! love story is one that will hold the un-
| divided interest of the reader.
| MORE ANIMALS, by Oliver Herford will
| pictures by the author. Price $1.00. Pub
| fishers: Charles Scribner's Sons, New
| York. n. Y.
| There is only one Oliver Herford. He is
| nimitable-always original and always
amusing, always entertaining with hi
| drawings and and verse more Animals
| is regarded as his best and will deliigh
| both old and young. Mr.. Herfords geniu:
| finds expression through pen and pencil
| with equal happiness, and the verses il
| this volume match the illustra tons
h There are twenty-five drawings, each o.
| them a page in size. done in black ani
| tint.
| GREY Boards AT PLAY, by Gilber
| Chesterton. Illustrated Price. $1.O0
| Publishers: NJ. F. Mansfield & Co, /.
West 22nd Street New York.
The author of this charming book o
| nonsense, Mr.. Gilbert Chesterton. is the
/ literary critic of the London Daily News
| Less than thirty years old, he has alread!
written three striking volumes. He is {
| versatile author, essayist, poet, artist
[ "Gray Boards at Play will be as popular
| on this side of the Atlantic as in England
| "GREENE'S RETREAT by Prof. d. II
| Hill, is the title of the article in the No
| vember number of the North Carolina
| Booklet. 1t covers one of the most i'm
| portant chapters of the Revolutionary
| War. Prof Hill, who always write ele
| giant English, and makes historical sub
| jects interesting as we'll as instructive
| is at his best in this excellent sketch.