The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1901-05-16
Latest Literature.

Latest Literature.
Sir Thomas Upton, K. C. V. o., has
written especially for the Saturday Eve
ming Post of May II, an article on The
Sports that Make the Man. He places
Yachting high on the list, and gives
some interesting anecdotes of his own
career as an amateur yachtsmun.
Sir Thomas is hopeful, if not conf
dent, of "lifting" the Americas Cup
next autumn. He says, however, that
if it were certainty he would not cross
the water; for there is no sporting inter-
est in 'sure things.'
This article will appear exclusively in
The Saturday Evening Post, of Phila-
delphia, Pa.
That monthly mirror of the worlds
news, the Review of Reviews, covers in
it's May issue great variety OF current
political and industrial topics, including
the recent municipal elections, the Gu
ban and Philippine situations, the rela-
tons of labor. to the new steel trust, the
threatened war between Russia and ia
pan, and England's enormous war taxa
ton. Mr.. Samuel E. Moffett describes
Japan's navy, which has made truly
remarkable record of growth since the
war with China, seven years ago. Mr..
Charles Johnston explains in detail Rus
sia's apparent readiness for war as
shown by her state of preparation on the
. military as well as the naval side. Both
articles are finely illustrated. Address:
Review of Reviews, 10 Astor Place,
New York.
sMother Wild Goose and Her WilG
Beast Show is very entertaing book
for little children. 1t is prettily illus.
trated in colors, the pictures being &C.
companied by comic verse-both TIT
: work of L. ]. Brigham. While the il
I Illustrations are broadly humorous the,
are artisticaliy drawn and each "study'
tells its own lesson-the comic poetr,
= adding to the fnteress, and creating tn
8 child's taste for reading and study. TIL
n illustrations depict birds, fowl and som
# of the domestic animals as comic char
o acters essaying parts in animal and i
. human life, speaking through the poe
. as illustrative of their acts and humor
{. Gus groupings. 1t is a pretty volum
,, especially adapted to little children
10 Published by the H. M. Caldwell Com
;s pany, Boston, Mass.
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No book, published within the pa
" several years, has excited more CONNER
Re than "Stringtown on the Pike by job
ut Uri Lloyd. Kentucky just now is col
Of sidered one of the most fertile fields
;s the United States for the literary toile
and this volume presents section
~ Kentucky landscape hitherto ungleane
III This, however, can scarcely explain tt
of intense interest which the work h
I'd called forth. Not only does it present
Mt new landscape, but it presents a pha
- of Kentucky life overlooked by 9th
III writer's. "Stringtown on the Pike il
u descriptive presentation of Kentuc1
u village life. In this respect, at lea
Sc the volume is a collection of reals
~, chasacters. The book is something {
- of the ordinary in literature. 1t is SON
~ thing new, moreover, owing to the f;
OIL that that it's author scarcely belongs
80 the class of professional writer's.
highly esteemed and successful man
business, a scientist of wide distinctie
he a philanthropist whose good deeds
done without purpose of eliciting
''0 applause of men, John Uri Lloyd wri
IL much, yet does not write with intent
JUS of earning money. In his hours of
H. taxation he has written this admira
book. It depicts number of incide
u, that took place in an unpretenti
'.o Kentucky village between 1860 and Is
W giving many striking portraits.
in author writes of village he knew
ITS. of people he loved in his own es
em days of poverty and struggle. Hav
, lived his youth at Florence, KY,
w "Stringtown," its people were deal
csc him, its hills had been his playgroul
de- it's traditions and legends the wont
it of his boyhood. Separated from Il
,ors by years, they grew dearer as they
ceded. In order to preserve these fl
ing shadows and images he wrote
en- book. His "hction" is reality.
The Kentuck of "Stringtown on
Pike" is that part OF the State WI
oao lies between the Ohio and the Kentr
lion Rivers. This region during the
hat between the States was sort of mel
rom ground which marked the outpost
-, the opposing armies, and the first cl
tiers of the book show the strange co
lop- ton under which the characters Il
IN divided as they were, politically.