The times., 1901-06-23

fishhawks. weasets, mink, muskrats,
snakes frogs. and lizards, all lookin'
for him with beady eyes. He has
hard time tryin' to lead quiet, re
tired hfe, and grow upsand get rat ana
please a fly fisherman, and that the
reason they need to be scattered at
nrst as much as possible, so cach lit-
tie hsh can have his own pet leaf or
stone TO live UNDER He'll make snort
trips from 1t to catch an insect, ana
then slip back to digest it. A pick
can load. about 5000 fry, ought to he
scattered along eighty to a hundred
and sixty rod of a very small brook.
This is an interesting book for anyone
who is fond of out-of-door life, whether
he knows anything about fishing or not
1t sounds as if the author had had good
time in writing it. (New York: Mcclure,
Phillips & Coz
"A Daughter OF New France by Mary
Catherine Crowley, is historical romance
dealing with the adventures Of the
founder of Detroit. The hero is Young
Canadian of French descent, who accom-
panies Cadillac and shares his plans and
| his dangers; and the heroine is an EngHsh
girl who, carried off by the Indians in
her batyhood from some New England
colony, has been rescued ard brought up
by the parents of the hero. She is
charming girl, whose combined sweetness
and vivacity are somehow suited to her
name, Barbe Frontenac. at the time
Governor of New France, is one of the
characters in the story, and the plot is
full of incident and adventure. (Boston:
Little, Brown & Co. SI5O)
Sirius" hy Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler,
is a collection of short stories in the
Characteristic style of the author Some
of them are better than others and the
best are very clever. "A Miniature
Moloch" is one of the brightest, and is n
gentle satire on the caste feeling in
(! English society, which leads young man
with what is called coed breeding who
has never done anything In all his life.
| to hold himself far superior to all the
other people who have done something.
AN Artistic Nemesis deals with IA piece
of snobbishness of a different kind. Most
of the stories are humorous in a slightly
satirical fashion; one or two are fanciful
and romantic, and two or three are
pathetic. OF the latter Poor Lady Leigh
is perhaps the best. CNew York: d. APP
pleton & Co. s1.5O.)
1.-The Idle Born" by II. C. Chatfield-
| Taylor, is a bit of light fiction dealing
with New York society, clever in it's way,
| and containing some good comedy situa-
| tions and some which are not exactly
| comedy In fact, it reads rather like a
| society play than like a novel. 1t deals
with the misunderstanding of a young
! New Yorker with his wife, the bad angel
| in the case being a fiirtatious married
woman revenging herself for the marriage
! of one of her victims. The plot gets into
a considerably complicated snarl of mis-
| apprehension and false appearances, ana
| ii takes rather an unusual degree OF IN
genuity on the part of the author to
| straighten matters out. Chicago: Her
bert S. Stone & Coz s1.25)
'"The Master Knot. of Human Fate, .
| by Ellis Meredith Is story decidedly
original in conception and lofty in motive;
and 1t is quite unique in its way There
| are but two characters, man and a
woman, supposed TO be left the sole sur
yivors of a deluge which overwhelms this
| Continent even as the lost Atlantis was
destroyed, leaving the new Adam and Eve
| on one of the peaks of the Rocky Noun
| tains TO fare as best they may Both are
highly educated and complex human be-
/. gs, tried friends, but not lovers; and
the problem of their adjustment OF reIa-
| tions, in such unprecedented surround
ings, is managed skiHfully and well. OF
necessity many other problems crowd up
on them, some grave, others trifiing; then
existence is like new birth, in which
characters are shown an tights undreamed
Of by their possessors. There is much
that is charming in the little book; the
tone is throughout pure end high; and
the two people are thoroughly human
and lovable. The unanswered question
at the end is perhaps the cleverest touch
in the whole working out of this novel
theme. Boston: Little, Brown & Co
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