Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-08-30
LITERARY NOTES.

The Lothrop Publishing company.
| Boston, announce when the Land
| Was Young being the true romance
of Mistress Antoinette Huguenin and
Captain Jack Middleton in the days OF
the buccaneers, by Lafayette Mclaws.
Among the entertaining romances
that are based upon the colonial days
of American history this novel will
! take rank as one OF the most notable.
| Captain Jack Middleton of the Caro-
lima colony attempts to rescue his
neighbor, Colonel huguenin, n French
| Protestant, from the Spaniards OF st.
Augustine, to whom the lemasecs
had delivered him captive. While on
this search the colonel's daughter,
| Antoinette Huguenin, is also captured
by Spaniards and taken prisoner to
St. Augustine. The tale is picturesque
in location, environment and action;
charming in detail and motive; dra-
matte in method; and altogether alb
sorbing in plot and surprises. The
| hero is real man; the heroine
| one of the most attractive figures III
romance; while Lumulgee, the great
| war chief of the Choctaws, and Sir
Henry Morgan, the Buccaneer Knight
and terror of the Spanish Main, divide
the honors with hero and heroine.
Against an historical background
|
is dramatic and brilliant.
''D'ri and l." tale of daring deeds
In the second war with the British,
by Irving Bachelor, author of Eben
| Holden, is also announced by the
Lothrop company. -..
The North Country; that quaint,
strong, noble character, Enen Holden;
| and Irving Bacheller, made the year
| 1900 memorable in literature. This
| same Northand standing over against
| the rugged New england frontier is
| the home of D'ri, as stanch a man
as ever stood in ufe, and in Mr.. Bach
ellers hands, by his indescribable
| touch of genius, another creation in
fiction. But ne is only the center OF
the picture, while around him is
woven romance that is delightful
and adventures that are thrilling.
Love, valor, war, devotion, humanity,
loyalty and humor are blended in one
beautiful story. Side by side are the
Yankee and the Cavalier, tracSless
forests and courts or fair women, wit
that sparkles and pathos that brings
tears to the eyes. In word, it is
Irving Bachelor in a border-tale of
1912! Perry's victory on Lake Erie
has never been told as here.
Everything points to literary re-
as we have mad them in relation to
Lincoln, Grant, Napoleon, Cromwell,
etc. Charles FELTON, Pidgin's romance,
"Blennerhassett," which the G. M.
Clark company Of Boston issue the
first. week in September, makes Burr
the hero OF romance, and presents
him in SO favorable a light as to be
quite contrary to the teachings of
school history. For this reason alone,
if for no other, the book will very
likely attract universal interest The
story is said to be an exciting one, Of
a decided drama tic flavor, touching on
the most interesting incidents in the
lives Of Aaron Burr, his daughter
Thee dosia, Alexander Hamilton, Har-
man Blennerh. ssett, and his wife,
Margaret, thomas Jefferson, and 9TH
er contemporaneous characters. 1t IS
described as vigorously told in the au-
thors own peculiarly simple style,
bright and animated, and delightfully."-
captivating. Replete with adventure,
pa thos and tragedy, it is said to be 4
splendid combination of artistic quail
ity, dramatic power and human inter-
est. The volume will be printed on
antique laid paper. bound in cloth,
with striking decoration cover, gilt
top, and including II full page illus
trations by c. M. Stephens.
Thomas O'Donnell, NJ p, who Il
few months ago created intense eX-
element in Great Britain ny attempts
ing to address the house of commons
in the Gaelic tongue, writes i'll the
Review of Reviews for August on the
modern revival of Ireland's ancient
national language and literature.
81. Devlin-Boss: A Romance Of
American Politics." by Francis
VIZ
lishcd by the Lothrop company, Bos-
Ton. The American politician is dis
tinct type, and his depletion in liter
allure has engaged able pens from
time to time He has figured in fc
ton somewhat sparngly, however.
and even there in a light unfavora bic
to him. In fact, but one serious eff
fort has been made in the form of a
novel to hold him up to commenda
ton, and in that instance readers
were asked to regard figure so far
superior to the average of his kind
IN thought and action as to be ideal
rather than vital. The real politician
is shown in Francis Churchill Will
liam's new romance, -. Devlin-Boss."
This is story of the typical figure in
the shaping of american life. jim
my'--the boss-shrewd, strong, re-
sourceful. clcan-hearted, is vital; and
the double love story which is woven
about him gives an absolutely true
and near view of the American boss.
1t seems old, indeed, that IN this ad-
canced day there should be discovered
q new beast-not the remains Of a
prehistoric animal, but 4 beast which
is alive today in the African forests.
McClure's September contains the
first authentic account published in
America of the discovery Of the Ok
api the strange beast which Sir
Harry II. Johnston, X. c. b, Special
Commissioner for Uganda, British
East Africa, found alive in the forests
If Central Africa