The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-05-05
NEW BOOKS.


White. Published by Mcclure. Phillips
a Co, New York. Price, S.50.
The Blazed Trail is essentially an
American novel dealing with an American
theme. 1t is the story OF a struggle in
the timber districts Of Michigan-a struE-
gle between a green land locker" Harry
Thorpe, and a big lumber corporation
that attempts TO deprive him Of a Valu-
able tract OF land to which he has es
taolished his claim
In the course OF the story the scenes Of
the lumber camps in summer and winter
and the great forest itself are depicted
admirably, but perhaps too circumstan-
italy, and too much al length. The love
motive is worked In through the advent
Of the girl in a summer camping party.
and the first meeting of the two Is one
of the best pieces OF delicate description
I'm the book. The reserve of Thorpe. con-
stitutiOnal and cultivated by his woods
life, and the strength of his character,
are made the basis for a clever study
IN psychology.
Mr.. White would have added to the
power of his novel had he made it
shorter.
Next to the Ground" by Martha Nc
Culloch Williams. Published by Nc
Clure, Phillips &. Co. Price, I.20.
II has been said that Mrs. Williams
combines the gift of the born naturalist
with that of the born writer. We have
John Burroughs and Mrs. Williams is
worthy place in the same group, below
but vet not far away from the two
masters. She describes the daily matters
OF country life in a record OF the hap
penings TO a boy and a girl on a farm.
Sky and cloud woodland and water
course, the big snow" quail and part
ridge, wasps and ants, fox hunting, night
noises. are among the things told OF. In
tine ''fOreWord'' Mrs. Williams COM
r.rnI fnF Nil
her: There are no playmates Ike grass
and orchard trees, colts in the pasture,
chickens in the yard nor any stOry-teliers
to match the Winds when they play with
the leaves. or dance a sw0rd-dance
through fields OF following wheat
These story-tellers and playmates OF
Joe and Patsy Baker IN their Tennessee
home. talk for the reader as for the chill
dren in the most intimate and charming
way.
III is q matter of regret that the pen
pictures OF Mrs. Williams were not sup
plemented by the work OF some artist
with brush and pencil.
The Madness Of Philip" by Josephine
Dodge Daskam. Published By Mcclure,
Phillips & Co. Price. $50
This very entertaining volume contains
a number OF stories published recently ln
the magazines. At the time of their puo-
LEGATION serially they attracted consider
entertaining in this form.
They are delightfully."- humorous and
sympathetic studies OF child lie. me
Madness of Philip recOunts kinder
garten experience and describes re-
version to the good old fashioned metnods
OF curing such madness as afflicted Philip
on this particular morning.
Edgar. the Choir Boy Uncelestial. ana
the child romance OF The Little Goa
and Dicky' are especially clever. But
Of he
sound philosophy. and therefore makes
wider appeal, than does "Ardelia in Ar
cady." This is a story OF a little street
waif transported by a well meaning phil
lence and loneliness Cypress her poor
COckney heart until IL IS ready 10 ourss
with longing for the noise and dirt ana
companionship Of the Bowery. r. 4,
Cory, who illustrates these stories, IS
scarcely less clever than the author IN
the conceptions Of the child types.
''Morchester." BY Charles Datchet. Pub
lished by G. p Putnam Sons New
York. Price $50. For sale by A X
nerge.
Mr.. Datchets novel is comprehensive In
its explanatory title. He calls Nor
politics and affairs"
dorchester is a city of Importance in
one of the middle states and answers 70
a description that would fit any one OF q
dozen cities that might be named. Ihefe
is in the book a young gentleman who Is
strongly, even aggressiVeIy, upright IN MS
ideas OF life. He has a friend VINO IS d
refOrmef. civic and otherwise. over
against these Is the corrupt corporation
a rotten political condition, and men &c
termined to succeed at any cost. The
women who figure in the story are the
daughters Of a college president. the SIS
ter Of the hero. and more important than
these the strong minded young lazy VITA
a will Of her own and a fortune TO back u.
These are the Dersonae dramatls. and
they move in the stirring politics proceed
ing the time when the Republicans went
TO victory under the gold standard Ar
Datehet fiAs the 500 pages or hls "of :
with much dissertation or politics and
the war between the people and the
mCney power.