Omaha daily bee., 1902-06-13
NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Miss P~sttiooats," a New and Charming
Novel BY Dwight Tillon.
marion MANNING" EDITH EUsTlS' LATEST
the Book Deals with social and Po-
utIcaI Life I'm washington-Mary
HaIIock Foote Writes a
story Of western Life.

miss Petticoats" is a new and charm
ing novel by Dwight Tilton. Miss Petit
coats, the heroine, is a girl who works in
a mill and lives with her grandfather in an
old whaling bark tied up at one Of the
wharves Of "old Chetford," a locality in
the novel which many readers will recog-
nize as the old New England whaling town.
New Bedford. She is stormy, passionate,
proud as Lueifer. \ but warm in her af-
f%ections. brave, honest and truthful. Incl
d~entally she is beautiful Having done a
great service for an aristocratic woman Of
the town, the girl is taken into the proud
household. On her departure from her
grandfather he tells her the story Of her
mothers life, which was one Of great dis
appointment and suffering. though mar
ried into a family OF rank in France. Under
the care Of her benefaetor, Miss Petit
coats receives the best Of education, her
Instructor being a young and popular min
lister Of the town. She has an unusually
strong mind for business and the world OF
finance. which in the last chapters OF the
book gives her a power to ruin financially.
BY and by SANDER, malice, jealousy and
the insulting love Of a young society IA
vorite combine to form a tremendous climax
in the young woman's life, from which she
energies hardened, embittered and bent
upon revenge. She travels in Europe for
her health. While there she inherits' a
large amount OF wealth from her fathers
house. Fortune at last makes her a crea-
ture Of power, beauty, %brilllancy and great
resources and then, the one ambition Of her
existence seems near its fulhllment, as
she has returned to New York and has
worked a plan in the stock market by
which she can bring hnancial ruin upon
the person who practically drove her away
from her childhood home. But at this
time her girlhood instructor (the young
minister) wins her as his wife and the
thought Of revenge, assisted by q series Of
incidents. rs turned to one Of good deeds
and Miss Petticoats is again living happily
IN her home in. "old Chetford. c.. M.
Clark, publisher.
Marion Manning" is a novel Of political
and social life in Washington by Edith
Eustls, daughter OF Levi P. Morton. The
heroine, Marion Heveril, is a young vir-
ginia girl. enthusiastic and generous. She
marries John Manning, a politician whose
motives are all governed by self-interest
She loves him devotedly. but the revela-
tion finally comes to her that he has mar
ried for money and to assist his own am
titious plans. and that he has loved another
woman in the past, Mrs. Walford, a mar
ried woman whose husband died before
Manning's meroenary marriage to Marion.
Mrs. Walford reappears at Washington and
Marion by accident overhears a conversa-
tion between Mrs. Walford and Manning,
which disillusions her with regard to her
husband She is heart-broken and goes
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band p~ersuades her to return and Mrs.
Walford goes abroad. Manning meanwhile
makes a brilliant speech in congress and is
a rising man. when he is attacked by ty-
phoid fever and. though faithfully nursed
by his young wife. he dies. Another poll
tician, George Hood, who has opposed Man
ning's views in congress and Is a man OF
high moral tone, has long engaged Marion's
interest, and eventually he proves to be a
man worthy of her respect and affection.
His devotion finally wins her. The story
is full Of interesting incidents. There are
scenes in New England and In Virginia,
but chiefly at Washington. Harper & Bros,
publishers.
The Desert and the Lawn" Is a new
novel by Mary Hollock Foote, who has
written several capital stories. The scene
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in the west and the Dutch farming country
near Newburg-o n-the- Hudson. In Paul
Bogardue, the hero Of the story. the author
gives an interesting study Of character and
heredity, Paul's mother was the daughter
OF a rich and obstinate farmer on the Hud-
son. His father was the hired man" and
after vainly trying to win her fathers con-
sent to their marriage, they run away to-
gether. she being confident of her fathers
forgiveness later. The father proved OBJ
durate, however. and the young couple suf-
fered many hardships, Finally they went
west and the husband wandered away into
the mountains one day and was lost. No
trace Of him was ever found and his wife
ultimately returned to New York and at
last Inherited great wealth from her father
and uncle. and Paul has a great desire to
turn philanthropist and use the money to
help the poor. Moya, to whom he is en-
gagged, Is unwilling to interest herself in
the poor man as a generality. though in
diVidually she is prepared to sacrifice her
self 70 any extent. Moya's father is an
army man and much of the story trans
pires at the post where he is stationed.
Paul goes with some friends on a hunt
ing trip, they are oyertaken by the winter
SHOWS and he and one OF the guides, left
behind by the others, come near losing
their lives. In the close acquaintance
thus brought about and from chance words
spoken by the older man in illness. Paul
learns that this guide is his father,
so long supposed dead. The developments
OF the different characters OF Paul. his
mother and Moya, under the influence OF
this discovery, is most interesting and sat
lsfaetory. Published by Houghton, Mimin
q Co.
"chimmie Fadden and Mr.. Paul" by Ed
ward w. Townsend, crystalizes the doings
OF the favorite dramatis personae of the
more random sketches OF five years ago
into a connected love story, revealing the
sentimental relations between Mr.. Paul and
Miss Fannie Each OF the twenty-seven d.
visions in the book relates new and vary
Ing adventures. in which "Chlmmie's''
schemes are abetted or thwarted by 1.-THE
duchess" his whiskers.'' Miss Fannie, Mr..
Paul, Willy Wildly" the staiwart Mrs.
Murphy and several new characters. AS
the title Of the new collection shows. Mr..
Paul plays the most important role In the
present series, after ''Chimmie" himself;
very much as he aid in the stage version
OF 'Chimmie Fadden" in it's three years
run. The author has avolVed a aocial mil.