The Red Cloud chief., 1903-09-25

1T relates TO my friend Annabel
lee and me. It is more Annabel Lee
than me. | take the part Of a foil
to my friend Annabel Zee. | take the
part well. 1t is particularly effective
contrasted with the all-egotistic part
| take in the other book. In this
one, compared to Annabel Lee, | am
the next thing to nothing. The very
next thing to nothing. ] do that
well. IT'S the best thing in the entire
idea.
THE book IL her conversation and
some of mine. It is her ideas-mostly.
She talks exquisitely well. times.
and il even marvellous. | left my
friend Annabel Lee in Boston-yet
she follows me here. Not that she
ever follows-no, but | travel fire.
quently to Boston to find her. All the
difficulty l have had in writing and
cutting out, and pruning and mixing
over, is in that my poor, miserable
pen cannot always do justice to my
friend Annabel Lee.
The names of some of the chap.
'tlS I ippSipb, hS sDul VI
Things, The Young Books of Trow.
bridge, When | Went to the Butte
High School, Minnie Maddern Fiske,
To Fall in Love, Relative, A Lutte
With no Strings-only no one has the
least idea what | may have written
about them"
Annabel Lee referred to above,
and after whom the book is named,
is a terra Gotta and white Japanese
statue, but a clay statue Is preferable
to n kind devil in the hands of
this "starved-hearted woman, young
and all alone" The same general ap-
p%earance ch~aracterizes the second
new portrait of the author. The vol.
ume is dedicated to Lucy Gray, in
Chicago" who is believed TO be Miss
Lucy Monroe. IN of II. s. Stone &
Co.'S readers, and to whom is credited
the suggestion OF publishing The
Story of Mary MacLane."
What is, in the opinion of the pub
fishers, one of the most remarkable
historical in recent years in
English, has Just been brought out by
the Iothrop Publishing Company
Boston. It is called Gorge" the
name of the heroine. and is the work
of Prof. Charles X. Gaines OF st. Law
renee university. Canton, n. Y, who
holds the chair of Greek in that insti
tuition. He has written a number OF
clever short stories, but in this rom
ance of Athens, in the age Of Pericles
when the glory that was Greece was
at its height of %splendor, he has pro
duced a book OF far greater signif
canoe. II gives, without a touch O
pedantry or heaviness, a wonderful,
vivid, attractive picture OF a by-gon,
civilization and shows the causes I'm
DERIVING the downfall OF Athens. Grea
figures like Alcibiades, Socrates an,
Pericles walk through it and the at
mosphere OF the timc is caught =,
that the illusion OF reality Is perfect
There Is an enhancing love story an,
plenty of intrigue and fighting told s.
as to stir the blood. Gorge" Is II
every way an exceptional work.
II. l.. Wilson's novel. "The Lions O
the Lord was published by the 10th
rop Publishing Company, Boston, II
June. This Is Mr.. Wilson'S secon,
novel. his first story, The Spenders,
published a year ago, being In 1t
ffty.fourth thousand and selling be,
ter than ever. In this new story
+ which is described ms a tale OF III
old West, with its center of actio
and interest In Salt Lake City, tn
author makes an entire departur
from his earlier book and presents
graphic picture of the humor an
tragedy OF Mormon life.