Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-30
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"At the Time Appointed" Mrs. A.
Maynard Barbour's detective story,
has gone into its fourth edition.
j. P. Lippincott Company have just
arranged for an important work in
three volumes by S. p. Scott, to deal
with the Moors in Spain. The volumes
In a historical sense will supplement
Prescott's works.
Booth Tarkington's new story,
which Harpers will publish, is en-
titled Cherry" The scenes are laid
in old New York, and events center
about hero who believes himself to
be irresistibly fascinating.
Halifax, N. S., society takes excep-
ton to Helen Milecete's picturesque
descriptions of life in that garrison city
which are to be found in her new
novel, "a Detached Pirate" A writer
in the Halifax Evening Mail has paid
his respects in no mild terms to the
book.
Elsie's Winter Trip, by Martha Fin
ley, is new "Elsie" book, the peren-
nially popular stories written by Miss
Finley. 1t has but few new features,
the oppressive goodness" and ''sweet-
ness so chara cteristic of these books
is all there 1t is question whether
or not such rosy-hued views Of life
so improbable, is good for the youthful
mind.
In his new novel, "Mr. Salt" VIII
Payne has brought to bear all his
minute knowledge Of the business
world Of Chicago. He has drawn with
faithful realism the scenes Of the
change, on the street and in the bust
ness offices, and with no less art has
he portrayed an unusual love drama.
"Mr. Salt is, in fact, striking ad-
dition to the literature of modern real
ISN'T is an idyl of business.
Mrs Anna Katharine Green is quite
the cleverest writer of detective stories
that we can find among women
authors. She can easily take her stand
among masculine contemporaries Of
her class, excelling Fergus Hume, in
that she adds literary fnesse to ingeni-
GUS plot and we'll worked out story and
comparing favorably with even Sir
Conan Doyle in her admirable con-
struction and inventive power.
London in the Time of the Stuarts"
Is the title of the new book by the late
Sir Walter Besant, which the Macmil-
liam Company will publish. Sir Walter
undertook an important work in sew
eral volumes, which were to be called
collectively 'The Survey of London"
The first volume in the series, London
In the Eighteenth Century," appeared
last winter, and it is expected that the
third volume will be published next
year.
Harper's also have new novel for
fall publication by J. Storer Clouston,
who has been supposed by some to be
Mr.. Gissing under another name This
Is not true. Mr. Clouston is the son
of an eminent Scottist physician who
is the author of several scientific
works. Mr.. Clouston's new story is not
quite so broadly farcical as his D'Hari-
cot book, which, it will be recalled,
recounts the ludicrous adventures of a
Frenchman in England.
There is much that Is attractive in
The Voice in the Desert, by Pauline
Bradford Mackie The author sue
ceeds in conveying an impression of
the scene in which she lays her story
and gives the reader some impression
of the desert lands of the west with
their dry air and their vastness and
their loneliness, says the n. Y. Sun.
She is successful too, with her char
acters and makes two of them, at least,
very interesting. There are two de-
lightful boys Of whom we are sorry we
do not see more; there are a western
capitalist and a station master for
local color and the four chief actors
in the story.
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