The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-06

Asnectre of Poverty Charles Eg-
bert Craddock. Houghton, Mifffin q
Co. publishers For sale by the st.
Paul Book and Stationery company.
Charles Egbert Craddock MISS
NTurfree) has gone back to the rem
nessee mountain region for this story,
q mart of the world which in hctlon
has long been hers by special right.
Her former stories were always mark
ed by much excitement, love and peril
and this last one is no exception 10
the rule The heroine is very charm-
ing Scotch girl, and the story is OF
the early struggles of the French and
English with the Indians, and her love
for one of the sturdy settlers. In places
one is reminded of Cooper's vigorous
Indian stories, and there is also trace
of likeness to Miss Johnson's work IL
her novels of early Virginia settlers.
In SOME notes appended to the book
the writer gives the historical PACK
ground for her work, with numerous
quotations from contemporaneous
writer's, showing her familiarity with
the history of the times and the re-
search required to faithfully reject
the spirit of that period
The Sacrifice of the Shannon-By w.
Albert Hickman. Frederick A.
Stokes company, publishers. For sale
by the st. Paul Book and Stationery
company.
A combination of love and life on
the ocean wave rarely fails to make
good story, and in the case of THE
Sacrifice of the Shannon" it has made
an exceedingly interesting one. Capt.
Ashburn, who tells the story, has left
England because Miss Kitty Tyrrell
would have none of him, and he goes
to Eastern Canada, where he falls in
TITO finn
pie in a little town on the Gulf of ST.
Lawrence. Here is what he has to
say about Miss Gertrude McMichael,
the heroine: I've seen her come over
the crest of a snowdrift, going forty
miles an hour, on a pair of skis, and,
after sailing through the air for fifty
feet light with a thud that would
make even a NorWegian'S hair stand
on end, and, with her lips set and eyes
flashing, go on careering down drift
ed slope until, in binding cloud of
snow, she had to throw herself to keep
from running into a bunch of alderS
at the bottom. I've seen her get dump
ed out of canoe in a rapid and laugh
while she hung on to a rotten log while
they were trying to get rope to her
from the shore. I've carried parcels
for her, and gone into a house where
everybody was sick and everything
had gone wrong, and nobody had any
temper left and seen her smooth ev
eryting out - Then I've seen
her in a ballroom enjoying herself like
an irresponsible school girl; -"
all of which shows that the heroine
was out of the common and decidedly
interesting. The story concerns the
sending of the Shannon-the boat
commanded by the teller of the story
with his bosom friend Wilson on
board, to find the boat owned by the
heroine's father, and on which he was,
which had been stuck in the ice. In
order to do this the Shannon had to be
sacrificed, but in the doing Wilson
won his bride, Gertrude, whom he had
always loved, and Capt. Ashburn gain
ed courage to cable Kitty Tyrrell, and
the story ends happily for all con-
cerned. The life of that far Northern
land and the tremendous impression
lence in that ice-bound region, is well
depicted. The lovers of the Clark
Russell type of novel will give this
well told story a warm welcome.
Mara-By "Pansy" (Mrs. G. R. Al
den). Lothrop Published company.
For sale by the st. Paul Book and
Stationery company.
Under the name of Pansy Mrs. AL
den has written many books for girls,
and this last one is quite equal to her
best. 1t. is the tale of four girls, to
whom we are introduced just as they
are leaving college and starting upon
the life for which every school girl
longs. They separated for a time,