Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-03

oil and risen to power and wealth Mr..
Mahoney will never die. He may be new
TO riches but his hard common sense helps
him out Of every difhculty. The novel is
not new in plot and not convincing. but
Il is amusing enough for an hours reading.
Published by New Amsterdam Book COM
pany.
Before the Dawn" by Joseph A. Ait
sheler. is the largest and most ambitious
novel yet written by the author Of In
Hostile Red" "A Herald Of the West"
and several other similar tales. The scene
is laid in Richmond Just before the sur
render OF that city showed the eonfederacy
to be tottering to its fall; and the figures
Of Jefferson Davis. his cabinet. and sew
eral Of the southern generals loom large in
the story. The contrasting pictures of the
brilliant social gaiety Of Richmond and the
grim, bloody battlefield Of the wilderness
are impressive; while the love story CEN
ters in the resourceful heroine, suspected
Of being a union spy, and her ardent wor-
shiper, Captain Robert Prescott, c. s. A.
Published by Doubleday, Page & Co.
CHM q Company have just published a
volume Of English poems from Chaucer to
Kipling. Each selection is preceded by a
short sketch OF the authors life and a brief
estimate of his work. The notes at the
end OF the book are meant simply to ex-
plain and interpret the poems. Among the
longer poems included are "L'Alegro," I'll
Penseroso," "Alexander's Feast" THE De
serted Village" The Ancient Mariner"
THE Prisoner Of Chillon," and "Morte
D'Arthur." Selections are also given from
the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, /"
THE Faerie Queene." and "Pope's Epistle
to A~rbuthnot." Some Of the best old En-
glish ballads serve to link the period Of
Chaucer with that Of Elizabeth, and an
ElIsabethian miscellany gives a represen-
tation Of some OF the minor poets Of the
great queens reign. A similar miscellany
embraces some OF the minor Victorian
poets, and q selection from the cavalier
poets offers a specimen Of the charming
lyrics Of Carew, Lovelace, Sucking and
Herrick. The volume includes in addition
many Of the best known poems OF Burns,
Wordsworth. Shelley, Keats, and Browning.
and ntly closes with Rudyard Kipling's
"Recessional."
Horses Nine by sewell Ford is the
title Of an illustrated book published by
Charles scribner's Sons. Mr.. Ford's name
is we'll known to magazine readers who
will be glad to have this collection Of
stories In book form. They portray with
rare sympathy episodes In the careers OF
thoroughbreds Of different stock-saddle
horses. carriage horses, draught horses.
nre truck horses. circus horses. and horses
Of other breeds. A ~favorIte theme with
the author is the fate which often over
takes a horse of once high degree. with
the survival through untoward fortunes OF
the habits of his better days. Skipper,
Chieftain, Pasha. Barnacles, Black Eagle,
Calico. Old Silver, Blue Blazes and Bonfire
are the heroes Of these tales, each of which
will win Its way to the heart of every
lover of animals
"The Substitute" by Will N. Harden, lie
a story of the fortunes of George Buckley,
an inhabitant of northern Georgia. AL
though of humble birth, he has a n~atively
fine character. He is adopted by an old
man who desires to atone for q past sin
by SO educating and training George that
he may become his moral substitute in the
eyes Of Providence. Hence the name.
Finally, interest centers in a love affair
that has a noteworthy effect on the young
mans character, and the end is a happy
one. This story is full of the wit that made
the author well known through Abner
Daniel. Published by Harpers.
The Baker Taylor company has pub
llshed a book entitled Life of Ulrich
zwingli," by Samuel Simpson. Whether
or not such a book as this is in urgent
demand. the fact remains that no brief,
readable and authoritative life Of Zwingli
for the general reader has hitherto existed
In English. although a scholarly volume re-
Gently has appeared. the Joint work Of three
professors. Considering zwingli's impor-
tance as the exponent of the German speak
ing reformers in Switzerland, some such
book as the present may possibly be justi-
fed. The writer asserts in his preface that
he has conscientiously labored for accuracy
by spending much time in European IL
braries searching for the literature Of this
subject. The few illustrations are made
from conventional photographs, ana the
book ends with a heavy German bibliog-
raphy.
"Keetner's Commercial German" by Ar
mold Keetner. published by the American
Book company, is adapted for use in COM
mercial schools and In commercial courses
of high schools, and is the first to intro
duce American students to a foreign lam
/ guage by means Of It's commercial vocabu-
iaEy' faFt 4 Oohlalhs the etenSntb OF com-
mercial German. Each Of the sixteen les
sons includes a reading lesson, special
vocabulary. exercises on gramma and ques-
lions. Following these are thirty-one brief
grammatical tables of the principal parts
OF speech, with references to the reading
lessons which illustrate them. Part II is
intended to widen the commercial voeabu-
larry by means OF reading selections deal
ing with German business customs and in
stitutions.
Cora Martin Macdonald, A. M, formerly
professor of English literature in the Uni
versity of Wyoming. has recently pub
lished a little book entitled "a Study OF
Browning's SAUL" through F. H. Revell
company. To those who want to study