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The Story of Grain of Wheat-By
William c. Edgar. d. Appleton &

The Story of Grain of Wheat-By
William c. Edgar. d. Appleton &
Co, publishers.
Many persons who are not interested
in milling or the raising of wheat
might, at first glance, regard this book
as prosy and full of embarrassing sta
tistics, but let one begin it and it is
doubtful whether he would lay it down
until finished. For the writer Mr.. Ed
gar, who, by the way, is Minneapolis
man and editor of the Northwestern
Miller, has made of his account of
grain of wheat and what it may be-
come so interesting a story that 1t
rivals fiction in its attractiveness. He
begins by telling of the origin of wheat
as far back as we have any knowledge
and, through its various stages, in all
the wheat countries of the world, end
ing with philosophical reasons for
Anglo Saxon ascendency in the worlds
wheat markets. He tells of the reputed
existence Of wheat in Egypt thousands
of years before Christ, and effectively
punctures the oft-repeated stories of
the sproutng of grains of wheat found
in mummy cases. This, he thinks, has
never been conclusiVely proven and
says that wheat loses it's terminating
power after a certain period. The wheat
fields of Russia, England and the Unit
ed States are we'll described and COM
pared, as we'll as the milling process of
this and other countries, of which he
gives a complete history.
One of the most interesting chapters
in the book relates to the wonderful
development of Western Canada, which
has been sudden and has led to a re-
markable influx of emigrants and to
great prosperity in that part of the
country. Mr.. Edgar's conclusions are
very optimistic as to the outlook for
Ia f1rf11 in, yxrHn iciT nd mill
ing, and he believes that no matter how
fast the population increases in this
country, there is no danger of a short
age in the wheat fields. The book is
well Illustrated and is exceedingly val
liable to the reader who desires to
know something of the worlds great
est industry Mr. Edgar has succeeded
in giving fullest information upon an
important subject in fascinatingly in
teresJing manner.
At the Heart of Old PeIee-By Paul
Chambliss. F. Tennyson Nicely, pub
Usher.
This little story is trash of the poor
est description. 1t is a weird tale of
woman who falls)in love with man
who has not wit enough to be sure he
is proposing to the right woman, and
on dark night asks the Step-SlSter
of the one he loves to be his wife.
The girl he really loves goes to the
Isle of Martinique, and just before the
terrible catastrophe which destroyed
the islands seeks refuge in a cave
built by her lover on some occasion
when he was there as a boy. Having
escaped without marrying the wrong
woman, he comes and finds her, one of
the sole survivors of the disaster, and
they straighten out the tangle of their
lives and start life anew 1t is a re-
RI thino that Cfnripc 1ilEa this
find a publisher, stranger still that
really good books have such difficulty
in finding one, and yet we hear every
day of some successful novel that was
actually peddled about from publisher
to publisher.
Mr.. Claghorn's Daughter-By Hilary
Trent. ]. S. Ogilvie company, New
York, publishers.
For some reason Or other a novel
that treats of religion is always read,
even by those who consider a story no
place for religious discussions. This
tale is almost entirely consumed with
conversations of the various ramif1ca-
lions of the Claghorn family. in regard
to their religious opinions. which range
from the strfctest Presbyterian and
High Church EpiScopalian to the athe-
istic views of Natalie, the heroine Of
the book. The unhappiness of the lat
ter comes from an effort to believe in
something of which she is not con-
WINGED, for the sake of her straight
laced husband. Many marital compli-
cations ensUe, and many matters
usually kept for the privacy of a home
are here discussed with great freedom.
The death of the husband solves a diff
ficult problem. The story is well writ
ten in spots, is fairly interesting, and,
after many dark hours. the heroine
finds peace at last and marries the
man she loved from the first.
One For Many-By Vera. Translated by