The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-12-06

standpoint. John D. Barry has furnished
a book written from that point Of view.
It is called 1.-THE Congressman's Wife" II
has individual as well as social complica-
lions mixed in with the political setting:
Helene Millicete Ia good name she has
for romantic novelisO has written q tale
called THE Career Of Mrs. Osoorne." Two
young women, who escape from tlresome
country relations and take an apartment
In London under a fictitious chaperonage.
form the burden Of the stoey.
Doctor James NJ. Campbell has taken
up the defense Of the deacon and the elder
In an effective manner. Typical Elders
and Deacons'' Is the title Of his book.
The fiippant tendency Of the day Is to
quietly laugh at the typical deacon" but
Doctor Campbell has pictured him as
warmly human and an active force for the
good.
There might be less profitable things for
by st. Louisan. Joshua Humble Is
the title Of such q book.
Edgar Rice Beach Is the author. It
gets back into the atmosphere Of several
decades ago in this city. Mr.. Beach has
been In active Newspaper work here and
has come in contact with many odd phases
Of the city's history which are dexterously
woven into tho fabric Of his novel.
Mickey Of the Alley is the highly d.
vertins caption put up a compilation Of
six short stories from Miss Kate Dickin-
son Sweetssr. The said Mickey. however.
appears in ono Of the stories, and he Il .
highly divertinS parsonage.
Army storiea especially those with
movement. an Indian night or two and post
intrigues. have q decided vogue General
Charles King, who recently visited with u
here in st. Louis. has long been supplying
the demand for this sort Of thing. His
Apache Princess" published last month.
Is quite UP to his standard.
nice little book for sirls-and for su-
perlatiyely nice boys-is that which
bears the aptly alliterative title "At Aunt
Anna's." Four little girls and two little
boys are the young people who were at
Aunt Annals. Marion Ames Taggart u
the author.
Tho scribner Company have published
two g. A. Henty books posthumously.
Henty has written juveniles by the score.
which many Of us remember reading as
sduously in the halcyon days Of youth
full. beknighted. but untrammsled intelli-
eence. The one Is with the Allies at
Pekin": the other, Through Three Cam
paigns."
Thomas Nelson Page has not let his
brother authors get ahead of him during
the year and Is to the fore with dainty
and simple sketch. '"The Prisonera" Ono
Of the prisoners Is Little Molly, Grip
pied child. who had lost her parents, and
was in extreme poverty and neglect. ,
mn -
ing bird, which hung in net9hbos'o win
dow '1mprisoned'' in its cage.
Booth burlington has written Q pretty
little love comedy called Cherry" Il h
the story Of girl with two suitors. re-
lated by one of the suitors. In the frst
person. It IL dated in the Colonial times
for the piauant atmosphere which the
customs and manners OF century and
more ago can give.
Hamlin Garland has served up to his
extensive clientele brisk Western story,
"Hesper." Mr. Garland has translated
all the health. vigor and movement Of the
Rocky Mountain country into its pages.
As q character study, what might be
termed the Awakening Of Hesper. who
had been reared Q slave to conventions,
is decidedly worth while
Cyrus Townsend Brady has taken 'eir
Henry Morgan. Buccaneer." and put him
INTO q novel or tQal pfeCluo tltlOnym. Mr..
Brady has painted Sir Henry cruel and
ferocious enough to suit the most faSti-
dious and pirate-thirsty reader.
Geraldine Bonner has spent long ap-
premiership at short story writing and
gives evidence Of her training in her novel,
'To-morrow's Tangle." 1t IL q moving
tale of the West In the early days.
F. Marion Crawford follows up his long
list Of successes with another, THE Heart
Of Rome" It has plot and lovers. very
safe adjuncts to any readable book.
One way to absorb history is to 20 at II |
Systematically and read series Of great |
tones. like Gitbon. for instance. Another |
70 to pick Impressions out from impress !
sionistic sketches. The latter opportunity |
Is offered in Emerson Hough's "The Way |
to the West" one Of the most recent pub
locations Of the kind. 1t gets very close |
to the spirit OF this Western country.
Scribner's has stood sponsor for General |
John B. Gordon's "reminiscences of tho |
civil War. which is very entertaining read |
Ing, Of the personal experience" variety
In book Of letters Mr.. Wilbur J. |
who served a. correspondent
Tor the New York Sun in the far East. |
has given an interesting description Of
his mission. Ordered to China" is the