The Savannah morning news., 1903-09-14
BOOK NOTICES.

Place and Power" by Ellen Thor
heycratt Fowler, d. Appleton & Co,
New York city publishers, cloth, $1.5O.
This is one of the books issued by
the Appletons this fall, and a very
popular one, it will probably prove to
be, for it has merit The works of
this author have met with much de-
served popularity. This story is Of an
ambitious man whose most cherished
aims are frustrated through retributive
justice. 1t is full of interest and at
tractive characterization. The main ac-
ton of the plot is skilfully hidden until
the right moment and the dialogue is
entertaining and clever. The author has
chosen for the setting of her story, an
English country neighborhood with
which she is familiar, but the work
departs entirely from the stereotyped
run of tea-drinking and garden party
stories of English life. 1t is developed
with natural force in a world of its
own.
Gold from LIES Rainbows, by
James Hampton Lee. The Broadway
Publishing Company, 1856 Broadway,
New York city. cloth. $1.00. This beau
tiful little volume is illustrated, the
illustrat atoms being by M. Power o.
Malley. 1t is made of seven short
stories and poems. The stories being of
a high order of merit and the poems
being we'll worth reading. There are
half a dozen or more of the stories
each of which is certain to win the
approval of a large number OF read
ers.
'Jeffersonfan Democracy" published
by the Jeffersonian Society, 120 Lib
erty street, New York city. Paper. so
cents. Those who want to get thor
ough knowledge of Jeffersonian De-
rnocracy should get a copy OF this
volume. 1t is claimed for it that 1t
is the result of thirty years study and
observation of political, economic and
industrial conditions in this country.
"Our Mother Goose" edited by New
ton H. Jones, published by the Ma
tional Publishing Company, 23s South
American street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Although there have been numberless
editions of Mother Goose" the de-
mand for good new ones was never so
great as now. The latest is Our
Mother Goose" The text is illustrated
profusely in three colors from new de-
signs by the best artists, making it an
unusually attractive volume not only
for the little ones. but for older per-
sons. A distinctive feature is the fact
that wherever possible in the text
nicture words are substituted for
names. This is in accordance with
the new methods of object teaching
used in all kindergartens and up-to-
date primary schools. 1t helps the
child to learn TO read and stimulates
his Imagination. The presentation in
this form makes the classic rhymes OF
Mother Goose" a new story even to
those who can repeat them all from
memory. To these rhymes is added a
new animal alphabet, illustrated IN
colors, with new rhymes as Wen as
some talks about animals for the
young. intended to amuse and in
struct This new edition OF Mother
Goose" is a most attractive one
'oThe sherrods," by George Barr Nc
cutcheon, Dodd. Mead & Co.. New
York city, publishers. Cloth $l.5O.
This story is a strange one, and is told
with the VIM andd spirit oef Mr. Nc
Cutcheon's styIega AFIea garnishes the
hero, Dudley Sherrod, with artistic tai
ents and virtues of mind and heart, but
these do not save Sherrod from becom-
ing a bigamist. Sherrod, in his own
mind. found his vindication in the be-
lief that he loved the two women whom
he deceived equally well, and that his
heart was big enough for poth. he
kent them in ignorance of his duplicity
for months, but eventually the unso-
phisticated wife and mother went from
the homestead in Indiana to Chicago
in search of her husband. There she
found the second wife, rich and cut
t,lred The meeting precipitated the
end. Both tainted when they knew the
truth. Sherrod entered the house,
found them, pressed kisses upon the
1ips of both and sought his room, where
he drove a knife to his heart. Ad-
dressed to neither woman, but meant
for both. was a note bearing merely
the words: Forgive me-" 1t is a
strong, vigorous tale, but the reader
experiences a shock when he finds ITS
hero committing bigamy. The inter-
est, however. is heightened by this bl-
Zarre touch.
-Four Years Under Marse Robert"
by Mai. Robtrt Stiles. The Neale
Publishing Company, 4Sl Eleventh
street. Washington. d. G. Cloth, $500.
II isn't often that the public is offered
a book that IL az entertaining as this,
and at the same time as full OF In
formation Of an instructive character
The style Is delightful The author
writes lust as he would talk 10 . party
~ friends. First . BIZ ~ history. then
4 thrilling incident followed perhaps
by 30 anscd0ie ~ humorous char
acter. The authOf ielie about what