Omaha daily bee., 1903-04-03
NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Curiosity About the Authorship Of "0n
satau's Mount" has Been Satisfied.
JOURNEY OVER GREAT SIBERIAN RAILWAY
A Few Of HamiItOn's Letters Selected
by Gertrude Atherton-"The Ma
honey Million" an Anus
ing Novel

John Peter Norton, the plutocrat in
Dwight Tilton's novel, "on satan's Mount"
has this 70 say OF money to his wife: En-
Joy TT l never can. never do enjoy It. One
million. two millions, fifty millions, are all
alike-they are but weapons. The soldier
cherishes HIS sword, the general his guns,
because through them they can make their
power ,elt. They do not enjoy them other
wise. Money! What is it7 The ruin of the
strong. tho temptation OF the weak. To
me II is not money, but the emblem Of
power. You know as no other Of my early
struggles, o. the obstacles that money
threw in the way OF an honest fight for
q home-a fight for you. You know how l
vowed that 1 would win-how l did win.
And the man who fights with money must
eight for more money. or his antagonists will
laugh at him for a fool or spurn him as
= coward. Money! Bah! often / sicken
Of It, Its false glitter, it's hollow ring. its
Bneering crispness. I'm not certain some
times but 1 should be happier today we're
you and Helen and 1 still out on the arid
and thankless farm where l first met you"
II will be remembered that for a long
time there was considerable mystery as to
who Dwight Tilton, the author Of Miss
Petticoats" and o Satan's Mount" was,
but curiosity is satisfied now in the rev.
citation that the pseudonym concealed the
Identity of George Tilton Richardson and
Wilder Dwight Quint, the former the
dramatic editor and editorial writer OF the
Boston Traveller, and the latter the man
aging editor OF that paper and also the
author Of its music and literary criticisms.
Published by @. NJ. Clark Publishing COM
pany.
T h Great Siberian Railway from st.
Petersburg to Pekin" by Michael Myers
Shoemaker, author of Islands OF Southern
Seas" Is the record Of a journey taken In
the spring Of 1902 across Siberia on the new
railway, the FIRST great Russian enterprise
Of the twentieth century. The author has
endeavored to place himself in the position
OF the Russians, and to view their great
est achievement from their standpoint.
Leaving the subject of politics n prisons
to other writer's, he restricts his work to
a description of the railway and of the
country through which 1t passes. Published
by @. p. Putnam's Sons.
The Macmillan company has just pub
lished in book form "a Few OF Hamilton's
Letters" selected by Gertrude Atherton,
author Of Tho Conqueror." The book Is
illustrated with photogravure and halftone
portraits. Mrs. Atherton's aim in collect
ing the letters of Hamilton has been to
enable Hamilton's admirers to form a much
more close estimate OF his character than
Is possible from almost any other source.
He wrote SO freely and intimately that
his letters AFFORD many personal revela-
tions of the man, and his lovable human
nature. It Is, as 1t were, a companion
volume to THE Conqueror," q novel in
which Mrs. AtheTton drew her mastery
portrait OF her hero. The letters have
been selected from the great bulk Of state
papers and many volumes which in a gen.
eral sense are unavailable for the average
reader. One letter OF great interest is
e that which Mrs. Atherton has herself I'M
earthed ut Copenhagen, in which Hamilton
describes the terrible tornado which de-
vastated his home. and which affords such
q graphic scene in "The Conqueror." This
letter has never before seen the light. The
volume in fine furnishes a very personal
and intimate portrait of the man.
The Mahoney Million by Charles
Townsend is a novel filled with the char
Rcter OF the lower west side OF New York
City, such as Edward Harrigan made the
reading public familiar with. Mr.. Town
send has had a unique career, having
been actor, journalist. playwright and now
elist. AS a characteristic sketch of our
Irish-American citizens who have struck