Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-27
NEW BOOKS AND MAGAZINES
Appletons Publish Musical Translation Of
Albert Lavignao,
NEW VERSE VOLUME BY RICHARD BARTON
A story of Frontier Life by General
Charles King-Cyrus Townsend
Brady writes Several Mis-
siOnAry Stories.

siOnAry Stories.
Musical Education" by Albert Lavignac,
translated from the French by Esther Sin
gleton, who translated Lavignac's '''Music
Drama OF Richard Wagner, is a book OF
inquiry into the best means to pursue a
musical education under its most healthful
conditions--a matter which Is far more
difficult than Is generally believed. The
advice contained between these covers,
which will be Invaluable to parents, anna
teur and professional musicians, teachers,
and students, is the fruit of forty years
experience of teaching nearly every de-
gree Of talent and every condition of life"
The real object of the work, to quote from
NJ. Lavignac, Is to set forth "the best
manner TO pursue any study in order to
reach the end that one desires to attain"
The wide scope of NJ. Lavgnacs book
may be Judged from the following chapter
headlines. General Remarks Upon Musl-
cal Education" The Study of Singing"
The Various Studies Necessary for Com
posers," "Of the Means of Rectifying a
Musical Education That Has Been Ill Di-
rected at the Beginning and How to
Remedy It." Various Kinds Of Instruc-
tion." Published by D. Appleton.
verse is entitled Message and Melody"
is the fourth book OF poems he has issued
and contains mis- latest and most mature
work in the lyric and tallad vein, gathered
from magazines or written especially for
this volume. The book is divided under
different heads, play Room POEMS" ma
ture Pieces" "Lullabies," Poems of
Music" One of the best poems is The
Song Of the Unsuccessful" which has IN It
much to commend to the thoughtful per-
SON. The soul to the Body" is also note
worthy and in Before a Shrine" there ia
beauty and pathos. Published by Lothrop
Publishing Co.
THE Way of the West" by General
Charles King, is story of frontier life,
In which the Cheyenne Indians play quite
an important part. A young wife and
mother leaves her Illinois home to fly as
fast as was in those days possible, to her
husband, who was the head OF a surveying
party and who had been seriously wounded
In savage fight with the Indians Many
miles Of the journey must necessarily be
made by stage, and the exciting encounter
had with the two legged coyotes" makes
interesting reading. The love story is
somewhat out OF the ordinary, inasmuch
as beautiful young girl becomes IAN old
mans darling" The tale is interestine
from start TO finish. with an ending SO
pleasant the reader must, too be happy
Rand McNally & Co.. publishers.
THE Bishop by Cyrus Townsend
Brady, has given us some more
'Recollections of Missionary in
the Far West" in the form of hf-
teen short stories, some of them founded
on facts all or them founded in life. These
stories are woven about new character
militant bishop, whose work amone
rough-and men Of western camps
forts and villages result in his sharing
many Incidents of frontier life. He is
sympathetic and knows how TO reach crude
men and women without too much preach.
ing. One OF his most thrilling experiences
was in the case OF Sergeant Boyd's sweet.
heart. blue-eyed Irish girl who married
ranchman and left Boyd mourninR
secretly. Hers was tragic fate, and 1t
was left for Boyd, after all, to ayenee her
her husband and her child. Then there was
Ell Johnstone. whom the bishop made into
. preacher, and whose soul was tested af
terwards to the uttermost limits Published
by Harper's.
Romance and danger. love and DARING.
treachery and loyalty. beauty and spirit an
the 500 pages Of Frederick Taliaferro"-
pronounced Tulliver a story of Maxi
milian's empire. written by George Crane
Cook The hero Is a young confederate OFF,
Ger. who took service with Maximilian's q
army, Just as the empire was entering upon
Its final struggle The lovely heroInA
Felise, daughter OF General Medina and a
countess in her own right, is a spanIsh
maiden, schooled in the strictest OF the CON
ventions, passonately devoted to her
church. to her family and to her nIial
duties. Only after long months of soul.
trying experiences of hair-breadth escanes
and OF the most persistent and gallant WOO
Ing, does she finally SURRENDER her proud
Spanish self. to wed with the Handsome
young American hereto. Macmillan. Car.
lotta, Marshal Bazaine. Princess salm.
salm, all have their parts in the romance
Published by the Macmillan company.
The Triumph OF Life" by william Far.
ouhar Payson. is a story OF modern Amer.
ican life The scenes OF the story are laid
in Washington square New York, and BrIs.
tol, Rhode Island. and tells Of the struggle,
OF a young writer. Enoeh Lloyd. with wbs,
seems to be financial success at the prics
OF moral failure, There are two women IN
the case the two opposing influences. On.
is Celeste Moreau, the worldly, mockins
daughter OF a French hotel keeper IN New,
York; the other is Marion Lee, daughter OF
Lloyd's publisher. This struggle between
these two innuences-the one demoralizin0
the other ennobling-is worked out through
many intricacies OF plot ana a series q,
dramatic situations, Published by Harper,s
In The Souls of Black Folk" Prof. w
z. b. Dubois makes an eloquent and i'm
passioned appeal for Justice for his people
Prof, Dubois feels that the race problem (,
the problem Of the twentieth, century, anC
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