Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-02
CURRENT LITERATURE.

Mrs Essington; The Romance ~
House Party" by Esther and Lucia Cham
berlain, is love story Of smart people.
The scene is laid at a country house on
the California coast near San Francisco.
There Is young composer. well bred but
hop~lesslv poor the beautiful Mrs. EssinE-
ton. widow youthful but some ten years
his senior. has centered her interests on
his promising career At the opening Of
the story his gratitude has decpened into
an adoring affection, and Mrs Essington
Is brought face to face with the problem
that one day she will be an old woman
while the man is yet in his prime. Then it
is that the other woman appears in the
person Of the daughter Of the house. She
is glorious. out-of-doors creature. whose
frank. fearless eyes look with favor upon
the ineligible composer while an anxious
mother strives 10 make her see the virtues
Of New York business man Of vast
means.
The plot is worked out into a dramatic
and absorbing love story of unusual power.
Mrs. Essington" is a novel Of manners.
and it is one OF the very few books in
which smart people are convincingly and
enterts iningly depicted. There are six full
page illustrations by Henry HUT. repro
duced in tint The book is published BY
the Century company.
impressions Of Japanese Architecture
and the Allied Arts" is written by Ralph
Adams Cram. one of the countrys best
know architetects. who has spent much
time in Japan and made speciality of
japanese architecture. Aside from its con-
sideration Of ecclesiastical and domestic
architecture. Mr.. Grams book takes up the
allied arts. such as sculpture and panel
decorations of interiors. The illustrations
are in themselves very rare and Of unusual
attractiveness. The text undertakes TO
point out the genius Of eastern civilization
in art and TO demonstrate the impossi-
bnity Of measuring eastern art by western
standards. The volume is highly interest
ing. as well as authoritative. Published
by the Baker & Taylor company.
THE Race of the Swift" by Edwin Carl
lie Iitsey. is the title Of stories of wild
animals In heir haunts, written with
keen. nervous energy and great power. a
mother fox, a hawk. a gray wolf, wild
cat Taccoon. a coon dog and sheep dog
turned bad" are the chief actors in these
enthralling narrative, which, although in
tensely exciting, kept strictly within
the range OF probability; and the motives
OF action, such as hunger, rage and
mothers instructive care, are all primary
and elemental. such may fairly be sup
posed to exist in animals. The descriptions
Of the woods. OF birds flight of storm.
of a drought. and other phases of forest
existence are vivid and graphic. The book
is illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull,
the famous animal artist. Little, Brown
& Co. are the publishers.
The Mountain of Fears" by Henry C
Rowland. is a story of singular power and
intensity 1t is a book of strange scenes
and thrilling adventures picturing unknown
corners of the world. and characters force
full original and surprising. There is ad-
venture and there is a power of psyche
logical insight showing imaginative
force which makes a peculiar impression
at a time when purely imaginative quality
is none too common. DR.. Leyden. collector,
world traveller, scientist. adventurer, keen
est of observers of men and things, is
unique character and his adventures thrill
the imagination of readers by their strange
ness, their seeming mixture of fantasy and
truth and the frankness with which they
reveal the elemental things of human ma
ture. A. s. Barnes & Co is the publisher.
when You Were Boy by Edwin L.
Sabin, is a story OF boy life. No writer
has exactly caught the spirit of boy
life Mr.. Sabin. In serial form these
sketches attracted the widest attention
for they carry every man back TO his own
boyhood and so true TO life are they that
the reader seems 10 be perusing his own
biography. They have a truer rumor than
THE Real Diary OF a Real Boy" and a
sympathy and tenderness for boy life which
give them a rare charm. There are nifty
illustrations by Frederick Door Steele. The
Baker & Taylor Co. IL the publisher.
"A Thief in the Night" by E. W. Hor-
nung. furnishes further adventures Of
Raffies. the gentlemanly burglar whom
everybody knows. On the cover OF the
volume hanson cab waits in white
light while its driver dozes. Inside are
nine stories and "The Last Word" let
ter which seems TO intimate that here and
now we get the last word of Raf1es. Pub
Hshed by Scribner's.
"A Corner in Women" by Tom Mason.
! is one OF the best Of the late publications
OF Moffat, Yard & Co. A cover by Charles
Dana Gibson, that's the first thing to be
noted about this volume Of humor; then
, follows the list of illustrators: Gibson
| again and John Cecil Clay. Z. W. Kemble.
A D. Blashfield. c. Allen Gilbert. F. W.
! Read land others" to quote the title page.
The book r. certainly an attractive one 20
look upon. Mr.. Mason is not only humor-
list but a philosopher. This volume is .
| collection of his best things. consisting OF
verse well prose. The well-known es-
! say on How 10 Live Beyond Your Income
Permanently" may be found here; also
the dictionary OF biography from Roosevelt
/ 20 Lawson.
"A Garden in Pink by Blanche Eliza
beth Wade, is the story OF two young mar
\ ried people and their delight in making
| their garden. But no such statement ear
do justice to the charming descriptions this
! whimsical humor, the delightful spirit ui
INTERPRETATION that are skifullS