Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-15

tne 'FOrcible COIectiOn OF lntcrnatlon-
al Debts" Precisely what the "Drago
Doctrine" stands for. what the situa-
tion was which forced 1t into being,
and what our position should be In fu-
ture crises of the same character
these are some of the important points
covered.
sir Conan Doyle is one of the best
story tellers OF the day and any book
from his pen is sure to have a large
following. Nothing he has done In his
long and varied career is stronger,
more stirring or more characteristic
than his latest novel, "Sir Nigel"
which ran as a serial in weekly mag
azine and was followed with absorbing
interest from its opening chapter to its
close. II Is a novel Of adventure, of
chivalry, of the good old days when
men were men and fought bravely for
what they believed the right with
sword and spear, instead of buying
their ease with ill-got gold. II is laid
In the fourteenth century in England,
when the Norman French were still
almost wholly the upper class, ere the
sturdier Ango-Saxon stock had come
into its own, and its basis is history.
The fantastic graces of the chivalric
day still glamored the land, and the
life was stern and wild. The code of
morals 1t depicts would shock our
softer senses, perhaps, but there is
can find ample warrant for all the
events he chronicles, in fact and his
tory. For despite the thin veneer of
lxnighthood, itself bloody and harsh,
was a populace ignorant, brutal and
degraded, and so devoid of the finer
feelings that it was little better than
animal In it's instincts. To portray this
life in the light of the twentieth cen
tury and still to retain it's atmosphere
without too great a shock to our super
sensitiveness, is task that few
writers would set themselves, yet Sir
Conan has done all this admirably and
thoroughly. 1t is a book for men, full
of meat and good red blood, and will
hold one spellbound to the end.
Sir Nigel. BY Sir A. Conan Doyle.
New York: Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
$1.50
Baroness Orezy, whose Scarlet Pim-
pernel'' attracted much attention and
brought her prominently to general
notice in America and England, is now
represented by another volume, equally
fine, called "a Son of the People," The
story is strong one, told in her lucid
and excellent style. 1t is a romance
of the Hungarian plains-the hero, a
handsome young peasant, who having
inherited a fortune from his thrifty
father, 10 enabled to save a Hungarian
nobleman from losing all his lands and
daughter whom he has long wor-
SHIPPED from afar Like "The Scarlet
PfmperneP the present story is of in
tense dramatic interest and shows
great emotional strength.
A Son of the People. BY Baroness
Orezy. New York: c.. P. Putnam
Sons.
1t is surely worth while to give heed
to man who can command an audi
ence of one and half millions of peo-
pie; yet this great throng scattered
in every civilized country around the
globe, does not measure the number of
those who have been influenced by Dr.
j. r. Miller. 1t is merely the number
OF his books that have been sold-each
book reaching, who can tell how many
hearers? For twenty years he has been
sending out these MESA ges of comfort,
upllft and cheer, until today his name
is household word in thousands of
homes
1t is not necessary, therefore, to give
an extended notice of "A Hearts
Garden" this latest book from his pen
It's keynote is found in it's opening
lines: "A good woman said, My heart
is little garden and God is planting
flowers there Every heart should be
little garden, full of sweet and beau
tiful plants and flowers
Another, smaller but none the less
fine, book from DIR. Miller's pen is
The Beauty of Kindness" 1t breaches
doctrine all too little followed and
an earnest reading of it is commended.
Hearts Garden. BY Dr. ]. r.
Miller. New York: Thomas Y. crow
ell & Co.
The Beauty of Kindness. BY DIR. ].
r. Miller New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co.
The slangiest, most up-to-date-ish.
rolilcklng stories of New York life yet
written came from the pen of Sewell
Ford. They chronicle the doings of one
SHORTY McCabe, ex-pugilist, now a
physical culturist of much wealth and
more good sense, together with Sadie
| the fascinating, Pinckney the sport
and several more, types all, but ex-
tremely human and jolly to the last.
The tales are all of the very present;
the things recorded happen today: the
slang is the latest and the humor is all
peryading and rich. OF their literary
merit pedant might have little to
say but as crisp, lively stories of a
present phase of life, told most enter
tainingly and cleverly, to pass away an
idle day or two no praise for them is
adequate. They have already appeared
Ill serial form, most of them, but gath
cred into one volume they are vastly
more charming and their publishers
have done the great reading public a
| ISdl SeINlce.
Shorty McCabe BY Sewell Ford.
New York: Fox, Duffield G. Co. $3.50.
The Outing Magazine for October
covers the better part of three con-
tlnents with sterling, human interest
articles. Horace Annesley VachelPs
Stalking Scottish Moors," handsomely
illustrated, is full of Scottish humor
and Scottish charm. "The English
| FoXhound," by Il. f. Dale has much in
teresting comment on dogs, and is, as
well, nightly attractive human in
terest article. More of Clifton John
sons remarkable outdoor photographs
Illustrate his Farm Life In Iowa. .'1
More important than any of these, be-
cause they are part of a series, are Dillon
Wallace's 1.-THE Long Labrador Trail"
which leads deeper into the northern
wild to Lake Nipissish and John r.
j Spears stories of The Buccaneers"
full of hidden treasure, fights with cut
lass and pistol, sea battles Of the old,
romantic kind. OF the lighter, fas-
cinating sort Of article, Charles Belmont
| Davis 1.-The RialtO'' with the aid of