Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-08

VIZ lSE and foreseelhg men, poth
y" merchants and statesmen, are
coming to realize that while
the United States is striving nightly
for the trade of Asia. far richer field
South America draws it's supplies al
most entirely from Europe; in it's COM
merce the United States is but q mega
tive factor.
How far the Panama canal will go
toward changing this is problem
awaiting solution with the canals
opening. Certainly it will bring the
western coast of South America vastly
nearer to this country's eastern ports,
but whether that will mean anything,
when our western parts now have no
trade there, is questionable.
But to those who are wrestling with
these matters, there is recommended
for perusal a study, volume by that
well known writer, Charles NJ. Pepper,
on panama to Patagonia" 1t is a
book worthy of deep attention. it covers
much ground.
. The author is a distinguished news
paper man who has Travelled extern
sively, especially in the Latin Ameri-
can republics, and who is a member of
the permanent Pan-AmeriCan railway
committee. He shows the unsuspected
industrial and commercial possibilities
in the division of trade routes and sets
forth the significance of the harbor and
other public improvements already in
itiated by the various governments as
a consequence oG the canal and in an
ticipation of it. He indicates the OPP
pCrtunities OF young Yankee America
for business expansion and describes
1nn 1nt Of tl,p
countries of South America to the
United States and its reciprocal in
fluence on them, and the common re-
lation to Europe. Analysis is made Of
national tendencies, political institu-
tions and governmental policies, ma
tural resources and their lines of de-
velopment, existing populations and
bases of immigration and fiscal sys-
TENS. While presenting exact and de-
tailed information for those who may
travel or settle in Panama and South
America, the authors aim is to put the
very much larger number os people
who remain at home in sympathetic
touch with places scenes and condi-
tions, so that they may follow with
intelligent interest all the phases of the
canals influence and developments
Panama to Patagonia. By Charles
M. Pepper Chicago: A. c. McClurg
& Co.
"Called to the Field" is story of
Virginia in the civil war--a fertile land
for the novelist ever since that titanic
struggle, from the pen of Lucy Meach-
am Thurston. Written with intensity
and imbued with pathos and poetic
feeling, this is the best story yet writ
ten by the author of "a Girl of Vir-
ginia." 1t has charm of atmosphere,
and is so realistic that it reads like
personal record of real experience. The
heroine, who tells the story, is a young
Virginia girl just married, dwelling at
her country home, rich and happy in
the love of her husband, when the civil
war bursts upon her and changes the
current OF her life. The negro sketches
are specially well done, sympathetic
and yet discriminating. The whole
book is graceful and artistic, stirring
and convincing.
Called to the Field. My Lucy Meach-
am Thurston. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co.
Katharine lyman, whose latest book,
"Dick Pentreath." is not unknown as
an author; on the contrary, she has
put out several novels, usually of an
Irish cast, of considerable merit. This