The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-11-11
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of such a condition of things pressed
themselves upon me. 1t seemed TO me
that the sinister working of this new
law would make a good motive for a
novel. I could not rid myself of it until
the story was outlined before me-"
This was the suggestion of 1.-The Mod
ern Madonna. There is more involved
than this unjust law, for one must GET
from Mrs Stanley a suggestion of the
possibility for good in the organized
and unselfish efforts of women to help
relieve our civilization of things that
are manifeStly- unfair to women and
children. The story moves rapidly. the
action is stirring and the people for the
most part are very real. Mrs. STANLEY
is to be congratulated upon this. her
last published work
her Brothers Letters" Anonymous
Published by Moffat. Yard q, O. NeT,
YORK. In these letters Miss Christine
Carson of Cincinnati is shown how the
analrs or girls and women are regarded
py men IN general, and, in particrlar
oy her brother, Lent Carson. LAWYER of
New York City. There are some ten or
Twelve letters in the series, and in one
OF them the question of decollete gowns
Tor young girls is discussed, the brother
advising very strongly against them
q
the hysteria of the matinee Girl. An
other contains some extreme general
lzatonS about club women. In still an
Other epIStle the somewhat prigoish
brother talks of dancing and of ..sl1In
ming. There is much wholesome ad-
vice Tor young women in the book put
IN a readable way. The drawings are
py +. Vaux Wilson and c. NJ. Relyea
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"A Good Samaritan" nv Mary Pow
Inond Shipman Andrews. Published by
mcclure, Phillips & Co. A racy little
story is told by Mrs. Andrews in this
little volume, story of a young cler-
gyman who forgets his own interests
and puts himself in a ridiculous and
awkward position to help an old col
lege friend out of a scrape
The situations are amusing. the cler-
gyman a most likeable young fellow
and the denouement happy. The illus
tratfons are cleverly done by Charlotte
Harding.
"Caybigan," by James Hooper. Pup
ished by Mcclure, Phillips & Co. This
volume includes fifteen of Mr.. Homer
stories published previously in the
magazines They all deal with life in
the Philippines and are full of what
artists call atmosphere" and local
color" In other words Mr.. Hopper
knows his field and the people who oc-
cupy it and he gives US a series of
vivid pictures with real men and wo-
men, white and brown, filing the fore
ground. The tales themselves are
good ones with plenty of action and
sustained in interest. Things amusing,
and things tragic; the man in khaki
and the American -schoolmistress, the
squalor, the loneliness, the tropical for
eStS, the summer sea, the heat, the
WEAKNESS, ali these are in the pages of
this entertaining volume, through
which we get a view of our new world.
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''Sir Nigel" by A. Conan Doyle. Pub
lished by Mcclure, Phillips & Co. Here
is a moving tale of stirring adventure,
an old-fashioned romance with the ro-
| nance printed large. A great many
people know Sir Nigel already through
the pages of the white Company,
and they will be glad, evenmore than
his new acquaintances, to hear of mis-
entry into the life of a knight. They
will be told Of his service with the
Black Prince, of adventures in France
and in Spain, Of his winning OF his
great yellow horse, and his wooing of
his wife. In short if you like real