The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-23

ON THE LIBRARY TABLE.

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A third edition of Helen r. Martin S
new Pennsylvania Dutch romance,
His Courtship," and a second edition
Of Majorie Bowen's novel dealing
with the massacre of Glencoe, THE
Master of Stair" are announced by
Mcclure. Phillips & Co.
The special James Creelman story,
entitled THE Other Mr.. Perkins, y
which appears in the July issue of
Parsons magazine. has attracted a
great deal of attention and created
considerable comment in the news
paper press throughout the country.
Nelson Lloyd, the author of Mrs.
Radigan," will have in the fiction
number of Scribner satire on mod
ern ancestor worship entitled, 1.-The
Grandfathers of the E'i5lution'-an
amusing conceit by which the humor-
Gus side of our present day patriotic
societies is well illustrated.
The Sons of the Seigncur," by
Helen Wallace, recently issued by
The Outing Publishing company, is
an intensely interesting story of love,
intrigue and adventure, and is writ
ten in a manner which makes the rea-
der loath to lay down the book until
the last chapter has been read. Miss
Wallace is a clever writer and her
characters are we'll created.
Among the Worlds Peacemakers"
is the tile of new book issued by
Progressive Publishing company of
New York. 1t is edited by Hayne
Davis. secretary of the American del
egation to the thirteenth and four
tcen.h conferences of the Interparlia-
mentary union, and is an epitome of
that union, with sketches of some of
the unions most eminent members.
Mrs. FraLcis Hodgson Burnett's
THE Shuttle" will reach a dramatic
turning-point in the August Century;
and most readers of Elizabeth Rob-
ms Come and Find Me" will find
it also developing interest. The maya
zine. the Midsummer Holiday num-
Der. will have short stories also by
Annie E. P. Soaring, Villa Sibert
Gather and Reginald Wright Kauff-
mann.
A book which has sprung into i'm
mediate popularity is The Sowing of
Anderson Cree by Margaret Pres
colt Montague. Two editions have
been printed within two months and
the book has been simultaneously pub
Eshed in Canada and Australia. A
measure of this popularity is per-
haps due to the fact that the scene of
the story is laid among the noun
tains of West Virginia, section Of
fering rich possibilities for romance,
but which has hitherto been little in
published by the Baker & Taylo"
company.
1.-The Comedy of Life" is a hand
some volume of more than a hundred
pages of heavy paper on which are
printed the very best of the full page
pictures which have appeared in
Life" recently. They cover a variety
of subjects, ranging from number
of comparatively new examples of
Gibson, HUT, Bayard, Jones, Read,
Foster Blashfield. Hanna. Kemble and
Flagg. The Comedy Of Life" is
cheering and an artistic volume to
have lying around on the library ia
BILE, or as one of the attractive feat
ures of a guest room. 1t is published
by the Life Publishing company of
New York
Frederick A. Stokes company has
just brought out "In the Cause of
Freedom" by Arthur w. Marchmont.
the latest of a long list of successful
books which this author has produced.
1t is a novel of intrigue, patriotism,
heroism. bravery, bloodshed and tur-
bulen- human passion. The scene is
laid in Russian Poland of the pres
ent day, and treats of certain phases
CT the bitter struggle between the
Russian bureaucrats and the Polish
freedom fraternity, a powerful secret
society. A young English tourist in
Poland by his chivalry toward the
fair niece of a famous conspirator, be-
comes involved with the police, and