Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-26

,,-su and threatening intrigues on tho
part of the foreign element followed, and
it is in this interestingly Tansltory
period of Louisiana's history that Ed
ward Childs Carpenter has laid the plot
of his new romance, 1.-THE Code OF VIC
tor Jalot," which has just appeared
from the house of George w. Jacobs
| 81 Co.
Everybody seems agreed that Lloyd
| Osbourne, who grew up as the literary
| protege of his stepfather, Robert Louis
Stevenson and who collaborated with
him in such great works as "Ebb Tide,
| '.The Wreckers" and THE Ivory Box"
has finally grown to such powers that
he can take the longer flights alone.
His short stories have had recognized
position for years, but he has not peen
accepted as a novelist of the first rank
till now. When his new work, 1.-The
Adventurer was running serially In
Eyerybody's it provoked the liveliest in
| terest and impatience. 1t is now brought
out in book form by D. Appleton & Co.,
and its advance sale shows that 1t will
be one of the books of the year.
| I 1t is pleasant to note that saner
view of society Is getting into print.
Wholesale denunciations are never true,
yet one might have thought from re-
cent fashions in novels, editorials and
sermons that rich people did nothing
but rob the poor, neglect their children,
accumulate divorces and play cards.
People seemed to forget that there were
poor people robbing the rich and the
poor neglecting their children, gambling
and divorcing.
Robert Chambers new novel THE
Younger Set," which is the talk of the
day, has a fair and sane treatment of
the rich. The evil types are not by any
means absent, but the hero is man
of the highest honor, and there is
view of home life in at least one family
that is most ideal. Happier and health
Ter children ana a more devoted mother
and father could not be found anywhere.
All this is the background to- a novel
that is being hailed by the press gem
orally as even better than the same
authors tremendously successful 1.-THE
Fighting Chance"
John and Rue Carpenter have produced
Improving Songs for Anxious Children"
to be published by A. C. McClurg & Co.
1t will be an oblong folio. uniform with
when Little Boys Sing" illustrated in
color quantity and old-fashionedly, with
merry words and melodies which are
good music as we'll as engaging to the
ear Of little people.
AN adult who has suffered in earlier
days girth too great for his height will
appreciate one of the lyrics, which runs
as follows:
Alas, am a heavy child,
A very heavy one
cannot do the fearful things
The other boys have done.
/ try to caper the green.
I try to skip and run.
But all my buttons they burst off
X And make my clothes undone.
1t is very sad, sad thing
To be 30 fat child,
To have to merely sit about
And yet to feee quite wild.
It Is accompanied with appropriate
music, quite the heaviest in the book,
and with an entirely sympathetic Illus
tration in color.
The new novel by Maarten Martens,
the Dutch novelist who has written in
English "Dorothea," Gods Fool" and
other works, is called @rhe New Re-
ligion: A Modern Novel" 1t is an odd
book. 1t tries to work out the deliverance
of two souls from delusion and deceit
back to common sense.
1t bears this inscription on the dedica-
tion page:
For those who are sick.
For those who believe they are sick.
"For those who want to live longer than
other people.
For nobody else.''
Many people are saying that the hero of
I X. Friedman's novel, '"The Radical"
just published by the Appletons, is none
other than Senator Albert j. Beveridge.
The hero is of plain origin, works his way
up to political eminence and the senate,
opposes senatorial corruption, and devotes
his energy to the passing of child labor
bill The love story plays an important
part, of course, and the pictures of Wash
ington official life are vivid.
| 1t is astounding to learn that the au-
thor of 'Rutledge." which was published
with such great success as far back as
1868, has just finished and publish a
new novel. There is O singular youthful
ness and grace about the style and con-
struction of I'm the Tents of Wicked
ness though Mrs. Miriam Coles Harris.
who wrote 1t, was born in 1894 and Is
therefore 73 now. She wrote the novel In
Paris where she lives The plot concerns
the awakening of an American girl
brough up in the peaceful serenity OF a
French convent, then plunged into the
swirl of the American fast set. The story
is absorbing and the pictures of life most
vivid.
The Mcclure company has just isused n
new romance by Anthony Hope, entitled
"aelena's Path" For prettiness and
| bright wit the new story is 5ald 10 equal
the authors famous Dolly Dialogues"
The plot has to do with the right Of way
to bathing beach across the estate of
the Marohesa Helena di San Servolo. q
young woman, half English, half Italian.
The right of way is claimed by young
Lord Lynborough, who has just come
into his estates. and is denied by the
marchesa. The path thus becomes bone
of bitter contention. The complicated and
amusing situations which arise are
handled with consummate delicacy and
SKILL and the story terminates with
prettily conceived romance.
|
| A lucky hit seems to have been made
by a newspaper man, James Morgan of
the Boston Globe, with his Life Of Roose-
velt." With all that has been written
about the president 1t has remained for
Mr.. Morgan In this straightforward, un-
pretentious narrative, to produce what
| the New York Times calls the ideal
biography of Mr. Roosevelt" It is little
wonder that editions of the book are be-
ing exhausted almost as rapidly as they
lean be printed. when the tone Of the re-