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the Tennessee mountains or "a . Ken
lucky backwoods. They ar$s nne.
strong men and beautiful wonten. all
Of intelligence and culture, an 4 1t Is
pleasure to meet these people l7ereto-
fore unknown in fiction.
Anderson Cree is a mountaintNer,
strong man, the head of his family. He
is murdered by Kip Ryerson. an eilemy.
and with his dying breath begis his
son David to avenge him. The MUIR
derer is, Imprisoned. but IS cleareA1 by
the jury for insufficient evidence. so
David devotes his life to revenge He
grows, always impatient to carry lout
his promise to his father. and he,trs
that the murderer had gone west and Is
reported as killed in a railroad wreck,
OF course that ends the feud. and David,
can now devote himself to Mary, who's
is more than just his sweetheart. being
a fine strong character as well and
playing an important part in the de-
velopment of David's character.
At the most critical period the mur-
derer turns up and David is seized with
furious lust for killing. His mother
urges him on, but Mary pleads for for
giveness for the murderer This Is the
sowing of Anderson Cree, and the crop
and the reaping thereof is a terrible
lot of trouble for David The senti-
mental side of the story is very pretty
and the descriptions are beautiful and
vivid.
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AT the Actors Boarding House" and
Other Stories

BY Helen Green, author Of "Out With the
Brass Band "0ne Night Stands" etc.
Published by Brentano's, New York Price ST.
The author of these stories Is a very
remarkable woman They are signed
Helen Green, but the stories are more
like the sort of stuff newspaperman
would pick up In and about the dark
and seamy side of life In a large city.
The other two books by Mrs. Green
show that she has an almost intimate
knowledge of actor life. but many OF
these in the new volume are far re-
moved from that environment.
There are two or three stories Of life
in Alaska. one in negro dialect, one Of
southern Utah. all told with such good
local color that one feels the author
has had more than hearsay evidence
of the various places she writes about
There are some stories of New York
opium dens, others of thieves, crooks
and bunko artists which show a kecn
observation Of the under side OF life.
It Is hard to select from so many
stories of such q wide variety of sub
jectc one or two typical of the authors
style. The first In the book. The
Honeymoon OF Sam and Caroline" Is
perhaps . fair sample OF the humorous
stories, qlled With . pew assortwept
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'This Labyrinthine Life

A tale Of the Arizona desert, by George Alex
snder FISCHER. her,. suth0r ,s. Of .Beethoyen, a
Dodge Co.. New York.
George Alexander Fisher already is
favorably known by his character study
of Beethoven, but this romance OF his
is in an entirely different strain. It
might be called drama of tuberculo-
sis, but that would frighten many read
ers away from 1t. thinking it too grew
some theme for novel.
The book has to do with the expe-
riences of a number of people in
camp of consumptives in the Arizona
desert. All sorts Of people are included
in the number clever newspaperman
from Chicago; musician who has been
obliged to leave his wife, who takes
over his pupils and supports the lonely
musician out of her earnings; a young
doctor from the east, a poor boy from
Virginia consumed with homesickness,
two brothers from California and sew
eral others from different points of the
compass. Most of them are brave chow
often that symptom is seen; even In the
most desperate cases) and are trying to
get the most out of life struggling
against such frightful odds.
Barry Branscombe, the hero, 10
dropped into the midst OF the camp life.
He is not afflicted, but is anxious to
bury his past and is in a hopeless con-
dition of mind about his future.
Branscombe's past rouses the readers
sympathy. for though much of his trou-
bies were brought upon himself by his
luxurious and dissipated mode of liv-
ing, he is punished too severely. His
father was physician and Branscombe
refuses to take up the same profession.
He studies art in Paris for a while, but
has no talent and drifts into a life of
dissipation, almost amounting to de-
pravity. One day while out with q
yachting party. all of the members of
which are more or less exhilarated by
champagne, be peysuades a young lady
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"America'S Insulaf Possessions

BY C. H.. Forbes Lindsay. author Of The
Philippines Under Spanish and American
Rulers. -"Panama. the Isthmus and tho
Canal 'Inda, Past and Present" etc.
Published by the John c. Winston company,
Philadelphia. Two volumes. Price 50 set
Mr.. C. II. Forbes-Lindsay is trav-
eler. not a politician. and to that fact
may be ascribed much of the pleasure
derived from reading the latest work
of his. These books are intended for
the general reader and contain all he
wishes to know of the subjects in the
title. As books of research they are
OF little or no value. for the author
writes wholly from personal observa-
ton. The first volume contains ac-
counts of Porto Rico. Guam. the Ha-
waiian islands and the Panama canal;
the second deals only with the Philip
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OF actor slang Sam. the actor. brings
home a wife from Utica to the board
ing house kept by Mrs. de Shine and
the evolution of the little country girl
to the sophisticated maiden In love
with city life is amusing and very well
done.
However, Mrs. Green Is not the SO
male Dickens some reviewers have
credited her with being One can only
wonder at the sources OF her informa-
tion. laugh at her new slang. be
amused at some Of the pictures OF
vaudevillians or the stage and rather
disgusted at some of the stories OF
thieves and petty offenders. They are
clsyer enough for a daily paper. but
hardly good enough to warrant book
covers.
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"Jerry Junior

By Jean Webster. author Of ''when Patty
Went to College" Published by the Cen
tury company. New York.
Jerry is a clever, 1ovable young
American whom we find in little viii
lage in northern Italy waiting for an
aunt and sister. Constance arrives and
she is the sweet, adorable modern Daisy
Miller. She dresses beautifully, she
fiirts; audaciously, but adorably.
Jerry can think of no other way OF
being near her but to disguise him.
self as a donkey boy. Papa discovers
1T, but keeps his own counsel. Con-
stance discovers it and, OF course, be-
ing American, sees the reason for ft
and makes the most of her opportuni-
ties. Jerry knows she knows; and she
knows that he knows that she knows.
The subordinate characters. Gustavo,
Constance's aunt, the Italian officers,
all of them are a good background for
the pretty little farce.
1t is a sweet little bit Of nonsense
and the pictures add to the enjoyment
of the text. They are done by Orson
Lowell.
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'The Golden Hawk"

A romance OF Provence. by Edith Rickert
author OF Folly and The Reaper Pub
iished by the Baker & Taylor company
New York. Price $l-50-
FHE beauty Of this idyllic romance
grows upon one, even after the
reading. 1t is like dainty lyric
which catches the ear and fas-
cinates and viii not be put aside.
The opening words Of the book ex-
plain the title and half suggest what
IS TO follow:
Il Is legend that tho Golden Hawk-if there
Re such birds distinguished among his kind
hy the love that drives him 10 dy straight into
tic heart Of the sun And OF this parable the
meaning IS that 50 royal s his nature II pierces
81 once 10 the quick Of his desire. and suffers
10 mist. no tempest. 10 obscure the light from
his eyes Among men, Young arillon. who some
pretty well atalking adopted this emblem as Ais
own. With what rightE You shall judge
The story is a chronicle OF the wooing
OF AIadeloun. youngest and fairest
daughter OF the keeper Of the Cabro
dor, a famous inn of Castelar,. The
labors Of Hercules were mere child )
play. compared to the trouble and op-
position which beset the path Of
TriIIon, but it is soon seen that If he
IS an irresponsible madman and a
graceless villain, he at least has per-
severance and perfect confidence in
himself and that carries a man well
on toward victory. He has his greatest
difficulty with a deceitful old priest,
one Father Gongonlin, who even goes
so far as TO put poor Madeloup in 4
convent but she IS saved before she
takes her final vows.
While the book shows some interest
ing views Of life in the little provincial
hill town, the love story OF Trillon and
Madeloun dominates the work. The
very unusualness Of the novel makes
il a notable achievement. for no ap-
parent effort is made in its. production
Just a heart that sings and can NJ
longer keep the pent up music from
the world. This is by far the best
work Of this author. She has found
her niche and so far has no rival
for Il.
The Illustrations are by Wladyslav
7. Benda and add much to an attractive
volume.
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pressing his views, is not given to
exaggeration in the least and has a
noteworthy sense Of justice. That fact
makes the book delightful reading and
it's fidelity to history makes 1t valua-
able historical document.
In the Tales of Warrior" san
guine but not sanguinary," Colonel
Richardson shows what he can do with
the emotions. There are nine tales,
quite different In treatment ostensibly
fiction, but founded on fact. Note
worthy among them are THE Little
Fifer,'' a pathetic tale of little or
phan boy who played. his fife for the
soldiers; The Conscript," which is in
finitely sad, and The Devil in Petit
coats" Meg, is picturesque homely mar
rative The stories show a deal Of
insight into character and much ex-
perience.
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"The Charlottesville Campaign
"TaleS of a Warrior"

Two books by Charles Richardson. The Neaie
Publishing company, New York Price Sl.2J
Colonel Charles Richardson of Fred
ericksburg is eminently fitted to write
this tale of the Charlottesville cam
paign, for he was. on the ground all
the time and knew Early and Sedg-
wick and played his part In what he
calls ''the three closing acts of the
great drama The campaign of Chau-
cellorsville was an epic poem written
on the fair brow of Virginia in the
mingled blood of the sons of the eleven
confederate sisters. And sad also it Is
to tell that in every state of the union.
from Maine to Minnesota, there were
many mothers weeping for their sons
who lay forever still on Virginia's
sanguinary lap"
The author is very moderate IN ex-
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1SimOn Eichelkatz''
BY Ulrich Frank. Published BY the Jewish
publication society of America, Philadelphia.

BY Ulrich Frank Published By the Jewish
publication society of America, Philadelphia.
Besides the title story this little
book contains another. ''The Patriarch"
Both turn on one of the great trag-
edies of modern Judaism, the apostasy
from the orthodox faith of the young
people ambitious to make their way in
the world. Both give some vivid pic
lures OF Jewish life and characters
The first story is told autobiographic-
ally by a physician, IN the form Of
anecdotes about his patients It is
gathered that Simon is feeble old
man, of no education. wholly illiterate
and yet philosopher of parts. He
discusses the great problems. life,
death. error and knowledge, with the
keenest insight and with the wisdom
of q seer. The second story Is the
better. It pictures the family life OF q
typical Jewish family--father, mother.
son and daughter. A cousin has been
alienated from them, but after being
away many years, returns and falls in
love with the daughter and the faith
OF his fathers Is drawn back into the
fold. e
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Books Received

'The Complete Dress Maker" by
Clara E. Laughlin; D. Appleton & Co.,
New York
Fires of Desire" by Laurence r.
Mansfield: the c. NJ. Clark publishing
company, Boston.
"The Toy Makers" by Charles FELTON,
Pidgin; the C. M. Clark publishing
company. Boston
~Dareford." by Herbert Edward
Bogue: the C.. NJ. Clark publishing
company, Boston
Fifty Flower Friends with Familiar
Faces" by Edith Durham; Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard company, Boston.
Heart Melodies" by May A1letts
Aver; Lothrop, Lee & Shepard COM
pany, Boston.
The Chronicles Of Martin Hewitt.
Detective" by Arthur Morrison; L c.
Page & Co, Boston
"Fhe Treasure TraT.- by Frank L
Pollock; L. C. Page & Co, Boston
Miss Frances Baird, Detective" by
& Co. Boston.
'Longleaf Pine IN Virgin Forest" by
C. Frederick Schwarz; John wiley &
Sons. New York
Manuel OF Fonografia Espanola." by
Isaac Pftman; Isaac Pitman & Sons.
New York
THE wattersons," by william Mara
bell; Stanley-Taylor company. San
francisco.
The Majesty Of Man. BY George
Miller Marischall; b 3. Fenno s. Co..
New York
prisoners of Fortune by r Psriey
Smith. L. G. Page & Co. Boston
''The Confessions Of Daddy. BY
Ellis Parker Butler: the Century COM
pany. New York
what Have Done with Birds" by
Gene Stratton-Porter: the Bobbs-
Merrill company. Indianapolis.
Landmarks OF Scientific Socialism"
by Frederick Engels; Charles H Kerr
& Co.. Chicago
The Theoretical System OF Karl
Marx" by Louis B. Bodin; Charles H
Kerr & Co., Chicago.
sThe Ministry OF Beauty" by STAN
ton Davis Kirkham; Paul Elder g. Co..
San Francisco.
Indian Love Letters" by Mary Ellis
Ryan; A c. McCIurs & Co.. Chicago.
The Iron Way" by Sarah Pratt
Car; 4 O. McClurg = CO. Chicago
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d uLUSoTR.ATICN from
TIE 0OLDEN HAWK
By
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;CNERT

to get into the little boas trailing
astern for a tete-a-tete. A storm arises
and they are unable to attract the at
tention OF their terrified companions
Branscombe throws everything he can
pick up at the yacht, even his own and
his companions shoes, all to no pur-
pose, and finally half cApsizes their lit
tie boat and the young girl is drowned.
He is almost indicted for murder: all
sorts of suspicious incidents are devei-
oped, and his unsavory past adds fuel
to the fire His friends believe the in
sinuation against shim-all but one
anonymous friend-and he prays for
death in prison. When he is released
because of insufficient evidence he fees
to the desert, broken hearted. In this
mood he settles in the colony of con-
suinptives. and slowly but surely his
fine, strong character is developed. He
becomes unselfish and hopeful and be-
loved by all. His wealth adds much to
the comfort of the camp; he is able to
put in a water system; he builds pa
vilion, to be used as q clubhouse in
inclement weather, and helps the suf-
ferers in every way possible.
From beginning to end of the book
it's object is in plain sight every mo-
ment. Facts and figures are given re-
garding the ravages which consump-
tion is making every year here in
America. and much interesting infor-
nation and advice as to the prevention
and cure are given. The book is a de-
cidedly artistic production, for the
handling of such a subject is very diff
f1cult.
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'DuICibeI'

tale Of old Salem. by Henry Peterson. su-
thor Of .Pemberton. or One Hundred Years
Ago Published by the John {: Win
ston company. Philadelphia. Price sl.5o.
Henry Peterson's tale of old Salem is
entirely OF witchcraft, and no account
Of those terrible days can be exactly
gay Yet this book is very pleasant
reading. time having somewhat soft
ened the feeling against those narrow
minded people of 200 years ago.
Mr.. Peterson knows his early Amer
ican history thoroughly and has in
troduced into his romance such well
known characters as Rev. Increase
Mather and his son, the famous Cot
ton Mather. the magistrates Hathorne
and Corwin and that greatest of all
false witnesses. Ann Putnam.
The examination, trial and conviction
Of Rebecca Nurse is an interesting
chapter so vividly told that ones blood
boils TO think the time has gone by
when her wicked accusers can be pun
ished.
With this background the pretty lit-
tle love story Of Dulcibel Burton and
Ellis Raymond is unfolded. Both are
unjustly accused because OF envy and
jealousy. and their struggles and final
victory are followed with lively inter-
est.
The love story OF these two charm
ing young people, gives the author an
opportunity 60 tell many details OF the
persecution OF innocent people IN the
days OF witchcraft. when on the testi-
mony OF the irresponsible many good
people were sent 70 death.
The pictures OF Captain Alden and
Captain Tolley, OF Governor Phips and
Lady Mary are doubtless true pictures
OF characters OF the day. Lady Mary
Is a fine, strong woman, and 1t would
have been q sorry day for the lovers
II she had not crossed their paths. The
Illustrations are by Howard Pyle.
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shakespeare"

By Professor Walter Raleigh English Men OF
Letters series Published by the Macmillan
company, New York Prices75 cents.
Although the English Men of Let
ters series contain about so books. il
has not up to the present time included
a life of Shakespeare. This omission
is now filled by Professor Walter
Raleigh of Oxford university. whose
reputation for scholarship as well as
for a fine critical faculty is of the
highest. His book Is a reliable outline
of Shakespeare's life and is also q
critical essay. displaying much origi-
nality and insight. BY singular CO.
incidence the publication of the book
fell upon April %, the anniversary of
the birth and death of Shake espeare.
In the opening passage Professor
Raleigh says: Every age has its own
difficulties in tho appreciation Of
Shakespeare. Tho age in which he
lived was too near to him to see him
truly. It was not until the
appearance OF tho folio edition of 1923
that Shakespeare's dramatic writings
challenged the serious attention OF the
great variety OF readers. From that
time onward his tame steadily sd-
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first one OF fifty encountered In fiction.
Egeria talks all her friends into matri-
mony, and finally 1t is the Common
place Man himself who leads her to
the altar. These little conversations
are full Of sentiment and epigrams and
are pleasant reading. but they con-
tribute nothing new to art or inven-
tion. It IS the everyday things OF life
being discussed, but In commonplace
way. The characters of Egeria and
her friends are all we'll drawn and the
pretty little love story running through
the conversation makes connected
work of real interest.
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The KindfaIl'
b Charles EEbert Crs
DUfneld & Co.. New =

b Charles EEhert Craddork- Published by
Dufheld a Co.. New York. Price sl.5O.
Hilary Lloyd is the manager and
half owner IN q travelling show-a
sort OF street fair-and his partner
n the enterprise. Haxon. is one OF
its principal attractions, doing high
dive into a shallow pool OF water be-
fore the performance. as a bait TO the
country people. While doing this
stunt" he Is known as Captain Oh
Iery OF the royal navy" but later he
IS "Signor A1ligro" and performs upon
the cornet. In short. the aggregation
IS rather second rate, and is in a
pretty bad way when II strikes the
little town of Colburg In the Great
Smoky mountains of Tennessee.
Hilary wanders out into the en-
virons Of the town and comes upon
a most enhancing mountain maid A
thunder storm suddenly overtakes him
and she says he may as Well take
shelter in her cabin There he meets
her father and mother and brothers
and lover. Also he learns she can sing
and dance and he proposes that she
do a turn in his show. 1t viii be 2
distinct novelty and OF advantage to
both. What he does not learn is that
her people are Illicit whisky distfll-
s@"moonshiners"- they are at
first very suspicious OF him. thinking
him perhaps a spy for the revenue off,
GERS. When their suspicious are
calmed and all arrangements made -it
develops that they intend to take ad-
vantage Of the street fair and the
Innocence Of the manager to sell some
OF their liquor in the prohibition town.
The little mountain maid sings and
dances and HiIary's esthetic taste
is satisfied. but she doesn't ''get a
hand the country folk saying they
can see just such an exhibition any
day on any roadside. The next day.
however, a party from some nearby
springs drive over TO see the fair" as
a diversion and are most enthusiastic.
The complications come thick and
fast from now on The mountain maid
falls in love with Hilary and he falls
In Iove with. one OF the visitors Now
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Themistocles. by William stearns Davis
author of .-Belshazzar," etc. Published by
The Macmillan company, New York. Price
s15o.
William Stearns Davis is taking the
place of General Lew Wallace. In
fact, he is the only one of the younger
generation Of writers who can ever ap-
proach the master of historical ro-
mances.
This novel he has written is as in
teresting as one of the legends about
ancient Greece herself, and one finds
it hard to believe it is fiction.
The conflict of Greece with Persia
and the glories of Thermopylae, Sa
lamis and Plataea have strong hold
upon Mr.. Davis, and of these he writes
in THE Victor OF Salamis." The de-
scriptions of people and place are so
vivid, the hills of Greece, the groves
and festivals of Athens, the turmoil Of
Piraeus, all are so accurately described
that at times one fancies it is classic
history rather than fiction one is read
ing.
The story of the invasion of Greece
by the Persians is one of the most in
teresting and brilliant pages of an
cient history, and the author is genius
indeed who can turn these we'll known
events into a tale with a compelling
human interest. HIS DdNlS mas
done, and the result is a story SO
astonishing, so sympathetic and ham
died with so much enthusiasm that one
runs the risk of being overlavish in
praise of il.
Glaucon, the Athenian athlete, is a
faithful son of Hellas, but he is
treacherously betrayed by his best
friend and forced to leave his wife
and home. He rises to great heights
at the court of Xerxes, but is always
faithful Of heart to his home, and after
almost heart breaking struggles ne
finally succeeds in winning back the
confidence of the very friends who
were loudest In denouncing him.
The interest one feels in the tale is
entirely with Glaucon and his tremen-
dous difficulties which he is forced to
encounter and conquer, rather than
with any facts of ancient Grecian his
tory. The beautiful background of an
tiquity to the tale, with its very dra-
matte modern handling, should make
this book take a unique place in his
torical novels. IT can scarcely be too
highly commended.
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"The Events Man"

By Richard Barry. Published by Moffatt,
Yard & Co. New York. Price $1.25.
Richard Barry is a former San Fran
cisco newspaperman who made a rep
utation as a war correspondent during
the trouble between Russia and JAPAN.
Mr.. Stanley Washburn of Minneapo-
lis, the hero of this book, is son of
Senator Washburn, and evidently a
man of persistence and daring as we'll
as much modesty. The author tells US
that every line in the book is true, is
exactly as young Washburn related 1t
to him, but 1t reads like romance, and
one can scarcely decide whether
Washburn or Barry is most interest
ing.
News chartered a tugboat, the Fawan,
and put it at the disposal of Washburn
as their war correspondent in 1904 in
the sea of Japan.
In war things do happen much
stranger than fiction. But even so,
some of the episodes described are so
remarkable one wonders why they have
been suppressed till now.
Washburn starts out from the China
coast accompanied by the Korean primo
minister.
He has terrible time for tyo days
at the wheel of his boat Then the
boat runs into collier, with the keel
on a sandbar.
Washburn and his party are con-
demned to death as spies. but are saved
by the American secretary of state.
Later they slip under the very guns
of Newchwang-their boat is held up
by a Japanese fieet--they loaf about
Port Arthur, getting a shot across
their bows once In a while A white
man lost in the Yellow sea climbs
aboard and gives valuable informa-
ton, resulting IN a scoop for Wash
burns paper, and finally he has the
crowning experience of all, the seeing
of battle at sea.
All this is wen told. and whether it
has any historical value or not it is
interesting reading. 7