Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-21
BOOK NEWS

"The Morning Glory Club" of which
George A. Kyle writes entertalnlnSiy,
started among some women who thought
that through it's influence they might night
overturn the world and create little
cosmos of their own, more suited to their
personal needs likes and ideas The
progress of their efforts, the setbacks
they encountered and the denouement,
make a pleasing tale-albeit the average
clubite will find it striking perilously near
home with it's ironical humor.
The Morning Glory Club. BY George A
Kyle Boston: L. c. Page & Co.
Charles Egbert Craddock,s ,tIe; tales al all
mouutains-and the same personnel-the
inhabitants thereof This. region and
these people she has made her own, ana
they afford her seemingly unlimited ma
terial for fictional use. Her latest book.
1.-The Windfall," does not venture out OF
this environment, so it's main characters,
tics are already outlined. 1t IS gooo
terest, with clever plot well worked out.
The Windfal. By Charles Egbert Grad
dock New York: Duffield u Co.
prisoners of Fortune" tale of the
Massachusetts bay colony, by Ruel Per-
ley Smith, is a romance of colonlsts and
old New England. The hero is born
raconteur and tells his story with a
solemn humor that, is Irresistible The
austerity of life under Cotton Mather is
of the pirates habits and adventures.
The story stands out by itself by its
naturaness, convicing by it's deft inter-
weaving of history with fiction.
Prisoners of Fortune. BY Ruel Perley
Smith. Boston: L. c. Page & Co.
Every one remembers the disastrous at
tempt of Leonidas Hubbard and Dillon
Wallace to penetrate the wilds of Labra-
dor, the death of Hubbard after their
| pledge each to each that the survivor
| 81 r,rita Of the trim Wal
| lace lived. and redeemed his pledge. There
was another promise: That the survivor
would carry on to completion the ex-
ploration they jointly set out upon; Wal
| lace also kept this promise, and THE
! Long Labrador Trail" is his record of it.
The tale is a thrilling one full of wild
record of American "do and dare"-and
every lover of nature untamed will enjoy
The Long Labrador Trail. BY Dillon
Wallace. New York: Outing Publishing
company.
! Clara E. Lnughlin, in "The Complete
Dressmaker," has added one more to that
very admirable complete" series to which
| 1t is to be hoped many women flee in
their times of need. This particular
volume takes up the work of clothing
ones self-if one be woman-from the
very beginning, starting with basting and
running straight seam, and embracing
even such abstruse subjects as the
the like With this come full directions
for home millinery, in themselves full of
value. For every woman who makes
even few of her own clothes the book
is q treasure.
1.-The Rome Express" by Maj. Arthur
Griffths, author of THE Passenger from
Calais" contains mysterious murder on
flying express train, a willy Italian, a
charming woman caught in the meshes Of
circumstantial evidence, chivalrous Eng
lishman and a police force with keen
nose for the wrong clew These are the
ingredients from which Maj. Griffths has
concocted a clever, up-to-date, detective
story. The book Is bright and spirited,
with rapid action and consistent develop
ment which brings the story to logical
and dramatic ending.
The Rome Express. By Arthur Grif-
fiths. Boston: L. C. Page & Co.
Humor and culinary common sense
characterize the cookery books of Olive
Green. She quotes the Chinese sage
known as Yuan Mel, whom we all have
heard of, to the effect that cookery is
like matrimony-two things served to-
gether should match" and then she pro-
ceeds to unfold in "One Thousand Simple
Soups her gastronomic resources, 200
beef soups, 110 mutton soups. 100 veal
soups, $50 chicken soups 100 fish soups
etc. After even cursory survey one is