Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-14


the "rustlers" held sway in the cattle
country-when they owned the deputy
sherlffs and the juries-owned almost
everybody except Paul Langford and
Gordon, the county attorney. For
angford-Langford of the Three Bars
ranch-was another kind. Here was
a mana godlike type with his sunny
hair and his great strength. This was
the man who had thrown not only the
whole weight Of his personal influence,
which was much, but his whole-hearted
and aggressive service as well, Into the
long and bitter fight" And Richard
Gordon was another such, although
every one seemed against him and
against his law Yet few brave words
from a girl he had Just meta girl OF
the kind he had not seen for years
came Just in time to stir him from his
Encouragement There is another girl,
too. Mary Willlston, who will make the
same thorough conquest of the reader
that she did Of Langford. Then there
is Jim Munson, a splendid characteri-
zation of the real cowboy. whose whole
life is bound up in the Three Bars
"outflt," and against him the sinister
figure Of Jesse Black, who makes all
the trouble-and the story as well. Sell
dom has a book contained so many
characters that stand for plains life as
IL actually was III llOse uayoi VI
many that have the faculty Of appeal
ing to the reader.
Langford of the Three Bars. By
Kate and Virgil d. Bayles. Chicago:
A. c. McClurg & Co.
"The Sowing Of Anderson Cree" by
Margaret L. Montague, is a feud story
of the West Virginia mountains, In
which the rugged lines of hatred are
softened by love story of exceptional
grace. The wildness of this region
breeds in it's inhabitants contempt
for statutes and laws of mans max
ing and leads them to maintain rude
Justice based rather on the lex tai
ionis." This story gives one great
insight into the mountaineers' ways.
The Sowing Of Anderson Cree. BY
Margaret P. Montague. New YORK
The Baker & Taylor Co.
Possibly no one subject has attracted
more attention and given rise TO more
serious thought from finanicers ana
economists in the past year and half
than the effect upon all the factors or
industry, living, society and security
and commodity values Of the stead1ly
increasing production OF gold. Gold is
the standard of value OF the civilized
world. Finance and commerce think
and live in terms of gold its value is
therefore fundamental. The rapidly in
creasing output and supply is depreciat-
ing the value of gold and increasing
prices on all tangible property. The
effect on wages and labor, on debtors
and creditors on speculation and in
dustry, and even on politics and So
ciety is undeniable and far-reaching.
While the problem is not new, as is
shown in the pages of THE Gold sup
ply and Prosperity" it's present-day as
poets are set forth in this book by a
number of writer's. especially fitted by
t, aiming and experience to elucidate the
subject. Byron w. Holt, editor OF
Moody's Magazine, has edited these
contributions.
The Gold Supply and Prosperity. BY
Byron w. Holt. New York: The Moody
Corporation.
Conklin's Handy Manual of Useful
Information and Atlas of the World"
published by Laird & Lee, Chicago, has
lust been completely revised and mod
ernized. The publishers have sold over
100000 copies of the original edition.
which fact proves the usefulness and
value of the work. Hardly q subject
of Importance can be named that Is
not treated. It is invaluable for stu
dents, scholars, teachers, speakers, pol
iticians and for all trades and profess
sions.
Edison's Handy Encyclopedia of
Useful Information and Universal At
las" published by Laird & Lee, Chi
cago, has just been thoroughly revised
and brought down to date. Many new
features have been added to this work
and it is now all that its name implies,
a modern encyclopedia of practical eV-
eryday information.
Three new books of Importance to
those interested in the socialistic propa-
ganda, issued by Charles H. Kerr &
Co., Chicago, are 1.-The Rise of the
Lewis; a reprint of 1.-THE Eighteenth
Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," by Karl
Marx, and THE Right to Be Lazy" by
Paul LIE Farque. The interesting point
about the first named is its effort to
prove that America has proletriat-
a fact which the average American is
by no means ready to admit.
Aunt Jane Of Kentucky by Eliza
Calvert Hall, is a presentation of rural
Kentucky life and character. The au-
thor, a well-known Kentuckian, who is
not without experience as writer, al
though this is her first book has done
for life in the Blue Grass country what
such writers as Sarah Orne Jewett,
Alice Brown ana mary Il. WlIklnS nave
done for similar phases of life in New
England. Aunt Jane is a philosopher in
and in her "ricollections" we
see the beauty, the romance and the
pathos that lie in humble lives. The
humor of the book is softened and re-
fined by being linked with pathos and
romance, and the character drawing
is done with so firm a hand that we
seem for the moment to live on the
highways, around the hearthstones and
in the gardens Of that country neigh
borhood, smiling over its Joys, Weep
ing over it's sorrows and realizing
afresh our common humanity, our kim
ship with the children of Ktntucky soil
Aunt Jane of Kentucky. By Eliza
Calvert Hall. Boston: Little, Brown
& Co.
Max Stirner's peculiar work, 1.-THE
Ego and His own" is now presented
possibly for the first time adequately in
English. The fact that an accurate
translation cannot be made, owing to
the odd style and phraseology Of the
original, has initiated against any at
tempt TO render Stirner into English at
all, but Steven T. Byington, who has
done the task seems TO have accom-