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was thought by her relatives to be q
boy, on account of her name--Lennox-
and who was taken at once to their
Is an alluring book heroine. who wins
her way into the good graces of every
ono
1Ier quick fcarlessnees and discern-
ment. her cyer-present sense of hu1nor
and her Winsomeness arc her distin-
gushing characteristics through child
hood and maldenhood.
When she waves an adieu to her
reader friends she does SO from the
stage of a London theatre where she
has won great triumph, with the.
Dyce household sitting in box aid
looking Z on to wave her approval and
applause.
SPIRIT LAKE. BY Arthur fleming.
From the Macmillan COMPANY. Of
PIP. 335. $3.50.
a fascinating story OF winters on.
campment and the hunting experienced
is noted warrior and trapper, called
Spirit Wolf, and the other members
No-Koom, his mother; Minace. his cid
da AsS T KekS Mayten his rS Mit K
and three children still in infancy.
Tho summer home of Spirit Wolf
is village near Fort Determination
in Canada, freauented by the Indian
him for his winter encampment is a
sandy beach. where Lonely river loses
itself IN Spirit Lake.
his sons In visiting their traps and
securing their game are interviewer
with many romantic Indian legends re-
garding the buffalo spirit. the mischief |
maker among the bears, the dance Of
the dead men and the love dance
An Indian courtship lends romance
to the book, and the happy marriage
of the Indian lovers crowns the return
of the family. after a successful hunt,
to Fort Determination.
The book is Just such a one as
healthy American boyhood VIII rejoice
In.
FANsHAwE OF THE FIFTH. By|
Ashton Hilliers. Mcclure, Phillips
s: Co., Of New York, publishers PIP.
A book with an eighteenth century
flavor and setting. with the unhur-
ried and leisurely scenes laid In Eng
land yet with enough of !iveliness In
incident and adventure to render it In
teresting.
The story of young Englishman's
checkered career brings George Fan
shave to the readers notice, as he
|
Hail. near Ipswich in SUFFOLK, to join
| his regiment, the Fifth Dragon
Guards, at York. His short and tragic
association with his comrades at York,
| the disappointment OF his father and
his estrangement from his home peo-
4 pie, his subsequent career. his rapid
social descent and his adoption and
restoration to health and sanity in
4 in love with the daughter OF the house
all these things are told in pleas
ant, rambling style that belongs dis
1 tinctively to an earlier generation In
The book presents what one might
infer.to be curiously unflattered, yet
accurate, picture Of English army and
social life during tho latter part OF
| the eighteenth century.
u Ones attention is held from first to
last by the charm and sincerity Of the
4 authors style, which accords so we'll
with the earlier day he ures:The
able, is now over. The hurry and
:. scurry of the twentieth century has
: scant patience with RESPONSIVENESS and
retrospection. "Fanshawe of the Fifth, :
! tends to both, but its freshness and
genuineness cannot fail to win the
! appreciation and enjoyment of the
reading public.
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