Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

the contrasting fate of two young mar
RED couples. One woman married her
husband with only Il pleasant affection
IN her love, and so the story finds them
the man faithful and prosalc, the wo-
man with her girl-nature ripe for the
poetry OF ideal first love, but finding
her final happiness in devotion to her
husband. The other woman, beautiful
shallow, who marries a young professor
because she is flattered by his prefer
ence and believes in his success as her
social stepping-stone, drifts into re-
newed intimacy with an old lover San
ia Lucia has sweetness, humor, and
common sense. and leaves a deep, final
feeling of 'alrs we'll" Harpers, pub
fishers.
John and Sebastian Cabot" by
Frederick A. ODER. (Heroes of Amer
lean history) Illustrated. The lives of
these intrepid explorers, and their claim
TO the discovery of the mainland OF
North America, have long been OBJ
scured by controversy and conflicting
documents. Mr.. ODER makes clear a
great deal in narratlng their famous
voyages. Many of the pages vividly
picture the excitement and stir in Eng
land, Venice, and Spain when the new
world and its riches were the talk and
dream of king and peasant alike. The
book will prove a treasure of knowl-
edge and entertainment TO young read
ers.
"Harper's Indoor Book for Boys" by
Joseph II. Adams, author of "Harper's
Outdoor Book for Boys etc With
many illustrations. This is practical
and comprehensive book designed to
show how q boys leisure time indoors
can be spent both pleasantly and profit
ably. 1t takes up carpentry and wood
carving, metal-work, and wirework, re-
lief etching and clay modelling, book
binding and printing and other varieties
of indoor occupation 1t constantly In
culcates neatness and orderliness in
work, and inctes TO original thinking
and deXterity of hand AS practical
training for the growing boy, the book
is admirable. and so wide is its scope
that It is sure to appeal 10 every taste
and to every special capability. Boys
will find through its guidance admir-
able ways In which to spend the rainy
days and the long evenings, and better
than this, will acquire through its
teaching practical aptitude which
will infallibly be of high value in later
life.
Mr.. John n. Higginbotham has writ
ten new book of travel, which is pub
lished this week. More than any other,
Mr.. Higginbotham Is pointing out TO
those who can afford the expense, that
they can also afford the time-for
vacation trip abroad. -Four years ago,
Mr.. Hlgginbotham, who is a business
man, also an optimist and a man of
energy. wrote book entitled Three
Weeks in Europe, or The Vatican of a
Busy Man" based upon his own expert
ences while travelling abroad. In all
particulars unlike the professional guido
book, 1t is narrative full Of incident
and humor-iust the things one wants
to know. and full Of pertinent SUCCESS
lions. The volume made hit and
out of this first success came the idea
that there was field for a series OF
travel books showing what busy man
could do by taking a week TO go and
a week to come. with two to three
weeks on the other side-just about the
time the average man could spare for
a vacation trip And now there is an
other "Three Weeks Abroad Series" I'M
der the authorship OF Mr.. Higginbotham
and published by the Reilly & Britton
Co, Chicago. The second book of the
series Is lust published-"Three Weeks
I'm Holland and Belgium and Is crisp.
breezy and filled with excellent de-
scrlptiVe material, helpful suggestions
and the new volume is illustrated with
SO half-tone pictures, all taken by the
author. but entirely out of the usual.
Mr. Higginbotham Is soon 10 leave for
a vacation in England, where he viii
utilize his time in coaching through
tho country. and next year ma book
win cover this interesting trip.