Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07
New Books


Fiction.
THE LORDS OF HIGH DECISION, BY
Mredith Nicholson; 500 PIP; S1.5o; Double
day. Page & Co.
A romance of Pittsburg OF today.
Wayne Craighill, the son Of a prominent
and wealthy family. Is introduced to the
reader at the strategic moment of his
career. Jean Morley Is a new type OF
American girl-a child OF the anthracite
country. with high ideals and ambitions.
The plot is intense, the movement direct
and dramatic.
THE CASH INTRIGUE, BY George
Randolph Chester; 391 PIP; $3.50; Bobbs-
Merrill company,
A fantastic dream of the utmost reach
of American financial power the author
has turned to the uses Of nan The
characters show tremendous energy and
gigantic ambition.
THE MOVING OF THE WATERS. By
jay, Csdy; S1s Pp.; fl.5o; The John Nc
Bride company.
A humorous and pathetic story Of the
life Of the Isolated peoples on the shores
OF the Mississippi river.
THE SEAMLESS ROBE. BY Ada Car
ter; S69 Pp.; S1.b0; A Vessels.
A story OF intellectual achievement.
The characters are English end the scenes
for the most part are in that country.
sTEVE'S WOMAN. BY Mrs. Havelock
Ellis; 26s PIP; $3.50; The John Mcbride
company.
A study of the marriage problem pre-
scented In an unusual manner Illustra-
tions and end papers are in color.
THE PLAYERS OF LONDON. BY Louis
Beecher Chancellor; 2s6 Pp.; b. w. Dodge
& Co.
A romance having as hero Shakespeare
himself. Phyllis, the twill brother of a
boy player, takes the part of Juliet in
the poets new play, and unknown to all
the rest unwittingly wins his love. The
book is printed in two colors throughout
with page decorations and bound In laven-
der and gold.
THE VEIL. BY Ethel stefana Stevens,
1856 PIP; $50; Frederick A. Stokes COM
pany.
The central figure is a beautiful dancing
woman and political Spy, who can chatter
French, and has a liking for Partisan lux
uries, but remain at heart q daughter Of
the Arab race. A young Sicilian of ven
turesome disposition crosses her path and
soon finds himself in a maze OF intrigue.
Both become involved in the plots of a
crafty Mohammedan prophet, a mar of
great learning and personal charm.
THE FLAW IN THE SAPPHIRE. BY
Charles M. Snyder; 81 PIP; Sloo; The Met
fOpOnLan EIedb.
A tale Of ingenuity and imagination, with
a love story running through It,
IN AMBUSH. BY Marie Van Worst; 300
Pr; $50; J. b. Lippincott company.
The story opens in an Alaskan mining
camp, then moves to Egypt and finally
returns to this country and Kentucky. Miss
Van Worst has done the unusual in making
her hero a man with an unsavory past, but
whose redemption and repentance is sin
cere.
A GENTLE KNIGHT OF OLD BRAN
DENBURG. BY Charles Major; 37s Pp.
$40; The Macmillan company.
The scene OF the story is laid in the
court Of the father of Frederick the Great.
In the strange wooins Of Princess VIII
helmina and in the self-sacrlfice OF the
Margrave Of schwedt Mr.. Major has found
a romantic theme.
A KNIGHT OF THE WILDERNESS.
BY oliver Marble Gale and Harriet
Wheeler; S38 Pp,; $50; The Reilly a Brit
ton company.
A love story set against a background
of thrilling adventures in which is woven
the spiritual and physical courage Of that
period when the middle west was the com
rnon meeting-ground OF the white settlers
and the Indians.