Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-24
New Books
Fiction.

THE NATIVE BORN, by l. A. r. wyhe;
All pp.; $3.50; obbs-Merrill company.
The scene of this story is laid in India
and four characters furnish the material;
John Stafford, young English officer; Lois
Carruthers, who turns out later to be his
half-sister; Nehal Singh, supposed to be
young Indian noble, and Beatrice Carey, an
English girl, The plot is original and the
tale is Interestingly told.
LOVES YOUNG DREAM, by s. r.
Crockett; 3A pp.; $3.50; The Macmillan
company.
An exciting adventure beginning in a
haunted house" and eliminating in the
beautiful love story Of brave young Scot
tish lad for a girl of noble birth, is the
thread around which this story is spun
There is a Scottish humor and a Scottish
tone to the Characterization which is as
delightful as the story itself is absorbing
THE GARDEN OF FATE, by Roy Nor
ton: 349 pp.; $50; w. j. Watt & Co,
The scene of this novel is laid in Morocco
The story moves rapidly from one adven-
ture to another with the atmosphere Of the
romantic and mysterious cast over 1t all.
There is an interesting love story running
through the book which ends most delight
fully.
THE BARRIER, by Rene Bazini 21S PIP;
! 81: Charles Scrtbner's Sons.
A novel OF English as we'll as French
life today. The hero, an Englishman. falls
in love with a French girl OF deeply relig-
ious character. The story is simply told
and we'll translated and instinct with human
sympathy.
| THE RED FLOODED, by Edgar Beecher
| Bronson; $40 pp.; $50; a. c. mcclure &
| Co.
These are tales OF the plains OF forty
years ago, and later red blooded" adven-
lures in the west. These stories are from
personal experience OF Mr.. Bronson, and
while they are so full of adventure, humor
and strong climaxes that their author says
they may be regarded as fiction, he draws
them, as a matter OF fact, from actual
happenings.
THE WATER GOATS AND OTHER
! TROUBLES; by Ellis Parker Butler; 10l
| PIP; Doubleday, Page & Co.
The large body of readers who laughed
over and applauded Pigs Is Pigs" as a
potent dispeller of blues will welcome this
more than worthy successor. The book
contains three short stories. The Water
Goats" being the title story
I
Calvert Hall; 45 PIP; soc; Little, Brown *
! Co.
! This story first appeared in the Cosmo-
politan magazine some years ago and was
published in the first chapter in Aunt
Jane OF Kentuck." The present volume Is
illustrated with frontispiece in color and
decorative borders.
Poetry.
] THE CLOSED BOOK AND OTHER
! POEMS; by LeOlyn Louise Everett; 226 pp
N.25; Vessels and Bissell Co.
The title poem is followed by short poems
on various themes.
Ell DORADO "2s;' by Francis I. Maule
| IL PIP; 81; The John G. Winston company
This volume contains four weird Alaskan
tales, and is attractively bound and Illus
trated.
sUNWAYs OF SONG; by AlonEo L.
Rice; 100 pp; 81; Sherman French a Co
A collection OF miscellaneous verse IL
varying moods.
Textbooks.
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, by Johl
N, Gillette; 81 PIP; 81; American Bool
The author explains the principles, de
mands and methods OF vocational eduea
tion' states the grounds upon which hopel
Of success may reasonably rest. indicates
some actual results gained by schools con
Quoted on more practical lines and point