Omaha daily bee., 1911-07-29
New Books
Fictinn.

Fiction.
PHRHNETTE. BY Marthe Troly-Curtin
SS4 Pp. H.& J. B. Bppincott company.
Mile. Phrynette Chedor is a vivacious
French girl OF Is years, who. orphaned.
goes to London with her devoted French
maid to live with a maternal aunt OF
torbidding aspect and disappearing man
ners. She tells the story, in a sort Of I'M
dated diary, OF the things that befell her
during her first few months Of residence
on English soil, chronicles her observa-
lions Of English people, manners, and Gus
toms, and her own feelings toward them
and relates with pretty righteousness the
beginnings, the slow growth and the happy
ending Of her love affair with a retired
English officer, staid and reticent and
somewhat bearish. of nearly twice her age.
THE CROSS OF HONOR. BY Mary Open-
shaw. $40 Pp. N.0. Small, Maynard & Co.
A romance centering around Napoleon
and the charming Countess Walewska The
story opens in Paris then goes on to War
saw, where most OF the action takes place,
after some scenes OF the march thither by
the Napoleonic army. There is less of
love In the story than of patriotism and
OF war and it's horrors
THE BIG LEAGUE BY Charles e. Van
Loan. S2 PIP. g. Small, Maynard g. Co.
Lovers Of base ball will take pleasure
in this story, which tells about the big
leagues. 1t depicts them. their members,
and their individual and league work In
most vivid way.
THE EYES AT THE WINDOW. BY
Olivia Smith Cornelius 265 Pp Il 90 Broad
way Publishing company.
In this story OF mystery, a summer cot
tage full OF charming and adventuresome
girls is kept In a state of delighted terror;
there Is lonely cabin in the woods, a lake
and the other important adjuncts, which
help to solve the riddle in the last chapter
TWO APACHES OF PARIS. BY Alice
and Claude AskeW. 1874 PIP. SIPS William
hickey & Co.
The careless pen of Partisan Journalist
once supplied the word Apache" to the
Partisan cut-throat, and thereby estab-
lished an institution. Imagine, however.
all the characteristics of the Partisan cut
throat concentrated in one person and that
person girl of Paris, primitive, remorse-
less. soulless and free, and you have Zelie.
the heroine Of this novel. A. woman with
out any moral sense Of physical or mental
pain in herself or in others. The fate of
zelie is the story of the book
CAPTAIN BLACK. BY Max Pemberton.
81 PIP. $i.20. George H. Doran company.
A fantastic story OF the pursuit by sthe
navies Of the world Of Captain Black, out
lawed Of every government, who has come
into possession of a submarine of a type
nifty years In advance of any other similar
invention.
THE UNNAMED. BY George Pattullo.
80 Pp. Desmond Fitzgerald.
Nine short stories dealing with cowboy
life make up this volume. The tales are
not full Of blood and thunder. nor fantas-
dcally comic. typical story is that of
the mule, old Hell-on- Wheels, who joins
band Of wild horses and commits all
sorts OF mischief in the way of stampeding
cattle and Turing away the mustangs. He
is finally captured by the cook, who stalks
him on foot, leading a burro loaded with
provisions.
Sls PIP. N.6O,s w. j. Watt & CO. q
A tale of old colonial days during the
Revolutionary war. The hero posses from
one thrilling adventure and hairbreadth
escape to another, and in the end saves his
sweetheart and himself from capture by
the British.
| THE GARDEN OF THE SUN BY Cap
tain T. J, Powers. 800 PIP. N.25. Small.
Maynard & Co.
| A story of army life in the Philippines
A charming woman is married to a man
altogether unworthy of her. Her struggle
to put the man she loves out of her life
and remain with her husband make up the
story, but in the end the way of happiness
is made easy.
| miscellaneous,
| MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA.
BY John Muir. $3.50 Houghton Mifflin
| company.
! In 1869 Mr.. Muir found opportunity to
spend the summer in the mountains in the
Yosemite region, and this volume tells of
his summers work and wandering, with
observations on the scenery, the forest. the
! flowers, the animal life, etc. The journal
has all the charm of vivid and poetic de-
scription. and all the fine enthusiasm that
readers of Mr.. Muir's later writings are
accustomed to. and 1t makes a thorouhgly
delightful book.
| TOM l.. JOHNSON. By Carl Lorenz. 20S
! PIP. ST. The A. S. Barnes company.
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