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OF firearms. carries wax bullets and
yearns only for domestic life on his
little place with his family.
The love interest starts early, with
dropped glove and dog to furnish
jim an opportunity for seeking a.
pretty girls acquaintance. In this
automobile age 1t is naturally a dis Z
abled car that brings about the second
interview. Jim Is clever and strong.
and has always his object we'll before
him, yet he shows touch OF frailty, a (
capacity for moral failure that save
him from over-perfectness and make
him kin to his fellows. One does, not
ordinarily think of extracting humor
from the dictionary. but Mr.. Futrelle
has certainly done 1t when lie quotes
woman Is an adult human femaIe,''s.
TO which inadequate and unnatterinE
definition he adds u charming para
graph. The story is bright and lively,
genial and amusing: clearly IT has
place and an audience of its own.
Miss Johnston's Book.
Miss Mary Johnston's great war
novel, THE Long Roll" Will not be put
on sale by the publishers until about
the middle of this month, yet already
the famous authoress is being over
crowded with congratulations and ap-
precautions from foremost literary
critics as to the greatness Of her
achievement in her work, or which 1t
is said: There have been innumerable
novels of the War Between the States,
but never before perhaps has there
been one cast in SO large a mold as
this-so Astounding In imaginative
power. ii$,
Many years ago Walt whitman
said 'A great literature will yet.
a
those sccnes-era- comprising cen
turtles of native passion, trst-class
pictures tenpests oe life and death.
an ncXhaustiblc minc for the historiesI
drama, romance and even philosophy
of the peoples to come 4 81
'rhe Long Roll Is an important
step in the fultilment of this prophecy.
The stage Is of tho largest-the whole
| South-thouyh Virginia is the scene In
! which most of the action passes. The
| ction Is epic In its vastness and
| sweep. The human characters in tho
book-and they arc many and interest
ing-play their part In great national
| tragedy of which their own affairs nre
! but as eddies in the stream. Stone
wall Jackson, a chief character In tho
| book. is delIneated In one of the most
mastery portraits of our literature" Il
]
| ia
| BY Frank e. Channon. Little, Brown
e Co., OF Boston. s1.5o.
| The story in this book shows how
| Roger jackson, an American boy, be-
comes a favorite at Henley. an English
! preparatory school, where he Is placed
! by his father, While the latter Is on
his way TO India
Roger adapts himself in manly
fashion TO the ways of English school
| life, differing greatly from those of
American schools: The incidents In
/ clude some spirited football, boating
and cricket matches an ascent OF
+: Mount Snowden, and the rescue by tho
boys of some shipwrecked persons from
n laundering brig In tile British
| Channel iS t
1t is Il thoroughly good, manly story,
| and will be especially new and in
| tercsting TO American boys, as 1t treats
| the features of English schools sym
| pathetically while in no way misreprez
senting our own system. AN Amer.
lean Boy at Henley is the first volume
In a series to be known as The Hen
ley Schoolboy Series M