Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-12-09
New Books


Fiction.
THE LIFE EVERLASTING. BY Marie
Corelli. 4S9 Pp. Ns5. George II. Doran
company.
The story is told in the first person by
the heroine. In itself. II is a simple love
story. but the story is only an excuse
for a dissertation. The text is, There
is no death, what seems so is transition"
The lovers have been lovers through
several incarnations, but have been sepa-
rated through their own hesitancy or
errors They see visions of approaching
happiness. but the heroine longs to reach
the plane OF perfection with Rafel San
toris, and like him become master Of all
the forces Of nature. Concentration of
thought, command Of the will, hypnotic
suggestion, all play their parts.
ROSE OF OLD HARPBTH. BY Maria
Thompson Daviss. 3lS Pp. Sl2G Bobbs-
Merrill company.
The scene is laid in the south, where
very sweet, strong young woman is
trying to help some old people to save
their home from the fangs of mortgage,
A mining engineer from New York finds
a deposit OF cobalt on the farm and puts
through the necessary business just in
time to save the place and prevent the
girl from making that sacrifice of her
self which would stay the hand of the
man who holds the mortgage.
s. SOMETHING ELSE BY J. Brecken-
ridge Ellis. i59 PIP. Sl35. A. c. Nc
Clurg g. Co.
Irving Payne is New York boy, whose
only spiritual preoccupation in an other
Naicn hap &c he
mystery of his parentage The promise
of the revelation Of that mystery is given
aim in letter from an old lady who
keeps a boarding house. and who turns
out TO be as untrustworthy as she is prim
and respectable. Once started on the
trail his interest deepens, transforms his
inner life, and brings him into mysterious
contact with men OF the underworld and
kings Of finance.
THE LOTUS LANTERN. BY Mary
Taylor and MARITIME Sabine. SOs PIP. s1.25.
Little, Brown Co
The scene OF this story is laid in Japan.
Lieutenant John Holland, a military at
tache OF the British embassy, and be-
trothed TO the daughter of the British
ambassador, while witnessing the Bud
dhlst festival of lanterns, symbolizing
ships of the souls OF the dead, meets
Ume-San, who has been sold by her rela-
tves and has become a geisha girl in
Tokyo tea garden. A plot has been
formed to place her in the power of an
INSCRIPTIONS and cruel Japanese prince.
Hollands sympathy is first enlisted, and
finally he forms passionate love for the
little japanese girl, who is pure, sweet,
and devout, Notwithstanding her sur
roundlngs.
vAGABoND CITY. BY winifred Boggs.
S92 PIP. $1.35. q. p. Putnam's Sons.
The hero Of this story is of an indie
pendent stamp, who will not accept the
hundrum standards that govern the ma
jority. and who lives life free and I'M
trammelled. Between him and his wife,
who is an embodiment Of the conventions,
comes another woman, the dream woman.
THE NINE-TENTHS. BY James OPP
penheim. 800 Pp. lbs. Harper & Brothers.
The scene of this story is laid in New
York, and the real quality Of the hero,
Joe Blaine, is laid bare when a fire
sweeps through the building, and he feels
himself responsible for the girls who
worked on the floor above. Joe and his
mother go down among the poor to live,
and he seeks to WELD an influence
through a paper which he establishes and
edits. He and his work become a center
for factory workers, and finally for the
wealthy who are interested in humanity,
LOVE IN A LITTLE TOWN. BY ]. +.
Buckrose. $50 PIP. $l25 G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
The heroine of this romance is a spoilt
heiress who is sent back to the little
town to find reality among her grand
fathers people. How she bears the i'm
mense change from wealth and position
to Mr.. Wallerby's circle and surround
ings-whether the lover proves faithful
under the altered conditions-and what
Celia really finds in the little town, are
the questions upon which the story hangs.
THE LOSER PAYS. BY Mary Open
shaw. S4j PIP. $125 Smar, Maynard & Co.
This novel is written around the French
revolution. We are introduced to such
celebrities as Louis XVI and Marie Antio-
nette, also Napoleon Boneparte in his
days of obscure poverty, the Marquis de
Lafayette and Rouget de Lisle, composer
of the "Marselllaise." Tho other char
acters not so celebrated, are typical of
the various social ranks of that theatrical
period
Juvenile.
FIREBRANDS. BY Frank T. Martin
and George NJ Davis. 2is PIP. $i25. Lit