The Republican journal., 1912-11-28
Some New Books.
QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER, DETECTIVE.

QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER, DETECTIVE.
L.C. Page & Co. of Boston have re-
Gently published volume by Charles
FELTON, Pidgin entitled Quincy Adams
Sawyer, Detective, chronicling the fur
Their experiences of Quincy Adams Saw
yer. The possibilities in the establish
ment, by this clever, discreet and ever
entertaining person, of such attractive
qualities of an Office for the investigation
of crime are capably handled by the au-
thor. The young detective proves his
intelligence by unravelling series of
startling mysteries which have long
baff1ed the city police.
LITERARY HEARTHsToNEs OF DIXIE.
La Sale Corbell Pickett, widow of
Gen. George E. Pickett, the Confeder-
ate officer whose name is associated with
the desperate charge at Gettysburg,
who has devoted her life to literature, is
the author of Literary Hearthstones of
Dixie" volume full of side lights on
Poe, Sidney Lanier, Paul Hamilton
Hayne, Henry Timrod, Joel Chandler
Harris, Francis Scott Key, FIR. Ryan,
DR.. George W. Bagby, Margaret Junkin
Preston and Augusta Evans Wilson, all
of whom are poets or authors of the
South. The text is appreciatively writ
ten and much of the material relating to
the writer's who are alive was gathered
in person by Mrs. Pickett. The fact that
some of the authors are but little known
in this part of the country adds to the
value of the work. Philadelphia, j. B.
Llppincott Company.
THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP. -
There are more real adventures in
Jacob Fishers "The Cradle of the
Deep" than one finds ordinarily in sew
eral stories, and moreover they are not
too greatly exaggerated to take them
out of the realm of probability. One
gets a real Whit of the ocean in the
story, which begins with shipwreck in
which there is shown the true type of
manhood of Americans when the order,
abandon Ship" was given. From that
time on the hero, heroine, and the
schemer are depicted undergoing hard
ships that test the strength End charac-
ter of all three, and in which the traits
of the real man are shown in their true
light when compared to the meaner dis
position of the selfish fellow planning
for himself all the time, even though the
lives of all three may be jeopardized.
Eventually the hero overcomes all OBJ
stacles and is rewarded for his courage
and manliness by winning the hand OF
the young girl who shared his dangers.
Boston, L. c. Page & Co.
THE PANAMA CANAL.
The world has long been familiar with
the gigantic work which is being done in
the building of the Panama Canal, but it
remained for Joseph Pennell to see, to
picture and to describe this great work
from the standpoint of the artist. And
he has done it we'll with pen and pencil,
the whole forming a choice volume en-
titled "Joseph Pennell's Picture of the
Panama Canal"
The pictures-2S of them-are repro
auctions Of Autographs made by the
artist on the spot-or spots. These pic
lures give far better idea of the her
culean work which is being done on the
Isthmus than any photograph could
give; for these are the wonder pictures
made by man sensitive to the pic
turesqueness of the scenes and to the
great human struggle which the task i'm
plies.
1t is we'll that this greatest of all hu-
man undertakings in the world should
have been so seen and pictured and de-
scribed while the work was in full swing
by such man as Joseph Pennel. 1t is
a kind of appreciation of such work
which touches the imagination and vital
ICES the whole project in sort of NOV
ing picture that passed through the nina
of one sensitive to its full meaning.
Philadelphia and London; J. B. Lippln-
colt Company.
BY A sEARSPoRT AUTHOR.
"The Drifting Diamond" by Lincoln
Colcord, is queer and uncanny yarn
which, in measure, suggests Wilkie
Collins famous "Moonstone. 1t is we'll
told-so well, in fact, that it seems
plausible enough. The author has the
knack of making the reader fasten his
attention on the wonderful stone and to
keep it there until the finish of the story.
Like the gem in the Collins story the
diamond that drifted to and from Rodney
Lane came from some wonderful Hindoo
temple. 1t was stolen, of course, and
Lane paid S10O, 000 for it, not realizing
the risk he was taking in buying stoler
goods. Carrying it upon his person his
life was in constant danger. Consequent
ly he was glad to get rid of it. AT least
he thought he was rid of it. However,
it tloated across the southern seas to the
feet of savage chieftain and back again
to the other shore of the Pacific, throw
ing its dazzling luster into the bright
eyes of the woman who was then Mrs
Rodney Lane. Mrs Lane, although a
real woman, looked upon the diamond as
useless thing, and told her husband so.
He, on the contrary hailed it as father
might a long-lost child He wanted
Mrs. Lane to have it. Despite his en-
treaties to that effect, she threw it over
the rail of the ve.sel in which they were
sailing. They never saw it again. With
the disappearance of the diamond, the
story ends. New York: The Macmillan
Company.