The Washington herald., 1915-12-04
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Bible. sets forth on q journey into the
wilderness in search Of the old gun
man, the Mormon woman and her
adopted child. who were left In the
canyon of Surprise Valley at the
close of Riders Of the Purple Sage.
How the clergyman picks up the
Rainbow Trail. discovers a secret
Mormon village Inhabited by sealed
wives" and their children. and finally
rescues the people for whom he came
in search. make a thrilling tale that
gives the reader vivid picture of the
wild, rugged country where the ac-
tion occurs. and a clear impression OF
the fineness of the Indian character
when treated as an equal by the
white man.
AROUND OLD CHESTER. by Mar
garet Deland. Doubtless, readers of
Mrs. Deland's original volume of ''Old
Chester Tales" would declar\ that Old
Chester. thanks to her loving descrip-
eipns of it, is the most real of all fc-
tional towns. In these seven new
tales manyS of the well-known char
acters-the beloved DR.. Lsvendar.
Willie King. and others-reappear.
THE Thief is the story of energetic.
hero-worshipping Annie. the wife of
Tom Gordon, who put her husband
upon SuCF Il peueStdf tHdt II
difficult to keep his moral balance. AT
last she discovered that he had lied
to her. and it took DIR. Lavendar to
help him back to his pedestal In
Turn About" an uncle and a nephew
marry an aunt and her niece; but. on
account of the boys shyness. he has
to take the aunt and his uncle mar
ries the young girl he loved. Death
straightens out the tangle. The
Harvest of Fear Is the story of Sadie
and Sylvia. two timid daughters of
tyrannical father. Their love for their
brother gives them cour-
age to commit a crime. The Third
Volume" tells OF the gentle methods
of a Quaker wife with an unregen-
crate husband. IAN Encore" begins
with the love-making and the frus-
trated elopement of Alfred Price and
Lefty Morris. Hard-hearted parents
send him to sea. and the girl mar
ries and leaves Old Chester. and tfor
forty-eight years they do not see
each other. The Voice" and Miss
Ciara's Perseus" are full of Old Ches-
ter sentiment
THE LANDLOPER, by Holman Day.
sentiment and adventure tread
upon each Others heels in this new novel
Of Holman Days 1t is the romance of the
OF modern knight errant who
did not set out to redress human WRONGS.
but who did good almost against his will.
The hero. for quixotic reasons not ex
pIained until the end OF the story. Is wan
iering from place TO place under an as
sumed name. His friendship with a hum
bic old Canadian brings him into touch
with the poor of a city which Is in the
power of a certain grasping water cor
poration. For love OF little child he
begins to fight the corporation and the
political forces behind II. Love comes to
him at the same time with success. and
he believes he has no right to accept
rither. until he in turn Is helped as he has
helped others. Like Mr.. Days other
novels. The Landloper' has racy char
acters who express themselves in the
authors humorous phrases.
THE TRAIL OF THE HAWK, by
Lewis. Youth bubbles in every
line Of this novel-youth. sane. sound,
playful and earnest-the joyous spirit of
youth, its adventuring. with the wide
world for its roaming. its loyalty and its
love. There Is realism as well as dreams.
but-the earth Is brushed clean by the
wind. The son of a Norwegian immigrant
to Minnesota feels ambition stirring in
him from his earliest youth. In his schooi
anti tOlItSt experiences ne Is testing MS
wings. Sooner than he realized he found
himself thrown into the world where he
had to stand on his own feet. His love
Of adventure took him into many strange
roads: he was actor. hobo. engineer and
many other things. II was only when he
went up in an aeroplane that he knew he
had found his ambition AT last. Then
,ame his adventures into love. The
Trail Of the Hawk is a story Of youth.
It's hopes. achievements and its love Mr..
Lewis. it will he recalled. published his
first novel. Our Mr.. Wrcnn.' about
eighteen months ago.
THE INNER LAW. by Will y Har-
ben. is n story OF mans spiritual re-
Tho scene starts in Georgia.
hc State Mr.. Harden has made his own.
though il shifts to other parts Of tho
south and t" New York. \ Young man
whose good and bad instincts seemed to
balance each other. met beautiful C"uu-
Try Girl. His actions toward her turn the
sea e and his selfishness grows on him
Wealth. travel and intellectual pursuits,
'annot. however. smother his soul. The
friendship of talented young boy. who
s all that he would ike to have been
shows him how far he has wan
Tered from the road hc once marked out.
Then he meets again the girl of his youth ,
and with her returns much of youth
hope.