Omaha daily bee., 1916-07-15
Neu Books
Fiction.

sl.25.
With the advance of applied science,
with the law keepers be able to hold
in check the lawbreakers? That is
the startling question forced home
to you in reading this thrilling record
OF crime and detection. The author
is a scientist of international reputa-
tion--the criminologists will sit up
and take notice when they find the
gentle art of murder developed in
smearing a little radium within a
mans hat, thus driving him stark
crazy; or in using wireless current
to FIRE cannon, thus blowing man
into eternity. A more fascinating
character than Mason Brant you'll
never fnd-more weird problems, as
suggested, have never been por-
trayed.
THE PRISONER BY Alice Brown. New
York. The Macmillan company. $50.
The central character Of this book,
the Prisoner" of the title, is a young
man who, with brilliant career be-
fore him, makes false step and is
sent to prison. II is not, however,
with his imprisonment that Miss
Brown is concerned, but with his re-
adjustment with life upon his release.
How he works out the problem that
he faces, upon the happy solution Of
which his entire future depends, is re-
lated by Miss Brown in chapters Of
intense appeal and power.
THE FALL OF A NATION. BY Thomas
Dixon. New York. D. Appleton & Co.
ti.s5.
Thomas Dixon's vivid new novel is
the story OF the conquest OF the
United States by the Imperial Ma
tion in the year 1918. 1t is startling
appeal for national preparedness--a
cry of warning against the doctrine
Of peace at any price" Nothing Mr..
Dixon has written compares with the
bigness OF this one, with its cry OF
warning which men and women Of
the present generation would do well
to heed if our glorious nation is to
be preserved.
rHE RED DEBT. Ny Everett Macdonald.
New York. o. W, Dillingham; company.
si.2b.
This is chronicle Of human life as
it is lived. The reader lives with the
characters. They are not puppets;
they are flesh and blood people, who
follow one long after the book has
been laid aside. 1t ends with whirl-
wind OF interest and is laid aside with
regret. THE Red Debt" has issued
from master mind, whose artistic
cunning has made beautiful his theme;
whose deep insight into human ma
fure has delineated an unforgetable
picture.
THE HUMAN BoY AND THE WAR. BY
Eden Phillpotts New York. The Mac
MILAN company. ,l.2B.
In each Of Mr.. Phillpott's novels
there has been some really notable
character. II might We an old woman
Is, for example, Emma Tresilian in
Faith Tresilian," or It might be
young man as, say, Harvey Porter in
'BrunePs Tower" Here in this book
ii is boy, likablc, warm-hearted,
very human youngster, The story OF
what he is, what he thinks, what he
does and what he wants Il told with
much humor and sympathy. II is a
present day story--and quite as en-
tertaining piece OF fiction as has
ever come from its distinguished
author.
The MONSTER HUNTERS, BY Francis
Roit-wheeier Boston, Lothrop, Leo 4
Shepard company. ties.
This Is new achievement in juve-
nile literature. 1t is story OF thrill
ing adventure and through its pages
writhe or thunder those vast and un-
sanny monsters that inhabited the
world long ago. Yet SO carefully
has this portrayal been done that
there is no false scientific note and
no mature taxing" 1t is, in part, the
story OF one or two Of the museums
own expeditions.
WOOD AND STONE. BY John cowpcr
Powys, Robert Rutter Son. New York,
tl.so.
In this startling and original ro-
nance, the author turns aside from
the track OF his contemporaries and
reverts to models drawn from races
which have bolder and less conven-
tional views OF literature than the
Anglo-Saxon race. Following the
lead OF the great Russian Dostoiev-
sky he proceeds to lay bare the secret
passions, the unacknowledged motives
placid seeming surface Of ordinary
hurnnh nature
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