Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-04-21
Fiction.

Merrill Company. $3.50.
Around the fortunes of a lovabls
lad revolves this novel OF reality and
vitality, OF humor and honor, OF love
of woman and love Of country, of the
simple affections and OF fine ideals
The boy has YOU heart from the
start. He becomes the principal wit.
ness to crime and to a great event
By loyalty and devotion he gains his
goal of happiness and his need OF
love.
TO THE LAST PENNY. BY Edwin Lefevre.
New York Harper & Bros. sI35.
A story OF the new ideals of bust
ness and OF man who made them
work. You will find Tommy a very
original and interesting character and
his father his chum Willetts, and
Marion, some of the other characters
in the story well worth becoming ac-
quainted with.
| ANTONY GRAY. GARDENER BY Leslie
Moore. New York. O. P. Putnsms Sons.
| $3.50.
Nicholas Denver a recluse, granted
by his doctor scant twelve-month Of
life, awakes TO great opportunity for
good, and formulates scheme as
wise as it seems eccentric. The prize
offered TO the man who is asked to
cooperate with him is so great that
refusal is impossible, though the risk
is great. All Of Leslie Moore's charm
OF telling, and all the sympathetic
skill with which he weaves love
story are in this tale, the scenes OF
which are laid in South Africa and on
an English estate.
THE EYES OF THE WOODS. BY Joseph
| A. Altsheler. New York. d. Appleton &
Co. $1.35.
This is the story OF the five men,
bers OF little band of brave young
men led by Henry Ware. who make
| it their business to protect the settle
ments OF Kentucky from the Indians
and renegades who infest the coun-
try. 1t is essentially story of the
wilderness stepped in the forest spirit
and dealing with wild animals and
wilder men:
THE MISSION OF JANICE DAY. By Helen
Beecher Long. New York. Suliy q Klein
teich. si,25.
A book full OF humor, love and
breathless action, of scenes in quaint
old Polktown, on the Rio Grande and
in the camps of the Mexican soldiers.
Wherever Janice goes she makes
friends, and no matter how perilous
the situation, the brave, trusting girl
invariably finds way out. A vol
ume that is truly interesting and one
that will gain a host OF new friends
for the do Something" heroine.
Lou1sBURG SQUARE. by Robert Cutler.
New York. The Macmillan Company.
sl50,
In Louisburg Square Mr.. Cutler
gives shrewd and kindly picture OF
contemporary Boston, really init
mate record of the society in which
he has always lived and which he
thoroughly knows. Throughout the
book dominates the love story of
Rosalind Copley. An aristocrat in
every fibre finely human, eager for
life and an almost idyilic dove, not at
all the new woman" yet none the
less mistress of her time, she is a
true, gentle and fascinating heroine.
| AGAMENTICUs. THE PURPLE HILL. BY
Ethel and Leon Morse. Boston. Sherman,
French a Co. s1.o0.
What the mountain meant to Owa-
lisa and to her girls, and the influence
of the camp fire upon those within its
circle, is told with sweet simplicity.
The camp fire fame burned through
the years that came and went. At
last the time came for the girls to
take up the real work OF life, and
glimpse is given Of the lives which
lay in wait for each girl beyond the
threshold Of happy irresponsible girl
hood--lives with noble and worth
while aims because of the tender
guidance Of Owaisa.
pouBLooNs AND THE GIRL BY John
Maxwell Forbes. New York. sully and
Kleinteich. s1s5.
A book OF up-to-date treasure hunt
ing and love story combined. Opening
in New York City with the finding
OF the seaman's chest containing
map and mysterious document, the
scene is quickly shifted to the bound
ing ocean and then to a forgotten
island of the West Indies. A story
that is full of mystery and full of
pretty love scenes-with the breath
| OF the salt sea blowing throughout
all its pages.
THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. BY Sidney L. Ny
burg Philadelphia. ]. b. Lippincott Com
pany, $40.
A novel Of men and woman--work
and faith. The story is OF brilliant
young rabbi, his love for girl and
his belief in ideals, his struggle
against forces Of materialism and his
reaction from them. Those interested
in the spiritual life OF America will
read and talk of this story, as it is
the most distinctive work Of the year.
Labor, capital, orthodoxy and free
thinking, religious belief and religious
life are among the forces which ap-
pear.
I, MARY MAcLANE. BY Mary MacLane.
| New York, Frederick A. Stokes Com
l. upany. sli0. -
Here is a curtain drawn aside, dis
closing soul essentially rare and un-
usual, dwelling apart. Its attributes
are lyric beauty, chaotic disregard Of
the conventionalities, passionate hu-
manness and sense Of humor which
is elusive, creative, delicate. In the
modern world the authoress scarcely
belongs" Yet in this fiery, merci-
less barring of self the reader will dis
cover odd compelling similarities to