Arizona republican., 1918-11-17
l literature % Music % Art . Conducted by LEW HEAD.

and finally lands your happy couple in each others arms, to live con- tentedly thereafter, as all romances, It IS agreed, should properly end.
 But, the really and truly inter- esting and new feature of this book IS the perfect handling of the Gre ole dialect. You catch yourself reading aloud the conversations of Monsieur Durel, when he says: For one reason al-lone, she ri- she don't want. An yo' haunt she don't want. An yo' haunt she don't want biccause-my ril-l- zion Of coze, you know, you see, l can never be sorrie, biccause there is Rosalie. An yo' mother she can never he sorrie, biccause-you. An so. YOU see, Us to yo' h-aupt you owe both egslstance an Rosalie."
 More perfect dialect has not been put in type than this. There isn't much to the story aside from it's people They arc drawn in a unique manner,-not by words of description, but by their own re- marks, their conversation. The lure of the eye, the drop of the head. the parry of words,-these make you friendly with Rosalie. The rash 1mpetuosity, the youthful dash, the regardless ambitions and, lastly, the merging of ambition and un- selfishness, to the end that two may be happy instead of just him. self,-these urge you to take Philip to your heart and say, 70, you great big boy, why don't you just take her in your arms and kiss and claim her? Why all this folderol about Creole sensitiveness and tra- ditional mannerisms ?"
 An, right there's the story. It is the same story that is carrying New Orleans away from the Mardi Gras to the counting house; from grotesque gowns and masques to severe styles of business dress and miens that reflect responsibilities of heavy proportions.
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 N THE DESERT OF WAITING, a nifty little brochure by Annie Eel lows Johnston, already in it's sev- enteenth impression, Weaves such a pretty little legend around the origin of Camel Back mountain, that it is impossible to understand why it isn't on every library table in Arizona. It has that seductive atmosphere that takes you out of yourself and bears you away to a halloWed environment all it's own NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW for November carries an intimate nar- ration of life in Paris during the few weeks that city faced disaster It is a personal experience of Reg inald Wright Kaufman, written by him, under the caption America Al the Front" Kaufman was a cor respondent in the French city a the time. One paragraph has ar ominous tone:
 There was the moment wher some of us correspondents were told that the Germans had broker through at the point of juncture be tween the English and the French the five days when the Britisl army fell back and back, until dis aster seemed inevitable; the hou when, in the highest quarters, tn, word was whispered to a few of u that the road to Paris was open Meanwhile, in the Pari offices of the government. official waited in tense silence. They wait ed what must either be a miracl or catastrophe. It was the mir acle that happened"
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 IT IS INTERESTING. to say nothin more, to have John Lane compsn lead us apart from war literature Just at the time when we are abou to lift our voices and plead, "HoT long, O Lord, how long?' comes list of new publications that in clude Cyrus MacMillans Cana dian Wonder Tales" Here, also, Famous Pictures of Real Ami mals," by Lorinda M. Bryant, talk ing us back to B. C. 4000, before tn recent war was conceived. The there are Footsteps" a Canary Is land tale by Dorothy Percival an His Grace of Grub Street." fascin atingly romantic of the early day of England, by G. V. McFaddel These are all new works and shoul be on the local bookshelves brett soon.
 
 THE PAGE COMPANY announces tf publication of several timely vo umes, one of them being "Tt Story of the Red Cross" by MT Annie Fellows Johnston. It
 written for the juvenile reade "The Strange Adventures of Bron ley Barnes" describes the method in use by the secret service of Il United States. George Barton, wi gave us "The Mystery of the Re Flame" another detective success is the author.
 OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON, authol ess of the dainty juvenile tale "The Wonderful Land of Up,' pull lished by George H. Doran con pany, is a sister of Mary Rober