Omaha daily bee., 1919-12-31
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end all that he has desired. A fine
story of victory, physical and spirit
ual, intermingled with delightful
love story.
ALL ROADS LEAD TO CALVARY. BY
Jerome X. Jerome. Dood, Mead Co.
A girl, young, beautiful and bril-
liantly educated, representing all
that is best in the new type OF
woman, enters the higher ranks Of
journalism and dreams of helping
reshape the world to finer ends.
Her story begins some IS years
ago and ends at the present day.
She finds to her surprise how little
war alters mems natures. The real
drama Of life is the eternal strug-
gle between the Flesh and the
Spirit and is waged in secret.
GREEN LADIES' By ", Douglas New
Green Ladies is the name OF the
, beautiful English estate that Peter
John rents when ordered to rest
! cure BY his doctors. The love story
of Peter John and the lovely and
mysterious owner Of the estate forms
the nucleus Of this charming ana
delicate romance.
RIM O. THE WORLD. BY B. II. Bower.
Little. Brown & Co. -,
This new Bower novel is the
story of an Idaho ranch teud. 1t IS
full of incident and humor and
tvpically western. 1t will appeal
to all"who like virile fiction.
REST GHOST STORIES. Boni Liver
| right Co. 49,,
| Whether we are psychic" or
"nonpsychic" we are more or less
fascinated by tales of the unseen
and unknowable. Here is an aptly
balanced anthology of ghost stories
collected by ]. L. French, with an
introduction by Arthur B. Reeve.
THE DUST OF NEW YORK, BY Konrad
| Bercovici. Boni & Liveright Co.
| Hungarians, Italians, Jews, Span
iards, Roumanians-New Workers
in the making-in these little stories
Konrad Bercovici, writer and must
clan, interprets for US their impov-
erished lives, and with short power
full strokes wildly brings out the
romance and drama that hide be-
meath their drab exteriors.
THE YAZoo MYSTERY. BY Irving Grad
dock. Britton Publishing Co.
| Disowned by his wealthy father,
the hero of this mystery story wins
fame and fortune, also wife worth
while.
LOVE LETTERS OF BILL TO MABLE.
| This book comprise. "Dere Ma.
tble," That's Me All Over, Mable"
and Same Old Bill Eth, Mabler
The inimitable type Of humor in
these love letters of rookie" is
distinctly native and will appeal to
every real American.
THE MAN WHO WON. BY Cyrus Town.
send Brady. A. c. McClurg & Co.
| The hero and heroine meet under
romantic circumstances and are I'M
mediately separated without being
known to each other. Exciting
things happen when they meet again
because of the sinister plotting Of
a formidable enemy in the shape OF
Ia German secret service agent. The
superiority of the hero. tells, how
ever, and the book ends happily.
HELENA; BY Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
| Helena is a beautiful, spirited
young girl with modern ideas OF
woman's independence gained from
ambulance service in France. From
clashing with her guardian, Lord
| Buntingford, she comes to love him
passionately. There are reasons
why he will not let himself return
lher feeling and the unwinding Of
their extraordinary love story, which
leads at last to happy outcome, is
as clever and interesting as any of
the long list of novels from the pen
of Mrs. Ward.
THE MAN WHO NEVER GREW UP. By
Mabel G; and William A. Lathrop.. Brit
| Judge Peabody was not really a
Judge at all, but an old country
lawyer. All his. life he had thought
about others, to the neglect of him
self and his own success, but he
comes into his own at last and by
no seeking of his own. A little
town story, Photographic in its de-
tail and accuracy, with characters we
all know from real life. All through
it runs a beautiful love story-thc
kind of love story that really hap
pens.
Fl. Porter. Houghton Mifflin Co.
4 These stories have a tenderness
and humor and sympathetic charac-
ter-drawing that makes them go
straight to the heart. They are re-
printed from the various publica-
tons in which they have appeared.
ACROSS THE YEARS. BY Eleanor H.
II Porter. Houghton, Mifflin Co.
II Love and romance and longing
and hope belong properly to youth,
perhaps, and yet we find them here
presented with gripping pathos in
these stories about old folks-ordi-
nary old folks, the kind you and /
think we know.
Miscellaneous.
STARVED ROCK. By Edgar Lee Masterh
The Macmillan Co.
A book of poems of singular
beauty, power and grace by the All.
thor of Spoon River Anthology"
They treat of human dignity and the
creativeness of Ian in music,
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