The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-05-20
BOOK NOTES FROM
THE LIBRARY

The short story in dts perfection
has been developed in America. Ev-
cry corner in this country and every
the magazines Of today through the
short STORY. Since 1915 Edward j.
O'Brien has each year collected in
one volume the twenty most notable
stories Of the year, listing also many
other stories according ITO their ex-
cellence and grading the magazines
as to the quality of the fiction pub
lished in their pages.
These volumes are all on our
shelves, the 'iBest Short Stories Of
1920" having been recently added.
While on the short story we might
say that through the kindness of DR..
Gillian the works of Edgar Allen
Poe have been added ito the library.
and those that delight in the weird,
mysterious charm of these wonderful
tales will find them all here.
Among the foreign writer's most
talked of today is John Bojen, the
famous Norwegian novelist. He is
represented on our list by ''Life," the
story of girl of simple tastes who
craved the sunshine Of happiness but
because another also wanted it and
took it her life was ruined just when
it seemed most full of promise.
In the wind Between the Worlds"
by Alice Brown, the characters are
interested in the life hereafter and in
communi cation with the dead and
the reactions upon the living when
the quest becomes too ardent, consti
tute the moral.
Kelland's youth Challenges" is
THE story of BOnbright Foote VII,
who baked old family and business
traditions and changed q concern
that had fossilized for six genera
ess.
Captain Macedoone's Daughter"
by William McFee, is the tale of
strange PAGES, strange people and
strange motifs and will gladden. the
heart of the lover of beautiful Eng
lish prose.
A scheming and selfish heroine is
Dorothy of Compton McKenzies
Variety Girl" first to get on the
stage then to capture titled hus-
band.
Talbot Mundy's' Eye of Zeitoon"
is a story of the far East with two
interesting women playing important
and the other wild pagan myster-
ious daughter of the Orient.
In Margaret SherwOod's "World
to Mend" we NEE. man who is
brought by the war to realize his
limitations and leaves a secure po-
sition in rich and aristocratic- so
ciety to become the village cobbler in
a little New England town. Here in
this lowly position he thinks through
his problems instead of stepping
around them and wins a place in the
love and esteem of his fellow towns
men.
May Sinclair's "The Romantic" is
a poignant study of the psychology
of a coward, bringing in the new
subject of psychoanalyses.
Miss Lulu Bett in Zona Gales nov
e. of thai name is the family drudge
in her sisters home.
A marriage that turns out to be no
marriage at all awakens her sense
of independence and the story leaves
her with happier days ahead. This
book has been made into one of the
most successful plays on the New
York stage.
The novel that Elanor II. Porter
finished just before her death, isis
ter Sus," is the story of the unselfish
older sister who slaves for a selfish
family, finally winning the happi-
ness so much deserved.
Francis Brett Young in "The Ira
gic Bride" shows the same lovely
qualities that mark his work as a
poet. This is the pathetic story of
Gabrielle Hewish, the Last of a per-