The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-05-26
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has been developed in America.
Every corner Of the country and
every. phase Of American life is de-
.picted in the magazines of today
thru the short story. Since 1915
Edward J. O'Brien has each year
collected In the volume the twenty
most notable stores Of the year, list
ing also many other stories accord
ing to their excellence and grading
the magazines as to the quality Of
the fiction published in their pages.
These volumes are all ON our
shelves. 'The Best Short Stories Of
1920" having been recently added.
While on the short story we might
say that thru the kindness of DR..
Gillian the works Of Edgar Allen
Poe have been added to the library
and those that delight in the weird
mysterious charms of these wonder
full tales will find them all here.
Among the foreign writer's most
talked of today is Johan Bojer, the
famous Norwegian novelist. He is
represented in our list by Life" the
story of girl with simple tastes
who craved the sunshine of happi-
ness, but because another also
wanted 1t and took 1t her life was
ruined just when 1t seemed most
full Of promise.
In. the wind Between the
Worlds" by Alice Brown the char
acters are interested in the life here
after and in communication with the
dead; and the reactions upon the liv-
ing when the quest becomes too
ardent to constitute the moral.
Killand's youth Challenges is
the story Of Bonlight Foote VII, who
baked old family and business ira
ditions and changed a concern that
had fossilized for six generations
into an up-to-date going business.
Captain Macedoine's Daughter"
by William McFee is the tale of
strange places, strange people and
strange motives and will gladden.
the heart of the lover of beautiful
English prose.
A scheming and selfish heroine is
Dorothy, of Compton MacKenzie's
Vanity 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 import
ant parts; one a fearless American
girl and the other wild pagan mys-
FERROUS pageant of the Orient.
In Margaret Sherwo0d's world
to Mend" we meet man who is
brought by the war to realize his
limitations and leaves secure posi-
tion in a rich and aristocratic society
to become the village cobbler in
little New England town. Here in
this lowly position he thinks thru
his problems instead of stepping
around them and wins a place in
the love and esteem of his fellow
men.
May Sinclairs 1.-THE Romatic" is
a poignant story of the psychology
of coward bringing in the new
subject of psychoanalysis.
Miss Lulu Bett in Zona Called
novel of that 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 Eleanor H. Porter
finished just before her death "Sister
Sue" is the story of the unselfish
older sister, who slaves for a selfish
family finally winning the happiness
so much deserved.
Francis Brett Young in the ''Tra-
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-
ishing Irish family, of her cold and
calculating husband, and of the
beautiful youth, who like the Undine
finds a soul thru love and sacrifice.
For those who like good western
story there Is Umgie E. Ross oval
Of Paradise, Z" with adventure aplenty
and one of these wonderful horses
she always provides.
Irving Bachelors "A Man for the
Ages" gives picture Of Lincoln's
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