Life — May 28, 1896 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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*LIFE: 443 LIFE’S TIPS TO SUMMER READERS. ** Robert Urquhart,” has the merit of a good style, and the dialect in it is not oppressive. Henry Johnston was at what Lang calls the ‘ Kailyard novel" long before Barrie, but he has only recently become known here through a reprint of his sympathetic tale, ‘* Doctor Congalton's Legacy." Other irreproachable Scotch stories are, ‘‘ The Days of Auld Lang Syne” by Maclaren,” and ‘ Cleg Kelly ” by Crockett. There will be long. lazy afternoons, and some wet ones, when you will want a book. You can’t begin with a better one than ‘\A King and a Few Dukes,” by Robert W. Chambers. It reeks of the woods, and there is a trout-stream in it. There is also a bloodless revolution and a princess who is altogether fascinating. The author has a born woodsman's sympathy with the perfect vagabondage of a life in the forest. Dr. Weir Mitchell's ** When all the Woods are Green” is a good story of the Canadian forests, and he is always charming as awriter. A number of the young Canadian writers have themselves furnished ideal books for one to read while camp- ing in their own land. Gilbert Parker's stories are always entertaining. and such books as ** Pierre and His People.” and its sequel, ‘An Adventure of the North,” ‘ The Seats of the Mighty,” and ‘* The Trail of the Sword,” are just what you want forcamp-fire reading. Another Canadian has written ground” and ‘Sinners Twain,” by John Mackie. The Nova Scotia stories of Charles G. D. Roberts, collected under the title, “* Earth's Enigmas,” are full of the woods and the sea- shore. For a sympathetic interpretation of French-Canadian village life and character there is nothing better than Mr. Scott's ** In the Village of Viger.” But the best of all books to read in the woods are Kipling’s incomparable ‘ Jungle Books.” Finally, you ask for some sets of books to stock the cabin of your yacht for along September cruise. Here they are without any comment, for they need none —Miss Wormeley's translations of Balzac, George Meredith's novels, the new edition of Hardy, the Thistle edition of Stevenson, the River- side Hawthorne, the Stedman -Woodberry edition of Poe, the ‘* Mohawk" Cooper, and selected volumes of Harper's “Little Novels,” Appleton’s ** Town and Country Library,” and ** The Ivory Series.” Above all things, my dear Jean, read as little as possible ; for the light in your eyes and the color in your checks, with the gentle music in your laughter, come not from many books but from the sunlight that has, in all these summers that | have known you, sifted into your heart through the boughs of trees, or caught itself in your eyes, flashing up from the crinkling river, two frontier stories of exciting quality—‘* The Devil's Play- Your patient mentor, Droch, By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. THE RED REPUBLIC. A Romance of the Commune. Second Edition, Large 12mo, $1.25. “ Dramatic, stirring and full of adventure.” —Kuffalo Express A KING AND A FEW DUKES. A Romance. Large 12mo, $1.25. | G. P, PuTNAM's Sons, | 27 West 23d Street, New York. FIVE VACATION BOOKS LIFE OF DOCTOR HOLMES. By Joun T. Morse, JR. A Delightful Work. 2 vols., crown 8vo, Gilt Tops, $4.00. TOM GROGAN. HlopKinson SMITH’s Great Story. INustrated, Tenth Thousand. $1.50. A SINGULAR LIFE. \ Remarkable Story by Miss PHELIS. Fifteenth Thousand, $1.25. THE VILLAGE WATCH-TOWER. Delightful Short Stories by Mrs. WicctN. Fifteenth Thousand. $1.00. THE LIFE OF NANCY. Equisite Stories by SARAIt ORNE JEWETT. Sr.2s. THE POLICEMAN IN THE PICTURE HAS BEEN TO THE DEPOT AND IS BRINGING HIS WIFE'S UNCLE HOME FOR A SHORT VISIT, First Boy; Wot's the ole feller pinched for? Second Boy: Beatin’ his wife, I guess. He looks like a woman hitter! Another : He's a green-good's man, that's wot he is. 1 kin tell it by the bag he’s a carryin’. Still Another; Atl Go ‘long wid yer, he's bin a breakin’ into a bank, an’ he's got tools in de grip. The Climax: He's been a murderin' someone, and when the contents o' that ere carpit bag is seen I'll bet they'll find a bloody hammer and a hooman skull! Soi? by all Booksellers. Sent, postpaid, by HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston and New York.