Life — November 7, 1901 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE- rris, would pass as a moderately good novel, containing some vivid descriptions of the final campaign about Richmond. In the present flood of Civil War fiction, however, it is hardly worth pulling ont of the stream. (Small, Maynard and Com- pany. $1.50.) We are indebted to the trenchant pen of Joseph McCabe for a most entertaining work upon the life and times of Peter Abelard, Father McCabe's pres- entation of the ethical and religious ideals and dia- 1 struggles of the twelfth century is remarkably clear, although more than likely to figure in the Index Expurgatorius. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Mr. Daniel Woodroffe seems to have been very low in his mind when he wrote Tangled Trinities. The book certainly proves that English provincial life can be very uninteresting, but we would suggest that the mere habit of looking at the disagreeable side of things does not make a satirist. (Dodd, Mead and Company. $1.50.) Equal Partners, by Howard Fielding, is a detecti story purporting to illustrate the methods of the N e. It ought to have had yellow Dillingham Company.) a es J. Be Kerfoot. ’ OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. ” ‘ ” A Girl of Chicago.” By Mary Moncure Parker, (P. “COME OVER AND PLAY MARBLES WID Us, JIM. |, Tennyson Neely Company. $1.80; “OU, CURR, E CANT. GRANDPA'S VISITIN’ U4, AND MAMMA SENT ME OCT TO AMUSE 1D “The Old House by the Sea." By Sarak FE. Phipps. (Ps Tennyson Neely Compa ’ ‘ : + “The Ambttlons of a Worldly Woman.” By Alice FE. «¢ 4 LONG, low craft!" said the merman, regarding the approaching Murray. (PF, Tenpyson Neely Company. $1.50.) “Kansas Zephyra.’* Wh Ed. Blair, (The American vess¢l more narrow], Thresherman, Madison, Wis, $1009 ; lis r et vi i i e] e ive) c] “Told by Two" (Donohue) ts by Marie St. Felix, whose The mermaid betrayed agitation, in her hands convulsively clasped, and ites Gace Slik, Deena wit be ronenberea an gba her glistening eyes, clever, but not very nice. The present volume {!s unobjec- ” ; tlonabie, being a sort of guide to Bermuda, sugar-coated “An ocean dachshund, perhaps ! she exclaimed, with a love story. VN oo BOP egypt YAP Me png oe RORETNC ORG Tt Moderna, by George Trimble Davidson, purports to be a story of ultra-fashionable New York society. It has all the points of a good old-fashioned melodrama, and, on the stage, ld delight the galleries. (Frederick : books, The Hight of Way, by Gilbert Par- , is one of them. Delicate character study, a charming style and artistic handling of an un- usual plot combine to make it Mr. Parker's best work. (Harper and Brothers. $1.50.) Another is Tristram of Blent. T| Qusante rather than with Anthony Hope's works, and, while less strong, it is a more p story. (McClure, Phillips and Comy Too many sweets in our literary diet doubtless impair the m digestion, and an occasional corrective fro e pen of a witty pessimist is salutary, Our Friend the Charlatan, George issing’s satire upon the mental attitude of the aste in the mouth, but is altogether too clever to leave unread. (Henry Holt and Company.) HAM. To THE GRAY OESUNDHEIT TOAD M18 RYES OLINT FIERCELY AS WE STEALS : WHO KNOWS NO SMRINKING PEAR, ACROSS THE CATE RUG In ordinary times The Grapes of Wrath, a BUT RCILDS II8 NEST OP RROREN STEINY AND LEAPS UPON THE PAPER-SPORT Story of the North and South, by Mary Harriott AND PROTH OF PILSNER BEER. WHO SHYS MIs secoxD MCO comicbooks.com