Life — July 17, 1902 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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«LIFE « trives to lend to his facts the garb Jaspar Nicolls. (J. B. Lippincott Company, ot second-rate fiction. (Forbes and Philadelphia. $1.50.) Company. $1.50.) Ripley D. Saunders’s novel, John Kenadie, Monsieur Martin, a Romance of introduces the reader to some attractive charac- the Great Swedish War, by Wy- ters, John's mother and his old schoolmas- moud Carey, is just the book for ter are not easily forgotten. The persistence It is longenough of Kentucky traditions among Arkansas to last the trip; very gracefully, if settlers and John's rivalry with Hugh rather fulsomely written, and well Latham form the basis of an entertaining stocked with exciting incidents. story. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company. ‘The plot turns on the adventures 31.50.) of an English tutor involved in the Neville Myers Meakin shows remark- intrigues of the court of Charles able descriptive powers in The Assassins, a XIE. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.20.) romance of the Crusades, a piece of highly The description of a pilgrimage — colored fiction dealing with undertaken by the author is the — the adventures of a young excuse for The Path to Rome, by Moslem hero, a member of Hilaire Beloe. It however, — the secret order from which merely an excuse, The text forms the book takes its @ brilliant conversational mono- name, and later a logue, witty, full of clever com- ments upon men and things, fla- vored here and there with a fair dash of cynicism. The style and the outlook are Mr. Beloc’s own and the book is thoroughly de- lightful. (Longmans, Green and Company. $2.00.) Graystone is the history of a romantic attachment. The ro- antic atta ent starts young and struggles to its appointed con- clusion against conscientious seru- es, assorted villains and other Those who complain of the difficulty in modern fection of telling the villain from the hero will like it. It is by Wil She: (7's AWPULLY NOT, ISN'T IT? ft WISH WE COULD FIND A BIG BOULDER WHERE WE COULD REST AWHILE. He; 1 SWOULD BE ONLY Too GLav To BE A /ifle BOLDER, IF | WERE NOT APRAID OF BEINU SAT ON. lieutenant of th it Saladin. (Henry Holt Uncle Jed’ Country Letters. By lillda Brenton, pe OMPANY: Fh Vaoaries of Men. By Polly Bee. (The St. James A.C. Laut, author of The Lords of the North, Press.) has drawn from the annals of the Hudson's Bay p[n,,hu, Gemiticks. By Marie Agnes Davidson, Company another romance of adventure and” “ymeriean Literate, By Jullan W. Abernethy, strife which he calls Heralds of Empire, It is a (Maynard, Merrill and Company. $1.10) tale of considerable spirit from the days when (,//agar and Ishmacl. A drama, by C. P. Frockton. France and England were struggling for the — northern fur trade. (D. Appleton and Company. CHARACTER is not so easily made as $1.50.) J.B. Kerfoot. A a complexion. 2 OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. A Singular Wil. By George C. Mars, (F. Teony- eon Neely.) . T takes more than nine men to make one 4 Col Hareld De Lacey. By Prank A. Dougias. (P. 7 TAKING HEROIC MEASURE Tennyson Neely ) tailor. comicbooks.com