Life — March 26, 1903 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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qa LATES ate 7 Meg RAS Shas been no work belo: e literature of r taking form in our da wholesome than C. Hanford Hender Education and the Larger Life. Naturally, a6 output from ohn Pereyfield, the Anatomy pparentl, » the mer story + hardly ction, gradually more sane and we welcome any largely anto- seeker after a list, charm. the confessions of a practic with both interest and (Houghton, Miflin and Company reple Richard Bagot follows the p ion in Donna Diana the Vatican efforts of a 1 to marry a Roman girl of wealth and family, whom the jastics have destined for the cloister. The bitterness wit the ul probity and the relish ecele which author assails their financ with which he analyzes their moral short the weak p ledly novel, (Longmans, Green and nts of a dec Company.) HAUNCEY oy -LIFE- Journeys End, by Justus Miles Forman, isa very pretty and a very disappointing story. Frank Stockton’s celebrated trick of The Lady or the Tiger? was very funny in a short magazine story. Applied to a novel of normal length it assumes the proportions ofa practical joke. Journeys End, how- t when the author gets over being funny he can write attrac (Doubleday, Page and Company. ever, shows th e love stories, $1.50.) Social Life in the Early I Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, is a e volume dealing with the society of the al during the first sixty y Lhistory. tis largely drawn from letters and other private uld appeal to the many fe- nts of th olution. (J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $3.00.) contemporary sources, and male dese: A new of stories by Mary E. Wilkins salled ion to her Und h she t Sic Trees, is a ‘studies of two years ed to exploit the of certain animals to certain ye now extends to the vegetable kingdom the same scheme of fore gy, and with no better suce two instances the idea is apt, but its repeti- ance people. tion is distinctly artif Brothers. (Harper and The vogue of ‘Mr. Dooley" seems to have started a rage for republishing news- paper serials in book form. ‘The concen- tration of covers, however, is a severe test. The Seedy Gentleman, being articles by Peter Rot from the San Francisco Chronicle, is neither strong enough to bear nsecutive reading, nor alluring enough to induce one to keep it at hand for occasional perusal. (A.M. Robertson, San Franei $1.50.) The Dolt Man's Gift is a pretty story of the fairy tale order by Harry A, James. It is profusely and daintily illustrated, and should win the hearts of many children. (George Newnes, Ltd., London, England.) J.B. Kerfoot, OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED Ien't It So? By Nettie Seetey Murphy Philadelphia. $1.00 Beyoud the Requiems, and Other Verses. BY Louta Alexander Robertson, (A.M. Robertson, San Francisco. $1.00.) My Spirit's Flight. By Cecil J, Denton. (Scroll Publishing Company, Chicago.) A Wanderer’e Songs of the Sea, By Charies Keeler, (A. M. Robertson, San Francisco. $1.00.) The Olt Schoot House, and Other Poems. BY T.S. Denison, (T.S. Dentson, Chicago, $1.00.) Some Lettere by Robert Louis Stevenson, (In- gulls Kimball.) son, GB, ) WILMA, RAMDOLPH HEARST: M | FRANCISCO | FA BS) | CUAMINER | comicbooks.com