Life — December 17, 1903 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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Ppeneere M. 4 faculty life versity, ppears the heels of Miss Sholl’s remarkable tale of Cornell, The Lave of Life imilar- ity to be ascribed to anything but the tend- f modern novels, lik "sanimals, out two by two. similarity oon upon vertheless, their The Torch, althou rrower scope, is y with a touch no me; Lereill Company + striking. and of na an intensely inten ato less of seriousness in its pages attractive. (The Bobbs Indianapolis. In The Forest Hearth Mr. Charles Major returns for his inspi in the ‘30's, woods adventure, bloodshed ains. Mr. f not enthusiastic. When he describes ¢: e the very air is full of The Forest Hrarth should keep the circulating library attendants busy. ( 31.50.) ns un tion to Blue River, and offers his admirers atale of by and love tri Major is nothin bleats. Macmillan Company -LIFE~ Four short stories of moderate length and more than moderate interest A Touch of Sun, by Mary Halioc Tales of California and Idaho, dealing with those dwellers in the West who still, like the Anglo-Indian, look wistfully toward “home.” Tales, also, which possess those now old-fashioned requisites for short stories— haracters, a plot and a (Houghton, Mifflin and Company. uded in Foote. denouement. $1.50.) Hamlin Garland'’s new novel, Jesper, groups a series of stirring scenes and deserip- tions of the Cripple Creek story of a bl: the a The developing of this central psychological theme is the weakest feature of the story, 3 are the pictures of the later Colorado mining movements, Hesper is less artistic and less satisfying than The Captain of the Grey Horse Troop. (Harper and Brothers. $1.50.) n about the rl brought under ening influence of life at first hand. Sastern and, vivid An Ocean Mystery is a novel by Caroline Earle White, with so alluring a title that its dullness deserves a word of special warning. It isa story ofa girl baby saved from the sea on the coast ot Normandy, told without a glimmer of imagination and padded with would-be instructive conversations, whose amazing platitudes would jar Macaulay's famous schoolboy, (The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.) W. A. Fraser's Blood Lilies is a story of the € lian wilderness along the Sas- katchewan during the Hudson's Bay Com- The author poses an idealized figure against the clean-cut and ive background of the Company's post, the Scotch and French officials and the half-breeds and natives. The book is very readable, although Mr, Fraser's Indians are hardly to be taken at their face value. (Charles Scribner's Sons, $1.50.) Some years since was published a series of little volumes called Stories by American Authors. The selection was excellent, and they have furnished amusement and enter- tainment to thousands of readers. A set of six little books, 1 Little French Master- pieces, has just appeared which deserves 1 popularity. 'y contain stories by itier, Daudet, Méri- ‘They are edited by nder Jessup, and the excellent trans- re by George Burnbam Ives, (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) J. B, Kerfoot, passant, laubert, Alex: lations He: WITH THE PORT, 1 OFTEN PREL THAT “MY MIND To ME A KINGDOM 18." “a LIMITED WoNa, comicbooks.com