Life — April 14, 1904 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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romance of ancient E odus, is in many \ experiment in a field of extreme difi- y. A persuasive rehabi dead and little known civilization is Add a long held sacred, and the task becomes herculean, Miss Miller is no Hercules, but sneis a bold and imaginative w and the degree of her success is re able. ptian mysteri different in The Jewel of Sez This is a new nightmare by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, en Stars. wherein the ess and queen-sorcer- f her cat and r ing centers of horrors too unlikely to be horrible. Lovers of thrills, however, by reading the book at midnight in a haunted house, will doubt achieve nervous prostration and white hair. Jobn D. Barry, whose Daughter of Thespis w: of last year’s output, has exchanged active dullness for a quite passable mediocrity in A Congressman's Wife. This is a story of the home affairs of a s one of the poorest books A BRANCH LIBRARY, THERE 18 AN OLD FELLOW NAMED MARK WHO LIVES IN A TREE IN TH YOU CAN SER MIM RACH NIGHT, BY HIS LIBRARY LIGHT, TURNING OVER THE LEAVES AFTER DARK PARK, MOMENTS OF HISTORY It was evi “This asp, no doubt about the manner of my departure. She motioned imperiously, sig “A Jersey mosquito.” "s manner that she was deepl: he observed irritably, ‘tis not at all wh: Fetch me— fying that she meant business chagrined, he prescription called for, There must be New York politician who has listened to the siren call of the V ington lobbyists, and, unlike most. politicians with an ear for music, is eventually reformed by his wife. Given freedom from the nervous hurry that afflicts most readers of fic- tion and a normal interest in Canadian social and political problems, and Mrs. Everard Cotes’s novel, The Jutperialist, will prove both entertaining and restful, The volume really contains more dis- cussion of Anglo-Canadian affairs than it does story, but while Mrs. Cotes may appear a bit visionary at times American readers, her level perception of character and her very genuine humor are in constant evidence. HE issuance in book form, under the title of Ponts at Jssue, of a number of articles by Professor Henry A. Beers, ill trates our characteristic prodigality of bound volumes. We have here excel- lent magazine articles, good suggestive current reading, yet hardly anything worthy of shelf room. How excellent is the French system of unbound publi- cations—literary squires who must win by their own worth the gilded covers of knighthood. Dr. Cyrus Townsend Brady will have to look to his laurels. John Strange Winter is writing novels so fast these comicbooks.com