Life — February 23, 1905 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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ae fhe NOVEL by Theodore Winthrop rtling thing to find amo: > newest books thirty uf > skirmish at Big Bethel ended the gallant life of the young author of Cecil, Dreeme, and one reads Mr. Waddy's Return with something of the Pandora-like feeling that used to accompany the opening of old trunks ght garret. At the time of Major Winthrop’s death 1 completed the rough draft of this and Burt whom has be work, alt comes to us as the auth is a sta four year: 2 had only tevenson, to editing of the story It *s explanatio ing its c to himself of his intended story, and his sk nd characters imagina humor offered for bis use. ical es of the sketch and ecessity of re] detining theindetinite, we have inve: such characters of mode as The 2 my lossy Man and The Man in the Street. v useful would be a tion of The Book on the Table! Henry H. Bast of the Canadian wheat belt, in spite of ation as a ro} ord’s story desi: c, bel day fiction. It presents the v in a new land, and has 5c but its action is slow, faults are chiefly ne; lences are equally unobtrusive. ative, its Excel. Have you ever walked through the East Side of New York?) Hav anced to reach, say, Hester yth Streets at three of an after- noon, and seen the myriad children of ange races rush from school? If you have you will want to read Myra Kelly's Little Citizens, a volume of de- lightfully genuine sketches of East Side school types. Conversely, if you read Little Citizens and then visit Hester Street of an afternoon you will see many friends Hearts in Eatle is a romance of S AW enacta by John Oxenham, wherein two me man and the vagaries of Fate wedy without a villain. There © marked orig lity either in the » or the treatment, but the story, told and easily read, makes ction afe sel book-stall emer- ney. Most recipes in the cook-books con- tain a clause « you to add a pinch of kitct and, on the same principle, it is customary in om, no matter what the making fic dish, to add a pinch ¢ It isa good rule, but Henry M. Hyde's story of the deat apple of two trusts, The Buccaneers, is a sort of lite pop-over, sensa- tional at first sight, but not much to it, and, alas, overflavored with bouqu love interest. overworked. followed her de- Mary Austin lightful appreciation of the California » The Land of Little Rain, with a collection of stories yathered from Indian folk-lore, and called The Basket Woman. The tales are nomi- nally intended for children, but will undoubtedly refuse to stay in the nur- deser' The title of Edward Mott Wool Roland of Altenburg is so nearly self explanatory that it seems superfluous to specify the twin Teutonic Grand Duchies, the hereditary boundary feud the feudal castles and the interloping heroine. The story is well told, and we have all loved The Prisoner of Zenda, but there comes a time when it is better to have loved and lost. It might be the portals of romance "8 id plan to inscribe above Abandon hope all ye who enter here J. B. Kerfoot. Return, By Theodore Win nF, Stevenson. (Henry Ho Edited by Bu Company. $4.5 Lane. $1.50) Little Cit Ry Henry H, Rashford. a Kelly, (McClure, Company, $1.50.) ie By Henry M. Hyde, (Funk alls Company, $1.20.) ket Woman, By Mary Austie, (Ho rpany. $1.50) Oxenham. (Dodd, gh- 1 Mott Wooley one and Company, Chicag “yew yits comicbooks.com