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THE SUHNY SOUTH
MAY 3, t902
IN THE LITERARY WORLD
Edited by Lucian L Knight
humor that never left the ragged, starv
ing confederate soldier, the irrepressible
gayety of heart of the negroes—and Miss
Glasgow's negroes are as perfect as Mr.
Harris'—relieve a recital which would
else be almost unbearable in, its tragedy.
Nor does the author forget to show ‘how
nobly natures form’ In this stern school,
nor to give some of the many instances
of delicate kindness from victors toward
vanquished, for which history finds few
parallels.
"The most unsympatheic reader will
find his eyes grow dim over ‘The Hour of
Defeat.’ One feels, perhaps, for the first
time, what Appomattox meant to the
people of the south.”
♦
“Six Months Among the Macedonian
Brigands” is the title of a book, in fact,
the book, which an enterprising New
York publisher has secured from Miss
Ellen M. Stone, whose fame at this time
needs no comment. It will doubtless be
a spirited narrative of a most singular
event. Judging from the widespread
interest whkh her captivity excited the
royalties should be more than sufficient
to reimburse those whose questionless
generosity and singular munificence made
the writing of the work, in the tranquili
ty of civilization, possible.
Walter H. Page, whose personality per
meates the pages of The World’s Work,
just as k once dfd The Forum, and late”
The Atlantic, has something to say in
the May number of the last-named peri
odical about the so-called reconstruction
of the south. Mr. Page is a southerner
by birth and earl* education and a life
long observer of southern social problems.
But he has not always written and. spok
en with acceptance to southern people,
and the article ,'n question will not be
read without criticism in this section.
Hallie Erminie Rives’ New Novel
Its Central Figure Is That of Patrick Henry—Colonel Tittotson /«• Drawn
From Major Mims
HEN Ellen Glasgow
wrote “The Voice of
the People” two years
ago she Impressed the
reading public as much
with her reserve power
as with her charming
portrayal of life in this
section before the war
and every one who read
her brilliant initial vol
ume recognized in It
the promise of some
thing still better to fol
low. This expectation
has been more than
realized in the author’s
latest book which has
Just come from the
press of Doubleday, Page & Co., of New
York, entitled "The Battle Ground.” As
the name indicates the atory deals with
the turbulent era of the sixties, portray
ing the conditions which existed at the
south immediately prior to the war and
proceeding thence to the deadly grapple
which brought the blue and the gray into
sanguinary conflict.
Commenting upon “Betty,” the heroine
of the story, the critic of The New York
Times calls her the most satisfactory
heroine whose acquaintance he has recent
ly made in fiction and he dwells at some
length upon her superior feminine quali
ties. The critic continues:
“But even ignoring the love story, one
finds ‘The Battleground* fuil of interest
and illumination. A generous half of its
pages portrays society in Virginia during
•the decade immediately preceding the
great cataclysm of 1>61. The author has
^selected the life of a large plantation as
most characteristic, and has painted with
skillful and rapid touch its simple state
liness, its almost, feudal chivalry, its
boundless hospitality, its grave responsi
bility. It waa a society not given to in
trospection or to problems; it was high-
minded. honorable, happy as few others
have been, its feet serenely planted upon
k firm faith in its superiority to any other
society upon earth, a faith which, carry
ing its corollary of noblesse oblige, went
far toward its own fulfilling.
“This vanished social life blooms again .
upon the pages of ’The Battleground’ with j
a wonderful glow and fragrance. Miss
Glasgow ranks with Mr. Page as a painter
and an interpreter of the old south—that
south too sure of itself to condescend to
explain Itself.
“Along with this simple, high-bred aris
tocracy Miss Glasgow shows the free ne
gro and the poor white, unfortunates
both, ground between the upper and the
nether millstones, despised alike by slave
holder and slave. She shows, too, in the
person of old Rainy-Day Jones the crea
ture loathed and ostracized by
southern society—the man reputed
cruel to his slaves. In one
swift sentence i f scorn she voices the
sentiment of the old south: ‘There's no j
man alive that shall question the divine i
right of slavery in my presence, but—but, i
it is an Institution for gentlemen, and
you, sir, are a damned scoundrel.’ ’An
Institution for gentlemen’—ibto these
four words Miss Glasgow has compacted
the apologia of the south.
“She has omitted nothing from her pic
ture, not even the serious New England j
tutor, ’unduly weighed down by re- j
sponslbillty for the souls of his fellows,’ j IlnlJio Ermlnle Rives, the southern author. Whose new novel, “Hearts
gravely discussing schemes for the up- ■ Courageous,” just announced, promises to make a sensation. This photograph
that the publishers with the proper
amount of enterprise will succeed in
reaching the mark. Hooking over the
first issue of the magazine we find that
the publishers have been exceedingly
happy in the choice of subjects as well
as in the selection of contributors and It
means much for the success of an enter
prise to start out well.
Wallace P. Reed contributes an ex
cellent biographical sketch of Frank I*
Stanton, whose portrait is presented as
the frontispiece, and Mr. Stanton him
self contributes a poem In dialect, en
titled, “A Voice From the Old South.”
Lillian W. Johnson pleads for the es
tablishment of a college for women in
this section and R. B. Harrison writes an
artistic little story of St. Augustine. Ty
pographically and pictoriallv the maga
zine is up to oS*- 1 We can 'wish for the
magazine no brighter career than the in
itial number foreshadows. In the next
number Wallace P. Reed wlli contribute
an interesting sketch of Tom Watson.
Another Sweet Southern Poet
T? eS v. and i/ V ° n ^! shows her with her favorite mount, “S empire.’
to nand old Rainy-Day himself a pamphlet i
►
’The Duties of the Slaveholder’—a
sketch full of humorous sympathy.
“As the war cloud draws nearer the
author depicts the varying tempers with
which It was faced. There is the ‘fire-
eating’ secessionist burning with impa
tience for Virginia to throw herself Into
the fray; there Is the man like Robert
E. Lee, clinging to the union to the last,
resisting secession until there came (The
alternative of fighting the south or
fighting with the south. Miss Glasgow
admirably reveals the complex passions
and conflicting loyalties of that dread
‘hush before the storm.’ The sentiment
that finally swept away all divergence
of opinion she comprehends no less clear
ly. The hardy mountaineer Pinetop <r«ne
of the best characters of the book) ex
presses the feeling of the poorer whites
In his comments upon his first battle.
’*T ain't got much of a stomach for a
fight myself. You see. I ain’t never
fought anythin’ bigger'n a skunk until
today; and when I stood out thar with
them bullets sizzln’ like fryin' pans round
my heal. I kind of says to myself: ‘Look
here, what's all this fuss about anyhow?
If these here folks have come arter the !
niggers, let ’em take 'em off and wel- !
come. I ain't never owned a nigger in I
my life. and. what's more, I ain’t never
seen one that’s worth owning. Let 'em I
take 'em and welcome,’ that's what I said, j
Bless your life, as I stood out thar I
didn’t see how I was goln’ to fire iny
musket. till all of a jiffy a thought jest
Jumped into my head and sent me bangin'
down that hill. ’Them folks have set
thar feet on ole Virglnny.’ was what I
thought ’They've set thar feet on ole
Virglnny, and they’ve got to take ’em
off damned quick.' I've got a powerful
fancy for old Virglnny, and they ain’t
goln’ to preject with her dust, if I can
stand between.
' "In different fashion is voiced the feel
ing of the gentleman who ’fought hard
against secession until It .came,’ and who
fell wearing the gray;
“He loved the union, and he had given it
the best years of his life. I think if he
ever felt any bitterness toward any one.
It was for the man or men who brought
us into this; and at last he used to leave
the room because he could not speak of
them without anger. He threw all his
strength against the tide, yet when it
rushed on in spite of him, he knew where
his duty guided him. and he followed it,
as .alwqys. like* a pleasure. . * • • He
always felt that he was fighting for a
liopeless cause, and he loved it more for
the very pity of its weakness.
“And widely differing from both these
spirits is shown the light-hearted way In
Which ‘merry gentlemen went to war.’ as
to a tourney, fearful only that the fight
would be over before they could reach the
firing line; objecting not at all to danger
cr death, but to having their 'elbows
jagged by the other poor white' trash”
while they did battle for their country.
•Clean out the camp!’ exclaims one in
Znger at the order. 15063 he think my
grandmother was a chambermaid?”
“The disillusions, the sufferings, the
privations of the four years of civil strife
are given In almost relentless detail. Miss
Glasgow has written a poetic tale of
young love, but there have been others
as admirable; she has wonderfully well
portrayed southern society, but there, too.
she has her compeers, fit though few;
but as a story of the civil war ‘The
Battleground^ stands. alone. The grim
Attractive Women.
All women sensibly desire to be attrac
tive. Beauty Is the stamp of health be
cause It Is the outward manifestation uf
Inner purity. A healthy woman is always
attractive, bright and happy. When every
drop of blood ie the veins Is pure a beau
teous flush is on the cheek. But when the
blood is Impure, moroseness, bad temper
and a sallow complexion tells the tale
of sickness, all too plainly. And women
today know there Is no beauty without
health. Wine of Cardul crowns women
.with beauty and attractiveness by mak
ing strong and healthy those organa
Which mike her a woman. Try Wine of
Cardul, and in a month your friend* will
hardly know you.
HE new novel by Hallie
Ermlnle Rives, about
which so much cariosity
has been expressed, it Is
today announced, will be
published In two weeks by
the Brown-Merrill com
pany. Its title will be
"Hearts C o urageous.”
New York critics who
have had a view of ad
vance proof sheets not
only pronounce It far
stronger than anything
Miss Rives has yet done, but predict
that it will cause a sensation In literary
circles greater than that of any book
of fiction published in recent years.
Miss Rives’ previous books, notably her
last, "A Furnace of Earth,” created com
ment as wide and varying as that called
for T>y “The Quick or the Dead.” Both
of Tncse were noted fibr their extreme
torridity of coloring, vivid and unusual
phrasing and for a certain tense natu
ralness which brought them even into
pulpit discussion.
The sudden advent of this young girl
the ball rolling which crumbled the west
ern throne of the Georges—Patrick
Henry.
PatricK Henry
The fine Incisive character of Miss
Rives' pen is shown in pages like the
following:
"Henry stretched himself in a chair
and yawned. Jefferson stood, his hands
behind him, leaning square-shouldered
against the wall. Never was there
greater apparent disparity between two
men. About Henry hung an atmosphere
of deceptive laziness. Jefferson's home
ly, thin-skinned face was all alive. Hen
ry was lithe, but stooped and ungainly;
Jefferson stood 2 Inches over fi feet,
sinewy and straight as a ramrod. Henry
was dressed carelessly in dull colors, his
bottom wig uneven; Jefferson wore a
blue coat with the lace and a waistcoat of
crimson. His reddish chestnut hair was
exactly curled. Henry had spoken with
a drawl; Jefferson's every word was
clear cut, incisive and full of assurance.
“The disparity carried further: Hen
ry's horse went burred: Jefferson, before
his daily mount, tested his hunter’s vel
vet grooming with a white silk kerchief.
Henry hated minutiae; Jefferson had
Recently the Neaie Publishing Com
pany, of Washington, D. C-, 'has brought
out an attractive little volume of poems
from the .pen of Frances Guignard Gibbes
and the critics are string some very
nice things Sibout the work of this ac
complished young southern writer. Her
poetic taste asserts Itself in the choice
of her subjects as well as In the music
of her lines, and she writes in an ex
quisite vein of sentiment which shows
that she has not simply “dropped Into
verse" as many of our omotional friends
are inclined to do at thl3 season of the
year, but has actually been on close and
intimate terms with the muses. Though
not without the faults common to young
writers, some of the poems In this little
collection are as graceful as anything we
have recently seen in print, and we con
gratulate the author upon the superior
I quality of her work. Such melodies are
] more than welcome in this sordid age of
j commercialism.
I Writing of Miss Gibbes, The Waahlng-
j ton Post, her home paper, says;
j “Miss Gibbes has lived in Washington
i for two years, and she has spent most
j cf that time in hard, earnest work on
j her poems. She is a native of South
| Carolina, and her childhood was passed
] in Columbia, the city erf her birth. She
j Is >a descendant of Robert Gibbes, one of
| ths colonial governors of South Caro
lina, and one of her ancestors on the
maternal side was the noted George Ma
son, of Gunston Hall, Md. Robert Globes,
her grandfather, was one of the most
noted men of letters the Palmetto State
ever produced. In speaking to a Post"
reporter the other day Miss Gibbes said
she had never had a poem published prior
to the appearance of her work in book
form.
I suppose I was too sensitive.” she
said. “Not even the members of my
family ever saw a stanza that I com- I
posed. It was not exactly the fear of j
ridicule; it lay deeper than that. I shiv- j
ered at the thought of sharing my I
dreams with anyone that would not un
derstand and appreciate, them. I did not
care so much for myself as I did for the
children of my heart. Poetry is not a
product of the mind, as we commonly un
derstand the term. Intellect is too cold,
too critical. It freezes the imagination
and the emotions.
“I know that many of my verses have
faults of what is known as technique,
but that will come later. I believe that
I have preserved the rhythm, for my love
of music is a safe guide in this respect.
But when it comes to a clash between
form and feeling I prefer to preserve the
feeling, although many will doubtless
differ with me there.
“I began writing when I was little more
than a child, but I hid my verses from
the eyes of everyone. Of course, nature
appeals to me more strongly than any
thing else as a source of inspiration. I
love poetry, and have always preferred
j It to fiction. Next to Shakespeare I care
more for Keats, Shelley and Heine. Thefr
poems are better sustained, and their
themes are not so Titanic that we cannot
grasp them easily.”
Miss Gibbes was the first woman to
enter South Carolina university, where
she put in several years of hard study.
She says that at first she encountered
some prejudice on the part of the young
men who objected to co-education, but
the natural chivalry^of the southerner
soon overcame this feeling, and she was
subjected to no unpleasantness.
We quote this criticism from one who
has carefully analyzed the author's work-
“In her ’Interpretation of Titian’s As
sumption’ we see an example of the high
est poetic inspiration. Other poems are
full of what Matthew Arnold called the
‘Celtic element,’ but which is peculiar to
no race or people. I am confident that
with closer attention to technique, which
comes with time and experience. Miss
Gibbes will show herself to be in line
with the standard set by Edith Thomas
and Imogene Ouiney.”
Undoubtedly Miss Gibbes may be ex
pected to give us something which will
silence the critics who cater so much to
form in verse. The high, imaginative
type of her work holds forth a brilliant
promise. There is nothing cheap about
the sentiment, while at the same time
160th THOUSAND.
AUDREY
France. Gui^nard Gibbes
there is plenty of warmth. Even if she
had done nothing else, the following
would offer a bright augury:
“I heed no count of mortal years, my
heart
Is young as yonder song—his first love-
song
That bird is singing as he soars, with
strong,
Swift wing beats, mighty in his love; my
heart
Loves with Ills, soaring, too, and is a
part
Of his deep joyousness. I sit among
The grasses, 'mid the new-blown buds,
and long
Till longing makes all sense of self
depart,
And I am young and tender with the
bloom
Of spring. Out in the world there form
debars
Communion. In the nightime, with the
sod.
For resting place, I soar from spirit Vs
tomb
To feel the grand, hushed stillness of the
stars.
And I am Youth Eternal, cme with God.”
5hort Reviews of New BooRs
Emerson Hough's new book, “The Mis- duced nothing heretofore equal to “The
into the ranks of Nev/ York successes
and her meteoric career is familiar to | down in his book the two pennies paid
all' book readers, particularly in the J for a shoestring or the sou tossed into
south, and in this city, where Hallie Er-
minie Rives is so well known socially.
“Smoking Flax,” her first book. wa%
printed scarce four years ago. It was a
passionate fictional defense of Judge
Lynch, written from the intimate view
point so familiar to the south—so mis
understood in the north. The book, of
course, was fiercely enough denounced,
but in north and south alike its power
gained it instant recognition. Since the
publication of “A Furnace of Earth”
two years ago, Miss Rives has been si
lent. From time to time rumors of her
new book have circulated. Meantime she
has been working hard in her Kentucky
home, where with her (logs and horses
she spends a part of every year.
Her New Novel
In her forthcoming novel Miss Rives
has chosen a historical field. She has
laid her plot in the revolutionary era and
in her own southland. It is a moving
picture of Virginia, in its later colonial
days and during the struggle for inde
pendence—with all Its lights and shad
ows. There are views of Montlcello, of
Union Hill, of Castle Hill, of Westover
and other southern historic homes that
will appeal to every southerner.
The story’s characters are the great
ones that made the south of that day
the great strength of the western world
—Henry, Jefferson, Washington and the
rest, and its events are those which his
tory has made one familiar with. But
“Hearts Courageous” is vastly different
from the usual thing in the historical
novel. Miss Rives has sacrificed noth
ing of her instinctive method, and these
characters play their part in scenes
which, for passionate intensity, were not
surpassed by those of even “A Furnace
of Earth.” j
a beggar's hat in Paris. Jefferson wa.s
college-bred; Henry a student of the out-
of-doors. Jefferson was the learned
lawyer; Henry the advocate. Jefferson
lived by facts; Henry was a dreamer.
"Yet now, as they waited, Jefferson
looked at Henry; Henry at the fire.”
In the story Henry tells how he passed
his entrance examination Tor the Vir
ginia bar, and how he won the “Parson's
Cause.” But beneath all the humor, the
apparent shiftlessness, he is seen to be
the magnetic, electric, impassioned, far-
seeing orator and patriot. The homely
backwoods exterior which envelopes him
while he drinks ale In his father in law’s
tavern never conceals his soul of sweet
ness and tenderness. Thl3 is the Patrick
Henry whom Miss Rives, in her delving
in private and public libraries in the
south has unearthed for the reader. As
the story develops, he becomes less and
less rustic, more and more the leader
and the man, till his supreme opportun
ity comes, and in his sweet speech In old
St. John's church at Richmond, he rises
to that eloquence which history has call
ed "uneartnly” and hurled the red brand
of battle into the ranks of the Virginia
assembly.
Miss Rives’ study of the conditions un
der which that “leaf of immortality”
was signed is not the conventional one.
There are bitter enmities and cabals
against it. She has overthrown some
popular idols, and ip this regard the
u .-ok bids tair to cause any amount of
discussion. The dramatic scenes in this
porTon of the novel, contrary to pre
cedent, are not laid in the open. Miss
Rives takes the reader behind the walls
of Independence hall. It is here this
Mistress Anne Tlllotson, thg Virginia
heroine, on the last tense day, in order
to save her lover’s life, has to choose
The love motive is most unusual. It is I between his death and his dishonor and
the story of a woman's love which
great enough to triumph over the seem
ing shame and dishonor of the man she
loves, and which faith brings to its own
at last.
The story opens in the tidewater coun
ties of the old Dominion, in Willi -n-
burg, the capital, where, in his palace.
Lord Dunmore. the royal governor, bul
lies his recalcitrant burgesses. Here is a
brilliant picture of the courtly, dashing
planters, horse racing, fox hunting, dic
ing and dancing in the Raleigh tavern In
satin and small sword. It has all the
sparkle and fish of the old regime in
the colony’s high days. But it Is the
dance over the volcano. There are
planters hid beneath their suavity-
scenes in fhe little house kept by Al
berti. the Venetian music teacher, where
met that coterie of younger men whose
names were to become famous in south
ern history—Jefferson. George Mason,
Paul Carrington. Samuel Overton, St.
George Tucker. The head and front of
the circle's inspiration was he who sec
betrayal to the congress.
Miss Rives knows her south. Her book
is a southern document. As such It
mv—t create notice rarely given to a his
torical novel—notice perhaps more .wide
spread even thefti that which its first an
nouncement Is already making in sated,
book-ridden New York.
Interest in the book will be greatly
•heightened in Atlanta by the fact that
one of the characters in it is drawn from
Mayor Livingston Mims. This character
is Colonel Tillotson.
"The South. Old and New*’
We cordially greet the initial number
glimpses of the sterner purpose that the ^ new sout hern magazines which
comes out this week attractively chris
tened “The South: Old and New,” and
published by the John Voibergson Com
pany of Atlanta. Although it will prove
no easy matter for the magazine to
measure fully up to the requirements
of the name which suggests the widest
possibilities of the future as well as the
best traditions of the past, we believe
slssippi Bubble,” is creating something
of a stir in literary circles over the coun
try, and we will not feel
"THE MISSIS- like hazarding another
SIPPI BUBBLE" guess If it fails within
by the next few weeks to
Emerson bid successfully for the
Hough first place in public fa
vor. People have long
since grown tired of wbat may be called
In the vernacular of the present day
"lame reading,” and they want some
thing highly spiced with excitement. In
“The Mississippi Bubble” they get what
-they are looking for. The story deals
with the meteoric career of John Law,
celebrated in the early traditions of the
Mississippi valley as one of the most
reckless gamblers of his time; but in ad
dition to this colossal distinction he was
also known as a famous beau and a bril
liant talker, and was just such a man as
was likely to do the most harm because
of the dangerous fascinations which
blinded the eyes of the world to his real
character. Dramatic elements are by no
means lacking in the work, but we can
say for "The Mississippi Bubble” what
we cannot say for every sensational vol
ume which comes from the press, that
the style Is not Inferior to the plot.
John Law is introduced to the reader
lying in the hedge early one summer
morning with his brother Will. The two
had been attacked by highwaymen the
night before. With their unkempt ap
pearance they have the bearing of gen
tlemen. A coach rolls along the country
road carrying two young English ladies.
Lady Catharine Knollys and her com
panion, Mary Connynge. “Much seen to
gether they were commonly known as
Morning and Eve, sometimes as Aurora
and Eve. Never did daughter of the
original Eve have deeper feminine guile
than Mary Connynge. Soft of speech—
as her friend, the Lady Catharine, was
impulsive—this young English woman,
with no dower save that of beauty and
of wit, had not failed to make a sensa
tion at the capital. Three captains and a
squire, to say nothing of a gentry colonel,
had already fallen victims and had
heard their fate In her low, soft tones,
which could whisper a fashionable oath
in the accent of a hymn.”
The ladies have compassion on the gen
tlemen.. They allow them seats In the
carriage and take them to London. In
this way the love of two women for
John Law began. Before reaching the
heart of the city Law buys a rose and
presents It to Lady Catharine. Then
Mary Connynge begins to hate her
friend.
The scene shifts to America. Marv
Connynge and John Law are In the west
ern world. Whether she loves him or
hates him because of hts love to Lady
Catharine is not clear. He goes to
France. Here the first scene is the death
bed of the grand monarque. king for
seventy-two years of France, almost
king of Europe. "Seventy-two years a
king; thirty years a libertine; twenty
years a repentant.” Mme. De Maintenon,
that “peerless hypocrite of all the years.”
is bending over the dying king.
(Brown-Merrill Co.,
Mississippi Bubble.”
Indianapolis.)
*
William Ordway Partridge is a writer
as well as a sculptor,, and all who read
his present volume, entitled “Nathan
Hale," will find that in
"NATHAN dealing with the old rev-
HALE’’ by olufionary patriot he is
William almost as felicitous with
Ordway his pen as he is with his
Partridge chisel. Mr. Partridge has
made the character of
Nathan Hale the subject of profound
study for many years, and what he says
of him may be accepted as historical.
The volume is charmingly written and is
not merely a compilation of tombstone
records, but a mirror held up before the
picturesque personality of this great
American hero and incidental!)* portray
ing the turbulent era in which he livedL
(Funk & Wagnalls, New York.)
_
"The Coast of Freedom” is an entertain
ing story of Boston in the days of the
witchcraft craze, from the pen of Adele
Marie Shaw. The tale be-
"THE COAST gins in London and Shifts
OF FREEDOM’’ to the Spanish main,
by Adele where Captain William
Marie Phipps recovers vast
Shaw sunken treasures, quells
a mutiny, kills a whole
shipload of pirates, end rescues a kid
naped heiress. Robert Yerring, the hero
of the story, is the son of an an austere
New England Puritan and under Captain
Phipps is made to perform many daring
and dangerous exploits.
Then the scene changes to Boston,
where Captain Ptiipps bias Decome sir
William Phipps, governor of Massachu
setts. The kidnaped heiress appears upon
the scene incognito, pursued by the vil
lain's cousixr, also in disguise, who is
trying to put her out of the way. The
hero Is now grown up, and is an excellent
young man. not Puritan enough to spoil
him. An attempt Is made to kidnap the
heiress, but ahe Is rescued by the hero.
Next she is accused of being la witch, and
no less a personage than the great Cotton
Mather does his best to convict her. If
this famous Puritan was as Miss Shaw
portrays him, he was a meiancnoly warn
ing of how far the human understanding
may be perverted. The hero is also de
nounced as guilty of witchcraft, but not
only declines to be baled to jail, out also
accomplishes the rescue of the heroine.
(Doubleday, Page & Co., New York.)
♦
This old-fashioned love story will be
read with zest by those whose tastes have
not become vitiated by the sensational
ism which has 'crept into
"THE MASTER our modern fiction. The
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Uncle Remus now has a sister—a white one. She is called “Sister
Jane,” and is introduced to the reading world by that delightful Atlanta
author, Joel Chandler Harris. It is a full-fledged novel of Georgia life.
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the critics, and establish him yet more firmly in the hearts of the people
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dramatic scene is but the prelude to
Law’s own appearance as imperial finan
cier. With the figure and air of a prince
he gained greater reputation than any
prince of Europe. As close friend of the
regent he is admitted to the inner social
circles and the little suppers of Louis
Philippe. To his astonishment he finds
here Mary Connynge, whom he had de
serted In the wilds of America, resplendid
in beauty. We leave the remainder of the
plot to the imagination of the reader.
Mr. Hough is the author Of several very
clever works of fiction, such as “The
Story of a Cowboy” and “The Girl at
the Half-Way House," but he has pro-
with her three brothers, v/nom she nas
not seen since childhood. She finds her
brothers shiftless, yet gentle, and their
life half savage, yet not altogether un
lovely. Her mission in life is to nuike
something of them. On the other hand,
by virtue of her beauty and bringing up.
she is welcomed by the aristocracy of the
neighborhood.
There are all sorts of complications,
some of which spring from the fact that
she is supposed to be very rich. There is
a beautiful southern belie of the typical
sort who creates situations without end.
The master of Caxton, proud, aristocrat
ic, with a languid grace that hides some
admirable qualities. Is a central figure.
Of course, in the end it all turns out
happily, as every good old-tasntoned love
story does, and the heroine becomes “the
mistress of caxton.’’
The book has many charms. It is Very
true to life. It has an old-fashioned se
renity and leisure for little details. There
is no blood and thunder In it. Yet its
interest is sustained and there are no
dull pages. In short, it Is thoroughly en
joyable and the author is to be heartily
congratulated. (Charles Scribner’s Sons.
New York.) ^
"The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop”
is regarded by many competent critics
as the best work of fiction which Ham
lin Garland has yet writ-
"THE CAPTAIN ten and we ape Inclined
OF THE GRAY to subscribe to this
HORSE TROOP" opinion, though with
by Hamlin some reserve. Like all
Garland of Mr. Garland’s stories
It deals with life in the
west and is full of the elements of love
and adventure, never permitting the
reader’s Interest to flag. Most of the
scenes of the book are laid in the neigh
borhood of an army post and the at
mosphere is intensely martial. (Harper
& Bros., New York.)
♦
Success always commands attention
■and Mr. Carnegie’s new volume, entitled
“The Empire of Business,” will be
eagerly read by the pub-
"THE EMPIRE lie in both hemispheres.
OF BUSINESS" We call the volume
by ‘new,” although it Is
Andrew made up of articles
Carnegie which have appeared
from time to time In the
various magazines of the country,
reaching back for more than fifteen
years past. Speaking of present-day
conditions Mr. Carnegie says that voung
men have no cause to be disheartened,
and he gives them this word of encour
agement. Says he:
“Every employer of labor is studying
the young men around him, most anx
ious to find one of exceptional ability.
Nothing in the world so desirable for
him and so profitable for him as such a
man. Every manager in the works
stands ready to grasp, to utilize the man
who can do something that is valuable
Every foreman wants to have under
him in his department able men, upon
whom he can rely, and whose merits
he obtains credit for, because the great
est test of ability in a manager is not
the man himself, but the men with
whom he Is able to surround himself.
"The young practical man of today,
working at the bench or counter, to
whom the fair goddess Fortune has not
beckoned may be disposed to conclude
that It is impossible to start busihess
In this age. There is something in that.
It Is, no doubt, infinitely more difficult
to start a new business of any kind
today than it was. But It is only a
difference In form, not in substance.
It Is Infinitely easier for a young prac
tical man of ability to obtain an interest
In existing firms than it has ever been.
The doors have not closed upon ability;
on the contrary, they swing easier upon
their hinges. Capital Is not requisite.
Family influence, as before, passes for
nothing. Real ability, the capacity for
doing things, never was so eagerly,
searched for ns now, and never com
manded such rewards.
"The law which concentrates the lead
ing industries and commercial, mercan
tile and financial affairs in a few great
factories or firms contains within itself
another law not less Imperious. These
vast concerns cannot be successfully
conducted by salaried employees. No
great business of any kind can score
an unusually brilliant and permanent
success which is not in the hands of
practical men, pecuniarily Interested In
its results.”
Mr. Carnegie touches upon nearly
every phase of modern business life.
Some of his ideas may not be in ac
cord with the views of the masses, but
they will nevertheless stimulate thought
and* will be read with wide interest.
(Doubldday-Page Co.. New York.)
“The Outlaws,” bv Le Roy Armstrong,
is a rigorous story, full of incident,
and reality. The quaint and
stirring life of the early
"THE settlers is vividly pre-
OUTLAWS" sented. There are glimp-
|)y ses of journeys by canal,
Le Roy political Incidents, like
Armstrong the coming of General
Cass, at that time secre
tary of war under Jackson; the raids of
outlaws and the race with death when the
cholera came, before the Wabash canal
was finished.
Mr. Armstrong writes as one who know-3
at close range the events with which he
deals. An American to the core, he says
he knows of no land more interesting than
the "heart of America,” and in the na
tion’s development there is to him noth
ing more striking than the eve of Internal
"FORCE IN
FICTION"
by
Dr. Richard
Barton
romance
improvement from 1830 to 1850, when the
old Wabash canal was constructed, bank
rupting the state and surrendering Its
mission to the railroads.
Men loved in those days as truly as they
drank and quarreled. More than one love
story is woven into the fabric of the book
and the sentiment is of the breezy west
ern sort. This is Mr. Armstrong’s first
book of fiction, although he has written
short stories for several of the leading
magazines. (D. Appleton & Co., New
York.)
♦
This volume contains an endless
amount of information bearing upon near
ly every phase of the negro problem and
Twentieth Cen- is made up of numerous
tury Negro well-written and thought -
Literature by ful articles contributed
100 of America’s oy representative mem-
Greatest bers of the negro race in
Negroes the United States. Some
of the contributors are
Booker T. Washington, W. H. Councill,
ttev. J. W. E. Bowen, W. H. Crogman,
Bishop H. M. Turner, Rev. I. D. Davis, G.
A. Goodwin and many others equally
prominent and influential. The volume
contains nearly 500 pages and full-page
portraits of the contributors illuminate
the work. (J. L. Nichols & Co., Atlanta.)
♦
"Force in Fiction,” by Dr. Richard Bur
ton, is a collection of essays on subjects
in which reading people are more In
terested today than ever
before. The essays are
not technical, but appeal
‘o the average reader who
cares to consider litera
ture as an art, who en-
|oys being told how par
ticular effects are produced and who is
interested in knowing why he likes cer
tain things and why certain literary
fashions come and go. (Bowen-Merrill
Co., Indianapolis.)
+
"The Westcotes" is the latest story by
A. T. Qulller-Couch. To the lovers of
Stevenson it will have a sentimental in
terest, aside from its own
merits. It will be remem
bered that Stevenson's
death left a number of
his books fairly under
way. One of them, "St.
Ives,” was about three-
fourths done, and the remainder of the
plot had been outlined. The heKo is a
French prisoner of the war of 1813, who
escapes from the military prison in Edln- /
burgh, and wanders about Scotland and
England, finally returning to Edinburgh
for love of a young Scotch gentlewoman,
who has befriended him in Jail. Mr. Qull
ler-Couch was commissioned to finish the
book, and achieved what is probably the
most perfect bit of joiner work in English
literature, for so closely did he Imitate the
almost Inimitable Stevenson style, that
the keenest critics failed to discern the
point of division. The story is dainty adn
charming, but one must confess a prefer
ence for the days when the author was
simply "Q.” and wrote "The Splendid
Spur.” (Henry T. Coates & Co., New
York.)
♦
Books Received Through the
American Baptist Publics-
tion Society
"The Battle Ground,” by Ellen Glasgow,
(Doubleday, Page & Oj., New York.)
"The Leopard’s Spots.” by Thomas Dix
on, Jr. (Doubleday, Page & Co.. New
York.)
♦
"Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines,"
by Clyde Fitch. (Doublcday, Page & Co.,
New York.)
♦
"The Misdemeanors of Nancy,” by
Eleanor Hoyt. (Doubleday, Page & Co.,
New York.)
♦
"Our Literary Deluge,” by Francis W.
Halsey. (Doubleday, Page & Co.. New
York.)
♦
"The Coast of Freedom.” by Adels
Marie Shaw. (Doubleday, Page & Co.,
New York.)
♦
“The Making of a Statesman,” by Joel
Chandler Harris. (Doublcday, Page &
Co., New York.)
“Sister Beatrice and Ardione and Bar-
be Blene,” two plays, by Maurice Maeter
linck. i.Dcdd, Mead & Co., New York.)
"THE
WEST-OTES”
by A. T.
Quliier-
Couch
/3T
The honorary freedom of the Plumbers’
Company, an ancient guild of the city
of London, is to be conferred on Andrew
Carnegie ?t the guild hall on May 14 in
recognition of the munificence of his
educational gifts.
Systematic inquiries into the present
condition of bird life in Missouri bring to
light the surprising discovery that within
the last fifteen years insectivorous birds
have decreased 62 per cent, and
birds 80 per cent.