Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1910 — New Library Books, and Something About Them. [ARTICLE]

New Library Books, and Something About Them.

Autobiography of Henry Morten! Stanley. Part 1 covers a pathetic and homeless childhood, hardships and wanderings in Great Britian and America, and soldiering in the Civil War. Part 2, supplementing his ‘‘ln Darkest Africa,” consists of fragments from note-books, journals, letters and other unpublished writings woven into a continuous narrative by Lady Stanley. A sincere and moving record of early deprivation and discipline.

Cyrus Hall McCormick, by H. N. Casson. Graphic account of the life of the inventor of the reaping machine, estimating His Contributions to industrial progress and contarrrthg: much attractively presented historical and statistical matter on the development of farming implements and Wheat production made possible by his invention.

The Man from Home, by Booth Tarkington and L. H. Wilson. The play which has met with considerable success within the last year or two, The conception of a shrewd American’s wit matched against, the wily maneuvers 'of a disgraced and impoverished English family is developed with some ingenuity and considerable humor. Abaft the Funnel, by Rudyard Kipling. • Mr. Justice Raffles, by E. W. Hornung. "The Florentine Frame, by Elizabeth Robins. A skillful handling of a delicate theme, the three corneFed love affair of a distinguisbecPyoung widow of wealth and intellect, her sefenteen-year-old daughter, and a rfcing dramatist, the mother’s junior by ten years. It is written with subtlety and in excellent taste, and the strain and pathos are offset by humorous situations and characterizations.