Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1903 — BOOK REVIEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BOOK REVIEWS

Robert W. Chambers treats an episode of the Franco-Prussian war in his new novel, the title of which is "Maids of Paradise.” A very interesting feature of Frank R. Stockton’s The Captain’s Toll Gate, Is the memorial sketch of the author written by Mrs. Stockton. Dr. George C. Lorimer, the wellknown Boston clergyman, formerly of Chicago, has written a novel. It is called The Master of Millions. ( Henry Frowde, of the Oxford. University press, is about to publish another series of "Studies in Dante,” by Dr. E. Moore, the well-known English’ Dante scholar. It Is rather a discouraging view of a large city’s local politics that Is given by Elliott Flower in The Spoilsman, a romance laid in Chicago, dealing with present day political life In that city. An anonymous book soon to be published under the title of "The Truth About an Author” is expected to give an amusing account of actual experiences in literary and newspaper offices and of novel-writing. Captain Hobson’s sister, Anne Hobson, is a novelist She has recently written a story, In Old Alabama, which Is said to be a creditable delineation of negro character and life In a small Southern town.

Ev,ery one Is familiar in a general way with the remarkable story of Miss Helen Keller. This story she has told herself in detail, in a volume entitled The Story of My Life, which Is published by Messrs. Doubleday, Page A Company. The Neale Publishing Company announces that its editorial and publication departments will be transferred from Washington to New York in order to provide additional facilities for the rapid growth and expansion of Its business. It is safe to say that all persons who have read the recent autobiography of “Charles Eliot, Landscape Artist,” will be keenly Interested in the projected bridge and path, dedicated to his memory, to encircle the summit of Great Blue hill near Boston.

Miss Florence Warden, author of that novel which once bad such an extraordinary vogue, “The House on the Marsh,” has written a new story, entitled, “The Misrule of Three.” It relates mainly to the love adventures of three young Londoners. Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler’s new novel, “Place and Power,” will be published In a large Illustrated American edition by D. Appleton & Company. Miss Fowler, it will be recalled, is the author of “Concerning Isabel Carnaby” and “The Farringdons,” which have been very popular In this country as well as in England. Comparisons are being drawn between Miss Overton’s new novel, “Anne Carmel,” and “The Mill on the Floss.” In each book a brother and sister form the central characters and absorb the Interest. “Anne Carmel” differs from George Eliot’s novel in that the affection of Jean Carmel tor Anne survives the severest test to which it is subjected.