. Review of reviews and world's work. ith a Confed-erate officer for alover. General For-rest, the Confederatecavalry commander,has a leading part inthe tale. The storyis interesting in it-self, as well as for thesi deli glits that itthrows on conditionsin the Southern hook hasbeen added tothelong list of fiction having the civil War for abackground, byGeorge Morgan, in hisnew story, The Is-sue (Lippi n cott). Some new and interesting aspects of the conditions inVirginia just prior to the opening of hostilities are pre-sented, woven in with a good war-story. STORIES OF TIMES LONG
. Review of reviews and world's work. ith a Confed-erate officer for alover. General For-rest, the Confederatecavalry commander,has a leading part inthe tale. The storyis interesting in it-self, as well as for thesi deli glits that itthrows on conditionsin the Southern hook hasbeen added tothelong list of fiction having the civil War for abackground, byGeorge Morgan, in hisnew story, The Is-sue (Lippi n cott). Some new and interesting aspects of the conditions inVirginia just prior to the opening of hostilities are pre-sented, woven in with a good war-story. STORIES OF TIMES LONG GONE BY. All the fascination of the Scandinavian spirit, theVikingR, the long-haired princesses, the lonely castles,and the meat sea voyages,—not forgetting the great sealights.—have been gathered into a Betting, by M. E. Henry-Ruffin, for a story entitled The North Star (kittle. Brown). This tale of Norway in the tenth cen-tury is really a- chronicle of the life and love of Olaf Tryggevesson, whom Carlylecalled the wildly beauti. GEORGE MORGAN. fulest man in body and in soul that one has ever heardof in the north. There is a lavishness of excitement and adventure inJohn P. Cartings new novel, The Vikings Skull(Little. Brown). It is strange how many anachronismswe will pardon in an author if he only entertain uswith a good story of action. The transferring of mod-ern people several centuries backward, or the bringingof the worthies of the times of the Crusades into 1904, arenot new expedients in novels ; but somehow, no matterhow improbable, a well-told story is always is one of the good points of the novel that, if thewriter is only careful and informed, he can tell hisreaders a greatmany useful thingswhile he is enter-taining them. It isprobable that H. D u n nknows a great dealabout the mound-builders, which hebelieves the greatr e a d i n g publicought also to know ;and while, in hisnovel The Van-is h e d E m p i r e (Robert ClarkeCompany), he m
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