. Review of reviews and world's work. is a Man. He has hislittle faults like his cousin acioss seas, but nobody canread these tales without a new sense of pride in therank and file of our army. OTHER TALES OF THE FRONTIER. The cowboy, lariat in hand, who figures on the coverof Alfred Henry Lewiss Sandburrs (Stokes) (so calledbecause a sandburr is a foolish, small vegetable, irri-tating, and grievously useless ) is really rather mislead-ing ; for the larger number of the very short stories are ofthe Bowery and Mulberry Bend, told in the peculiardialect of Chucky d Turk and Molly of
. Review of reviews and world's work. is a Man. He has hislittle faults like his cousin acioss seas, but nobody canread these tales without a new sense of pride in therank and file of our army. OTHER TALES OF THE FRONTIER. The cowboy, lariat in hand, who figures on the coverof Alfred Henry Lewiss Sandburrs (Stokes) (so calledbecause a sandburr is a foolish, small vegetable, irri-tating, and grievously useless ) is really rather mislead-ing ; for the larger number of the very short stories are ofthe Bowery and Mulberry Bend, told in the peculiardialect of Chucky d Turk and Molly of the fifty, however, return to that delightfultown of Wolfville, whose picturesque people and habitsthe present editor of the Verdict chronicled over thename of Dan Quin for a large circle of delighted THE NEW BOOKS. 759 readers. This is much the same region as that in whichOwen Wisters characters live and have their being,different as the two jioints of view are. Mr. Wister fol-lows up his Lin McLean tliis season with a new collec-. MR. JACK LONDON. tion of stories, most of which have already seen thelight in Harpers, called, fi-om the opening one, TheJlunmyjohn Boss (Harpers). The Son of the Wolf (Houghton), by Jack London (anew name among the bookmakers ), deals with a f rontier new to fiction—Alaska and the great icy are eight strenuous tales volume, and theygive the reader vivid pictures of a strange, frozen world,where life is very different from any of its multitudi-nous phases in these temperate climes of ours. Weshall probably hear from Mr. London again ; and itmay confidently be expected that he will give us some-thing distinctly worth while. Indeed, The Son of theWolf differentiates itself sharply from the run of cur-rent fiction. In The Sky Pilot (Revell) Mr. Ralph Connor haswritten a companion story to his Blade Rock of lastyear. The main figure is a young missionary whosework lies among the rough-and-ready miners and lum-bermen of the Selk
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