. Review of reviews and world's work. w volume ofshort stories, The Lane That Had Xo Tur)ting (I)ou-bleday. Page & Co.), to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, pays atribute to that quaint corner of America, Frencli Can-ada, which has given this highly novelistthe great nart of his material. A land without pov-erty and yet witliout riches, French Canada standsalone, too well educated to have a peasantry, too \wovto have an aristocracy, , , , I have never seen frugalityand industry with so much virtue,so much education and intelligence, and so deep andsimple a religious life.
. Review of reviews and world's work. w volume ofshort stories, The Lane That Had Xo Tur)ting (I)ou-bleday. Page & Co.), to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, pays atribute to that quaint corner of America, Frencli Can-ada, which has given this highly novelistthe great nart of his material. A land without pov-erty and yet witliout riches, French Canada standsalone, too well educated to have a peasantry, too \wovto have an aristocracy, , , , I have never seen frugalityand industry with so much virtue,so much education and intelligence, and so deep andsimple a religious life. Mr. Parker announces, too,that this volume marks the end of his narrations ofFrench-Canadian life. The stories show tliat effectiveappreciation of the simple, slirewd folk who have beenthe characters in Pierre and His People, and attimes to great pathos. It is to be hoped that Mr. Park-ers new duties as a Hritish legislator will not entirely{i;pri\( us of so good a story-tclhr. 768 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl^/EJV OF its terrible, mooswa blurted out. (lUustiation from Mooswa, and Other of the Boundaries. Froma wash drawing by Arthur Heming [Chas. Scribners Sons].) TWO STORIES OF THE NATURE WORLD. Mr. C. G. D. Roberts has done a fascinating piece ofwork in The Heart of the Ancient Wood (Silver, Bur-dett & Co.)—a romance in which the chief personagesare a bear, a maiden and a hunter. He does not person-ify the animals who move on his wilderness stage ;he shows them as creatures of motives and reason-ings, and each is a distinct character in the tale. Thebook has the nature charm of Mr. Seton-Thompsonsand Mr. Kiplings animal stories, but achieves it in adifferent and a new way. Another new book of animal stories of decided meritis Mr. W. A. Frasers Mooswa and Others of theBoundaries (Scribners). Here the characters arenearly all the animals of the North Woods—Mooswathe Moose, Wolverine, Whisky Jack, Marten, Sable-Otter, Black King the bear, and so forth. The life
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