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THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK THE BAR SINISTER. Another Story of a Dog in Davis' Inimi table Style. Typographically, a Volume to Possess for Itself Alone, Exquisite In Every Detail. "The Bar Sinister" by Richard Harding Davis, (Charles Seribner's Sons New York, publishers) is another story of a dog told in the author's inimitable style. The hero of the story is the off spring of a mesalliance between a regis tered, prize-winning bull terrier of high degree, and a street black-and-tau. By sheer force of merit he rises from the lowly rank of a street cur, winning eon tests in the ring for a brutal drunken master, to that of blue ribbons in the New York dog show, where he wins the first prize in the winners class over his blue-blooded father. The author in his preface, gives the history of the dog upon whose career this story is claimed to be founded. "The Bar Sinister" is a short story and can easily be read in an hour. It has in it much of, shall we say "human" inter est, and in its class, will take a rank almost as high as "Bob, Son of Battle" has obtained among longer stories. Typographically the volume is one to possess for itself alone, exquisite in every detail. The text is printed with wide margins in 12 point golden type, on heavy deckle-edge paper and there are seven full-page color and numerous pen and ink margiual illustrations. SOUL SONNETS. Another of 8. E. Miner's Popular llooks of Verse. "Soul Sonnets of a Stenographer," by S. E. lust-r, (Forbes & Company, Boston, publishers,) is hardly as clever a book as "Love Sonnets of an Office Boy," by the same author, but it is nevertheless, clever verse which may be best described as "popular." It tells of the yearnings of a stenographer for the love of her employer in Mr. Riser's own and dis tinctly unique style. Here is the first sonnet: I wonder lf't would be a sin If I Should think sometimes how pleasant it would be If what another has should come to me? I've never really hoped that she would die, But if she has to go I wonder why I might not take her place? They say that she Has such an awful temper and that he Can't even smoke except upon the sly. He's worth at least a million what a pile! I'm sick of writing "Gentlemen" and "Sir" I wonder what he ever saw in her? She's plain and hasn't got a bit of style; She has to hide her neck with lace or fur, And, oh, her voice! It rasps just like a file. Popular in Philadelphia. Mr. Alfred Henry Lewis, "The Boss" is reported to be attracting a remarkable degree of attention in cities like rhila delphia, St. Louis, Chicago and Minnea polis, where the management of the municipality has been attended with va rious disturbing conditions. It is noted, however, that the general interest of the story as a novel holds the class known as professional novel readers. Portrait Catalogue. For the season of 1903-1904 Houghton, Mifflin and Company, are sending out a handsome portrait catalogue of their publications. It is an indispensable adjunct to every library and to every book buyer and it offers a varied survey of American and English literature dur ing the past half century or more. The books are listed in its pages alphabetic ally by authors, a classified list giving ready access to books in art, science, history, fiction, and all the other depart ments of literature, and a title index at the close giving a summary in little of all the publications included in its pages. The portraits are numerous, well-made, and well printed. Though it is primarily the story of two people, it portrays a whole com munity with the utmost vividness and reality, and the many figures move through it with assured purpose as in evitably as in the novels of Mrs. Hum phrey Ward, It is a great novel, domi nated by a love story of unusual beauty and force, and showing that the power of one man's brave life, nobly and sin cerely lived up to its highest possibili ties, may change the outlook of a community. Sally of Missouri. "It. E. Young," the author of "Sally of Missouri," which has met such a widely varying reception at the hands of the reviewers, is Miss Rose E. Young, who has become well known to readers of the magazines by her short stories. Her next book, called "Henderson," the scene of which is also laid in Missouri, will be published by Houghton, Mifflin & Company, in the early spring, VIOLATING A CUSTOM. He You've heard it said that one should hug the shore when out sailing with a pretty girl ? She Yes, but it's not customary. CHICLE IV THE SaiTARE. A Representative Story of the South Hroadly Treated. "The Circle in the Square" by Bald win Sears, (A. S. Barnes & Company, New York, publishers,) is a novel of ex traordinary power, dealing with absorb ing social and political questions of to-day. With sympathy, humor and strength, the life and problems of to-day in one section of the South which may be taken as a representative of many com munities all over the South is pre sented in a broader way than has been done before. Editorial Excellence. No periodical in the world is edited with greater care tnan i he loutn s uom nanion. As much uains are taken to in sure accuracy m the paragraph or a lew lines as to the ureseutation by experts ol their specialized topics. Infallibility is iinuossible. but all that scrupulous re vision can do to give authority to its ar- ticles is done Dv The (Jomvanion. n de sires to keep its readers abreast of all movements in scientific and industrial life, and during 1904 will publish articles hv siifih men as Prof. VV. H. Holmes (Chief of the United States llureau of Ethnology), Sur-uen. u. M. bternnerg, Pres. 11. 11 if iitcnett or tne Massacnu sett Institute of Technolosrv. Dr. Aus tin Flint, Pres. Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins, and ex-Director of the Census, VV, U. Merrlam, COL. CARTER'S MAS, A Charming and Clever Holiday Book by F. HopMnson Smith. The Header Again Sits at Fireside of this Typical Southern Gentleman and Enjoys his Hospitality. "Colonel Carter's Christmas," by F. Hopkinson Smith, (Charles Seribner's Sons, New York, publishers,) brings us again to the fireside of that typical southern gentleman, "Colonel Carter of Cartersville." We are permitted to kiss the hand of the dear, sunny, Aunt Nancy, to feel our hearts grow mellow under the spell of the Colonel's gentle chivalry, and to feed upon the luscious dishes that only "Chad" can prepare, and only Chad can properly serve. The author never writes anything that is not interesting and very well written, but among his many characters, there is not another one that has obtain ed a hold upon the affections of all his readers equal to the genial Colonel. The warmth of his self-sacrificins: friend ship; his innocence and improvidence in all financial matters ; his boundless hos pitality ; his fiery temper, quick to kindle and as quick to forgive ; his chivalrous devotion to all women, but especially those of the South ; his scrupulous adher ence to the demands of "the code"; all these are again cleverly portrayed in ihis work. And there is a new trait also; love for children and an ability to entertain them with stories suited to their comprehension, and which are equally interesting to all as well. The volume is distinctly "Hop" Smith from cover to cover. It is printed in the old-style long primer type on rough paper with wide margins, and there are eight striking full-page color reproductions from paintings by F. C. Yohn. The cover design in white and gold, as well as its contents, make the volume particularly appropriate for a holiday gift book. Mary KacIane's New Hook. The publication of "My Friend, Anna bel Lee," proves that Mary MacLane has not lost her hold upon the public. The reviews which were printed on the day the book was issued were quite as con tradictory as thse of her first venture. Some critics find the book dull, while to others it is absorbing. Some pronounce it posaic and others declare it to be the work of a poet. The Chicago Becord-Herald finds proof of a change of heart on Miss M icLane's part. "More than that," it adds, "it is plain thas her 'little journey in the world' has lifted up Miss MacLane's spirit wonderfully. She is beginning to see that to be misunderstood, to be blocked and baffled and kept in the dark about the purposes of existence i3 not peculiar to her alone, but is the com inon fate of all."
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