Snow on the Headlight Part 19

THE STORY OF THE RAILROAD.

_By_ CY WARMAN, _author of "The Express Messenger," etc. With Maps, and many Ill.u.s.trations by B. West Clinedinst and from Photographs_.

As we understand it, the editor's ruling idea in this series has not been to present chronology or statistics or set essays on the social and political development of the great West, but to give to us vivid pictures of the life and the times in the period of great development, and to let us see the men at their work, their characters, and their motives. The choice of an author has been fortunate. In Mr. Warman's book we are kept constantly reminded of the fort.i.tude, the suffering, the enterprise, and the endurance of the pioneers. We see the glowing imagination of the promoter, and we see the engineer scouting the plains and the mountains, fighting the Indians, freezing and starving, and always full of a keen enthusiasm for his work and of n.o.ble devotion to his duty. The construction train and the Irish boss are not forgotten, and in the stories of their doings we find not only courage and adventure, but wit and humor.--_The Railroad Gazette._

THE STORY OF THE COWBOY.

_By_ E. HOUGH, _author of "The Singing Mouse Stories," etc. Ill.u.s.trated by William L. Wells and C. M. Russell_.

Mr. Hough is to be thanked for having written so excellent a book. The cowboy story, as this author has told it, will be the cowboy's fitting eulogy. This volume will be consulted in years to come as an authority on past conditions of the far West. For fine literary work the author is to be highly complimented. Here, certainly, we have a choice piece of writing.--_New York Times._

THE STORY OF THE MINE.

_As Ill.u.s.trated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada._

_By_ CHARLES HOWARD SHINN.

Mr. Shinn writes from ... such acquaintance as could only be gained by familiarity with the men and the places described, ... and by the fullest appreciation of the pervading spirit of the Western mining camps of yesterday and to-day. Thus his book has a distinctly human interest, apart from its value as a treatise on things material.--_Review of Reviews._

THE STORY OF THE INDIAN.

_By_ GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, _author of "p.a.w.nee Hero Stories," "Blackfoot Lodge Tales," etc._

Only an author qualified by personal experience could offer us a profitable study of a race so alien from our own as is the Indian in thought, feeling, and culture. Only long a.s.sociation with Indians can enable a white man measurably to comprehend their thoughts and enter into their feelings. Such a.s.sociation has been Mr. Grinnell's.--_New York Sun._

_Books by Graham Travers._

WINDYHAUGH.

_A Novel. By_ GRAHAM TRAVERS, _author of "Mona Maclean. Medical Student," "Fellow Travellers," etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50_.

"Windyhaugh" shows an infinitely more mature skill and more subtle humor than "Mona Maclean" and a profounder insight into life. The psychology in Dr. Todd's remarkable book is all of the right kind; and there is not in English fiction a more careful and penetrating a.n.a.lysis of the evolution of a woman's mind than is given in Wilhelmina Galbraith; but "Windyhaugh" is not a book in which there is only one "star" and a crowd of "supers." Every character is limned with a conscientious care that bespeaks the true artist, and the a.n.a.lytical interest of the novel is rigorously kept in its proper place and is only one element in a delightful story. It is a supremely interesting and wholesome book, and in an age when excellence of technique has reached a remarkable level, "Windyhaugh"

compels admiration for its brilliancy of style. Dr. Todd paints on a large canvas, but she has a true sense of proportion.--_Blackwood's Magazine._

For truth to life, for adherence to a clear line of action, for arrival at the point toward which it has aimed from the first, such a book as "Windyhaugh" must be judged remarkable. There is vigor and brilliancy.

It is a book that must be read from the beginning to the end and that it is a satisfaction to have read.--_Boston Journal._

Its easy style, its natural characters, and its general tone of earnestness a.s.sure its author a high rank among contemporary novelists.--_Chicago Tribune._

MONA MACLEAN.

_Medical Student. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents. Cloth, $1.00._

A pleasure in store for you if you have not read this volume. The author has given us a thoroughly natural series of events, and drawn her characters like an artist. It is the story of a woman's struggles with her own soul. She is a woman of resource, a strong woman, and her career is interesting from beginning to end.--_New York Herald._

"Mona Maclean" is a bright, healthful, winning story.--_New York Mail and Express._

A high-bred comedy.--_New York Times._

FELLOW TRAVELLERS.

_12mo. Paper, 50 cents. Cloth, $1.00._

The stories are well told; the literary style is above the average, and the character drawing is to be particularly praised. ... Altogether, the little book is a model of its kind, and its reading will give pleasure to people of taste.--_Boston Sat.u.r.day Evening Gazette._

"Fellow Travellers" is a collection of very brightly written tales, all dealing, as the t.i.tle implies, with the mutual relations of people thrown together casually while travelling.--_London Sat.u.r.day Review._

"_A Book that will Live._"

DAVID HARUM.

_A Story of American Life. By_ EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT. _12mo. Cloth, $1.50._

Thoroughly a pure, original, and fresh American type. David Harum is a character whose qualities of mind and heart, eccentricities, and dry humor will win for his creator n.o.ble distinction. Buoyancy, life, and cheerfulness are dominant notes. In its vividness and force the story is a strong, fresh picture of American life. Original and true, it is worth the same distinction which is accorded the _genre_ pictures of peculiar types and places sketched by Mr. George W. Cable, Mr. Joel Chandler Harris, Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, Miss Wilkins, Miss Jewett, Mr. Garland, Miss French, Miss Murfree, Mr. Gilbert Parker, Mr. Owen Wister, and Bret Harte.--_Boston Herald._

Mr. Westcott has done for central New York what Mr. Cable, Mr. Page, and Mr. Harris have done for different parts of the South, and what Miss Jewett and Miss Wilkins are doing for New England, and Mr. Hamlin Garland for the West.... "David Harum" is a masterly delineation of an American type.... Here is life with all its joys and sorrows.... David Harum lives in these pages as he will live in the mind of the reader....

He deserves to be known by all good Americans; he is one of them in boundless energy, in large-heartedness, in shrewdness, and in humor.--_The Critic._

True, strong, and thoroughly alive, with a humor like that of Abraham Lincoln and a nature as sweet at the core.--_Boston Literary World._

We give Edward Noyes Westcott his true place in American letters--placing him as a humorist next to Mark Twain, as a master of dialect above Lowell, as a descriptive writer equal to Bret Harte, and, on the whole, as a novelist on a par with the best of those who live and have their being in the heart of hearts of American readers. If the author is dead--lamentable fact--his book will live.--_Philadelphia Item._

The main character ... will probably take his place in time beside Joel Chandler Harris's and Thomas Nelson Page's and Miss Wilkins's creations.--_Chicago Times-Herald._

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