By Robert Lee Durham. Cloth decorative, with 6 illustrations by Henry Roth $1.50
A very strong novel dealing with the race problem in this country. The principal theme is the danger to society from the increasing miscegenation of the black and white races, and the encouragement it receives in the social amenities extended to negroes of distinction by persons prominent in politics, philanthropy and educational endeavor; and the author, a Southern lawyer, hopes to call the attention of the whole country to the need of earnest work toward its discouragement. He has written an absorbing drama of life which appeals with apparent logic and of which the inevitable denouement comes as a final and convincing climax.
The author may be criticised by those who prefer not to face the hour “When Your Fear Cometh As Desolation And Your Destruction Cometh As A Whirlwind;” but his honesty of purpose in the frank expression of a danger so well understood in the South, which, however, many in the North refuse to recognise, while others have overlooked it, will be upheld by the sober second thought of the majority of his readers.
The House in the Water
By Charles G. D. Roberts, author of “The Haunters of the Silences,” “Red Fox,” “The Heart of the Ancient Wood,” etc. With cover design, sixteen full-page drawings, and many minor decorations by Charles Livingston Bull. Cloth decorative, with decorated wrapper $1.50
Professor Roberts’s new book of nature and animal life is one long story in which he tells of the life of that wonderfully acute and tireless little worker, the beaver. “The Boy” and Jabe the Woodsman again appear, figuring in the story even more than they did in “Red Fox;” and the adventures of the boy and the beaver make most absorbing reading for young and old.
The following chapter headings for “The House in the Water” will give an idea of the fascinating reading to come:
The Sound in the Night (Beavers at Work).
The Battle in the Pond (Otter and Beaver).
In the Under-water World (Home Life of the Beaver).