Bayly, Elizabeth Boyd. Under the she-oaks. [†]$1.25. Union press.
Opening with a bushman’s hut and ending with a heaven sent rain which delivers the parched country from the great drought, this love story of Australia tells of the hardships which the gently-bred English gallantly encounter in that new country, where the wind wails drearily thru the long spines of the she-oaks.
Beach, Rex Ellingwood. [Pardners.] [†]$1.50. McClure.
Ten stories of life in Alaska and the West, including besides the title story, The test, North of forty-three, The scourge, The shyness of Shorty, The thaw at Silsco’s and others.
“There is no faint-hearted mincing of words in them, the pictures they present are sometimes repulsive, but always virile.”
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“Strenuous tales of the wild West and the frozen North, ranging from the grimly tragic to the grimly humorous.”
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[*] Beach, Seth Curtis. [Daughters of the Puritans.] [*]$1.10. Am. Unitar.
The group of women whose biographies are sketched here includes Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Mary Lovell Ware, Lydia Maria Child, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott.