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 SOME INTERESTING BOOKS 
 NEW AND OLD 
 IN THE 
 
 RED STAR COLLECTION 
 
 MISSOURI UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 
 JANUARY, 1911 
 
ADD AMS. Twenty years at Hull-house. 
 
 A wonderful record of accomplishment, full of sug¬ 
 gestion to social reformers and to a much larger circle 
 of readers. 
 
 BENSON. Silent isle. 
 
 The reflections and intimate thoughts of this “artist 
 in words” are here set forth for all who would enjoy a 
 pleasant hour. 
 
 BIRDSEYE. Reorganization of our colleges. 
 
 He has pointed out the most serious defect in ourj 
 colleges and a remedy that appears to be as comprehen¬ 
 sive as the ill it is designed to cure. 
 
 BURROUGHS. Camping and tramping with 
 Roosevelt. 
 
 Interesting sidelights on Roosevelt, Yellowstone 
 park, Yosemite valley, nature study and hunting. 
 
 CAMP. Tbe book of football. 
 
 College men will Avelcome the personal note and 
 the manliness with which Mr. Camp tackles the ball. 
 
 CHESTERTON. What’s wrong with the world. ' 
 
 Brilliant, paradoxical and entertaining essays. 1 
 
 CROTHERS. Among friends. 
 
 All the essays are excellent. 
 
 DE MORGAN. Joseph Vance. 
 
 A book that must ^take its place as the first great( 
 English novel that has appeared in the twentieth cen-| 
 tury. 
 
 ENOCH. Great Pacific coast. 
 
 Open the book where we will, we find something to| 
 interest and to entertain. 
 
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 GALSWt*STri[Y.. Strife. 
 
 One of the remarkable dramas played by the New 
 Theater Company. 
 
 TllLDER. Grover Cleveland, a record of friend- 
 ship. 
 
 Friends of both Grover Cleveland and of the late 
 £ editor of the “Century magazine” will read this book 
 with interest. 
 
 HALL. The soul of a people. 
 
 ^0 A personal and most-interesting account of the se¬ 
 rial life and customs of the Burmese. 
 
 HEWLETT. Open country. 
 
 Halfway house. 
 
 Rest harrow. 
 
 Three novels on the borderland between prose and 
 poetry and full of the charm of the out-of-door atmos¬ 
 phere. 
 
 HOWELLS. Imaginary interviews. 
 
 Very pleasant reading for those who enjoy a harm¬ 
 less play-acting with life and ideas. 
 
 HOWELLS. My Mark Twain. 
 
 The genial spirit of the immortal fun-maker himself 
 ? is ever present in this chronicle of a rare friendship. 
 
 JANVIER. Henry Hudson. 
 
 Gives the spirit of Hudson’s voyage in that cruel 
 and harsh, and yet ardently romantic time. 
 
 J ASTROW. Qualities of men. 
 
 Interesting to anyone having a taste for psychologic¬ 
 al discussion. 
 
 KENNEDY. Servant in the house. 
 
 Those who cannot see the play should read the 
 book; those who can should do both. 
 
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KIPLING. Kim. 
 
 There is a fine antidote to all manner of morbidness 
 in the brilliant pages of Kim. 
 
 KIPLING. Rewards and fairies. 
 
 For the exceptional child and for all grown people 
 this latest Kipling volume will be a joy forever. 
 
 LUCAS. Listener's lure. 
 
 A bit of good comedy and delightful asides: and the 
 story goes on its way to a happy ending. 
 
 MAETERLINCK. Blue bird. 
 
 Those who like “The little white bird” and “Peter 
 Pan” will delight in the poetic beauty and freshness of 
 feeling of this modern fairy play. 
 
 MAETERLINCK. Mary Magdalene. 
 
 As literature and as a study in the ennoblement of a 
 woman’s soul it is an intellectual achievement of a 
 high order. 
 
 MAHAN. Interest of America in international 
 conditions. 
 
 A masterly sketch of international relations at the 
 present time. 
 
 MATTHEWS. Moliere. 
 
 The first adequate biography in English. 
 
 MAUPASSANT. Odd number. 
 
 A collection of the choicest stories by this master 
 of the short story, 
 
 MEREDITH. Ordeal of Richard Feverel. 
 
 It is no injustice to the author’s other books to say 
 that Richard Feverel is fuller of fine things than any 
 one of them, brilliant as each is. The greatest thing in 
 it is the matchless lyric of the early love of Lucv and 
 Richard. 
 
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MODJESKA, Memories and impressions, 
 
 A most entertaining autobiography of this unusual¬ 
 ly gifted woman who has helped develop dramatic taste 
 and dramatic art during the past fifty years. 
 
 MONYPENNY. Life of Benjamin Disraeli. Vol¬ 
 ume I. 
 
 An excellent biography that arouses the highest 
 hopes for the volumes yet to come. 
 
 MORRIS. Story of the glittering plain. 
 
 A mediaeval romance full of the charm of beautiful 
 landscapes and the atmosphere of fairyland. 
 
 MUIR. Our national parks. 
 
 Written by a genuine lover of nature who knows 
 more about the forests and streams, the mountains and 
 glaciers, the flowers and animals of the Pacific slope 
 than any other living person. 
 
 PARKER. Cumner’s son and other South Sea 
 folk. 
 
 The stories show the author’s keen sense for 
 dramatic situations and have the fascination of the un¬ 
 usual. 
 
 PARKMAN. Count Frontenac and New France 
 under Louis XIV. 
 
 Count Frontenac, so the author declares, is “The 
 most remarkable man who ever represented the Crown 
 of France in the New World.” 
 
 PEARY. North pole. 
 
 It is a story of intense interest, effectively told, 
 
 PEIXOTTO. Romantic California. 
 
 Even if the 219 pages of reading matter in this vol¬ 
 ume were less alluring, the profuse illustrations would 
 make it a strong ally of the tourist maxim, “See Am¬ 
 erica first.” 
 
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RIIS. Making of an American. 
 
 An autobiography of singular merit and frankness 
 and so full of interest that he who begins it must finish 
 it. 
 
 ROQSEVEET. African game trails. 
 
 A wise, manly and most invigorating record. 
 
 ROSS. Eatter day sinners and saints. 
 
 A fresh and arresting expression of oft-repeated 
 truth. 
 
 ROSTAND Chantecler, tr. by Gertrude Hall. 
 
 In this translation, the reader whose French has a 
 single rusty joint, will get practically all of the sub¬ 
 stance and no little of the spirit of a most interesting 
 play. 
 
 SIDE. Poems. 
 
 Read “Opportunity” and “A fool’s prayer” in this 
 collection and you will wish to read the other poems 
 and discover other gems. 
 
 SMITH, Goldwin. Reminiscences; edited by 
 Arnold Haultain. 
 
 An unusually interesting and instructive personal 
 narrative. 
 
 STANEEY. Autobiography. 
 
 This book is nothing short of absorbing in its inter¬ 
 est, not so much on account of the information it gives, 
 as for the spirit with which Stanley approached the 
 hard life-problems he had to solve. 
 
 STEVENSON. Weir of Hermiston. 
 
 The author’s skill in investing with absorbing in¬ 
 terest whatever he chooses to tell is most noticeable in 
 this book. 
 
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WHARTON. The hermit and the wild woman. 
 
 A collection of excellent short stories. 
 
 WHITE. Rules of the game. 
 
 The author has not written as strong a story as the 
 “Rules of the game.” 
 
 WHITE. Seven great statesmen in the warfare 
 of humanity with unreason. 
 
 The reader of this single volume will get a better in¬ 
 sight into the great events and the great human forces in 
 European history than he would be likely to do in a 
 more ambitious course in mediaeval and modern 
 history. 
 
 WIECOX.’ Rockies of Canada. 
 
 The book deserves its lasting popularity for it is 
 useful, and a guide to natural beauties that some day 
 will count their annual pilgrims by thousands. The il¬ 
 lustrations are beautiful. 
 
 (Some of the notes are from reviews cited in the 
 Book Review digest. 
 
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