Part 2

=89. Happy Valley.= Ann Shannon Monroe. Tells of homesteading experiences in the sage-brush country where the author lived the life of a settler. She first attracted attention by her story, Making a Business Woman, which appeared in Saturday Evening Post. It is said that she has a hand in the editorial columns of the Ladies Home Journal.

=90. Heart of the Red Firs.= (1908.) Ada Woodruff Anderson.

=91. Strain of White.= (1909.) Same author.

=92. Rim of the Desert.= (1914.) Same author. The last of these three has scenes laid in Alaska, on the Sound, at Scenic and in the Wenatchee valley. The development of the desert by irrigation into the fertile fields and the productive orchard, the tragedy of homesickness and starvation in Alaska, the fatal avalanche in the Cascades in the winter of 1909-1910 at Wellington, all are woven into the story. It includes also an attack on the Roosevelt-Pinchot conservation policy which reflects the sentiment somewhat widely held on the Pacific Coast. These features have helped to give the story a wide reading near home but it is a good seller the country over. Very speedily it reached a fourth edition and in its first year sales reached fifty thousand. Mrs. Anderson is the daughter of a Washington pioneer. Those who know her tell us that her home-making and family-raising are as successful as her story-writing. Some one said "She is good for several things and good at them all."

=93. The Hired Man.= Florence Roney Weir.

=94. Busher's Girl.= Same author.

=95. In Hampton Roads.= (1899.) Charles Eugene Banks. A novel of the Civil War.

=96. Child of the Sun.= (1900.) Same author.

=97. Man with a Scar.= Ella Holly and Jessie Hoskins; noms de plume, Warren and Alice Fones. A little story from the Christian Science viewpoint.

=98. Mary of Magdala.= (1909.) Harriette Gunn Roberson. A fascinating story of Rome and Alexandria and Jerusalem. Told with real dramatic power. Mrs. Roberson has for two years edited a page in one of the publications of the Baptist Church under the title, Heart Talks to Girls on Making the Most of Life. As speaker on the Chautauqua platform she has made many friends through the Northwest.

=99. Preliminaries and Other Stories.= (1912.) Cornelia Atwood Pratt Comer.

=100. The Daughter of a Stoic.= (1896.) Same author, before marriage.

=101. A Daughter of Martyrs.= (1906.) Same author. These are short story collections. Mrs. Corner has of late done a good deal of magazine work of a high order, her contributions usually appearing in the Atlantic. Once when asked for a biography she replied, "I really haven't any. I doubt if any one ever got along so comfortably with so little biography since the world began." Of the town where she used to live she said, "It was a kind of a town which drives one into the inner world in search of excitement." When a publisher asked for a photograph she wrote "I have no photographs of myself except some very old ones in storage and no time to get any new ones."

=102. A Rocky Mountain Sketch.= Lou Gertrude Diven. It introduces some characters drawn beautifully and clearly as by a master of fiction, yet there is evidence that compels the reader to feel that it is a true narrative. Many stories and essays by Mrs. Diven are in print.

=103. Tillicum Tales.= (1907.) Seattle Writers' Club. A collection of short stories contributed by members of the club.

=104. Unrest, a Story of the Struggle for Bread.= (1915.) W. R. Parr. A tale of industrial order, the subject treated from a socialistic standpoint.

=105. The Woman Who Went to Alaska.= Mrs. Mary L. Kellogg. She has written several books on Alaska under the nom de plume May Kellogg Sullivan. Her home is near Matanuska in Southwestern Alaska where she has spent seven seasons.

JUVENILE

=106. Billy Tomorrow.= (1909.) Sarah Pratt Carr.

=107. Billy Tomorrow in Camp.= (1910.) Same author.

=108. Billy Tomorrow Stands the Test.= Same author. The scene of each of the series is laid in Washington.

=109. Fingers That See.= (1914.) Nancy Buskett. Dedicated to her blind friends all over the world. It is the story of a blind girl. One learns to love the child who asks, "Can people who see, see 'round corners?" and says, "Lovin' isn't just feelin'. Its sometimes doin' things for people." The author was once musical director in a school for the blind. At another time she edited the Cynthia Grey department in four northwestern dailies.

=110. His Tribute.= (1909.) Florence Martin Eastland. Illustrates the value of good cheer.

=111. Matt of the Waterfront.= (1909.) Same author. A story of patriotism. Both have a Seattle setting.

=112. Montana the Land of Shining Mountains.= (1909.) Katherine Berry Judson. The early history of Montana, intended for school children.

=113. Early Days in Old Oregon.= (1916.) This, Miss Judson's latest book, contains much material from sources never before made accessible.

=114. Mrs. Spring Fragrance.= (1912.) Edith M. Eaton (Sui Sin Far, nom de plume). Chinese stories told in a charming way.

=115. Redcoat and Redskin.= Alice Harriman. A boy's story of the early days of the Royal Northwest mounted police of Canada.

=116. The Yankee Doodle Book.= (1914.) Gertrude D. Best. (Nom de plume Gertrude Optimus.) For very little people. When the author wanted to buy some Christmas books for her little friends she did not find what she liked. She was not pleased with the idea of filling children's heads with nonsense rhymes, good only to be forgotten, and the crazy pictures of children's books were not all of them to her liking. Like the president of a California University, she too made a book for little people. He did it by writing rhymes still more nonsensical and impossible. She did it by putting into jingle form some facts of United States history. The pictures are attractive and true to period. The rhymes are as catchy as Simple Simon and Jack Horner, but when a child has sung these over for a few weeks he knows for keeps some people and some happenings in American history.

POETRY

=117. Blue Grass Ballads.= William Lightfoot Visscher.

=118. Harp of the South.= Same author.

=119. In Childland Straying.= (1895.) Carrie Shaw Rice. Her most popular poems are Where the Rhododendrons Grow, and The Rare Old, Fair Old State of Washington, read before the State Press Association.

=120. Lyrics of Fir and Foam.= Alice Rollit Coe.

=121. Quiet Music.= (1892.) Charles Eugene Banks.

=122. Where Brooks Go Softly.= (1896.) Same author. Mr. Banks is more than "the poet." He is a polished writer of essays, and a discriminating critic of the drama and the stage.

=123. The Silesian Horseherd.= (1903.) A translation by Oscar Augustus Fechter from the German of Max Mueller.

=124. Songs from Puget Sea.= (1898.) Herbert Bashford. Written while Mr. Bashford was state librarian.

=125. Song of the City.= Anna Louise Strong.

=126. Storm Songs.= Same author. These volumes contain poems revealing a strong character and a finely trained mind. Miss Strong has written many other verses and many essays, among them On the Eve of Home Rule and Psychology and Prayer. She has been director of Child Welfare exhibits in American cities and in Dublin, Ireland. At present, 1915-1916, she is exhibit expert connected with the Children's Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor.

=127. Songs o' the Sound.= Alice Harriman.

=128. Songs of the Olympics.= Same author.

=129. Told in the Garden.= (1902.) Alice Lockhart Hughes. Lyrics by Mrs. Hughes have been set to music by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Sans Souci and de Koven.

=130. Voice of April Land.= Ella Higginson.

=131. When the Birds Go North Again.= Same author. This contains the Four-Leaf Clover, her best known poem, which has been set to music by several composers and sung the country over.

UNCLASSIFIED PROSE

=132. Among Student Friends.= (1914.) Martha E. Libby.

=133. Alaskaland, A Curious Contradiction.= (1914.) Mrs. Isabel Ambler Gilman. Now a practicing lawyer in Alaska. A collection of prose and poetry some of which had appeared in Northwest Journal of Education, Westerner, Post-Intelligencer, Alaska-Yukon Magazine and Alaska papers.

=134. By Order of the Prophet, A Tale of Utah.= (1902.) Alfred Hylas Henry.

=135. The Danger in the Movement Toward Direct Legislation.= Same author.

=136. Clean and Strong.= Rev. E. A. King.

=137. Friendship.= Margaret Goodrich.

=138. Life's Common Way.= Same author. These are collections of well chosen sentiments. The first was re-published a few months ago.

=139. George Dana Boardman Pepper.= (1914.) A biography. Frederick Morgan Padelford. The life of a New England college president. It is one of many works which have earned for Professor Padelford a high place in the list of authors of pure literature.

=140. Samuel Osborn, Janitor, A Sketch.= (1913.) Same author.

=141. Early Sixteenth Century Lyrics.= (1907.) Same author.

=142. Greek Essays on the Study and Use of Poetry.= Same author.

=143. Translations from Scaliger's Poetics.= (1905.) Same author.

=144. Old English Musical Terms.= (1900.) Same author. The Atlantic Monthly published the Pedigree of Pegasus; Cornhill Magazine, Browning Out West and Did Browning Whistle or Sing?; Suwanee Review published The Simple Life as Shakespeare Viewed It; and American Journal of Sociology the Civic Control of Architecture.

=145. Hawaiian Idylls of Love and Death.= (1908.) Herbert H. Gowen. Eleven myths, beautifully told "In the hope that the sketches may show that touch of nature which makes the whole world kin, which obliterates the distinction between white and black, between East and West, between the man of yesterday and the man of today." Dr. Gowen is a thorough scholar and a literary artist. During twenty years' residence in the state he has written oriental history, theology, travel, biography, fiction, (Chinese), and poetry.

=146. Outline History of China.= (1913.) Covers the country from the earliest times to the recognition of the Republic.

=147. The Life of Adele M. Fielde=, in preparation by Helen Norton Stevens. As a permanent memorial to Miss Fielde, four thousand copies will be placed in public and college libraries, women's headquarters, and educational centers for girls and young women. The remaining one thousand copies will be sold by subscription.

=148. The Mark in Europe and America.= Dr. Enoch A. Bryan.

=149. Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest.= Catherine Berry Judson. The author is first authority in this romantic field, at least as a collector. This book treats especially of the legends of Washington and Oregon.

=150. Myths and Legends of Alaska.= (1911.) Same author.

=151. Myths and Legends of California and Old Southwest.= (1913.) Same author.

=152. Myths and Legends of the Great Plains.= (1914.) Same author.

=153. When Forests Are Ablaze.= Same author. Is dedicated to the Mountaineers, whose aim it is "to preserve the beauties of the Pacific Northwest and who are yearly appalled by the havoc of forest fires."

=154. The Old Home.= (1912.) Susan Whitcomb Hassell. Memories of home and village life in the early years of Iowa and of Grinnell College.

=155. Prophets of the Soul: the Pioneers of Life.= (1915.) Dr. Lester L. West. Sermons, like editorials and addresses and quantities of other good literature, are not included in these outlines even when published in book form. Here is an exception. One Christmas some friends of Dr. West brought out a volume of his sermons,--five of them--under this title. They are the work of a poetic mind, choice in literary finish and with a strong spiritual appeal.

=156. Story of a Mother-love.= (1913.) Annette Fitch-Brewer. This tells a remarkable experience. When Mr. and Mrs. Brewer were divorced the court gave the custody of their one child to the father. The mother fought, not the divorce, but for a share at least in the care of her boy. While he was spending a few days with her she fled. For five years she evaded the father's efforts to trace them while he spent large sums in detective work posting photographs of the two all over the country as "fugitives from justice." Finally the arm of the law reached her, living in a little village under an assumed name. The law took the boy from his mother and in her loneliness she wrote this book. It is the experience of a bright observer who wandered thousands of miles with all her senses on the alert.

=157. That Something.= (1914.) William Witherspoon Woodbridge. A progressive form of mental science put in a new and original style. The writer believes in himself. What is rarer, he is teaching other people to believe in themselves. The book has met with great results. The publisher reports sales to every state in the union but three and a larger sale than any book ever published west of Chicago.

=158. Skooting Skyward.= (1912.) An earlier book by the same writer met with moderate success, perhaps because of the atrocious Josh Billings spelling which should have been buried with its originator.

=159. War or Peace.= (1911.) Hiram Martin Chittenden. A philosophical treatment of the theme. A splendidly optimistic, logical and sane chapter is on "the future hope."

=160. Ye Towne Gossip.= (1914.) Kenneth C. Beaton. A sparkling book, the first publication in book form by "K. C. B." He made a wide acquaintance by fourteen years of newspaper work in the state. Then in the daily Post-Intelligencer developed this form which gave him fame. Many readers turned first each morning to his column on the third page to see what "K. C. B." had to say. That little morning story was always an appeal to the heart, sometimes as a fountain of tears, sometimes as a wellspring of joy. A friend writes of him "He is a temperamental freak in that he is an emotional Britisher and is not the least bit ashamed of his emotions."

OTHER WRITERS

Throughout the state are men and women whose pens have brought them distinction though their names have not appeared on the back of a book. Some are contributors, occasional or regular, to periodical literature. Some are regular staff-writers. The three we name first are on the P.-I.

Tom Dillon wrote for Mother's Day an exquisite prayer which was widely copied and was read into the Congressional Record of 1914. Full of fine feeling.

Joseph Blethen has published many short stories and wrote the libretto for "The Alaskan," an opera produced in New York City.

Jack Bechdolt has had boys' adventure stories in the Youth's Companion, articles in Technical World, Popular Mechanics and Leslie's. From general editor of a Sunday edition and author of feature stories in this state he has recently been called to become feature editor of the Kansas City Star.

Frederick Ritchie Bechdold has had articles in McClure, American Magazine and Harpers Weekly.

Bernice E. Newell, a newspaper woman of many years experience, has written exquisite bits of prose and verse. The Mountain, a poem first published in Review of Reviews was later bound constituting the first book published in Tacoma. She was regular contributor to the Northwest Magazine and has been in Sunset, Woman's Home Companion and The Kindergarten.

Bertha Knatvold Mallett has written for Colliers and Century.

I. Newton Greene has done feature and special stories for Harpers Weekly, Success, Life, Technical World, Smart Set, and Pacific Motor Boat. Human interest stories. Editorials.

R. P. Wood has appeared in Life and in the London Daily Mail.

Warren Judson Brier, who has done substantial literary work before coming to the West, recently had published in the National Magazine The Incarceration of Ambrose Broadhead, a strong appeal for needed reform. He has now in preparation an American literature designed for class-room use.

Adele M. Ballard, of Town Crier staff, has won an enviable reputation as art and music critic and is often quoted by Chicago and New York journals. Writes short stories, verses and special articles which have appeared in The Lady, (London), Collier's and Reedy's Mirror. Her poems, Pierrot and The Concert, are of high order.

Ruth Dunbar, formerly on Seattle Times, has contributions in Woman's Home Companion and Vogue, and is now on the staff of Every Week, New York City.

M. Pelton White has contributed to over fifty publications, Collier's and various magazines, women's and children's periodicals, farm journals and religious publications. An order for forty children's stories was recently finished. Last year's sales numbered fifty-three.

Goldie Funk Robertson has been most successful in her articles on child problems and home economics. She is now on the staff of the Mothers' Magazine, and has made frequent contributions to Woman's Home Companion, Life, Table Talk, Etude and Modern Priscilla, sometimes using the names Jane Wakefield and Louise St. Clair.

Sara Byrne Goodwin, in competition with hundreds of story writers, took a Ladies Home Journal prize.

Rosalind Larson won an American Magazine prize.

Elizabeth Young Wead has contributed articles to Lippincott's, The Independent, and Country Gentleman. She has just ready for publication a lineage book of the Van Patten family.

Anna Brabham Osborne won a prize in the Club Stories contest. In ten years she has sold sixty-four short stories, seven serials, and nine feature articles. They appear in the Youths' Companion, Overland Magazine, New England Magazine, American Magazine, Christian Endeavor World and the various church publications for young people.

Harry L. Dillaway, lover of birds and bears, has contributed to Shield's Magazine, Recreation, and Pacific Sportsman. For a syndicate of papers he edited "Bird-lore," creating an interest which culminated in a great bird-house building contest by children. Pictures of this enterprise were shown in the Ladies Home Journal of July, 1916.

Harry J. Miller's humorous verses easily find their way into many newspapers of the state.

Lines worth knowing:

THE EVERGREEN PINE

The rivers to the ocean flow, The sunsets burn and flee; The stars come to the darkling sky, The violets to the lea; But I stay in one lone sweet place And dream of the blue sea. The harebell blooms and is away, The salmon spawns and dies; The oriole nests and is on the wing, Calling her sweet good-bys.... But I, when blossom and fruit are gone, Yearn, steadfast, to the skies.

I am a prayer and a praise, A sermon and a song; My leaf-chords thrill at the wind's will To nocturnes deep and strong; Or the sea's far lyric melodies Echo and prolong. When April newly decks my form In silken green attire, I light my candles, tall and pale, With holy scarlet fire-- And straight their incense mounts to God, Pure as a soul's desire.

My branches poise upon the air, Like soft and level wings; My trembling leaves the wind awakes To a harp of emerald strings-- Or thro' the violet silences A golden vesper sings. I am a symbol and a sign.... Thro' blue or rose or gray; Thro' rain and dark; thro' storms of night; Thro' opaline lights of day-- Slowly and patiently up to God I make my beautiful way.

--Higginson.

ENSHRINED

"My son" .... Her tone was soft with wistfulness-- "Would now be twenty-one ... If he had lived."

A silence fell ... And thought sped swiftly back Through years of fulness and content-- Save for one gray thread of loneliness. For she had never parted company With him, Who left her arms bereft Of her man-child.

"And so," Again she spoke, "I watch the youths Who grow apace with him in years, And all their winning traits I seize upon, invest my son with them, And love all youth the more Because I too Hold in my heart A vivid memory."

Again the silence fell ... I turned away-- For I had glimpsed the sanctuary Of a mother's soul, In which a spirit was enshrined For all Eternity.

--Adele M. Ballard

Long hours we toiled up through the solemn wood, Beneath moss-banners stretched from tree to tree; At last upon a barren hill we stood, And, lo, above loomed Majesty.

--Herbert Bashford

NIGHT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Thou hear'st the star songs clear, When all is silent here, And I, asleep. Spheres, ringing music rare Through upper realms of air, 'Round thy crowned head, may dare Their vigils keep.

--Bernice E. Newell

"Great Mountain, who once to a pagan race meant God, Make us to realize our shame, That, failing to sing praises to thy wondrous form, We stoop to quarrel o'er a name."

--Anon.

"The mountain-lover does not always gaze at Rainier and Olympus. He has learned that the foot-hills have a charm and an interest of their own. And they too point upward."

--Club Stories

UP, MY HEART

The dark, dark night is gone, The lark is on the wing, From black and barren fields he soars, Eternal hope to sing.

And shall I be less brave, Than you sweet lyric thing? From deeps of failure and despair Up, up, my heart, and sing. The dark, dark year is gone; The red blood of the spring Will quicken nature's pulses soon, So up, my heart, and sing.

--Ella Higginson

THAT SOMETHING

A man's success depends alone on That Something. That Something of his soul. Abraham Lincoln found it and it warmed the cold floor on which he lay and studied. It added light to the flickering glow of the wood fire, that he might see to read.

It spurred him on and on and on.

That Something is an awful force.

It made of a puny Corsican the Ruler of the World.

It made of a thin-chested bookkeeper the money king of his age.

It made of Edison the great man of a great country.

It made Carnegie. It made Woodrow Wilson. It made Roosevelt.

It can make you.

And it is now in your soul. Awake it now. "That Something."

"No, it can't be done, it can't be done," murmured the professor. "I have drunk deeply of the cup of life, and I am now drinking of the dregs. The cup is filled but once, and when it's gone there's nothing left but old age and poverty."

"You fool," cried Randolph, leaning forward and shaking the little man roughly. "You almost had That Something within your power, and now you sing it back to sleep with your silly song of pessimism. It's the false philosophy, that such as you sing, which has kept men in the ruts of their own digging for centuries past.

Wake man, wake That Something within your soul."

--W. W. Woodbridge

THE GAME

"I win," cried Death with a triumphant grin. "My body, yes, but not the soul within."

--Harriman

MY MOTHER--A PRAYER

For the body you gave me, the bone and the sinew, the heart and the brain that are yours, my mother, I thank you. I thank you for the light in my eyes, the blood in my veins, for my speech, for my life, for my being. All that I am is from you who bore me.

For your smile in the morning and your kiss at night, my mother, I thank you. I thank you for the tears you shed over me, the songs that you sung to me, the prayers you said for me, for your vigils and ministerings. All that I am is by you who reared me.

For the faith you had in me, the hope you had for me, for your trust and your pride, my mother, I thank you. I thank you for your praise and your chiding, for the justice you bred into me and the honor you made mine. All that I am you taught me.