A Romance of the Iowa Wheat Fields. THE ROAD TO RIDGEBY'S. BY FRANK BURLINGAME HARRIS.
12mo, cloth, decorative. $1.50
A simple but powerful story of farm life in the great West, whichcannot fail to make a lasting impression on every reader. In thisbook Mr. Harris has done for the wheat fields what Mr. Westcott hasdone for rural New York and Mr. Bacheller for the North country. Itis in no way imitative of _David Harum_ or _Eben Holden_; and, unlikeeach of these books, it is not in the portrayal of a single quaintcharacter that its power consists. Mr. Harris has taken for his storya typical Iowa farmer's family and their neighbours; and, althoughevery one of the characters is realistically portrayed, the sense ofproportion is never lost sight of, and the result is a picture of reallife, artistic in the highest sense, as being true to nature. It isa wholesome story, full of the real heroism of homely life, a bookto make the reader better by strengthening his belief in the truthof self-sacrifice and the survival of sturdy American character.