All lovers of good short stories are familiar with Mr. Sullivan's polished, subtle and wholly delightful work and this new collection finds him at his best. A new Novel, opening to Readers one of the few untilled fields of Fiction O Pioneers! "O Pioneers!" is one of the great romantic novels of recent years - a story of American life done from an absolutely new point of view, a brilliant and intensely dramatic story of the Scandinavian and Bohemian pioneers of the Middle West. In Miss Cather's novel there are two heroines, either of them worth a novel in herself. The splendid Swedish girl, Alexandra Bergson, is left at the age of eighteen to take care of her mother and three younger brothers. She has the good business ability of her race and the independent spirit which has made the Swedish women leaders in the movement for the emancipation of their sex. Alexandra becomes the richest and most influential citizen of her county, but her success is embittered by the jealousy of her less intelligent brothers. Out of this jealousy results a family quarrel about property, which affords some of the most dramatic scenes of the story. The feminist theme of the novel is strong and convincing. Miss Cather maintains that only weak and unsuccessful men resent strength and achievement in women. It is a feudal attitude of her brothers that at last drives Alexandra to revolt. The second heroine is a very different kind of woman the little Bohemian, Marie Tovesky, whose eyes have yellow sparkles, like champagne, and whose love story is so tender and beautiful that it is the very story of Youth. One would not know where to look in American fiction for a story so gay or so tragic as hers. It is only by the happiest of accidents that a novelist can throw his net about a young creature so brilliant and palpitating with life and bring her alive into his pages. This novel is the very voice of those vast plains between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, and of the hope and faith and power that made that country what it is to-day. To sound at the start this note of the courage and triumph of her heroes, Miss Cather has taken her title from Walt Whitman's great hymn to progress, "Pioneers, O Pioneers!" "O Pioneers!" Quickly Written "O Pioneers!" is the fruit of the vivid impressions of the author's early years, caught with the trained workmanship of a practiced writer. 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