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j THE SUN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1915.
BOOKS OF THE WEEK SEEN IN REVIEW AND COMMENT
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CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASON'S
LATEST BOOKS
Owen Johnson on the Wickedness of Wall Street
Bertha Runkle's Romance of Army Life.
New Fiction by Rex Beach, Florence Morse Kings
ley, Corra Harris, Louis Joseph Vance and Others.
New Stories by Edna Ferber and Marjorie Benton
Ccoke- Glimpses of France. Italy, Spain, Greece.
r
It I against the wickedness of tVnlt
?treet Hint Owen Johnson feels culled
upon to pfSaeh in "Mahlnsj Monty"
(Frederick A. Stokes Company) His
hero hum a soul nhove lili fathers
btialnes.ii With three classmates; he
lrusse. noon after graduation, tlielr
real ambition; three of them wish
tar power and aim to obtain money
ejulekly. The hern enter a broker's
office, where under the protection of
a treat npeciilstnr he flrat pnlns und
(ben loaes. tirinatnR illsnster on his
friends. This reform him; he takes
the approved cure of etartlnu all over
gain aa a Inborer In a mnehine simp.
Ma also arrange liis affair of the
heart by tranferrlnn hi affect Ion
from the speculator' worldly daugh
ter to her you niter and more impul
el sister. Then there I a panic
In which the speculator la ruined
through hi wife's elflhly retiring
to aid him with the money he hn
Mttled on her. and the hero decide
to enjer hi father' factory, as ho
ahould have done at the start. In
plte of the commonplace against the
method of Wall Street and the mis
deeds of capitalists, many not very
intettatlng financial operations und
various impressionistic descriptions of
Now York life, the tone and construc
tion recall Mr. Johnson's run- school
tale. It in n marked falling oil from
The Salamander."
The first part of Hertha RUnklO'l
"Straight Down the Crooked l.ane"
(The Century Company), with the
Sincere and Impulsive child, her
worldly mother, her amiable step
father and the mystery Is very prom
ising. We care less for the vomit!
woman when she prows tip and mar
ries suddenly, and rather resent being
dragged to the Philippines. There her
domestic tumbles seem pretty arti
ficial and her hUabemVa Jeiilouny
wholly unwarranted lie lubooquontlj
acts like a lunatic which may fit in
with the Philippine setting hut Is
puzzling to renders unaccustomed te
army manners. To set matters riglit
the scene is transf red to Japan,
where the conduct of the heroine he
roine still more incoherent, though
the author arbitrarily explains every
thing. The story is readable and sev
eral of the people Interesting; It Is
n pity thai instead of developing litem
and holding to her plot the author
should have made room for her im
pression of travel.
An amusing Idea is worked out en
tertainingly. Wholly apart from the
moral it con
in Oraco Livingston
Mill I.utz's "The ihsession Of Victoria
Oraeen" (J " LlpplneoM Company).
A wealthy middle aged spinster In a
quiet Pennsylvania town decides to
take Into her home her nephew, a
-A lA hnl
prmv "u .Z"jy", , :
UrOUg-'U Ol' III Lie .-I.e. i
She ei-s at once that she can do noth- .
Ing with bun unless she enter Hit"
Ms life anil that of the companions lie
makes, who are the boy of the worst
raptttatlon In town. Bo she Joins in;
their amusements and takes up ih"r
Ways, to the scandal Of her Inquisitive 1
neighbors, but she reaches the better j
Instincts of the boys and straightens
them out. The heroine is charming
and her sharp tongued friend is amus. ,
ing. but the beys ,nc painfully angelic
and Virtue triumph ostentatiously
The Mexican muddle Is bad enough
as It is without being complicated by
fiction, anil it detracts from the inter
est of Hex Beach's "Heart ot the Pun-
gsjt" (Harpers). The Mexican wno ap-1 0ejney ,,,,, disobeying orders, had
pear In the tale are our old friends the , wn SPX,(, , ,,,.,,, that hiim
srreacr, boastful, treacherous 0d b0 service and had returned with the
aantrutnary. but unable to cope With sexton's gun in time to shoot a man.
fig Intelligence gnd brawn of the noble i Wallop by name, serv ant to Dick
Bjrlngo. Chief among them Is a comic tu0jr, leader of the Invaders, as he
vera, trnndlt Who makes lovo, murders (Wallop) was about to "pop" Cap)
and roh.i with equal facility ami Who 1 n mm a pistol.
.i foiled at last. The heroine is ill There are timis whin II Is a severe
decidedly obstinate young woman with genial not to quote a few words from
a man a for getting Into dangerous ;, story, and we , told in ibis instance
dilations from which she must be tM Vely InolltiHtlon It was this
r-cued. whose domestic life is made way! "EVell us tlie trigger (Ingei
luthappy by bttsband who deterlo- lot the servitor Wallop crooked ahoul
r. te rapidly. The energetic hern is (he pull, and a man's life hung on the
fc groUBled l-v Ilia dread of hereditary fan 0f Ihe dug, a loud report startled
Itisanitv. In the end everything cornea I me hursei Wullop swa..i in his
out right with some violence. The ! saddle und fell prune. While Pick
uthnr aerfltH '" have exaggetated no- ,inv. smitten on I hi casque by Hill's
tlong aboit Heredity and to find so gsurd. whh beaten to the ground, where
ne-y on ine rrxai noroer unaurac-
tlve,
There
i
nothing 'mt troulile ami
Unpleasant nesi in
Kingeli ' The it
iiio.id. Me ail and (
Kill he regretted b
Klorence Mrne
nrl of piititirn"
'mnpahyl, which
HioKe who have
Uked the heroine aiid hor friends, only
the level headed dreseinskor conies
on' linspollml and h-inian I'lillnra
after murrlage is troubled h- jealous)
o' het lnisoao.i s -st vile anil by a
morbid craving fr liahy Why the
gutlior doe. not glvS her one III t",. U Ninokinu lu her liaud. "Ureal
natural w c we cannot mske out; herlOodl" he exclaimed, "It's s woman ! "
deprlvlna her of th" one she manaaea Hla aurprlaa surprised uh. In the
to obtain i" a-atiton cruelty When frontlaplece picture, where this maid
the reader Is imi nccui'led with the en s shown siitinu with tho young
oordid trailed-. .,f the strange family tJaptaln on iuk great white warhorse,
lu the farmhouae he mual dread thai 1
a imple girl mil) no wrong ami lor.
relief listen to tlie unusually III na-
tnreti gossip of ths tillage women
gVmolhtng vet-ma t.. have soured t'.e
author and madi her rend her handi
work .n abnormally imaginative and de-
elded little girl makes all her eiders :
4c whHt she wishes in Kmllv t!alvin
Vlgke's "siiEiiiinn hiiik the Kirs" (A. I
C. Mrt'lurg and I omimtiy, Chicago).
She has a little sister and brother, '
ssho are natural children, a patient
and compliant mother and a father
as imaginative as herself, who has I
Invested a mathine by which he can j
discover the true benl of any person I
vfhrougrh the color he emanates. This, i
gay be allegory
Of part of some new
Cntlt of the "gurs." The child uies's
a number of (pirer persons and lead
them to do what Is right. The prob
lem attacked are beyond the range of
children. 00 that this tale must be
adult Art ln The little girl's talk II
bright and the other children are nat
ural nnd amusing
Mora man is pulverized by Corrn
Harris In "The Cn-Cltlitens"! Dmilileilay,
I'age and Compnny) nnd woman suf
frage sectir.d In a Southern county.
Hnergetlc measure are. naturally, re
quired for this, An old lady, who Is
hot merely the wealthiest person In
the county, but whose wealth consists
of mortgage nnd no'e that control
the, fortune of nearly every man in
the county, leave all she has to thre(.
trustees for the purpose of securing
vote for women They organize the
women, terrorize their debtors, buy
up the confidential papers in the hands
of the local political boss ; they have
the bank and the t unity newspaper
In their hands, and they carry the
election without trouble The author
permits no scruple to tand in the
way of her women politician! and telle
many tales of man's Inhumanity to
Woman.
in "Nobody" tocorge 11 Doran com
pany) Louis Joseph VanCO varies the
programme of tales of hurried, pre
posterous adventures by putting a
Woman through them. A tired antl
riespeiate shop girl, sleeping on the
roof of a New York house. Is driven by
a lUCCesiion of natural Incidents to
take shelter In another house In 'tie
snn.e block Then things begin to hap
pen and Within twenty-four hours
.'he is Installed ns secretary to a rich
old lady in a distant country house
Unfortunately the author thinks It
necessary to introduce some high pres.
sure love business there, which
A ROMANTIC CHRONICLE
FROM A FAVORITE HAND
0 Anabaptist cobblers of Hogtna graceful arm revealed by a half
e out In the murk ot night ' s,,,,rv,r'1 hd ,u""1
t M ( 1 1 1 1 : 1 1 h l'liii ; i , i 1 1 111 1 I ,- I i ' .
an.', powerfully disposed of the troop
of longhaired interlopers who had
dared to come gallivanting about the j
neighborhood of Bly. where Col. Oliver 1
Cromwell was even then dulling the I
formidable material of Ics model regi- ;
nient, is related with much liveliness!
and piavtuic.ess ot manner, and
with a sufficiency of unmistakable
antiquarian coloring, by S. P. Croek-
ett iii his story of "Hal
Ihe Iron-
sides" (Fleming h Revel Company)
Hal was only is years old, bill lu
lled the Hog Lanero a a veteran
might have done Certainly it was
valuable assistance that was rendered
to him by the slim anil pretty maid
Who mounted nimbly behind him on
Hereward, his large white warhorse,
as he and bis g I men were pass- ,
ing through the encampment of gvp-
sies -a highly picturesque body as he I
came upon them picketed and disposed I
for their nights res'
This attractive maiden knew the
whereabouts of (he invaders and
showed the way She was lively nnd
Informal in conversation "Anybody
can pull any old hell rope, but I gol the
sexton'!, gun and came hack ns fast as
I could run. If I had not he would
have popped you. Uood luck I came'"
she referred to an Incident of the
fray; she had been set down from
Capl rial's horse and dirled to
run away and rlns the church hall ,t
presenil) ne viemod mmsell prlsonei
his wHh still wnnduring,
fur lis si I disarmed,
hs it seemed,
rubbing his
steel imp from which the fair ring
lets hung In iuH ahuulrterSi and mut
lerlng, 'It waa s uiri. or Ihe devil In
t he sliaiic of i cii l she IM II " " Hal's-
aurprlse was as greui as Dick Uuuy's.
"I'o von i, now.' aaid the maiden lo
Hat. "I don't belli ro you have over
looked at me, i am not ao very ut
ile " in, i looked at the i i .-1 ri crea
ture ; Ihe aetion'a m u ;i must have been
Eve Dorre!
' Do you knew her?
' I Uvc you met her
if not you have yet to make
the acquaintance of one of the
most exquisite creations of
modern fiction.
You'll tmrl her at your
booksellers.
Eve Dorre!
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AM and C N Vilkarnso-n.
uilvTro oi "SECWTHlSTOKy A3 ,
EtVLALLD Vf LADY ?t.J(ff O'MALLEY C Do'atledajr F)l
change the character of hi heroine floor n gigantic lumberman, he foils
nnd Interferes with hi plot. The) the attempts on bis life of a wicked
reader Is kept puzzled, however, and foreman. bn protects an Indian
the confusion continue to the end. , maiden, he down the demon rum, he
which Is weakened by a needles at-'Pummels lis enemy, he become a
tack of conscience on the her line's . master of nil business and he wins the
part In order that the story may end BTlrl he love. Kvory chapter 10 reml-
where it started.
By Introducing a moving picture
company TV M Bower In "Jean of the
I-ury A " tl.lttle. Brown und Company)
ha made a variation in her usual
stories, but hardly an Improvement
Her heroine Is properly attractive and
so.ls the cowboy lover, so far n he
Is allowed to appear, and a mystery
that must be solved is provided With
the picture people and their troubles,
however, funny as they are. all sense
of reality is lost, the scene t un into
he wild West of the photo plays ;md
ittention is distracted from the s'ory
the author began to tell
The adroit use of weli worn tnale
flal by James It llendiyx mnkes an
exciting tale of "The promise" m
P. Putnam's Bone). The hero Is a
powerful youth. He turn from his
excesses on the OrCat White Way to
the salutary West A providential
railroad Wreck leads bun to a lumber
camp; he slays a pack of wolves, he
tom 0( ,.,,.., ,lu. prtticoat it-
sell all are quite ,,,v sly feminine
Wo notice too that Capt. Hal. whose
'""" n U' i",K,"rH ln "'" Pc"
f I Iff II m:isM v IV: i r- ii ir i if nt li... -jt
to ,, ..,, -,, ,... i w , .,
to make a poem hv Will. am Watson.
The l.ady Molii Woodham was gn-1
other fair maiden verj srdently at
i tallied tu Capt. Hal; she was a hv po-
crltS and a tease: I lively person ,.i-
: pable of variety ; now stormy, now
I kittenish! quick In her transitions
from laughtet to tears; a little silly at
tunes sne must have seemed very
. formidable to Hal when he found her
pollening up licr I race ,,f pistols at
, Danbury Towers, Was she really for
- Ki ig Charles and gal net Cromwell
and Ihe Parliament and Hal? Nsiv.
that wus merely an affectation, a
Whim a pretty te.
The story js full of adventure, of
etirrlng incident. Hal went as , ipy
!" the royal city of Oxford, h- pre
tended to hen physician from Mesopo
tamia with medicines from the Harden
of K iea and magical knowledge ac-
qulred on the borders ot China He
Imposed up i King Charles and sold
great quantities or medicine to
soldiers of the royal u-my His i
boy, Sidi. who d.d Juggling trlckl
to
ive
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wi-iim ni wonoei ami admiration.
wai really the enamoured ma n who
shot Wallop, the servant It per. With
the lestona gun el Oedney. Hal's I
Success as a spy was assured when he i
cured the Princess l.u.u s spaniel of!
I malady caused by overfeeding This !
beaut fui bul reprehensible princess,! Nothing utilitarian or technical will
wan was so frankly Immoral and 1,0 found in Prank Hrangwyn's "A
whose pink toes are described by the Rook of Bridges'- tjohn Lane Corn
romancer with such playful fervor, pany), for which W Bhaw Bparrow
Bcquolntrd Hal readily With all the ha provided the t.-xt . as both artist
military plans of the royalists so thai and commentator consider only the
!' he had to do after cur ng t he 1 n ,-t u esono character of hrMsaa
spaniel was to ride away to ctomwoil Nsej-iy all the famous bridges of
s i"" !-'" "'at expectant and France, Italy mid Spain an- repro
great commander. duced In the thirty-six brilliant col-
Alas for the shocking fate of the ored plates, su. h ils the III lit... the
i jhautloua lady who s., readily favornd bridge at Avignon and the Alcantara
Hal with her confidence! Rut she .,, Toledo and the artist goes further
was terribly avenged, The chapter I afield In b.s vigorous black und whita
nt It led "The Hewing of Aaao" da. I si.,,.i,e m.- ..,....e... i. ..i...h.i..
i ' i n-1 rotnwi u s method of doing
Justice lu this crossly Wicked matter.
ami we am mistaken if ii does no)
make Ihe reader shudder. The atory
telle of (he Crushing down ma! the
; shearing in twain and Ihe lopping off
I ill pleees of Uip King s men hy the
t'romweltiana at M.tratnn Moor and
; Na.setiy. There is plenty to keep the
- reader'a Interest very mm h alive,
eariTh
iVW
Stan, e. . ... sAvsVtf
8y -G.WodeKo
Amusing from start to
finish." New York. Sun.
(tood, clean, ioaenions
fun." Afic York Times.
I hat rare nova tv a
ireally funny story."
Utvttand Plain Dealer.
II l It ...L M, ......
Illnal ruled SI an ,
0 APPLETON t C0J4EW YORK
m mrm
V . . ZS
nlsccnt of the st.ige, hut Is effective
SHORT STORIES.
In "Off Sandy Hook" (Frederick A.
Blokes Company) tho lady who BOW
uses the pen name Richard Dehan
has gathered together twenty-six of
lief thorl Stories, nearly ill humbrottS,
They preserve a pretty high average,
as all her work does; they are bright
and amusing and fulfil thelt- purpose
of entertaining
Pretty realistic sketches of rtrit.h
army life, tome of them dealing With
oonditioni in the present war, will he
round In Captain it. w. Campbell's
"Private spu.i Tatnsoh" (Appletonsi
The hero Ii a product of the DlMgoW
slums. !),, p u through the routine
-f army training in t!:. s-iccessive
tales, get Into all possible trouble and
flgl ts UkS a hero. The Alcoholic and
pugilistic sales of army life are exag
gerated probsjbly in these tales and
the humor tend to practical Jokes,
bul the t ties urv Interestlns,
The . neraetic saleswoman heroine of
B!dna Ferber has to be broken to do-
inestlc life in "Rmms MoChesney
Co." i Frederick a. Btokea Company).
Ait.-r the first ta'e ,,f South Ameri
can enterprise the stones are more
closely connected than in the previous
1 ks, the account uf the marriage.
of the mutual accommodation to the
new conditions, of the heroines with
drawing Into tiie background when
she must, forms something like con-
tlnuous narrative, As usual there is
pathoS beneath the humor The reader
will continue to :,Ue and a. Inure Miss
I . iher's capable heroine.
Home capital darky storle are told
by Royal Dixon lu Signs is Signs'
(George w. Jacobs ami company,
Philadelphia). The narrator is an
old family rook in Texas and her
listeners are the white children she
has brought up. She tells a Vigoro li
title of a reviv-il meeting, and has
her hands full with the preparation!
for her marriage with the elder The
dialect sin iis. s is fluent and pictur
esque. The illustrations are good.
A successful actress, who has ,ie.
voted her life to other, tires of It
all and decides to kill herself In .Mar
jorie Benton Cooke'a "The Dual Alli
ance" (Doubledav. Page and Com
pany). A disillusioned lawyer who is
a candidate Tor political Office induces
her Instead to go through the form of
marrying him ami acting us ins pan
ner for six months, she becomes In-
(crested In his campaign, they spend
11"U' n atioii eamninc in I s-tps Pneti
ana by the time he is elected are In
va Wth each other, it is a pretty,
f somewhat mechanical, love tale
MANY LANDS.
lu bis very readable description and
historical notes, and the render will
pardon Ins ,-lToi t lo sprt-nd I he colt of
"pontology." The quarto size of the
vnlemo allows Juatiue to h,- dono to
W or thi m
Lazy A
Thr Arlvrntiir- nf a
Moving Pieturu Aotrtu
By B. M. BOWER
When her father is convicted
of murder Jean vows to
prove his innocence. Inter
woven with the adventures
of Jean is a dramatic tale ot
the movies. Realism with
a punch. $1.30 nat
At all booksellers
Little, Brown A Company
Pabllshers Boston
ssjbsi
Mr. Bparurwyn's pictures; it Is also
a beautiful specimen of typographic
art.
The results of an archaeological pll-
grlmage through Magna (Jrucla are
offered hi the forty lithograph con
tained In "Joseph Pcnnell's Picture In
the Ijonil of Temples" (J. B. I.lpplncott
Company), accompanied by the artist's
record of hi Impressions and his coin-
merits on each picture. The Journey
began In Sicily at Taormlna, next tho
art 1st lingered at Qlrgentl before cross
ing to the mainland to visit IVstum
and then wandering to Athens and
Hellas proper, where he made most of
hi drawing. It 1 a very Interesting
aeries of pictures that will be help-
fill to
thor'a
to travellers who follow the au-
route and to classical students.
For the stay at home who must
take their short holidays In the city
book Ilk Sarah Comstork's "Old
Hoads from the Heart of New York"
d. I. Putnam's Son) will be Wel
lcome, storting from the Buttery the
author strikes out thirty mile In
every direction and points out the In
teresting sights on the way. She be
gin with Brooklyn nnd Long Island,
then strikes Into New Jersey, first
south across the hav and then west
beyond the Hudson and wind up with
the exploration of the Bronx and be-
yond She properly acknowledge In-
dehtedness to others for much of the
AMELIE RIVES ON QUESTION
OF A WIFE'S RESPONSIBILITY
,mehe Hives (the rrmcvs Troabcti
key), who has contributed one of the
ntOSt Interesting novels to the fall Uat
of baoks In "Shadows of I'i.itncs," has
given her charming heroine rather a
l-ar.l time of It In that her first h-.i-b.itid
Is a slave of drugs and her se.un.l
J." W Thotro,n.
Mmami ,va, to nrtt husband
; through harrowing ordeali until he
I finally dies ; but the second husband
I She divorces after n few ye.ue Of mar-
HSgl i not because of his Infidelity nut
te,iuf(. he unjustly atispectefl tie:
Prim e's TroUbetlkOy'S handling of t e
S'ety suggested Certain questions. The
author has since-. convictions regarding
th.se gOlnta which develop into the
. r-s s of her storv. And though she IS
'at present vacationing on her Virginia
estate vacationing by wrini-g anon
aries and a play! the Prlneesi will
ingly expressed her views on Ciont
po lit.
"How far do you think a wife's, re
sponsibility reaches T' she was ask I
"As I see it." replied the PrinCSSS. "a
wife's responsibility reaches a- far as
!t call go without excluding Self-respect
and without bevonrug transformed into
a serx-lle and aaelesa acquiescence In
other words, I cannot see th.T a fine
s':ong, uefal being should Sacrifice her
self Sndksely for I w, ak. Ignoble and
worthless .-htira- ter,
"As long a aha sec a reasonable hope
of helping her husband to overcome h'
evil ways V.e ShOOtd ststid by him.
TherS comes- a point In Such cases wh re
a trlfl w-lwnn nothing could OUtrag I -
eomea a party to the husband's v.,.. in
my opinion."
"In your opinion." s'-i ;,. n.-xt asked
"what is least forgivable in a husband,
hi Infidelity or his auiplcit n of hli
wife?"
"Tlie man who la unfaithful " hll
wife." !n - s.i'd. "is sure to suspect her
Of .i like offence, sooner or later. T '
question of forgiveness depends wholly
on character. Some women forgive sa- i
fens dutwardly j that is. their eel ..n.--
would infer forgiv i-iii-., but iri t i p
hearti they never forgive. Both offe-.. r-s
see-n to be en an en-iiil! low t-l inc."
"Wira. do you ooneJdee the nausea i
ing bull of the preva-Vttc of divorce
iii America ""
"vine of these causes, I should mv,
' the fraedean of the inw of divorce
Wre the laws of divorce the sane In
other countries as In America (Roman
Oatholle countries excepted) 1 fee; re.i
inably sure that divorce would be
equally prevalent in sucn e an tries t1---
itoman i 'a thoi r Church, by holding thi
marrkigs bond to be Indleaolubls ex. ep'
by death and certuia rave and e
tional causes, fetters Its devout mem
ber! by t e fear of divine Wt It h Ad :
lery, however, 1 not rare in Isn.Is wiiert
tve inhahi'mits are mostly Catholic,
though I have heard tii.it Ireland la it
txoeptlon, Of rour. . to be quite ft inV
.very one is aware that In th- countries
where the divorce laws are severe adul I
tery is ihe substitute for divorce and 10-
marrksgf
"Another cause 1 the n'.l. oh) c.1lls,, I
Involved in the Invparfsction of human
nature and the fallibility of human I
Judgment."
"Do you think the fault Is mora . ft.-n I
111 mans or tlie woman ' the prir.
cess w us ask.Hi
"I shoui-t say." she replied, "thwi
Adam and Btra are equally gn itv in thtal
respect It vsould require a oensui I
taker from a higher sphere to give the!
rx id tabulation of uoa male and ft-
male offenders, and 1 believe that tba
res-ilt would b even then six far Eve
and half a dozen for Adam"
"Winch show greater Bgtlonc sn-1 i
fortitude, American marrtag and d--'
FALL LITERARY
SUPPLEMENT n ,,
NEW YORK SUN
CONTRIBUTIONS HY
Booth Tarkington
George Barr McClltcheon
(jene Stratton Porter
Harry Leon Wilson
Samuel Merwin
Meredith Nicholson
Henry James Format)
Interviews with Publishers Reviews Notes
Highlights Among Fall Books
and
PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENTS
SAT., OCT. 16th
J matter contained In the book, but the
manner In which she ha arranged it
makes It very erviceablo. There are
ninny Illustrations und a useful map.
In the articles describing Australia
ami adjacent tropical land, collected
under the title "Australian Byways''
(Harpers), Norman Duncan, we fear,
has missed a great opportunity. He
has gone iimewhat out of hi way
in search of the picturesque and de
acrlla. entertainingly the traditional
Australia that Ehgllshmen and Amer
icans haVO been brought up to believe
In. Of the land that I developing
a literature of It own, which la forc
ing Itself on our notice, that I mak
ing experiments In politics and In civ
ilization that are being watched with
Interest and even Imitated, there is
no hint. It 1 the remnants of the
Australia of fiction that Mr- Duncan
ha hunted up, and wherever he could
the strange doing of savages, and this
he serves up acceptably.
Another classic of exploration, Dr.
Klishn Kent Kane's account of the
search for Sir John franklins expedi
tion, has been added to the "Outing
Adventure Library" under the title
"Adrift In the Arctic 100 Pack" (Out-
ling Publishing Company). It line been
abridged Judiciously, leaving In all the
Interesting portion of the original
I narrative, and in this form Is n Itorj
that will stir rcadets. young and old
yores or English and ('.. .... 1 eis-
tonis and trad it Ions?"
"1 believe that the answer to thll
quest. on . practically Involved In m:
answer to the forrgo'.ns quest. on. I
will say again, however, tliat, llk
everything else in s-s-i.-ii iif . H
pew led by CtVlMSSd being, .-tiaracter ..
the deciding '.actor. CertS n types pi
wen end women, wliether they live it .
land of easy divorce cr In lands vvl.ii
divorce I very iPftlcult to obtain. Wilt
i - in accord with their own nies.s
rims one may see. is one often doer,
a man or a worn in acting wlrh the moat
beatlt ful and devoted pat nce. In c.r
CumatanceS Where release vv -aid he --.
to obtain, and on the oi ir hand n
Circumstancee where they aie bound b;
every law and tradition, both men j-ni
-tien flinging aside rtKnslhllll a n
though they were chaff, sttd flying
eagerly to lawless pleasures.
"For my own part. While I find some
thing very ttnsleaaanl and even r;di u
Ioa.4 In cases wh. re people are divor-ej
im-re than once, I still thi:. It prefer
able te a course of secret Indulgent
and the hateful deceit that Invarlabl)
accompanies su-h a course."
Some Facts About
Some Popular Novels
In connection with their announce
ment of the publication of "Michael
O'Halloran." He?,,. Rtratton-Portrr'i new
novel. Doubleday, Page : Co. have Is
sued son-.e Interesting and significant
fact and figures in i gard to the pop
ularity of tin autbor'a other hooks es
pecially her first tio.-, "Pre kles,"
which, they jioinf out. show aomt thing
as to the way a good h.. live.
According lo this statement there
hive been printed and sold In this
ountry alone TS3.SSS copies ,,f "Preck-
les."
in England a popular edition has re
cently l.een publlahed, and advan
orders for TT.SSS copies of this boo
Which Is eight years old. Were taken "ti
publication A hort time after nub I-
Contrary
Mary
Ey TEMPLE BAILEY
lust an old-fashioned love
story, the kind thai will reach
your heart.
There la a message in ii fur
ytii .
Already it Ibis pleased
many people thai in less than
six months it is in th seventh
edition the thirtieth thous
and.
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At all Hooktellrri :THE BOBBS-MERHILL CO., Publishers i 12 mo. Cloth.Sl .40 nei
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li 1 copies of the cheap edition of
"frock Is" had been sold Aeaum ng that
five persona read each book. Which the
authorities say is a low average, this
nd testes thai more than four million
people have enjoyed tie adventure of
the now famous Freckles' to say noth
ing of Die other books ; nod although
. are speaking or fiction it should
not be forgotten thai Mrs Porter's
nat hoots. "Moils of the Limber-
lost. -.Musi,- of the Wild." "What I
Have Done With Birds," etc., are at the
head of their class, and are used con-
new Book Tim
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hi
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it
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shallows
'God's Man' is dif
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It is more than usually
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latently by those who knots to-.st
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Itefore bringing out a cheep edition of
i "Freckles" jn England Mr Mltri
liio jgiit nut a regular standard edition
I whieb sold In large quanMUoe, and I .
Mr. Murray's Intention to issue - I
In both standard and Cheap editions in
due course.
All this in spile of the great w-.r n
I Europe, w hich has absorbed ihi itten
i thai of the English people lo the m
elusion of nearly all 1st-. The fi t r
mains, however, that ll(.'"i(i copies f
! "Freckles" have been sold in the Bi
Isles slice the oitloea', of tl.e Will
(iood to Mis
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Grouch
Hy
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