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THE SUN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1915.
BOOKS OF THE WEEK SEEN IN REVIEW AND COMMENT
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CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASON'S
LATEST BOOKS
Robert Grant's Story of a High Priestess of This Re
forming Day A Rural Hero's Flirtation.
A Romance of Air Machines From the Williamsons
Oth' r Fiction on Various TTerr.es.
Adventurous and Amusing Reading for the Young
- Foreign Lards. Art and Other Subjects.
tv oharaeter liuli ' in tv title
of KubcVl Urant's story or "Ths hikIi
Prieetcos" i Charles ftcrlbner's Bom) Is
Mai) AinoiJ. who married Oliver Knri-
daii. Marriage ihould bo suitable
niotiiin. and doubtless Mary Was Ju.-li-lied
In dwelling with Cllm satisfaction
upon the point that Oliver! "Stalwart
ud ooflninendlug physique comported
so adnirabl) with her own tall and
well proportioned ngure." All Indeed
lay Rprm well and in CUM may be
Well, hut It Ik none the leu true that
the aspirations end the determined
doinsH nf "the eeeentlally modern
woman" of OUt day may luniHli hap
plness from the domestic hearth may
play the mltchlef with the home.
The trouble in the CMC (0 quietly
nci skilfully Illuminated in this story
won due quite obviously, though only
econdarlly. to Sybil. " Are you ready
for another oupof tea? ' The question
waii ytiira. she wax attending to
Oliver While Mary was awa respond
lnft to those higher mils that the eg-1
entlally modem woman hears. The
domestic spirit was lodged In Sybil at
least on occasion, she could be old
fhshloned In that particular. Her
simple question fell upon unaccus
tonud ears. Its effect stole slowly on
the apprehension of the listener.
"Oliver found himself hesitating, tie
was not nocustotned to take two. Buch
thiiiK was never suggested by Mary.
OlanclnK down he saw that though he
had finished his tea there was still
food in his plate Which he would have
eaten Hut for the Conversation. "Why.
thank you. I don't mind If 1 do.' Ah
she vupplied him with a second rup
Oliver reflected that thin side of her
was new to him. What had called it
forth'.' If oniy Mary were then.1 to
listen. Hut Mary must he awure of
It Sybil was certainly mors of a per
son, more wide awake and observing)
than he had given her credit for. In
her own modest, retiring way. to be
sure.'' sin- had been i onversing
Pgrightly while watchfully attending to
the matters of the table. Oliver's re
flection had reference to her conversa
tional abilities, lint Mary also con
versed brightly. The second cup of
tea was the Insidious thing. It had
glamour. Ws think it extremely likely
thai in olivvr's surprised apprehen
sion it was tin. r th in Mary'- advo
cacy of the teaching of hygiene
in the schools.
The trouble thut we here see In Its
tte.-li.ii.'!. reached climax when
Mary returned home unexpectedly
from one of her public excursions.
Mar. hated to be an eavesdropper, but
hearing her husband ami Sybil con
versing in the parlor she stole n tip
toe through the hall and surprised
them Just as Oliver had Uisred Bybll.
6he heard Bybll taking the blame for
what had happened: "It's my fault
it's my fault, OlUe. 1 should have
realized this might happen. It's mad
ness for ii- both, as I've just told you,
for neither of us is free." gybll was
not free ' ituse she was engaged to
Henri Ives Thornton. Henry was not
disturbed by this awkward occurence,
be reedil overlooked h. supposing
tha' he knew anything about it. and he
and Bybll v married a fortnight
later. Bui Mary -left her husband,
and it was only :,t the end of several
years and after IllVer had been elected
Governor Of Ihe State that she became
rconciiej to him.
The story has u centio and agreeable
flow, meandering in convolutions that
have both an educational and a pleas
ant Interest, It is fully informed,
tkrou;- the concerns of Its characters,
with the Inquisitive and boldly tenta
tive spirit Of this unusual time. Ths
novelist appears to be smiling little
as ho smoothly and lightly pro ls.
If he deals correction it it with a vel
vet hand. There Is satisfaction in
Mary's understanding and avowal at
the lasi, us he nestles reconciled
By the author nf "T. Temharom",
kVan a i i jr w A ,
roil i
THE LOST
PRINCE
la
BY
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
Whran ikig always popular author
young Kara into
5iatcn full pa f uiuslralioo by Mauocej L Bowtp
Pr.ca H 35 net
PublUhwl by THE CENTURY CO.. New York City
Ogam! her husband's heart, that she
is a woman after all.
SOME NEW FICTION.
Slow ly and deliberately In "Bprogga'l
Canyon" (Oeorge h. iornn Company)
Horace Anni "ley Vacheil describes the
flirtation of B young minx from the
city with a self-satisfied Country hoy.
The youth, In spite of the auth r s
admiration for him. his honesty and
the v irtues of primitive people, retains
his uncouth manners throughout,
which may make it difficult for many
readers to feel sympathy for him. lie
has tl.e peasant's passion for the soil
he cultivates and a rather un-Amorl-Can
reluctance to learn anything of
the world outside his ranch. Tho
alrl Is an amusing study Of a common,
shallow American type, and the sliat
tennK of all her efforts to make over
her stubborn 1 ver Is k. od comedy.
The BSgOClOUJ mother and the loqua
cious old Stage driver are plCtUresqUS,
while the silent country kIH who con
soles the hero Is satisfactory If con
ventional 1 the other people who put
In an appearance do not amount to
mtuh. The author has expanded
much literary skin on a pretty meagre
plot; he will hardly rouse enthusiasm
for a w holly rural life, no matter how
beautiful the scenery may be.
Life in a country boys' tchool Is
what Gerald Chittenden starts to de-
I scribe In "The Anvil of Chance" ( I.nnK-
mans, tin en and Company) and, ami
i able though his undecided hero is. we
j (trow impatient over his hesitations
I and conscientious qualms about the
treatment of boye, his tltnesa to be
a SChOOlmOSter, his society duties and
1 his small misadventures. Luckily he
talks himself into takinK a trip Into
uncivilized regions, where he en
counters people who do thlnss Instead
of rum. rial .uk over them; he Is ma
r tied in a wretched iVntral Ameri
can town during a yellow fever epi
demic and does his duty like a man as
he sees id hers dolus" theirs. The re
sult is highly bsnefldal to himself and
to the School when he gets hack. It
la a pleasant and well written story,
the vigor of the latter portion redeem
ing the amiable dawdling of the be
ginning.
A brisk specimen of the conven
tional lumbering yarn Is spun by
Henry Oyen In "The Man Trail"
(George H. Doran Company . The
necessary quarrel between the muscu
lar hero anil his father Is gotten over
quickly and with no discredit to the
young man. He starts In to work t r
a crabbed relative, who puts obstacles
In his way to try him; these he over
Comes partly by strength and partly
by his faculty of making friends with
all conditions Of men The ..bligatory
yoUSg woman is also present, but the
author Judiciously makes the hero
work out his own salvation. He learns
the lumber business with remarkable
speed, is then put In charge of a
camp, which he is obliged to defend
ngainel many enemies. We are fa
vored with many hand to hand fights
and with the foiling of much villainy.
An excellent tale of Its kind.
Though air machines and automo
biles are employed freely in "Secret
History ' by C. X. and A. M. William
son ( DoUbleday, Page and Company),
land though the smie changes fre
quently, it is with the troubles of the
vivacious young narrator that the
story concerns itseir. She is very
young St the beginning and keeps just
as young in her judgments in pltc of
the passjng of years. She falls In
love with nn aviator In the exulierant
manner of the early teerw and hpi-h
him pass through sordid trials. These
are due largely to her beautiful but
preternaturally selflsh sister, who ap
propriates the man. follows hitjn from
England to the Mexican border and
then Jilts hltn for a richer man. The
latter by ft complicated awl very Im
protvahlc piece of treachery has the
hero dismissed from ths army. The
present war gives him the chance to
rehabilitate himself with bis aeroplane
and the heroine the opportunity to
show her pluck and to find out that he
"Little Lord Ftuntleroy", etc
advanturaa aain witk youth and romaiKsj
Ih ttcitinf territory ( SarMVM
sS4
JHsWBaVjig W I AUTHOR
BlKSS!!& aVa -aStggBPy jkacmi
loves her. The depiction of the child's
qualities, good and bad, is clever, hut
there Is an Inordinate amount of
meanness that she must contend
against.
The somewhat cumbersome device Is
employed hy Mrs. QeOrge de llorne
Vateey, to connect her sh u t stories in
what Man Wilis" ; p Putnam's
Sons), of making a house party at
Christmas explain what the real rvm
hitlon of each Is The stories show
how each attained his or lor object;
some lire humorous, and these are I tie
nest; some are tragic. The ending Is
even more artificial than the begin
ring. The stories are pleasant to read;
their quality is that of the average
American magazine story.
Wherever his disreputable hero ap
pears in Pierre If tile's "Barnavaux"
l.lchn Iine Com Dang) the stories are
capital, and the satire is blended with
humor Most of the tali's have noth
ing to do with the Gallic Mulvany,
however, and are pretty grim and hor
rible, The first story Is pretty long;
It descrihes the life of white men in
Madagascar with some semhtince of
on effort to enter into a l'ierre Loti
mood. We should be sorry to have
the author follow other literary models,
for he can certainly tell n story well
In hie own way. The colored illustra
tions hy Helen McKle are fully as
French and as hrilllnnt fit Battle vaUX
himself.
Though the hero Indulges In murh
theatrical rhetoric in a pompous vo
cabulary in Arthur A Nelson's
"Wings of Danger" kj r Putnam's
Sons) the story opens promisingly
with Its mining ventures in the
Transvial and the hanres for expe
ditions Into Ihe African wilds Many
of the characters have Individuality.
Unfortunately sort of Rider Hug-
gvird obsession lakes hold of the au
thor; with the aid of two rapid tire
guns and an apparently Inexhaustible
supply of ammunition, he sheds l n
lavishly, he discovers a race of lost
Vikings in the heirt of the continent
only to slaughter them, an'' when the
guns are Insufficient he turns on
volcano. By that time all int. rest .n
the people with whom he started natu
rally becomes weik.
In "The island of Surprise" (A. C
McClurg and Company) Cyrus Town
send Brady take- a k'nhI deal of
trouble to get a young man and two
young women Into a Robinson Crusoe
situation. A knock on the head Im
pairs the youth's memory, he forgets
that he h is married one in haste and
has made love to the oilier The young
women, however, hive not forgotten
and neither intends to yield to the
other. They have the same Christian
name, which helps t,, bewilder the
youth and does not add to the grace of
the narrative, with Mr. Brady a solu
tion like bigamy Is not to he expected,
though It seems to occur to the youth,
whom the author uses as a sort of
dummy, The girls are left to contend
in words and in actions till another
knock on the head restores the young
man's senses. All three sem derli lent
In elementary morality.
In "Happy Hollow Farm" (Oeorge
ii. norm Company) William R
Lighton t ikes a whole volume to boast
of his success in farming and of Ills
superiority to his neighbors end, we
should say. to nearly every one else
who has farned. Willi his leaving
a newspapei Job in Kansas t.. pick out
a farm in Arkansas all can sympa
thise, though the locality may lie sur
prising It H a pretty general crav
ing, which lo ips on the "hack to the
lend" enthusiasts. Mm beyond a few
general statements such as the man
ner of ploughing, the use In- made of
sorghum and mw peas and some other
such matters nnd a great deal of
criticism of labor, of shiftless ways
and of wh it errors others committed
there Is nn information In his prolix
RUTH'S ADVENTURES AT
HOME AND ABROAD
Ruth Holworthy, member of an old
MaasaohtlsettS family and heroine of
Oordon Arthur Smith's story of "The
Crown of Life" H'h.iries Scrihner s
Sons), whs nide at tines. To tin'
lector of the Bptsoopal Church in Rust
Westly, who had been called In to
admonish lor, she said pertly: "How
do you do. Mr Weeks? How arc
your worthy poor?" It was Impos
sible for Mr. Weeks, who was not a
strong character i to admonish at ail
effectively a young person of Ruth's
assurance.
In Moston she wa rude to Jerome
Defoe, assistant professor of the Ro
mance languages at Harvard, it must
lie said that Jerome himself was a
little supercilious, hut he was 33 years
old and Ituth was hardly IX. To he
sure she was a girl of some iiii'hiii
PlishmentS, "Once she had argued
brllllintly with u professor of tireek
on the morality of Kurlpides much in
the astonishment of ths professor and
not a Utile to his uneasiness. She
could quote fragments of Verl.ilne and
Baudelaire i she had her opinion of
Maeterlinck, of Shaw, of Strindls?rg,
of Ihsen," Perhaps It was unwar
ranted us well as unwise for the as
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AUTHOR OT
A YOUNG MAN'S YEAR"
exhortations that can help others who
may try to Imitate him. He enu
merates many Improvements he made.
hut does not tell how he made them.
And he takes u mge ,.r two of volu
billty, patting himself on the hack oil
the time, to re.n-h the simplest state
ment of fact.
Perhaps the hest known, as It Is the
prettiest of Oeorge Band's shorter
tales. "La Petite Fadette,"' with which
an older generation Identified Maggie
Mitchell as "Kanchop the Ticket. " has
had a new lease of popularity through
the moving pictures and Mary Pick
fords titling into the part. The story
is published In thu translation of Jans
Minot Scdgvvt. k. wr.h ll'.ustratl t.s
from the photoplay, by Dultield and
Company,
There is little literary quality to he
loel in turning a play by Karl larr
Biggers int. a .-lory or vice versa, and
Robert Welles Ritchie has performed
the task very wall with "lns.de ihe
Lines" (The Bobbs-Merrill Company),
which many who have s,en the play
will like to read. The illustrations arc
from scenes in the play.
FOR GIRLS AND BOYS.
The outdoor performances of a lot
of lively young women are recounted
hy Margaret Wlddemer in "Wlnoi i of
the camp I ' re" (J, R. Llppincott Com
pany). It involves lo a certain extent
the net:, ins of their hoy scoii; friends,
for the author favors both movements.
Voting gills will enjoy the story. In
"iotta Embury's Career," by Bile w.
Peattle (Houghton Mifflin c.mpany),
I a s uing woman who starts in to he ,i
musician hits the good sense I,, te:n
to a business training when she is
i assured that she has no talent, She
Is successful and Is aide to aid her
! parents, Then is much morbid sentl
I ment contrasted with her hard sensu
I which might have been omitted In a
hook for the young. In "A Real Cln
derella" (Lothrop, Lee and Bhepard
Company), by Nina Rhoades, on the
I contrary, a small girl's musical talent
excuses much. She struggles through
a rai her complex case of conscience
! and . e suspec t that the I k marks
the beginning of a new si rles,
i if heroines or established series
"Dorothy Painty ai Crestville" iL,o
throp, i.e. ;lud shepard Company) is
allowed i" gratify her admirers foi ths
thirteenth time with her pleasant ad
ventures. I.nzelle T Wonlcy's older
heroine is kept busy in "Faith Palmer
at Washington" The penn Publishing
Company) so as to allow of rather
confussd Impressions of ii,,. capital,
in "A Little Maid of Narrsgansetl
sistant professor to speak as he did
to such u girl, inn cert ilnly tie did
say to h,r that he though I it a pity
he had not been more soundly
spanked, whereupon and .lust as cer
tainly She said to him that what he
was talking gbOUl was none of his
buslnt ss.
In Cranes lluth had the dickens of
an experience with Rons Dtrtex, the
great dramatist, This remarkable
man had fought fourteen duels, and
It was when he was fighting one of
tin m that the shots frightened Ruth's
horse, with Ihe result that shi was
kicked in the shoulder by the Irresponsi
ble animal and rather severely Injured,
If we were a girl we are sure ihat
we could easily refrain from falling
in love with Darteg, hut Ruth was
or another Inclination, and the story
tells brightly Just what hefcll until the
fortunate time when fate, with thu
help of the assistant professor, per
mitted her to return to the safe en
vironment of her home In Kast
Westly.
We could not help liking the story,
though we are sure ihe assistant pro
fessor was sound regarding the in
sufficient soundness of a certain early
correction.
Bay" (Ti e Penn Pubttehlng Company)
Alice Turner Curtis continues her his
torical pictures with one of Rhode
Island In Revolution times; her hero
ine In spite of changes In per., id and
place and name remaining much the
same girl.
History prrdom. nates in the 1 ks
written for boys. No more excitement
can he asked for than B, Alexander
well provides in "The Road to
Olory" (Charles Bcrlbner's Bone), tho
scries of Amerlcsn sdventurere, now
forgotten or nearly forgotten, who
fought bravely and recklessly on the
Se;l and OA the dOUblftil holders,
Florida, Texas. Mexico Oregon. The
fact that these stories are substantially
true adds to then Interest The
in dern Improvements In Indian t oes
ure to he fou nt in Rimer Russell
Qregor'e 'The Red Arrow" i Harpers i,
of which two In I Ian boyi are tho
heroes. Through them the author de
scrihes the real Indian a- the ethnolo
gists know him Tiie older type of In
dian stdry is represented hy Paul (i.
Tomlinson'l "The Trni of Hlack
Hawk" (Appletons), the white boys
sharing in the vicissitudes of the last
Indian uprising eaai of the Mississippi.
The author has taken pa. lis to present
the facts accurately, a story ,,r which
Is.ys never grow weary is told again
by Kdwln 1.. Rabin In 'Oold Seekers
of 4" iJ. B, Llppincott Company),
Hen- too accuracy in the history of ths
pioneers is sought, while the youthful
heroes gain their experlen e, The tales
of ihe present war deviate from the
rommon pattern; In "Under Pire for.
Servla" iThe Saalfb 1 I Publishing
Company) Col. J.iihm K;s1o en'ers o-i
a neglected III Id of operations, while
J s. Berbs in "Trench Mates In I
France " I Harpers), dealing with
young French boys, gives Interesting
Information about what is don- n
warfare and Illustrates it with dla-
grama and plctun
Further Interesting and amusing ad- .
ventures ,,f the boys that Charles 1'.
Burton has put through the boy scout
mill are told in "Camp Hob's Hill"
(Henry lloli and Company), the cum
pany now camp ng out. The (ale of a I
youths nun: for it malefactor which
brings about the ,1 ,'elopment of his
character ami hie acquaintance with
I pie of many kin. Is Is told by W. T.
Nichols in "Making 0 r i Apple.
tons). There Is some football besides
An amiable but physically weak youth
provides fun In .1. Raymond Elderd e's
"T Havlland Hicks, freshman" (Ap
pletons) by hie plucky bungling In all
athletic matters, it a an amusing
WIS that will probably be followed by
Ot hi rs.
MANY LANDS.
The "Memories of India" by Oen.
Sir Roberb Baden-Powell, K. C, B., who
Is the originator of the U,y scouts
(David McKay, Philadelphia)! is a
purely personal and Wholly delightful
volume. It is made up from dairies
nnd letti rs of tip' author's youth and
from admirable sketches and lis- suc
cessful water colore thai he made at
the time. There is a good deal about
sport In the story and somet'l Ing about
military training, but ih,. interest is
chiefly personal and the reader will
hoe ihe spirited, good humored, out
spoken youngster who figures In II
The I k ai Minis f .r the author's
success lii the movements he advo
cated, for it unconsciously shows h,s
sincerity and his whole hearted devo
tion to what he undertook. A certain
amount of trayel interest attaches to
his adventures In Kashmir, but the
chamt of the book, whit makes t
worth reading, 'he picture it offers
of young Baden-Powell.
a bo.,k of ri ii Importance, recording
the exploration i an unknown region
that must soon be belt, r ktion on ac
count of its commercial value ami the
geographical problems II holds, is
Thomas Whtffell's 'The Northwest
Amazons" (Dufflfld and Company),
The author's interest Is chiefly in an
thropology and archaeology, sciences
with which In' needs perhaps a more
thorough acquaintance, bul what he
did was to examine carefully, with a
courage and a patience thai he lakes
I for granted, a dangerous and un
healthy region of tropical forests,
swamps, runner ,; i caniunitis Honey
anil life have be, n expended lavishly
on Ihe Madera railroad and the region
roundabout, which In ihe long run
mutt open the upper Amnion to civil
isation. Mr. Wtffen tells us something
of what there is in the region beyond,
Oslde from his Investigation of the
strange tribes that Inhabit the forest
and their customs. The photographs
Hie very 1 1 1 1 e resi 1 1 1 g, Iliougll SOIIll'l lilies
on too minute a scale lo show vvh.it I
they mean, and the maps are adequate,
It Is a book that must be consulted
by all who are Interested In the devel
opment of Rraalt,
A sort of statistical survey of ,atln
America, which Includes the Wesl
Indies nnd Central America, Is offered
by Roger W, Baboon in "The Future
of South America" (Little, Brown and
Company). It Is In a way a commer
cial guide book. The author takes up
the islands and the countries. tu
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Following on hi1- Parisian student
life experiences, Julius If. Price writes
about "My Hohemlan Days in Uondon"
ipuv'd McKay), it is an entertain
I'm i k. noi that the author h;i any
thing nf Importance to say. bul be
cause he tells with boyish candor ntiii
with absolutely m sense of conven
tional propriety, the story nf ihs be
ginning of hit artistic career, lie im
i g i ,ii to s.iy about aniHis' models
ntiii other people who ure regarded as
"boh mlan," about queer places in
London, and about sme noted per-
'us thut he happened lo meet. He
Illustrates his book with his own
sketches and reproductions of his pie-
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ii is often amusing, and the author's
Ingenuous frankness uives an attrac
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A rather Intimate nciciunt nf an Im
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region around Katanga, in the Belgian
Congo, .mil British snd Portuguese
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Htnod In his way, which leads him to
utilise the Hrittsh authorities as well
us the foreign officials and adminis
trations, lie Ih thoroughly British,
an adventurer Who wishes to do thlnit
und wuinui understand why he ohtmld
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