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THE SUN, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1916.
BOOKS OF THE WEEK SEEN IN REVIEW AND COMMENT
CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASON'S
LATEST BOOKS
Mr London Tells a Triangular Story Set in Ca ifornia
- Mr. Morris Exposes the American Girl.
New Novels by Cameron Mackenzie, Rider Haggard,
George Barr McCutchcon. and Other Writers.
Many Collections of Short Stories Set in Many Localities-
Thomas Burke's Good Piece of Work.
Caltltnlril t nllfnniln.
It Is a da ilroain nt what might be
dune in certain lines with unbounded
wealth and eMriordlnary ability that
Jack Loudon dcsrilhrs In The l.itllc ,
indy o fif yoiMf t.Mticixilllana). ,
Jib hero, the heir to many million-. I
discovcis .it nil rally age his own re
markable powers and the value of oltl
clcnoy method. He prefers Wdie
inlan forms of education, rnn.s away
from home at lit, tramp around the i
country for years, then returns In
order to take a college course, after i
which ho has more ears of wandering I
cf tho kind favored by admirers of
6tcveiiMn, In the course of which he
marries. We are led to surmise that
tho adventures of the young pair In
the Houth Seas ond the dangerous
parts of the earth arc fully up to the
literary standard. This training
Wakes the man -nmehow an rlllcleney
expert of almost superhuman me
rhanlcal accuracy, whose agricultural
enterprises, conducted on the lavish
California scale, aiv described enthusi
astically and minute!) . lie and his
wlfo are devotedly attached to each
ether, yet lue tliejr own lives in sepa
rate wings of a spacious mansion and
generally only meet in the evenings,
The Intellectual side Is far from be
ing neglected. The hero keeps a pri
vate band of philosopher, and his
house M'cms to lip ued as a sort of
hotel bv a multitude of people. Includ
ing musicians, ar'ists. writers and pro
fessional and hus.ncss men. They
discuss the most recent aspects of the
arts. They are Interested In the most
modern culture! d-nlert, so that many
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brilliant conversations need annota
tions. In manners and ethical stand
ards, too, they aro admirably freo from
I'linvnnllntinl IrninmnL Wll, mt miinh
, ,Hc.u,y , mlnd ,t" greI1)s llkc an
imposition mi the reader to ask him
nltn to Htudy the psychology of ai
woinan who love., two men at once.
i ncre is a strange litcK ui niininn i
feeling 111 nil tho parties concerned,
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which may bo Intentional. The wlfo Is
a poetical, sprltellkc creature, a sort
ol t'ndlnc; a community of tastes and
fume timely sympathy draws her to
her husband's beat friend, and her
liu.ib.md no doubt neglects her because
he Is engrossed In his business. Hut
fit re seems to 1 little reason for her
loving the new man, especially as she
Is always conscious that h loves her
husbanH. Tno affair leaves tho lm- J
presslon that tho author Is turning .
the situation Into nn abstract jwy
chologlcal problem which ho does not '
venture to solve. The husband's 1h-
huvlor. admlruble and Intelligent as it
i
Is. seems cold blooded even In hu
etllclency machine, and the unlucky
lover cannot bp defended. The refine
ments of passionless Intellectual infi
delity do not harmonize with the vivid
realism of the setting and the poetical
pictures of outdoor California.
A Wife's Caprices.
It Is painful to see a younK author
turn against the Idols be has wor
shipped as Gouverueur Morris does In
We Three (Appletons), To be sure,
neither he nor the amiable narrator
and victim of tho story has n word to
say against the modern American girl.
Vet both expose her utter selfishness
and frivolity. T.le narrator is a very
likable youth with no pretension to
brains, but n gentleman throughout.
His story of his early years and of hla
admiration for his friend's wife Li de
lightful and delicate comedy. She Is
a charming creature who has married
for love and Is very happy with her
husband and her two children. She
has always had her own way, and has
t njoyed the present moment and
lllrted with any man who Is at hand.
Her husband Is called away on busi
ngs for a few davs, during which she
entertains her.-elf with his friend;
when he returns she informs him that
she no longer loves him and atks htm
to dnorce her. The friend has lost his
head, too, and drastic measures are
used by his family and by her husband
to preent the two from making fools
I of themselxes. As the wife's disregard
(' ewrything but herself and her
, wishes Is demonstrated the story
turns rather to tragedy: the girl
i conies out of it all right, but the con
solation devised for tho narrator Is
' hardly satisfactory even with the hint
of disaster at the end. It Is hcautl
fullv executed work: the girl Is very
lifelike and the lover and his parents
.ire delightful.
tine .Modern Wife.
I The trouble that can V made by a
tier own way is described by Cameron
Mackenzie in .lfr. and Mr. Pierce
iliodd. Mead and Company). After
surviving several infatuations for
has mirried an estimable and
p.iont young man and Is happy with
Mm and her Uby. fihe seizes on a
chance, remark of a friend of Hier hus-
'band's, who is not overscrupulous in
biilne.ss nor in other matters, is daz-
I led with his possessing a new auto
mobile and decides that her husband
shall become a financial power. She
knows and cares nothing about busi
ness, yet forces him to engage unwill
ingly In a commercial undertaking for
which ln knows ho Is not fitted. She
blamis him for his lack of success, re
peatedly Interfere In a maddening
way and upsets his calculations; she
resent the remonstrances and the re
fusals to abei her of her family and
friends, She believes her husband Is
faithless to her, comes near losing her
Kiby and Unds out that her automobile
friend wishes to make lovo to her.
Then she fortunately discovers that
she has been making a fool of herself,
and with the assistance of her long
siilferlng husband ftarts afresh. The
author's dissection of this typo of
modern girl, ambitious, Ignorant and
deaf to advice, is pitiless; he ascribes
her faults to youth and evidently ad
mires her, but the reader, while he
may be sorry for her, will hardly share
i I is admiration. He will sympathize
1 with the husband and will like several
1 elderly lookers-on who are powerless
to help. Tho picture here drawn can
be recognized In every community.
.Minn nnrlermaln KrtUrd.
With great geniality Sir H. Illder
Haggard In The Ivory Child (Long
mans, Green and Company) allows hl
African hero to relate au episode In
his career that h had pawed over.
He knows that ho Is no stranger to
the reader and so does not hesitate to
lefer him to his earlier yarns nnd to
bring In again former companions, jjo
lMgins humorously with Honin rather
funny experiences In an Mngllsh coun
try house, but before long wo are
again In h'outh Afrlr upd pre huntln
with grim determination for a htrango I
white raco In the heart of the contl-1
nent. mey nave spirited away to
guard a sacred Imago an Kngllsh
woman who must tie rescued; they arc
opposed by an inferior raco whose
talisman Is a demon elephant, which
ti'iiist be destroyed There In much
e.xcltlng work to 1hi done which Allan
guaricrinain nnd 'his friends uru as
competent as ever to handle. When
ho closes tho book the reader will re
joice that nfter all the.ie years the
Haggards still ride as they did before.
On the Maine Coast,
An Imperious, self-sulllclcnt Chicago
young woman who wilfully misjudges
man U brought ta tier aenses very
Paul Helleu's dry-point portrait of Whistler.
"Notes on Somo ltare Portraits of 1 work hy Seymour Hoden. "Max," filo
Whistler" mako up a beautiful little vannl Holdlul. Th Jinan It. Way, Paul
book published by A. K. (iallatin Helleti and "K. T. H." The Helleu dry
tlironcli John I.ane Company. There , point here reproduced measures fi by A
are reproduced i Interesting exam- i Inches, of which only twelve Imprci
ples hitherto unpublished, Including I sions were printed.
pleasantly In Clarn I.oulse Hurnham's
Instead of the Thorn (Houghton Mif
flin Company). The schoolmaster tone
ho assumes toward her Is some ex
cuso for her nentment. When a
great sorrow comes upon her she Is
taken to the Maine seashore, some
where near Portland, and meets sev
eral delightful local characters. Her
own aunt Is one; the small girl who Is
her belli Is another. The acquaint
ance with the latter the reader will
prokibly treasure up; he will admire
tier resourcefulness In speeding lag
gard lovers. The heroine naturally
has a delightful vacation, which she
allows the leader to -harc; all troubles
are smthcd away with less assist-
ance from her rel s'otis friend than Is
aiuicipaieo a; nisi, aim worn wie
oung man Is permitted to come Kast
also tho proper termination Is as
sured. It is n plMtdng story In Itself.
We should hae regretted missing
IUnncho Aurora's performances.
A .MlehlKan llespnt.
Though It takes time to rouse there
Is Hue progressive zeal in the young
lawyer who is the hero of Clarence H.
Kelland's The Hidden Kprtnu (liar-Ir--).
Ills nmliblo Indolence and
readlnes" to make friends Is so attrac
tive that we rather rtgret his being
..tlrrfd to action, the more cn as the
villain, when he llrst meets him, is
picturesque and original and full of
artistic possibilities. Hp Is an arbi
trary bos.", however, who In his Impa
tience soon becomes coarsely brutal
and must bo met with bruto force.
The revelations of the possible abuses
of one man power In a small com
munity aro Interesting; the hero
tackles them with a technical ability
which Is surprising in a newly fledged
lawyer. Heform also upsets the ma
chine with gratifying speed. The
young woman who aids his dog In
prodding the hero Into action la at
tractive and tht hindrances In the way
to their coming together enliven tho
recital of reform agitations. Tho story
Is told with numor and vigor. We re
gret that tho author did not make
more of his capable old bully and his
talent for cooking before brutalizing
THE YEARS REVOLVE, AND
HATRED GROWS TO LOVE
1st I'earl Doles Boll's story of "His herself, and when Hazel Willis dragged
Harvest" (John Lane Company) we her from the river, what was tho truth
tlnd Jean Delaine, very young, newly regarding tho charges mode by Wlnl
n orphan, communing with lier dog fred against Jim? Hazel appeared to
Tige. It Is plain that sho has a strong
will ami that nho hates dim Atherton,
who has a inortgago on tho pleasant
house that has always sheltered her,
situated (.omewhero up tho Hudson.
Nothing seems more Improbable than
that .lean will ever refrain from hating
dim.
Jim's nppenranre was not at nl! cal
culated to Inspire hatred. "Jim
Atherton, tnll and straight as a Greek
god. Ills handsome face tanned to a
healthy bronze, locked arms with Hrlcc
Mathews and tho two of them strolled
awny toward the far end of tho room."
We tlnd Hazel Willis repe'.ling gently
tho !rnlTcrcd nffectlon, of Brlco
Mathews. Who was Hazel Willis'.' Is
It poslhlc that Mic ond' Jen u Delaine
were ono and the Mime? For the
answer to this richly suggestive ques
tion wo refer the reader to tho talc.
What morality and what Veracity
were lodged In the handsome person
of Winifred Hlako? Wheri Winifred
appeared to have the wish to drown
THE ROAD TO;
enjoyment;
AN
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by tDWAKD LIVINGSTON
TRUUbAU, M. U.
1 he lltfarrii I'huilelnn" and Planter
cl thr Oprn-AIr I. iff.
The inill"ik Mini "The Aulo-
Idicraiitiy tir an .tnicriaaii nt.ni.
l will lie rend with a thrill
of dclliiht." .. ..
,vrr, jj.ufi. .in nomsiom
IMH'HI.KHAY,
r.Mir. c i ii.
LOOK 7
FOR SIGN. 9 .
him and handing him over to the hero
for punishment.
Ilnrk to the Land.
A middle aged pair of cliff dwellers,
the husband a writer, the wife nn art
ist, decide to go into the country to
live in Harriet Hrunkhurst's The Win
dow in the. Fence (George H. Uoran
Company). They lind a house that
suits them and very kind neighlmrs.
The alterations they mako are de
scribed In great detail and also their
plans for cultivating Uieir laud. A
friend persuades them b-fir they
move to adopt thr-e orphan boys: they
agreo and tlnd more occupation In
wntchlnu the boys They live more
happily than In the city, discuss many
things with tluir friends, foster a
pretty love affair and learn to lovp the
bojs. One boy Is made to dip rather
cruelly in order to carry out a queer
relncarnntlon fancy, for the wlfo finally j
has a bahy which she Is sure in the j
flesh. It Is a rather desultory nd
rambling tale, for tho author seems to
have made room In It to express her
Ideas on a ureal variety of subjects,
but thrre are many extremely picas
ant pat-NiROs and episodes In it.
The tintdrn Wnnirn of tinmen.
A nrst rate tale or auveniure l I"'"
admirably by Patrick and Trrenco nf n mnIp dctci'tl've, who opposes nor.
Casey in The Htr.mijc Storn o Will- , s)p , ..min-ad i,v her extreme at
fum Hyde (Hearst's International I.I- ,r:l0tlVpness to tho men she has to
brary Comjuny. New York). The nar- , (U..,, whi Thp lwplve dories are not
rator runs across an eccentric bench much account3 0f detective methods
comber In tho Hawaiian Islands and do!,crptons of the manner in which
gets him to tell his story. He Is a red crilnfB my bo committed,
haired, blue eyed Irishman, who once
was a nunter ror rare orennts in
liorneo. He hears of a strange race
living In an inaccessible part of the
Island whom all others shun nnd who
possess some strange god that cannot
be named. He makes his way into tho
place, finds a yellow people with beau-
tiful women who aro the descendants
of Genghis Khan's Tatars. On ac-
count of his hair nnd eyes they take
him for n descendant of Genghis, he is
loved by one woman and hated by an-
other, tries to carry off their treasure,
11 ghts a gorilla and la cast out of ths
have trustworthy powers of divination.
Her cold scorn of Winifred will Im
press tho render.
There is a lino at page 63 that casts
Illumination upon the doings of Jean.
A cablo despatch from her, sent from
I'arls and addressed to Alkri Hamil
ton, New York impresario, reads:
"Need 4."00. Can't explain. Mort
gage voice." Did Jean love this ad
mlrab'e imnresarlo. to whom Mie was
vastly Indebted? Wc feel ourselves at
lilerty to say that If sho had loved
him It would have lieen no mom than
was his duo. Hut there was Jim, whom
In her childish years she had hated:
Jliil. who looked like, a Greek god. and
whoso character was aa admirable as
his appearance. Wo find Jim writing
to Jean: "I am off to Africa. The
solitude of the wldo spaces of sand, tho
profound Insinuating silence, the des
ert with the sky like on Inverted saucer
meeting it at the rim, the Illimitable
distances, a low sun bleju-hed tent and
a camel all these things nro calling
me. They offer mo balm, Away off
there, when my man and 1 aro tho
only mills; things which bo wo ars
told aro fashioned after the linage of
God, 1 will learn to think of you with
out pain." Jim had n good knack of
writing. The reader may believe that
Jim's case waa hopeless, If tho reader
wishes.
What is tills? "Mean, Jean; you
must never leave mo again! You
must ' The primitive Instincts of
a cave man who loves had sprung Into
life, but tho girl's startled ryes brought
civilization hack to its own. Allen
Hamilton's flesh went cold. Instantly
he rrcovercd his self-control. He had
frightened her! Roorl" There Is a
line later. '"Jean I' She was in his
arms again and all the world waa for
gotten," It waa Jim back from Africa,
A ap rightly and engaging atory.
land. After he has told his tale he
seta out for Borneo once more In tho
hopo of trying the adventure again.
The authors am lavtah with their
native words, but they have spun a
yarn that will carry the reader along
to the very end.
A Jirrntn'i Kaperlenee.
The right sort of realism Is used by
George Hrr McCutcheon In telling a
capital short story, The l,lont jnai
Uei (Dodd, Mead and Company). The
account of the court proceedings and
of the trial might almost be a news
paper report and the doings In the Jury
room can be verified In other men's
experience. A mysterious young
woman who never speaks plays havoc
with all In the court room. The
reader will suspect the influence that
acts on the hero and his fellow Jurors!
he w ill share. In their mystification and
he will be as much staggered as the
hero Is at the outcome. Original plots
are not common nowadays, but tho au.
thor ha one here.
SHORT STORIES.
southern Watera and Alaska. j
A rich young man bored with the
routine of life steps Into a New Or- (
leano carnlvsl crowd In the title story ,
of Hex Hcach's The Crimson Gardenia i
nnrf Ofir Sforfrj (Harpers) and for
an hour or more Is Jolted through ad-
venture enough to last him a life time.
It is a good story that could stand 1
some amplification. Tho next two are
graphic, artistic sketches of Haytian
savagery; nearly all tho others are
vigorous tales of lawless doings In
Alaska, which Is now the last shelter
for the Hret Harte breed of outcast ad-1
venture. All tlie stones arc cmcriaui- i
lug and readable.
'. qnarlrs AaalB.
Another set of Ingenious criminal
puzzles evolved by tho scientific mind ,
of Christopher Quarles will be found
In Percy James Hrebner's The Master I
Detective E. P. Dutton and Com-)
pany). There are fifteen of them, all j
dealt with In the same Intuitive
fashion, crimes and circumstances dc- ,
scribed briefly, with few indications on
which the reader can work till Quarles
comes In with his private information .
and Intuition and sets everything j
straight. He. hla amiable daughter
and his detective chronicler remain
unchanged, as do the methods. The
Morles are all Interesting and Mr.
ISrebner writes good English.
Welsh feasants.
The artistic quality of the sketches
which Caradoc livans calls My People
(Andrew Melrose. lxndon) Is beyond
cavil. It is aa clear cut work and
truer to nature than Maupassant's
portraits of French peasants. He de
picts a small community of bigoted
Welsh country people and finds no
goodness in any of them. The
prrncher. the ehirrs, tradesmen, farm
people, men and women allkp. are
hard, covetous, hypocritical, miserly
and untruthful. The women have no
virtue, nor have tho men. There Is no
l.lnt of decent feeling In any person
that figures In any of tho stories; It Is
a relief to find one creature energetic
enough to kill the girl he wants and
,h(1 man ,,,,, hnJ, tnkPn up wth. Tho
nmnor.n people, as he choows to see
them, are lower than beasts.
.4 Womaa DetretlT.
The heroine of Arthur I.. Reeve's
I Constance Dunlap (Hearst's Tnterna
j tlonal Library Company) begins by
l rommlttlnR a crime for purely selfish
! motive. After that she employs her
Ingenuity In getting others out of
t!m. .t.- better
CONCERNING WAR.
Karaprd I'rlinnrn,
The personal experiences of a I.on-
,lon war correspondent who ventured
GermBBy to observo what was
'
solng on are related by Geoffrey I'yke
in To Ituheleben and Back (Houghton
Mifflin Company). He writes with a
, notable absence of 111 feeling toward
the Germans and Is fair In his ac-
count of conditions at ths beginning
of tho war. Ho waa soon captured
and, luckily for him. Instead of being
shot as s spy was Imprisoned In vari
ous camps and finally in that for
civilians, near Hcrlln. Prom that he
c&caped with a companion and they
made their way by a roundabout route
to tho Dutch frontier. The main por
tion of the story dcnls with their ex
periences after they trot awny and Is
naturally interesting as a tale of ad
venture. On the Itnaalan Side,
It Is not so much sn account of the
German advance Into Ilussla In the
llrst year of the war that Stanley
Washburn has written in Victory in
Defeat (Doubledny; Pago and Com
pany) as a criticism of tho campaign
fiom tho military sldo and nn ex
planation of tho moral gain to Hus-
fr,n her defeats. Ho believes that
tho result has been to unify Itusslan
sentiment and to mako tho national
ities In tho territory overrun, tho
I'oles, Lithuanians and the rest, turn
their sympathy and hopes to Itussla
rather than to Germany. He eulogizes
various prominent Husslans with
whom ho came in contact.
Tno PacllUts.
In .loore the Battle (Tho Open
Court Publishing Company, Chicago)
Itomaln Holland, writing from Swit
zerland, has collected tho various ar
ticles In which he expresses his ab
horrence of war, and appeals, Individ-
Breathe and Be Well
By WlllisuB Lm Howard, M. D.
The beauty of this book is
that it ii complete in itself.
Nothing else to buy; no ap
paratus, no drugs, no dieting.
Happier days, lengthened
days for him or her that
reads and heeds.
At al Mmlmtltn. II.MAlK
spwam j. now, im nm Aw fc,Tii
THE
PHANTOM HERD
By
B. M. BOWER
Here it t virile itory of
cow-punchers and cameras
from Montana to Mexico.
11.30 rut
THE STRANGER'S WEDDING
By W. L GEORGE
The itory of a young man who married beneath him, of
which The Bookman tayi: "It rcpresentt another stride for
ward at great ai the one which separates 'The Second Blooming'
from the work he has done before."
Sl.i) nil
At All Booksellers LITTLE, BROWN & Co., Publishers. Boston
unity and collectively, to Oerman In
tellectual leaders to employ their
reason and higher Ideals In place of
the objurgation of which they have
been guilty.
An Kngllshman, A. A. Warden, who
has striven, also from (Switzerland, to
stem tho flood of war with his per
sonal appeals for peace, prints In
Common-sense Patriotism ((,. W. j
Dillingham Company) his articles and,
me open letters no nas written to
various prominent men. He Is backed
by a long "foreword" by Norman An
gell approving of his efforts nnd ex
prtssing a like detestation of war In
any form.
Inlqaltr at Surplus Wealth.
Having delved below the surface
and discovered the factors that are
really responsible for the present war.
Dr. "Frederic C. Howe In Why War
(Charles Scrlbner's Sons) relieves
hlniM-lf of his views regarding the wnr
In general. Its origins and tho means
to Ik.' used In putting an end per
manently to It. Tho war has been
caused by what he call" ti financial
class, particularly that Holding the
offenlve corporato form, which now
has feudal power over the world, the
mo.t pernicious members of which nie
now the munition mukcrs. The power
of this class In many directions that
are indicated should be removed, and
also Its ability to acquire more money
than it should have.
In "pite of the
dogmatic tone the eKpoMtlon of
Howe's revolutionary Utopia is
terestlns.
I'lras In Fiction Fnrnt,
The supposititious lnxatinn of
country by the enemy
has been cm -
plojrd for many
ve.irs In tiotiiilarlM
theories about the conduct of war and
other public affairs, and has already
tvrn utilize.! rrvcra! times v.lthln
year by advocates
or prepareune.
. .1... 1 ....... ..I l.l l.n,wl
at It in The Conquest of America
(George H. Doran Company), mak-
Ing, with quc-tlonable taste, tho Ger -
mans the invaders of tho United States
and many well known men the actors.
Ho demonstrates to his own satisfac
tion the accuracy of all alarmist fore
bodings and the need for all the
measures tho extreme advocates of
preparednchs demand.
Tho pacifists provoko Porter Kmcr
son Hrowne to a lively satirical out
burst In Peace At Any Price (Ap
pletons). in which a peace meeting
In Carneglo Hall is broken up by a
glorious fight, the greatest of pacifists
is severely mauled and some vigorous
talk Is Indulged In.
Divine assistance is called In to de
feat the Germans by Frederic Arnold
Kummer and Henry P. Jones In Thr
Second Contlnj; (Dodd, Mead and
Company), The Kaiser remains ob
durate after tho personal appeals
made to htm In visions, and his army
Is done awny v,Mh through the agency
of a heavy snowstorm on Christmas
Day,
War Caricatures,
Tho peculiarity of tho comic pic
tures by W. Heath Uobinson, .s'ontr
l'rlyhtful War Pictures (Duckworth
and Company; John I.ano Company),
is that they Jest nt war without any
III feeling. They Indicate that some
people In Knglnnd, nt any rate, are
lighter hearted than wo supposed. The
pictures are funny and very well
drawn.
The Yellow Peril,
A Japanese remonstrance against
misrepresentation, which takes the
form of replies to a book hy G, n. Ren,
is Issued by Dr. Toyoklchl Iyenagn in
Japan's Ileal Attltttdr Toward Amer
ica (G. P, Putnam's Sons). This con
tains Count Okuma'rt declaration
printed In Tun Si-n, nrtlcle.i by Dr.
lycnaga and other Japaneso writers
and letters from Americans conver
tant with Japan.
LONDON BY NIGHT.
It is a real lioolt that Thomas Hurke
linn written In Xlghts In Londan
(Henry Holt and Company), descrip
tions of wanderings about tho great
city by one who Is part of it and who
fcola tho poetry of tho night. There
Li no system In his rambles; ho Is not
acting as a guide for strangers who
want to see tho eights, but tells what
he sees on his newspaper errands or
when ho Is out of work or when ho
deliberately starts after adventure.
Ho visits tho theatres and the music
halls, to bo sure, hut moro frequently
explores the slums nnd dangerous
places or tho residential districts of
middle class respectability. Every
where he finds something picturesque
or striking, If not in the places then in
tha people he runa acroaa. Hhaa a
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MY FOURTEEN MONTHS
AT THE FRONT
By
WILLIAM J. ROBINSON
A book that every red-blooded
reader will sit up nights to read,
is this account of the author's
baptism of fire.
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THE BLIND MAN'S EYES
By
WILLIAM MACHARG and
EDWIN. BALMER
A remarkable mystery story, of
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"If the reader once gets started,
he will not be satisfied until he
has got to the last page."
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SOULS ON FIFTH
By GRANVILLE BARKER
A slight study of an American hereafter, on the basis of
Fifth Avenue's social life.
FnntiiptM hy Norman Wilkinson .
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Y And Othr Things
By Bnjamln Apthorp Gould
Itmo. Cloth. $1.00 nut.
A stirring plea to Americana, breathing the tpirit of '76. to support ths
ideal which inspired our ancestors, and to combat that gross selfishness and
tali-complacency which it our present danger.
"Yu have looked in vain to
inspiration; now let your voices
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weakness for the women he meets
with and su.to pitiable tales to
tell: he manage to convey the im
prewlon of abject misery which seems
to lw deeper In Iondon than anywhere
oNc. 11" never Milrlis telling of nn
ugly .Mlaht or fact, but he doot no',
go out of hi way to took cither and
tells It frankly and directly without
trying for literarv effect or hnrnin
on It. It Is remarkably goo.1 work.
Dr. , full of life and showing n .-ide of l.on-ln-,
don of which innst visitor can catch
only an occasional glimpse.
BOYS' BOOKS. .
1 . ,
" "' .m uiree small isis in
CnarIrs Clark Murm's Crimp Cnstauay
i are carried off into tho Canadian
! wildemr.-a whrn the camtv.-. h.ii:.-.-.n in .
' whirl. nr ,., ,...,. , i
niy ineir knives and h row
j f-itches with which to start on their
, ltobiaion Crusoe career, but with the
trapper's science thei- m..m.tre m ..u.
the waiter comfortably and profitably
nnd return to civilization with n. lot
of entertnlnmg and exciting ex-j
perlencc (Appletonsl. ,
The Jaunty nnd amusing hem of two j
earlier book by J. Ita mond Klderdice
affords moro fun in 7'. Haviland llick-sA
Junior (Appletosis). Through all his
nonsense lie retains li s tdircwdncss
and kindliness. In this stage of his '
college career ho settles a disputed 1
point in roottnr. with great Ingenuity
nnd conducts euccessfully a ludicrous
cnmpalgn for the control of the col
lege paper.
Cslng hi privilege of cnlllnr his
heroes to lifo again Joseph A. Alt-
!-neier in The Keepers of thr Trail
(Appletons) engages his "Younn
Trailers" In further thrilling adven
tures n the forests of the middle West
against Indians and their British al
lies. That wan the homo of all Indian
tales In tho days when they meant
comethlng to boys. Mr. Altsheler has
preserved aU tho right traditions in
this series of stories and they are as
exciting to read now ns tho forbidden
ones that our boys grandfathers de
lighted in.
A young fellow who has kept his
eyes open nnd has attended to busi
ness in a city hardware store tAlt.
hold of n iiindown concern In a coun
try village In William n, Stoddard
Jr.'s .lnAuiyOood in thr Villntjr. (Ap-
picionM ami makes It successful bv
tho application of efilclent metlimls
He 1ms to deal with tho element of
Human nature as well, which Improves
his theories and likowleo given liveli
ness to the story,
In 7'Ac 7'irm That Jack Built (An.
pletons) It Is improved methods in
agriculture, fallowing the Govern
meiit reports, nnd elllcient distribution,
mat William t. stonrinrd, Jr., brings
to tho attention of youth. He puts life
Into his people, which makes the story
Interesting.
Finally In The. Purple Pennant (Ap
pletons). third of a high school herlct.-,
Itatph Henry Harbour with his trained
skill again Interests youth In tho de
velopment of 'track athletics, He has
tho knack of making his stories
pleasant reading, whether school or
co'.lege doings or the wooing of tho
summer girl be the subject he chooses.
MEREDITH NICHOLSON ON
THE WRITING HOOSIER.
Meredith Nicholson was the chief
speaker at the laying nf the cornerstone
of tho new Indianapolis public library,
Mr. Nicholson is as entertaining when he
speaks as when he writes. Ho thus ac
counts for the story telling proclivities
of the Hoosier :
"We have been subjected to a good
deal of Jesting about Indiana's literarv
Industry, but this Is not a new thing In
Indiana. Even In pioneer times there
INTRODUCING
MsjsdWr A6ss6trfV
Crmtien
AN AMIABLE
CHARLATAN
By
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oppenheim
Aaarr:Mr CrWMmsC-
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swell m tuch a
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SEVENTEEN
A Tale of Youth and
Summer Time ond
The Baxter Family
Especially
William
If ou ;ue ,i i .i . ,1 "
cut Kvn K'vcnttt ' " '
nrc a woman .uui . . r '
btvu seventeen, this sto- i- '
0U. But. Jtl.e-' if 0'i '
self ate now seventeen, t
story is not for ou
It is more than a novo .
.i picture of certain pves r
American life and cf ier
human types more true r
historv.
Cloh. tl J.l r:
l.rallirr, St. in nr'
HARPER & BROTHERS
Established 1817.
were poets numbers of tm i r n'
their la., and tlie ear'.le&t s"i' '
the heft of story tellers e a "
us risked how w account i fi'
that so many novels come nt ' ' i
ana, and I shall offer on tii t o-..
what I bcllevo to be the ti.i. . t i
of this.
"In the oH p.nneer tln e opj
for social imcrenur!-n e.o tew
pleneer was a lonely m.iii. - r
rated by miles of womlUrl . ! ''
from his neighbors, nil w .."i
tiers met at Inns .ntei.i' e.-
woman ami child had .i m t t.
nilKlit lie nf th bil't, it ! ill '
Indian ratil, it imzht ! ..f , ' '
that washed out hi o n h t t v
had their r-tnrles and wbei t . -t-r'
together tlie seized the yr- I " '"
tell them, and we may we I i.r e " '
they told them ene tnelv - v.
line sense of then- dramiti.- 1
Is why we people, nf the-o " "
Slates han olw.us ben -t '
end wh no prii.lu 'i I , ,e " c '
eit of raconteurs m r
The civil war again tin' ii.,'. - '
telling Impure. Soldiers . c ' "
had stories to te'l, nrd b s
the art from their inwr ' 'r 'i
Inld tliem -ncM, and from t. ' . ' ,n
to writing flue l, i MiRco' m
natural transition "
P
THE ROAD TO
EAIJOYMEMT
THE
HUNTED
WOMAN
Ty James Oliver Curwood
..ft... nf "r:.i.f'tf 1'imn'r'j art 1
Mjntory, wllmi, M-ntlmenl rr
trriUMt with Hi" holdiiii: ";
. nr i barn narrator , I
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