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•‘UNCHARTERED SEAS”
Ry Robert Adger Bowen. With a frontis
piece by Charles M. Relyea. Small,
Maynard & Company. Boston.
The publishers of Mr. Robert Adger
Bowen's interesting novel, “Unchartered
Seas,” announce that the first fiction
written by this clever author, appeared in
The Birmingham Age-Herald some years
ago.
With such a vehicle to launch his ear
liest efforts it is not surprising that Mr.
Bowen has reached success in so short a
time.
His story, “Unchartered Sea:;,” Is very
cleverly written: the plot while a bit old
fashioned, is quite interesting enough to
hold the attention of the reader, although
from the very first chapter it is easy
enough to guess the denouement of the
at ory.
The scene is laid in the south, on the
outskirts of the Blue Ridge mountain and
concerns a very austere, phlegmatic old
woman, who has the bringing up of a
girl supposed to be her daughter, and
whom she has held within the leash of sol
itary confinement from the world until
Hi© girl has reached an age when she be
gins to see things for herself and assert
her rights.
Into the community of DamlGrton, as
old fashioned and queer in its way as
‘'Cranford,” comes a singer—Madame
< 'arola.
The gossipy old women, over a cup of
tea at one of the Aid society meetings,
MARIE CORELLI
picked her to pieces—limb from limb—and
they take an attitude of disapproval to
ward the poor creature, which is quite in
keeping with their narrow views and
ideas.
Madame Carola's manager. Max Revell.
• ornes down to Dendorton t<» have the
singer sign some “contracts.” and the
tirst day that lie is there he and the
singer run across Theodosia Berrisford.
who. despite her narrow surrounding,
speaks to the singer, and after a short
time “calls'' on her.
The resemblance between the girl and
the singer Is very striking, and Max
Revel notices it at once; also he notices
that Theodosia is very pretty and he likes
her very much.
Vivian Earle, a badly spoiled, good look
ing chap, and his mother, are other char
acters around whom the story centers—
Theodosia supposed to be in love with'
Vivian, and their marriage being the dear
est dream of his mother’s life.
Things become very complicated at this
point when Vivian falls madly in love
with Madame Carola and Mux with The
odosia.
A sort of feud regarding some land
makes the situation rather strenuous 1>e
tween Vivian Earle and his tenant, JiJm
Stratton, and in spite of the warning of
Theodosia and Vivian’s mother, Earle
walks right into the trap Stratton has
set for him and is killed.
Tn the meantime Theodosia's life is very
unhappy.
Camilla Berrisford has refused to have
anything to do with her because she has
persisted in her friendship with Madame
Carola. and things lead up to qejiute a
powerful climax, when Madame Carola
insists upon calling upon- the exclusive,
stern. Camilla Berrisford.
Camilla, blind and struggling, resentful
and furious, tells the whole story that the
reader has suspected long ago, namely,
that Madame Carola is Theodosia’s moth
er. and was turned from Camilla’s home
when the child was born of illicit love,
and which in consequence made her shut
herself ami Theodosia out from the world
ever since, in order to protect the child.
Camilla dies and Madame Carola and
the girl go to New York.
Max finally wins her love ami we are
left by the author to suppose that they
live happily ever afterward.
Mr. Bowen has Imagination and de
scriptive powers to quite a degree and if
’Tnchartered Seas’’ is his first novel,
there is certainly promise of a future in
store for him, for his literary talent is un
doubtedly' evident and his style is very
attractive.
"FIELD PATH AND HIGHWAY"
By E. E. Miller, Bangor, Ala.
"Field Path and Highway," by E. E.
Miller, contains 10 sketches of country life,
including "An Autumn Ride." "The Un
changed Love," "Not Unavailing.” "When
the Circus Game to Town." "A Teller of
Tales," "The Master’s Discipline," "For
Love of Margery," "Days of Happiness,"
"The Lure of Tomorrow," "The Chords of
Memory."
Most of these sketches have been pub
lished in well known periodicals and
some of them have brought numerous let
ters of appreciation to the publishers. In
book form they make n collection which
will be read with pleasure and often
turned to.
Nature in all of its beauty and loveli
ness has been wonderfully depicted by the
author, who seems to know just what
well springs to draw upon to put the
reader in contact with all the exquisite
poetry and art* associated with this won
derful subject.
It is an innovation in literary fields to
pick up a volume like "Field Path and
Highway," and to judge of the reception
the book has been accorded some "appre
ciation” from well known writers, are
here appended.
Mrs. Lindsay Patterson: "Your descrip
tions are wonderfully good and your
choice of words most felicitous and un
usual. Few' writers can tell what they
see in wood or field."
"I am delighted with it." writes Sam
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uel Minturn Peck. “You write beauti
ful prose, picturesquely beautifully. I saw'
pictures as I read.”
‘Sketches,’ the author simply desig
nates them: traceries in gold they really
are—stories, sketches, memories—things
gathered along the field paths and high
ways of life and set forth here for the
eyes and understanding of discerning
readers. Here one finds gentle humor,
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breath of the woods and wind and field
and sky," says W. F. Marshall, in North
Carolina Education.
“CHEAP TURKEY’”
By Ward Maoauley. DufTield & Company,
New York.
The question of the “middleman’' is one
talit many writers have essayed in these
times of the “high cost of living.'”
The subject is still in the air.
Ward Macauley in his story of about 50
pages, entitled “Cheap Turkey,” has writ
ten a satire on various experiments along
the lines of “selling at cost.”
The story opens with John Goodman on
Thanksgiving eve, and going home with
the first turkey that he had been able to
buy in years and presenting it to ills
wife, who is equally as surprised. She
exclaims with delight:
“Why, John, it’s a turkey!”
“None other.” said lie, “Mrs. Goodman,
this is Mr. Turkey. Mr. Turkey, this Is
Mrs. Goodman. You have never met be
fore, lthink."
The story is w ell worth reading—for it is
very original and quite different from any
thing so far published on the subject, and
GRACE MACGOWAN COOKE
\fr. Macauley has no doubt found a large
clientele who appreciate his viewpoint de
cidedly.
"VIRGINIA”
By Ellen Glasgow. Doubleday, Page &
Co., New York.
In a recent interview on her charming
book, "Virgiania,’ Miss Ellen Glasgow
made some interesting comments upon
American literature.
“There are three tilings a novelist has
to do to prove himself” she said, "first,
show an ability to create personalities;
second, exhibit a sincerity of style, and,
third, evince the capacity for an Intelli
gent criticism of life. Without these he
is not worth very much in a serious big
way. To contribute to this knowledge
and understanding of life—that should be
his motive in writing—not primarily to
create a pleasant impression. We must
free ourselves from the fear of fear.
"I really believe that one of the great
est handicaps of the American novel is
its agreeableness, its tendency to support
the pretty sham instead of the ugly
truth. As long as we persecute the writer
for not, being pretty, so long will we pro
duce llie surface fiction. We all need
deeper seriousness, deeper reason, and
wider personal freedom."
As Is well known. Miss Glasgow' is a
southern woman and her books deal with
southern characters, and a great many
of them are laid in the south in the period
following the civil war. "Virginia" is
laid at a later time, w'here the problems
of the south had taken on more of the
aspect of the problems of the world.
Development, from one point of view,
might be called the central theme of Miss
Glasgow's novel, "Virginia.” for It deals
primarily with the transitional period In
the history of woman wrhen it was first
being borne in upon people that life de
manded something else of her than love,
faithfulness and self-sacrifice—^when it
was being brought home to people that
woman had a wider place in society than
tlie confines of her home. "Virginia” Is
the story of the development of a man's
mind and a woman’s soul, and like all of
Miss Glasgow’s works, it is full of epi-1
grammatlc flashes of insight into life's I
true meaning. Nowhere in the whole I
book does the situation sum itself up sol
powerfully as when Virginia come* to!
realize what her married life amounts to,
which is here quoted in part:
"She herself loved to talk, for site had
inherited her mother’s ability to keep up
a honeyed floft of sound about little
things; but she had learned long ago that
there were times when her voice, rip
pling on about nothing, only irritated him,
and with her feminine genius for adapt
ability, she had made a habit of silence.
• • • Companionship of a mental sort
had always been lacking between them,
yet so reverently did she still accept the
traditional fictions of marriage that she
would have been astonished at the sug
gestion that a love which could survive
the shocks of tragedy might at last fade
away from a gradual decline of interest.
• • • Going to his desk she took up a
photograph of Margaret Oldcastla and
studied it for a moment—not harshly, not
critically, but with a pensive question
ing. It was hardly a beautiful face, but
in its glowing intellectuality, it was the
face of a woman of power. • • • But
her intuition, rather than her thought,
made her understand dimly that the
things she feared in Margaret Oldcastle
were the qualities In which she herself
was lacking. Whatever power the. wom
an possessed drew its strength and Its
completeness from a source which Vir
ginia had never recognized as being nec
essary or even beneficent to love.
'■ 'Poor Matilda! She Is restless and dis
satisfied .and she doesn’t understand that
It is because she has outlived her useful
ness.' At that time 'poor Matilda' had
seemed to her an old woman—but, per
haps, she wasn’t in reality much over 40.
How soon women grew old a generation
ago! Why, she felt as young today as she
did the morning on which she was mar
ried. She felt as young, and yet her
hail was graving, her face was wrinkled,
and. like poor Matilda, she had outlived
her usefulness. * • • Though she still
felt young, it was not with the youth or
today. She had no part in the present;
her ideals were the ideals of another pe
riod; even her children had outgrown her
She saw now with a piercing flash of in
sight. so penerating, so Impersonal, that
it seemed the result of some Outside vis
ion rather than of her own uncritical
judgment, that life had treated her as It
treats those who give, but never demand
She had made the way too easy for others:
she had never exacted of them; she had
never held them to the austerity of their
ideals.”
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In this big, important book. “Making
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fleld, takes the farmer by the hand and
leads him along thoroughly practical
paths to success and larger profits. It is
not a hook of theory, but tells just how
to get the best results with the least labor
and the least waste; it tells how to mi:;
brains with the soil and get the most out
of an acre. i
Every phase of agriculture is considered '
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poultry and stock. Intensive farming and
diversified farming are ably handled. The
care of the soil, the treatment of #farm
diseases, the use of by-products, intelli
gently meeting the market demands and
selling at the best price are a few of the
important topics which are treated with
great care.
In reading this book we have been im
pressed with the author’s large view of
country life; he grasps the relation of
farming to the entire life of the nation,
seeing it not only as a practical farmer,
but from the viewpoint of the statesman,
the financier and student of affairs. By
Informing the farmer on the subject of j
market conditions he brings the producer
and consumer closer together for their
mutual benefit. By giving him the bene
fit of the latest agricultural developments
and methods the author not only tells the
farmer how to make more money, but
how to make his life more happy and
comfortable, how to make the farm so
attractive that his young people will pre
fer to remain there rather than seek the
uncertain rewards of the city.
The book will be of immense value to
every farmer, large and small, and any
city man would add greatly to his store
of uesful knowledge by reading this val
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button to one of the most vital questions
of the day, for as the author says:
“In common with thousands of others I
am strongly impressed with the belief that
the subject of better farming in America
Is the most important now occupying the
attention of the commercial world. By
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better farming is meant a system that will
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••This book Is published In the hope of
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“THE KINGDOM”
By Harold Elsdale Goad. Frederick A.
Stokes company. New' York.
A man about to marry the girl he loves
passionately finds that she has fallen in
love with Ills friend. Is the theme of Har
old Elsdale Goad’s story, “The Kingdom.”
Naturally Inclined to a religious life and
feeling his trouble as a final call from
God, he becomes a Franciscan friar. The
result of such a step on the soul of a man
trained in all the ways of thought of mod
ern Italy, is drawn with deep insight by
an author who knows intimately tlie life
of which he w’rites.
The book Is a subtle analysis of the
spiritual development of an introspective,
deeply religious man. Bernardo struggles
first against God, then against the world
he has given up, and comes to final peace
in the realization of his mission as a mod
ern St. Francis to teach the church “to
make her vision the most vital and creat
ing force in the w'orld today.”
The setting of the spiritual action is
vivid. Bernado’s childhood In Milan, the
little doings of the friars in the quiet and
sunshine of the convent at Assisi, are ex
quisitely related.
"THE MIND READER"
By Max Rittenberg. D. Appleton & Co..
New York.
The sensational cases and extraordinary
adventures of Dr. Wycherly, a mysterious
hypnotist and mental healer, are told by
Max Rittenberg in "The Mind Reader,"
a very clever and readable story.
The people he experiments with or helps
in their difficulties cover a wide range,
from king to peasant. They are drawn
from life, and stand out clear-cut and
real. While the episodes of the book are
emotional, yet they are based on actuali
ties in mental science.
The intervention of Dr. Wycherly in a
marital tangle of an English politician
(to whom n name will probably be fitted
by most readers) forms a fitting climax
to an unusual story.
"THE MATING OF LYDIA"
By Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Doubleday,
Pago & Co., New York.
As a background to her latest story,
"The Mating of Lydia," Mrs. Humphry
Ward has drawn a character that has
created widespread comment for the con
trast it draws with the girl frofn whom
the hook is named.
Lydia, a strong, enthusiastic young
artist, full of ideals and determined to
live her own life, do her own work, and
have friendships with men entirely de
void of any entangling attachments, Is a
character upon which Mrs. Ward dwells
with loving skill. A typical piature of
Melrose, the recluse whose one passion
| was antique, Is given here from the
I book:
“Inside—thick darkness, save for one
faint gleam through a dilapidated shutter.
Ah Faversham advanced, groping into the
room, there was a sudden scurry of mice,
and a sudden flapping of something In a
corner, which turned out to be a couple
of bats. When he made for the window,
dense cobwebs brushed against his face,
and half the shutter on which he lay Ills
hand came away at his touch and lay
in fragments at his feet. Strange noiaes
fn the chimney showed that owls had
built there, and as the shutter fell a
hideous nest of earwigs was disturlied, |
and ran hither and thither over the floor.
“And when Faversham turned to look
at the contents of the room he saw Mel
rose. in his skullcap, poking about among
a medley of black objects on the floor and
in an open cupboard, ids withered cheeks
ghastly in tho sudden duyllght.
“ ‘What am they?’ asked Faversham,
wondering.
“ ‘Silver,’ was the sharp reply. ‘Some of
the finest things known.’
And from the filthy cupboard Melrose's
shaking hand had drawn out a ewer and
basin, whence some ragged coverings fell
away. It was almost entirely black; but
the exquisite work of It—the spiral fluting
of the ewer, Its shell-like cover, the
winged dragon on the handle, and, round
the oval basin, the rim of chasing
dolphins, could still be seen.”
In “The Mating of Lydia,” Mrs. Ward
takes up again a charming love story, in
the management of which she is an un
disputed master, as all who are familiar I
with “The Testing of Diana Mallory,”
"Lady Rose’s Daughter." "Eleanor," and '
other stories, admit. The book Is illus
trated from handsome photogravures.
"THE COLONEL’S STORY”
By Mrs. Roger A. Pryor. The Macmillan
company. New York.
In "The Colonel’s Story,” Mrs. Roger A.
Pryor, well known and much beloved for
her charming reminiscences and books
about the old south, has pictured life In
Virginia 00 or 70 years ago. The story
she has told is one in which the spirit of
the times figures largely; adventure and
romance have their play and carry the
plot to a satisfying end. Jt would be dif
flcuit, indeed, if not impossible, to find a
fitter pen to portray the various features
of Virginia life and culture than Mrs.
Pryor, who is "to the manor born," and
was raised amid the memories of a past
where, until the war for southern inde
pendence, families retained their social
standing and customs from generation to
generation.
"REFLECTIONS OF A BEGINNING
HUSBAND"
By Edward Sanford Martin. Harper
Brothers, New' York.
The Beginning Husband, whose reflec
tions are herein set forth by Edward
Sandford Martin, found, after a prelimi
nary setback, a desirable young woman
practising at life in the same plane with
himself, who was willing to marry him
on an income of a week. They did so
marry, and the husband relates what be
fell them, and how matters in general
looked to them in the mated state.
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (REVIEWS
LATER.)
HENRY KEMPTON,” by Evelyn Brent
wood. The John Lane company, New
York.
"DEVOTA,” by Augusta Evans Wilson.
Illustrated by Stuart Travis. Biographical
reminiscences by T. (DeLeon. G. W.
Dillingham, New York.
"THE LAND OF THE SPIRIT,” by
Thomas Nelson Page. Charles Scribner’s
Sons, New York.
"GETTYSBURG,” by Elsie Singmaster*
Houghton, Mifflin company, New York,
As the Styles Change
From the St. Louis Republic.
"Isn’t it funny how the literary styles
change? For instance, suppose Artemus
Ward could come back? Just about
where do you reckon he'd break into the
game again?”
“Well, to be honest with you. I’d like
to have a taste of Artemus trying his
hand at some of the sport-page poetry.”
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