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LONDON Deals ia Brtatality. ACK LONDON'S last novel, "The J Sea -Wolf," must give pause even to the most ardent of the vounc CaJiforaian writer's admirers. For by the very insistence of a certain element in the ttllinc of hsf= la?t story London boldly challenges a question which his former tales have raised, thoufih in less decree, and which ■will find in its answer, Riven bv the readers, the forecast of future success or failure for London the writer of fic tion. This question, boldly put. is: In how large a measure does the element of strength in a novel condone the use of the ugly, the sordid, the brutal; can ihe utter elimination of the spiritual in favor of press materialism be consid ered an axsct of esthetic value in the final appiairc-iKent of a novel's worth? This itjsue is boldly, even pujrnacious |y forced by Mr. London in this storv of his. I can recall no piece of English or American fiction of receftt vears which insists upen a display of the raw meat of life such as does "The Sea- Wolf." The tritj phrase of the review ers who sum up the worth of a book by its arterial pressure of "Rood red blood" certainly applies to London's sea story as it has applied to no recent piece of fiction. Red blood spurts from every page of Wolf Larsen's lo:r. red blood and teeth coughed up after blows, and ribs cracked from tigerish mauline. The central figure, at all times the con trolling lijrure, is a Cyclops, a. moral Caliban, whose law is the law of the Stone Age and whose scheme of life is that of the "Mad Philosopher." Nietz- Eche^-life the sordid thing. From the second chapter of the book throuerh to the last the atmosphere is permeated with the taint of this Wolf Larsen— a man whom London calls "Lucifer, proud spirit" — destroyer, infidel, captain of a "hell ship" in very truth. There is no surcease from the spoken and acted enormities of the man. Blood and blasphemy reek from three hundred pages of "The Sea-Wolf." To what end? True, brutalitv has found place in the most treasured of our classics. Homer sings of Achilles dragging Hector about the walls of •Troy at the tail of his chariot: but this exemplifies the divine rage of men of the heroic age. Tolstoy tells of the horrors of war in his "Sevastopol" with the single purpose of painting the un pardonable tragedy of conflict. The brutality in "The Sea-Wolf" serves no purpose but its own; it is brutality for brutality's sake. Granted that the ultimate aim of the story is to dem onstrate the development that comes to the character of the dilettante Hum phrey Van Weyden, can it be esti mated in the final instance that Van Weyden is the better man for witness- Ing and suffering: for months the in human barbarisms of Wolf Larsen, even though to his talents as a literary critic he has added that of naviga tion? Wolf Larsen's savagery constructs nothing, profits nothing. His gross iconoclasm of philosophy moves no body in the story, convinces nobody. This savagery, then, this iconoclasm. serves but to bring strength to the au thor's conception of his character— and •ue are back to the question: Does the suppression of the spiritual to the ad vancing of bald, hard materialism make for strength^ In a novel— for true strength? Consideration of this element of the novel aside, It may be heartily assert ed that London has given here a vivid picture of the sea— vivid to a degree that most landsmen cannot appreciate. The author has exhibited here, as in his other stories, a remarkable facility for producing an atmosphere for his plot which pricks itself line for line on the retina of the reader's Imagina tion. The tossing schooner Ghost, its rnongrel crew of flotsam. Wolf Larsen himself, are real— real as if the reader ■were In Humphrey Van Wede*n's sea toots. The Incident of the attack upon Death JJarsen's sealing crew and the subsequent flight through the fog, as "well as the description of Larsen's masterful seamanship in the typhoon are Intensely vivid. London has the knack of coloring essential detail in a manner such as to embrace and out line the whole picture. i The author's grasp upon the course of true love^is not so certain. The ■whole incident of Van Weyden's res cue" of Maud Brewster from the Ghost, of their subsequent drifting in an open boat, their sojourn on a desert,, Island and their final emancipation from the wilderness of the sea Iack3 the 'convincing quality that charac terizes the early part of the tale. It reads like an excerpt from the story books. The psychological moment for the Implanting of that kiss upon the fair Maud's lips was not at the light ing of final deliverance, but at the •Instant the castaways set foot on En deavor Island. If, in resume. I may be permitted an expression of opinion directly per ronal I say that "The Sea-Wolf" will add nothing to Mr. London's credit and that another story of its frankly brutal nature would detract largely -from his well-earned reputation. I do not believe that the reading world wants this butcher's meat, hacked dripping from the bones of realism. (The Macmlllan Company, New Tork; illustrated; price $1 50.) CAHNE'S "The Prodigal Son" z-p HOUGH Had! Caine is firmly com- I mined to the belief that this* is I the worst possible of all possible worlds, he has a master hand at painting the heavy shadows of wretched humanity. Tragedy and heartbreak, the wrecking of hopes, the crumbling of resolves, the futility of all that makes for happiness in this world and glory in the next — these are the sable textures of all his novels. These he has utilized in the last of his stories, "The Prodigal Son," with. a BOOKS OF THE DAY power transcending that manifested in any of his former works. "The Prod igal Son" is a terrible story, a strong story, if not a pleasant one. In several of his ©Arlier novels, not ably "The Manxman" and "The Bonds man," Caine wrought tragedy out of circumstance ar.d incident — the accu mulations of fate terribly piled up; the free play of the characters themselves availed little in the final denouement. This last story of his is immeasurably stronger, more artistic thUn the others becaure in it the psychology of events is reflected directly upon the psycho logical inspirations of his characters. He has made a closer study of the cause and effect of human emotions and impulses; circumstance has to play no god from the machine; the human soul works out its own destiny. The story teems not fiction, but life re vealed, line for line. s Iceland makes the theater for "The Prodigal Son." The characters are all of Iceland. In choosing the dull, drab setting of the bleak hills and the sim ple, homespun peoples inhabiting them the author has purposely placed his tragic tale of life on the plane of first principles. in every respect are the components of the plot. ?f The temptations that come to. Oscar Ste phenson are the temptations against which Solomon warned the youths of Israel; even as did Esau, he 'sells his birthright for a mess of the world's pottage. The tragedy arising from the hopeless frailty of this man is the com mon world tragedy; But this tempta tion, this sin, this tragedy, all burning forth from the harsh, uncompromising gloom of Iceland, give "The Prodigal Son" the crude, the bitter strength of the primitive. ; - The plot has few complications; in deed, the end may be guessed before Part I has been read through. A mis mated love, a guilty love, the sins of a weak man and the deeds of a strong— these things and the story tells itself. It is in the intensive study of the char acters that the meat of the book lies. This Caine has wrought in a manner suggestive of Eduard Rod, the expo nent of the psychological novel in French contemporary fiction. Feeling Is interpreted by action; shades of meaning gain significance by the man ner of utterance as well as the import of the spoken word. His conception of Oscar, the brilliant, untrammeled soul who sins for the minute and lives to reap bitter repentance, is the best, the most masterly that Hall Caine has yet evolved. - (D. Appleton & Co., New York; price 5150.) . • . - ARTIST Tries at Fiction. f± NDRE CASTAIGNE, one 'of the LJ best known illustrators of the. J 1 modern school, has essayed to es * tablish himself in a new depart ment of the arts with his first novel, "Fata Morgana." His initial at tempt, however, is hardly flattering enough to encourage any further exer tion in this line of endeavor; he would better stick to his last and continue In the province where his abilities have gained such permanent recognition. "Fata Morgana" is far from beintr a good novel. Good in spots but weak in construc tion and almost absolutely lacking in coherence is this story of Castaij?ne's. He begins his tale in the middle and then after several chapters goes back to pick up the threads that are wav ing wildly about, demanding a place in the woof of the plot. Then when the premises of the' action have been laid affairs carry along to the original point of break and after one hundred pages the reader begins to find himself and to identify the present with what goes before. Another break, and the story carries to a castle on the Adriatic — a fiction castle, of course — where a strange melodrama of prophecy and present evil is enacted. At the end the reader gathers what he may. from the tangle and counts nearly 600 pages that have taxed his eyes fruitlessly. Bohemian Paris— the Bohemia of the Quartier Latin, the ateliers and the Bal de Quat'z-Arts— as. reflected tin' Cas taigne's novel gives it Its cmef worth. Of course one like the author, who has lived his life In the. student atmos phere of Paris and who even now is the head of an art school there, has the atmosphere of the place at first hand, and Castalgne reproduces" It with convincing. surety. In the first chap ters of his novel, wherein he deals .with the early struggles of his. hero to gain a foothold In the art world, the author has given many clear-cut pictures of the rare bonhomie and generous good fellowship obtaining in the art quar ter. His characters Poufaille and Su zanne, the journeyman sculptor and his model, are the best in the book judged from the interest which centers about them. Helia, the heroine, is very like one of the artist-author's lay models; she "stays put" wherever her creator wills it and her actions are as mechan ical as a lay figure's. Philip, the young artist, has the originality of indecision. if this sole distinctive feature of his mental endowments can be called orig inal. If illustrations made the book "Fata Morgana" would be one of the most prized volumes of the M e&son. Over sixty of his pencil creations has Cas taigne contributed to the text— all trood. Had the author added to this number by about one-half again he' might have omitted the story altogether and still given the reader as tangible a grasp of the plot as the printed page does. . (The Century Company, New York; price 51 50.) NOVEL of Clever Surprise. MAN ON THE BOX," Har- I old McGrath's new story, would I have been a highly entertajn >;././," Ing little tale had the author stuck to the dominant strain of farce comedy throughout. The Idea, Is novel, the situations Ingenious and humor is bubbling from almost every chapters but not satisfied with producing a tale which might lay no claim to being else than a frothy bit of fun makl/g Mc- Grath has sought to cast a spell of mel odrama over the plot's conclusion and In so doing he has come weir nigh wrecking his story.- • , . A hero who, In the spirit of adven ture, disguises himself as a coachman In order that he might enjoy the nov elty of driving his own sister home from a Washington, . diplomat's ball, counts not upon fate and finds himself piloting instead the girl of all ; girls whom he had worshiped from afar. Complications lead to the Police Court and out again. Still unidentified, this reckless young fellow takes service with the maid of his heart in the'same guise of a coachman and even finds himself forced to serve soup to his rival when ■ pressed Into the capacity of a butler. What with his love for the one who is thus placed In. the po sition of his mistress and the pressing danger of discovery always attending upon his wild escapade, the . hero finds thing? pretty much at sixes arid sevens until he has an opportunity to ■ climb through, an open window, and play the god from the machine in highly dramat- THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CAUl lc manner. Then things straighten themselves out in an eminently satis factory fashion. .But that making of the girl's father into a traitor to his country and a very barterer of the nation's secrets— that artifice with all the concomitant fea tures of the villainous young Russian and the w'reck of a fortune falls very flat." Even the author Is riot sincere enough in his tragic mood to make of the Czar's secret service agent a pass ably conscientious villain. Time and again he temporizes with his Impulse by voicing extenuation for all of the Count's wickedness, i This strained ele ment of sensationalism, together with a very clumsy way of giving the story in, the first person and making paren thetical jibes and comments upon the conventions of novel writing, mar an otherwise brilliant piece of fiction fool ing. . (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indian apolis; illustrated.) FICTION and Fact Reviewed. POSSESSING much of the fascina tion of H. G. Wells' stories of the Improbable and written In a style vigorous and tensely dramatic, James Barnes' novel, "The Unpar donable War," is a book to spur, the Interest of the most blase reader of fiction. Not that Its fundament al plot scheme is startling in.. Its originality — stories of hypothetical wars between world powers have been written in goodly numbers; but the vividness of the book's Inci dents of battle both on sea aod land is commensurable with that of a pano rama, so clear-cut, does each feature stand put in near perspective. The au thor's description of the great sea fight between the -British and American fit ets reads . as if it were written by Captain Mahan. According to Barnes' story the echoes of the Russo-Japanese war had not been long dead when. an unfortu nate combination of ; circumstances brought England and our.country to terrible blows.' , The, sudden sweeping Into the Presidential office of a.candi date of the People's party and the at tendant propaganda of quasl-Sociallsm had served to spread confusion to busi ness at home and to make dangerous our relations abroad.* An unscrupul ous^owner of 'a syndicate, of news papers cognlves with certain disreput able members of the'weVk President's Cabinet to bring, on a war In order that the mistakes -of the party in power may not; grow; too large in the public opinion. ' By fclever distortion of truth \ and • insistent bully-ragging, the newspaper syndlcate\: actually -does bring matters' to such a j>ass that the unintentional ramming of a British battleship by, an American boat pre cipitates hostilities. One great land tattle Is fought near Montreal and one [engagement between the belligerent fleets occurs off the Atlantic coast, then by a wonderful invention of an American scientist, the nature of which will not be unfairly disclosed here, war is suddenly brought to a standstill on account of the very fu tility of the weapons of destruction. Aside from the vivid descriptions of conflict in the book not a little interest attaches to the author's clever antici pations of the strides of science. . Both upon the ships of war and with the armies, on land there are utilized in struments of offense" and defense which seem not impossible, though they are for the time being but the figments of the author's imaginings. (The Macmillan Company, New York; price $1 50.) "Hearts In Exile," John Oxenham's story of Siberia and the secret arm of the great white Czar, Is not sensa tional as it might easily have been, but a strong, well balanced tale of dra matic interest. The author exhibits all the earmarks of the true story-teller in his sympathetic handling of situations which would call for strained heroics or the crudest kind f of bathos, from one less skilled in the art than Oxenham. Beginning with a marriage between a wealthy Russian and a girl who has aspirations for the uplifting of the masses, this story of Russia rapidly develops the dangers attending any work of reform in the Czar's country. Serge Palma, the successful of the two rivals who had bidden for the hand of the philanthropic maid, finds that his interest In his wife's schemes leads to the grim road to* Siberia. But on his way to exile Palma meets Paul Pavlof, the disappointed but high minded lover, and consents to the lat ter's offer to change places in order that the girl behind mayunot be be reaved. How the wife, not knowing of the change, goes to Siberia In search of her husband and finds there her former lover instead, and /how, as her guardian, Paul l€ads the woman out of dangerous places to final happiness — these things make a strong and thrill ing tale. » (DDdd, Mead & Co., New York; illus trated; price $1 50.) Imagination that can be made so vivid . as to produce the semblance of reality is something not usually found in the work of present day ro mances. Harris Burland, , author of "The Princess Thora," has it in satis fy Ing. plenitude. Though telling a tale which prima facie Is nothing more tnan the wildest romance, this writer brings to his task such directness and force of conviction that the reader begins to believe that his conceits are x not only probable, but reasonably within the bounds of possibility- To. say that the plot centers about the North Pole and that a strange race of Pole dwellers plays an important part In the story is to • give the reader hint enough to arouse his Interest and Insure his pe rusal, of the tale. (Little, Brown & Co., Boston; illus trated; price. 51 50.) A.very artistic Christmas book is "Our. Christmas Tides," arranged, and written In large part by Dr. Theodore Ledyard Cuyler. Seven Christmas es says and little sermons appropriate to the season and: seven Christmas songs and poems, known to every speaker of the English" tongue, constitute the volume. Among the first are: "A Mer ry Christmas to You," an interesting sketch of Christmas customs In Eng land, America and elsewhere. Includ ing' some delightful personal reminis cence; "A Day at Bethlehem," which Is; a description of the modern City, of David; "A" Motto for Giv ing," a plea for Christian generosity; "Jesus the Joy-Brlnger." "Home Thoughts for ChrlstmaB. Tide." "The Star of Bethlehem- That '.Never Sets" and '"Back to Christ,", the last - four semi-sermons with a bearing on Christ mas, each full of inspiration for right living, written in Dr. Cuyler's simple, effective way. The book is illustrated with photogravures and decorated with broad designs ' In red along the wide margins.; It is a holiday book -which has more meat in it than the averasre of the class. . •', (TherBaker & Taylor Company, New York.) 1 ' ' .. . "Careers for the Coming Men" is the title of a' volume of essays and speeches upon ".the professions and industries of the day, by ; men who have * the author ity .of knowledge to back their words. Whltelaw Reid, the veteran editor and. statesman, tells of Journalism as a pro fession of opportunity: the two branches of the military service, army arid navy, are treated by Colonel Albert Mills and Rear Admiral George W. Melville; F. N/ Doubleday reveals the advantages and disadvantages of pub lishing as a business; Jamc3 K. Hackett tells stage x secrets and—signi ficant fact — Cyrus Townsend Brady, the prolific, holds the ear with whispered advice upon the very doubtful career of the author. The book is a good one for. a young man to read when he besrins " to mingle some individual speculation with his high school algebra. * (The Saalfleld Publishing CompanV. Akron, Ohio;' illustrated; price- 51 50.). / • . ..• The entirely new "Cynic's Calendar" is piled up in Paul Elder's windows. It is as good as the last and that is as good as the combined wit of Ethel Watts Mumford, Oliver Herford and Addlson Mlzner can make it- Price 75 cents— better get it. ' THE MONTH in Magazine World. THE Christmas number of Scrib ner's Magazine is unusually beau tiful in its pictures, both in color and black and white, and Is filled with sketches and short stories that are not only amusing and entertaining, but are good literature and full of charac ter, as well as adapted to the Christ mas season. Specially noteworthy art features are the colored frontispiece, by Maxfleld Parrish; the illustrations In color for some "Scenes From the Old Ballads," by Beatrice Stevens; the drawings by Walter Appleton Clark, showing Christmas scenes In an old French village; a drawing of a mother and child In colors by Sarah Stilwell, accompanying a poem by E. S. Martin, and the beautiful colored cover by Da vid Erlcson. , Short fiction Is abundant and of great variety — "McAllister's Christmas" Is the story of how a comfortable clubman got Into the Tombs and saw how Christmas was spent In the underworld. The author, Arthur Train, Is an Assistant District Attorney, j Edith Wharton has a story of artistic life in New York, "The Pot Boiler." Octave Thanet's story "The Angel of His Youth" is a tale of dis illusionment. The late Guy Wetmore Carryl is represented by a most amus ing story entitled "William, Alfy and Henry John." Another humorous story, "The Corner Cupboard Man," is by Sydney Preston, the author of "The Green Pigs." The position of distinction held by McClure's in story as well as article is* well sustained .by the fiction of the December number. James Hopper leads with "A Jumble in Divinities," which for charm of style and quality of sentiment can hardly be excelled as a Christmas story. There are more stories that^ppeal to our primal sense of what is beautiful and tender to our better instincts and tastes, with a moving force. George Madden Mar tin's "God Rest You, Merry Chris tians." Marion Hill's "His Journey to the Gates," Janet Remington's "The Way Wonderful," Herman Knicker bocker VIele's "The Money Meter," are about the people and things we all know, real' and homely and familiar, feeling what we have felt and draw- Ing our warmest sympathy. Mrs. Martin's is a Christmas story., which reflects the season and its meaning. Then there are more of the masterly studies of men and things in the rough, of that great Americk which lies far west of Hoboken, as artis tically perfect expressions of the un familiar as are these other stories of the ordinary. Rex. E. Beach de scribes a terrible contest of two miners with cold and hunger and distance. in the Arctic circle, "The Test." in which mind defeats matter. Stewart Ed- Avard White continues his serial, "The Rawhide," and carries us /with un broken Interest Into the mysteries of "the round-up" "the trail" in the Arizona desert. O. Henry has a de llghtfullyv humorous sketch of the matrimonial adventures of two retired miners In "The Ransom of Mack." A collection of thrilling stories, con densed under one title, Is found in "Notes from a Trainer's Book," by Samuel Hopkins Adams. The spirit of Christmas invades the editorial sanctum long before December comes, and the Christmas magazines celebrate the holiday season with a specially liberal literary and artistic menu.' Among the Christmas maga zines The Booklovers will take a foremost place. It ! contains a varied and attractive array of literary con tributions, and an unusually quantity of brilliant and artistic illustrations, many of them in color and tint. Pastor' Charles Wagner, the apostle of the simple life, opens the December number with a. brief "Christmas Mes sage," written in French 'and trans lated by Mary Bacon. It is a singularly fresh and unconventional treatment of an almost threadbare subject, a paean of praise on the beauty of the "mother spirit" that at Christmastlde, at least, is universal and powerfuIMn Its appeal to the best in human nature. One of the most interesting papers In the December number is that by Bur riss Gahan on "The Real Australian," being the first of a series of three pa- pers on the Island continent. In this article Mr. Gahan introduces the reader to "the land and the people" in that country of opposites, and describes and corrects those first impressions of the traveler which are so apt to be false and misleading. Pearson's magazine for December presents the unusually numerous col lection of six special articles and eight sparkling pieces of fiction. "The American House of Lords," by David S. Barry, is the leading article. 1 and tells of the perquisites and sine cures of United States Senators; as they are to convene on the first Mon day of December, this paper Is pecul iarly timely. A sketch of the philan thropic career of the late Louis Flelsch mann relates the history and the da- tails of his world-famous Bread Una. one of the nlsht sights of New York. Still another timely article Is H. P. Burchell's "International Athletics,** copiously illustrated with photographs. In his story Mr. Burchell briefly re counts the results of this year's Ameri can sporting achievements in compe tition with England,, Canada, Ger many and France. The article embraces everything from the de feat of Emperor William's Meteor to the victories of Americans over English track* teams and cricket teams, and German bowling teams. The number of clippings from Sun set which one sees in Eastern publi cations Is the best evidence of the pro gress which this local magazine Is making. Its December number contains some material which would easily be featured in the select pages of a few of its aristocratic New York contem poraries. For fiction readers Mrs. Mabel Craft Deering contributes "The Stocking Speaks," wherein that glori fied adjunct of the winter festival tells a strange pathetic tale of its peregrina tions. "Christmas Marketing on th« Yukon" by Samuel Hubbard reveals some of the joys of preparing for the Yuletide feast under the aurora with eggs at 52 a dozen. Ella M. Sexton is the author of a tale of the Latin quarter, "The Romance of Concha." Besides two very good pieces of verse by E. A. Brinins^pol and Jeanett* Campbell. Christmas Sunset contains some good solid matter — "Far West ern History" by Professor H. Morsa Stevens of the University of California. "Outdoor Life In California" by Wil liam Greer Harrison, president of the Olympic Club; "On the King's High way" by Wallace Everett, and much else that is good reading. The Thanksgiving number of Th» Youth's Companion (November 24) is so satisfying as to make turkey seem almost superfluous. It contains six complete short stories, two of •which, are Thanksgiving stories, one by Bliss Perry, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, the other by Harriet Prescott Spofford. There Is a capital illustrated article. "Our Boys in Gray" — scenes In tha life of a letter carrier, written by one of them. There is another illustrated article telling how to build a "Scooter" or combined ice and water boat. There are nearly a dozen short char acter sketches, mostly humorous, anecdotes of Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Frederick Watts and the Chi nese Emperor and Dowager Empress, nearly a score of Interesting selections of miscellany, besides the stories and poems and the children's page, a phy sician's contribution on "Schools and Nerves" and the notes on Nature and Science and Current Events. 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