New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-13
RECENT FICTION.
A RECALCITRANT ARISTOCRAT.

MASTER Mas Ea or Frederick A. Stokes Company
c,-,IwER IN Already: A TALE OF NATURE.
BY James Lane Allen. l6mo' PIP lV Mac
NETS FOR THE WIND. BY Una Taylor. l0"0
DID, 81 Roberts Brothers.
LOVE is A SPIRIT. BY Julian hawthorne
Emo PIP. 200. Harper Brothers.
- ue are TO believe Mr. Julian Sturgis, the worst
oror,,, of the selnshness Of wealth Ia university
Gducation Alan Carteret. the hero OF "A Master
Of Fortune" was an oxford graduate ana the heil
70 a great fortune which would be his al the uea'h
of his grandfather. lie had every motive 10 ''Ne
life easily and as It came. but instead OF 'hiS "o
toked about his family and early IN MS career, "9
unfolded by Mr. Sturgis more than insinua'eu !"
tho nreseuce of his family lawyer that his grand
fathers money was malodorous and that he "ou'u
have mono Of It. The cause OF inns Hr'N''e"' 0
burst was due TO an unexpected visit 10 strangers
Court" which was an ill-smelling rlcKeV 'ene
nent situated on the Carteret estate A''"' ""O
mos an .xpert horseman was driving his four-in-
hand from oxford 'one late afternoon !" sun"
mer." He cut fine figure In his ourh's"eu
coach" and was as happy as a cynical man may
hone 70 be In tho company of the beautiful MIS-
Clipponham" who sat on the box by MS sue i"es
were chatting inconsequentially at'er the 'h''"o'
81 such neople in books and Mrs. Clippenham mad
assured Alan several times that he was arc"
ferow when an accident happened which was des-
ipedt
His OF leader. a spirited mare struck woman
,ho uas trying TO cross the road. Speaking OF
what happened when the mares shoulder 'oucneu
tho wcman's back Mr.. Sturgs says that the latter
"sn,in round like dry leaf in whirlwihd ana
fell"
This unfortunate woman. who reminued A'aH
when he had gathered her unconscious form into
his muscular arms OF "a whisp of scanty clothes'
occupied a room in the unspeakable strangers
Court" Alan carried her upstairs. and when he
had permitted himself to be sufficiently impressed
with the unsanitary condition OF the iodsHsS' anu
had delivered the woman VINO had an uli's-
takahle air OF ladyhood' into the care OF her
daughter who looked like gypsy. he went 10
his LAWYER and made the emphatic statement which
we have quoted about his grandfathers wealth.
Subsequently he sought out Sir simon 'auhteu
tho old gentleman into dlsowning him; sent q
check "a his trusted college friend. Tommy Sea-
field with instructions TO use 1t IN the reei Oh 'he
"Sirangers' Court family dropped the hnal sEI-
,oh,o from his name and fed TO America. During
h,s absence the young lady whose mother mad been
nnocked down by Alan's off mare develops extra
ordinary business ability. and when Alan returns
he forms n partnership with her' anu caps ZIG
climax by making her his wife
Summer In Already" Is story with preface.
for Mr. James Lane Allen takes himself seriously
and has written hir tale Of nature rs protest
against the 'twofold invasion to which we nave
been subjected by "the literature OF the mother
country" Mr. Allen does not like these black
chaotic books OF the new fiction, and has "ven-
tured TO advance n protest under cover OF story.
To this end he has selected two robust young peo-
ple. ..n the crimson flush of the earliest summer
Of life" Ills hero Hilary is represented as n wild
Young man. destined to continue a none too savory
family tradition, while Daphne. the heroine, IL
child of nature surrounded by uncongenia home
Influences Both I'm Mr.. Aliens opinion are dan
gerously forcfathcred" "carelessly reared. tempt
ine:v enylroned" and 'alonc with one another with
nature" They live on adjoining farms and for two
wears before the story opens had visited each
o,her md naved together with al the innocency
NJ children Then the child Daphne blossoms into
woma nhood, and the relations change ana what
was play becomes seriousness. and what was SIM
pie ompanionshp becomes conscious love Inc
growth OF this passion Is described with accuracy
and what Is equally important with modcsty and
reserve Mr. Allen has not been tempted Into mi-
Eating Mr. Garlands vulgar realism. lie has full
oled nj least one OF the promises OF his preface by
making the love of these two young people piausl-
HE and he has made II the more effective ana sig
niacnnt by surrounding their Irregular anection bv
comuonnloce Incidents and scenes. There Is moor
ot least very Understanding for effect. and al
though the inanimate accessories OF field and for
90, are sometimes trne too imporunate. the gen
eral impression is satisfactory-and the matri-
monial denouement the one demanded by logic.
OF the eleven stories by Tina Taylor which are
issued under the title Nets for the Wind, II may
be said that no previous age TO our own "ouId
have conceived them. They are Internationally
modern and modsh. after the names OF the most
audaclous decadent models. They are. we make
bold TO assume symbolic and symbolic presum-
ably OF the change OF human emotions hut on
| this point "A, not able to be certain. We know
only that Miss Taylor's characters have smooth.
msllinuous names and when not writing In the