The age-herald., 1897-09-19

taking care. submitted his MS. to Al- bert chevalier that he might pass upon his dialsct.
 Jehn storm is the dominant character of the Book; overwhelmed with the self righteousness and hypocnacy of tho clergy hut, above all, disappointed in
 ats love for Glory, and plqued with j5al-
 opsy that she wafl not consent to be guided by him, and in earnestness of
 Splfrt troubled over the temptat ons and
 dangers of her precarious position in Iondop, he cuts himself off from all l communication with her and enters a Et tothefhood in Bishopgate street, taking 1 vcNS fer six morihs. After much fast 1 ing, prayer and doing of penance. he | arrives at the conclusion that the lfe Of 1 the aseotic is vain. 'eThe lesson of life was work. nfar could not exist without 1t. If he departeI from that condition, 1 no matter how rnueh he fasted am1 med lated and prayed, he was useless and miserable and depnaved." So John storm enters the baIstlfng, busy world again. takes priests orders and deyotss himself to preaching in the slums and to caring for unfortunate women. Blrt the reader is not deceived; it is the face of Glo.y that appeals ito John storm, her prota- ble fate that calls him to action, and he must go to her. In mote at the close of the book the author tells Us that he has sometimes used diaries, let tcrs, memoirs and sermons of msn liy- ing and dsad, but discIaims the inten- tion of padnting anybody's portrait or describing the life of any known so- saif 4lrfsa q this precautaon the clergy Is stirred ard agitated to it's profoundest dep.hs; they very naturally resent the ser1nons Of John Storm and lhis denunciatiens and anathemas Even the hospitals are shocked at his depletion of the nurses ban' and have raised a great hue and cry.
 No wonder the publishers. foreseeing the stir the story would make, offered so enormous a sum for it. John storm is the study of the enthusiast, the vis- ionary the idealist. There Is great pow CT in the conception and in the delinea- ton, but he is too absorbed by his love for Glory to be other than an almost in- sane fanatic about his work and we | absolutely pity him in all his extreme sacrifices of himself suffered to be
  reality, they are but the outcome of his intense disappointment and zealous rage concerning Glory.
 His VOWS are broken as quickly as they are made when they fail to secure to him the companionship of GIery. She is the second character of importance in tine book, and possibly best described in her grand6athe own words: "When people ask me if I rrn not afraid that my granddaughter should be all alone in that great and wicked Babylon tell them, No, you don't know my Glory. She is all courage and nerve and power, a perfect bow of steel, quiyering with sympathy and strength Glory, the kindly. brilliant, lmpuAselve and wlnsome heroine. We love her, and read with pleasure the effuslye and spirited letters she writes home, quite characteristic of | her. But oh, how we do want to shake | her sometimes and ask her what on l earth are all the Londons and careers and stage successes in the world in com l parison with such love a John Storm l offers her But then had 1t not been for the two seeming women that waged such warfare in the heart of one Glory Quayle, we could not have had John Stotm and (his Mission with a capt al
 'tM." Hall Cain Is fast becoming a reallst of the Tosti school. and, while he is acknowledged genufs, it is a ques- tion if his ant is true enough to the ideal- istic side of the realist, true enough to the nob1er phases of life, ever to produce the masterpiece.
 Glory is the greatest creation of the book. It redeems the entire work from what would otherwise weigh 1t down by dts intense load of sin, sorrow and som- breneSs. PAUL PRY.