The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-20

len Glasgow, who wrote The De-
scendantr at the age Of %, and
"Phases Of an Inferior Planet" a little
later, has published a new novel. The
Voice OF the People" which is study of
social and political life in the South, and
evidences incidentally that the authors
undoubted talent has begun to ripen.
Miss Glasgow's earlier novels were in
tense. feverish, and more or less I'M
healthy. None OF these accusations can
be brought against her present volume.
The hero Nick Burr, is introduced to us
in the first chapter as small boy. the son
OF a poor white farmer. He Is "leetlc.
but plum fun grit" and he has already
decided TO abandon his fathers profession
for one more lucrative. There amt
nothin' in peanut raisin'" he said. 'Td
ruthee be Judge" The story is the
story OF n strong will bending the world
10 it's own ends. missing some OF the
longer-for rewards. but gaining others
and making on the whole a fine heroic
figure with the best possible fortune-the
luck to die for his supreme idea.
Old Virginia. when handled intelligently
In literature. is always delightful, and we
are made acquainted here with number
OF loveable people belonging to the elder
DAY, tnere IL the judge, anu lne general
who was a colonel. "but had been raised
10 the rank of general by the unanimous
voice OF his nefghbors on his return
homes'' and there II Miss Chris. and Aunt
Griselda. who had written twenty years
before to say she would stop over at Bat
tie Hall on her way to Richmond. When
she arrived she went up to the best cham
ber. unpacked her trunks. hung up her
Hov haul N no closet and
dered green tea and toast. Twenty years
later she was stil there. still ordering
green tea and toast She had grown
sourer with the years and more eccentric
but the general never failed to treat her
crotchets with courtesy. nor to remind his
family, ''She Is our guest-renember
what is due to a guest. my dears" d. so
And when Miss Chris placidiy suggest
cd that the privileges of guestship wore
threadbare when they were extended over
twenty years and Eugenia ferventiy
hoped that there were no visitors in heay-
en- the general responded to each in turn:
cit Is tho right of guest TO determine
the length of his stay. and. as a Virgin
ian. my honse Is open as long as 1t has
roof over It,
II would not, perhaps have hurt the
story II the writer, while giving US such
wholesome and loveable characters, had
retained n little more OF the intensity
which she spent so lavishly upon the neu-
rotic heroines Of her former books. We
have a cordial impression chat Eugena is
"all right" as heroine, but her image is
not cut into our CONSEQUENCES very den
nitely Aud II Is just possible mat She
and Nicholas are both a little too sane
for the purposes OF hero and heroine. 1t
s. an error on the right side. To he sure,
hut although people may be happy for
forty years with broken heart" Old
hurts 40 rsnkle. and the strong soul
which has failed 10 achieve the conditions
It has once marked out as ideal never
forgets Never forgiving Is different
matter. and one is inclined to lay up
against Nlck his hesitation to do Justice
TO his old enemy. lons after he has ceased
20 be bitter about the harm that WAS done
10 him However. these are matters OF
detail The book. viewed broadly. Is not
only a very interesting story. but the best
and most promising piece OF work its
young author has yet put forth.
t'The Voice OF the People" by Ellen
Glasgow Doubleday. Page & Co. S-50.
For sale by l.owman Is Hanford)
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Rrnnder Matthews new story seems 10
he about a young matrou OF New York
who had faculty for being charming
which served her rs well in tAcatrlcals as
In private lttc and brought her Offers
from a real live manager that tempted her
Go xn ON the stage. Prof Matthews calls
this story The Action and the Word
and what Il b. really about is the I'm
mortal subject OF feminine lnco1s' HtcnvV