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dun Of his witch-like heroine, 1t seems
quite probable. Miss Wade says:


HIS it never occurred to You that there are
| murders and murders-murders which depend in
| the NAN upon the murderer and also murders
which depend in the main upon tie victim?
Then, as they pass through the wards
of hospital:
Number "a She has much the same thin hair
| sparse, weak, and colorless She has much the
same curved back, and much the same aggressive.
self issertive features. Looks capable, doesn't
she7 A born housewife Well. she. too, WIS
knocked down and kicked half dead the other
| night by her husband.
See here She pulled out pencil and drew a
| quick outline of face in her notebook. That is
| what is central and essential TO the type. They
have this sort of profile. Women with faces like
| that always get assaulted.
And here is a scrap OF a conversation
with the victims mother:
MY daughter, she's Idly. as keeps 'erself to
'erscf as the sayin is, an odds cr cad up. She
setlt up proper PRIDE, an minds or ouse an
| 'er little u.s. She amt no gadsbaht. But she
| ave 4 tongue, she ave. An Joe, 'es man as
wouldn't 'urt tby-not when 'es sober, Joe
wouldn't. But ed bin ah; that's where it is;
an e cum 'ome lie, bit fresh, through 'avin'
bin at the Friendly Lead; an my daughter, We see,
she up an give it TO i'm. Ny word, she did give
II to i'm! An Joe. e's peaceabe man when e
amt bit fresh; 'es like friend to 'er
| than 'usband. Joe is; but e lost is temper
that time, Yer may say, bein' fresh. an e
| knocked 'er abaht little, an knocked ,er teeth
ant. So We brought 'cr to the orspit1i
The injured woman raised herself up in bed with
! vindictive scowl, displaying she did so the
same whale-lihe curved back as in the oth-r
| casts" But we've sent i'm to the lookup"
| she continued the scowl giving way fast to
| radiant JOY of victory she contemplated her
| triumph; IAN wot's more, ] 'ad the last word
OF i'm. An EN- git six month for this, the
neighbours says, an when e comes aht again. my
| Cord, won't e ketch it,"
Host of us have seen the precise type OF
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| that there is not type of men who assault
woman can drive men of all types TO tie
crime. But there is possibility that there
! is a type Of men who get killed by their
wives occasionally, and whose wives often
| ar6ently desire their death. This is
matter not taken up by Mr.. Allen, but the
reader may speculate on it privately. (New
| York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. $15o)
THE Last Sentence" by Maxwell Grey,
is one of those overstrained and fantastic
romances of harassed conscience which this
clever author delights in producing. The
Silence Of Dean Maitland" was favorite
with all those people who love to go in
corner with book and have a comfort
able season Of tears. THE Reproach OF
Annesley'' was another; and in come re-
spects the present book is the best of the
three. There is certainly more human
nature and imaginative power In 1t than
in either of the others. The hero marries
most Unexpectedly, in one OF the chapters
a Breton peasant girl. Then he discovers
that he has made terrible mistake. He
goes back TO England and spends three
years realizing this discovery, while his
wife Is being educated in a French con-
vent, and incidentally presenting him
With Sin ha
news OF her death and that of her child,
and with free conscience proceeds to
court another woman suited to him in ali
outward rescects. Then, OF course, the
unfortunate first wife appears and ends her
career by being frozen to death and walled
up in snowdrift outside the drawingreom
windows of her fatherin-law's home.
Nemesis pursues the unfortunate and err
ing man through the rest of the book, and
in the last chapter he is forgiven finally
and rescued from q stroke OF paralysis BY
the fortunate outcome of the whole mat
ter. New York: D. Appleton & Company.
$1,000
The Monk and the Dancer" by Arthur
Cosslett Smith, is a collection Of half a
dozen dainty little tales keen in concep-
ton and artistic in execution. The first |
is the longest and most ambitious, and also
in some respects the best. The scene 1. |
laid partly in a Trappist monastery and !
partly at the es-Bergeres, and the !
transition is beautifully managed. The |
strongest in conception is THE Peach" |
which has a favor of Hawthorne about it, |
as all mystic romanticism must have to
anyone who has been through the Haw
thorne era in literary passions. The idea |
is daring in the extreme and very well !
carried out, and there is enough passion |
and fire in it TO captivate the reader at the |
beginning.
Some Old Families" has a satirical |
touch in il that is lacking in the other |
tales. 1t deals with caste lines of various |
kinds. and there is a certain originality in
the conjunction of the son of an American
'self-made" millionaire the son of an
English earl, and some Kentucky noun
taineers. all thrown together in the heart
of an untamed wilderness and left TO settle |
their own relations. The only person who |
is entirely undisturbed and conscious OF |
his own worth is the mountaineer. who
proudly states, after refusing the hand of |
his daughter to the young Croesus, that |
for nigh onto 200 years his family has |
been married in shoes and stockings. Then
he disappears into the forest, with the |
stores for his daughters wedding. full of
pride in the thought that she is to marry
"Cy' Hatfield just out of Jail for his TWEEN
ty-second murder: and the reader is left |
to mediate on the vanity of caste sys-
tens. (New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons)
Talks with Barbara" by Elizabeth
knight Tompkins. is, according to the au-
thor's explanation IAN informal and ex-
detrimental discussion, from the point of
view of a young woman of tomorrow, of
certain of the complexities of life. par
ticularly in regard to the relations OF men
and women" and that explanation ex- |
plains it as well as anything can. Barbara
is represented as 4 bright, unconventional |
literary woman, who has an intimate friend
in Il physician somewhere near thirty and
who drops in at his office now and then to
discuss things in general The reader will
be inclined 10 think toward the end of the
book that the doctor, who is supposed to
be telling the story of these talks, is in
love with Barbara, although nothing OF
the kind Is openly said. But the fact Is
that a girl of the type here represented
would be much more likely to talk freely
with a chosen woman friend than with
man, although In certain exceptional cases
she might have platonic friendship of
tho sort pictured. At any rate. the discus
sions are bright, and Will interest girls.
college girls. Many people VIII
consider the point Of view abnormal-and
so 1t is, in sense. The conditions of to-
day are not normal. A girl like Barbara
Is not in n natural position just at this
transition stage in the worlds affairs. She
IS neither quite man nor quite woman, and
yet she is not that horror of ali men and
most women. masculine woman. In
short, she is doing a mans work with
woman's heart and soul TO ccmplicate it
md hamper her
&c pt fai IN ytn of