New-York tribune., 1901-11-25
the wilds of new world the spirited story is
well told and will make many friends

There are thousands of people in this big city
who will sympathize with The Little FANNY III
their strenuous quest for small home, as 'oio
with more or less humor by Alnerl blseio
Paine in The Van Dwellers' o. F. Taylor q
Coz The little book is dedicated Ito those VINO
have lived in flats TO those who are living III
flats. and those who are thinking OF h'ille ~
flats" The story begins when The Little ai''
lily comes to New-York for the hrst time anu
tries to find a fat which is WITHIN us iiie"'
The first experience Of the family with the u
partment store delivery man is very true 10 iiie
The gflded steam heaters in the fiat are most
natural in working hard when the "eo'itei -
warm. and becoming discouraged as SOON %
cold snan comes Then there is the man with
the moving van who puts the best fufliiluio
into the wagon first and refuses to take Il ou'
until he has been paid. Janitors of various hiu''
hired girls Hihernian and OTHERWISE an"
neighbors Of the fiat below are all drawn ~
face touch The members of the family nave
short and exciting boarding house eApeiiee
end Nnallv become commuters, and ARE glao Oh
it. let the comic papers say what they "ii''
fellows who write those things are bitten Will
something worse than mosquitoes, l. e. envy
The Boston of Cotton Mather's day "heh
witchcraft was believed in and 'hose p
sessed" were punished with DEATH mas pioT
a fruitful source of historical novels. Inc ia
est addition to the list is Anne Scarlet tChi-
cago: A. c. McClurg & Coz. by Mary ifniaS
TavIor IT is the sad story of a forest change
ling who grew into a beautiful Wonlahiiooa
and won the love of Francis Yule. an Enshsh
,a ,,bo had left his debt burdened estates
for the freedom of the New World he mas
hardly heen accepted by the Puritan maiden
before his first love. Lady Herford, appears on
the scene with her rich husband, Tor "hoiii sue
had deserted Yule She still loves lhe !ou''s
man and is jealous of Anne With evil lhseliu
ity she plans direful revenge-nothlng less
than having the beautiful girl charged Win
withcraft at time when witches were hailseu
On the himsest evidence. The faithlessness OF
an old hag who had helped her IN the pio'
brings the accusation back to Lady Herford'
and Anne's life is saved Miss Taylor mas not
heen drastic in her treatment of the Puritans'
and in fact finds excuses for them, as this quo
tation will show:
Grim men and women of old. how your stall
wart figures move before made of more SUD-
stantial substance than usual with sPec,les'
stern in YOUR beliefs. righteous in your oeat-
fngs and If two three dark bloodstalns lie
upon you, are they not fewer than the spo.s
that clung TO the garments OF the O!9 @ oiiu
more than two hundred years ago! 1e huhS
the Quakers and the witches; yea-and now
many suffered by the rope and by hre across
the seas? Twas but the spirit OF the times no
moreno less.
CYRUS Townsend Brady in many thrilling
stories has mixed love and war history and
romance but in none is the skill OF his hand
more evident than in The Quiberon Touch
Cd Appleton & Coz. II is a story OF the time
when The Great Lord Howke" ruled the seas TO
the glory of England and the sorrow OF France
wolfes land battle at Quebec Of which every
American schoolboy knows something, and the
sea fight of Quiberon Bay, of which less mas
been written. are the historical events about
which the story revolves. The battles are Wig
orously described, and the jargon Of the sea
runs through the pages.
Stand by to take in the light sails and the
foresan, Man the royal and the to gallant c!ew-
lines the flying jib and the stuns1 downhauls;
overhaul the sheets and halliardst Man the 1ore
clew garnets and buntlines-
Now, the average reader has not the faintest
idea of what all this means. The following out
Of such string of orders might put the ship on
her beams end for all he knows. but 1t sounds
like the sea, there is hesitancy about it. and
It pleases. Interest in the fate of the nations
involved is almost entirely subordinated to In
terest in the fighting hero and the woman who
goes with him. One not jot whether
England whips France or France whips Eng
land so long as brave Philip Grafton. the
American officer in the English navy, and the
little Countess de Rohan overcome the obstacles
which keep them apart.