The sun., 1902-09-27

oi clgarstte-smoking youth toward the Wig.
orons actions Of life and their Alnashar cav.
dreams A lot Of stay-at homes must have
carried single-handed Las Guasimas, lei
us say, lust as his hero wins his fights and
brings low his enemies IL is the first only
OF his hero's adventures that Mr.. Davis
tells IN tins volume, and there is no reason
we can see why he should not be as inter-
minahle rs Sherlock Holmes.
II lS all very well for Harvard hedglings
10 hutter straight to the nearest literary
f1ame, but ought they not TO do some work
In English composition before rushing into
PRINT The university provides an elab-
orate course of instruction in that subject
which used 10 be a required study for all
undergraduates. Here is Mr.. Shirley Ever
ton johnson Offering Us The Cult of the
Purple Rose Orchard q. Badger as "a
phase # Harvard life" He protests that
the episodes he represents are those of a
few extremists" but asserts that they
actually occurred. If they did, we can
only hope that he has seen them through
his own purple glasses, for the vugarity.
and particularly thc lack Of everything
'
young women. is simply incredible. Prof.
Barrett Wendell and his youthful assistants
may be eccentric, hut they would no, have
passed a sentence like II became necessary
for d. and To put forth our best efforts
to give function which would be. above
all things, unique" When the author is
little older he will, perhaps, have his bill
of-fare French al least correct; creme de
violet and "cassisse de Dijonne" may do
for freshmen The young men he de-
picts will make old graduates deplore the
dying out Of rough hazing
What the career Of an estmahle Young
person should be- is depicted in Janet
Ward. Daughter Of the Manse, by Mrs
Margaret f. Sang-ter (Fleming II Revell
Company. The heroine is the daughter
Of clergyman, she goes through college,
does mission work and college settlement
work and marries a clergyman. She also
writes poetry, and whenever her husband is
in distress cheers him up by leaving re-
ligious poem Of her composition on his
desk. The purpose of the story is didactic
and the tone is strongly religious through
ou'.
Crime has become 40 associated with the
name Of Florence Warden that il would be
disappointing if none were found in some
thing in the City" r. VI. Buckles & Coz.
IN" reader will come upon the doingS Of
a gang Of thieves with plenty of mystery
robbery, murder and trouble for a quiet
neighborhood
The chief merit Of THE Flag on the Hill
Milfiin h CO., is its shortness. II is very
intense and very earnest, and great deal
of action and hustle is packed into its l2O
pages. Bits Of character drawing and bits
of description are good enough TO arouse
regret that tho author did not give herself
space to tell real story of the people she
deals with. The incident iS connected
with the doingS Of the Knights Of the Golden
Circle in southern Illinois during the war.
The patriotic sentiments are laudabe.
4 pretty little story il told by Emily
Malbone Morgan in A Poppy Garden
edwin ), Gorham,. Ii is very slight but
the sentiment is sound, the descriptions
are true and the out -of-door country feeling
is conveyed very successfully 10 he reader.
The usual fall output of Mr. q. A. Henty
is sent 10 us by Charles Scribner's Sons.
and is, a. might be expected, replete
with eScit, IN ,rt and built on the lines
familiar TO steady readers Of Mr. Henty's
books, The plots Of two Of his three latest
if we recollect rightly, have hoon utilized
by recent providers Of adult fiction. With
the British Legion. A Story of the
Carlist Wars" deals with the troubles
al IN" beginning Of Isabella lis reign;
Tn" Treasure of the IncaS" tells of a Sue
cc.,sfu quest for gold in Peru, and with
Kitchener in the Soudan" relates modern
history iu the Guise of romance, and will
help sIrongt hon, in every young Briton
hat reads il as NJ. Henty's books usually
do, the delightful self-sst sfac'ion in the
fact hat ho il an EngIishman.
An exciting epi~od" Of local history, the
1n'i-rent agitation against tho PATRONS,
has heen selected by Miss Ruth Hall as the
subject Of a story. A pownrenter's son"
1Huugh'on. Nif'in + Coz. Some scenes
are dramatic, some descriptions Of rural
fc are good hut j. will need Indulgence
20 follow tho author in fer story. She has
'hosen school children a. her chief actors
md mad" hem twentierh-cantury children
-pther than those Of ~ There was
doubtless lovp-makinC in tho dist riCt school, |
lUt wn cant believe that the sixteen-vear- |
'lds. male and female. thought Of Iothng |
1ut sentiment The plot itself is conven-
ional in pattern and so are the rustics
Horrors Of all sort arc piled up high in |
The Invisibles," by Edgar Earl Christie
'her The Saafeld Publishing Company. |