The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-02-18
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Book Notices.

In variety and value of contents the
March number of The Smart Set is the
best yet issued of this magazine, which
has established itself as the most import
ant exponent of contemporary fiction
'Araby," novelette, by the Baroness Won
Hutton, heads the number. The story is
one of great charm; it is as realistic as 70
mantle, and it conveys in crisp dialogue
and movement vivid pictures of modern
life, in phases as numerous as are the
characters of the narrative. There is
lesson in ''Araby," and that a powerful
one; but there is, first and always, the
story itself, vital and human. the story of
an unusual passion, in which the instinct
of the primitive savage and the conditions
of our notwithstanding civilization meet
and war. The author has achieved work
of fiction at once absolutely distinctive
and wholly fascinating. 1t is one of the
best novelties yet published in The Smart
Set. In so saying we give it the highest
praise.
G. We're Tyler contributes psychological
study that is as analytically powerful as it
is absorbing, entitled "Her Investitures.
''The Penance of Hedwig. I" by Lillian Bell,
is deligh full love-story, with scenes laid
in Paris and Constantinople, wherein a
French maid moulds the destinies of hero
and heroine, and incidentally her own.
1.-The Princess is an idyll of pure senti-
ment, by Justus Miles Forman. and in
''The Daughter of the Painter Palisa, !"
John Regnault Ellyson has written story
both ingenious and tender as tale of love-
Other contributions of notable merit: ga
Woman of Ideals by Kate Jordan; En-
ter Lord Lover by Anne MacGregor, and
"As Any Woman Would,' by Nellie
Cravey Gilmore. There are, in addition,
the usual number of laughable paragraphs
and light verses, all displaying hat par
ticular merit which has won for The Smart
Set its reputation as the public's best pur-
veyor of wit and humor The March
number contains many poems Of conspicu-
GUS literary merit. Among the authors
contributing are: Bliss Carman, John B.
Tabb, Gelett Burgess, Clinton Scotland,
Edith Sessions Upper, Theodosia Garri-
son, Minna Irving, Ethel M. Kelley,
Charles Hanson Towne and James Buck
ham.
There is pretty story in connection
with the series of articles which Helen
Keller, the wonderful blind girl, has writ
ten for The Ladies' Home Journal, telling
about her own life from infancy to the
present day. She always has shrunk from
the publicity which follows successful
literary work, and it was with great diff
Guilty that she was persuaded to take up
the task of preparing her autobiography.
She had, however, set her heart on owing
an island in Halifax harbor for summer
home, and in spirit of fun the editor of
The Journal offered to buy it for her, or to
provide the means to buy it. When the
work of writing appeared especially irk-
some Miss Keller was reminded of her de.
sire to become land holder, aud it spur.
red her on. Just before Christmas she
completed the first chapter of her marvel
Gus story; and on Christmas morning she
received from her publishers check for q
round sum. Her delight may be imagined
for this was the first money of any account
which she had ever earned. sit is a fairy
tale come true" she said. Whether she
will really carry out her plan to buy the
island remains to be seen.