New-York tribune., 1903-04-19
FICTION.
L0pg and Short Stories and Ne70
Editions.

NO HERO. By r, w. Hornuns- l2mo. PIP. 2o9'
Charles Scribners Sons.
A LAD OF THE OFRIELS By seumaS Mac
Manus. 12mo, PIP. X 295. Mcclure fhihp9
the soFe1 TlNR Of tn tSe sHE @3 By Mary WIZ
kins IllustTated ,,l by Petep Gr Newell l2mo' PIP
81. Doubleday, Page Co
THE CAVALIER BY George w cable f-on nI1t6 5alla
Marowe" EDITION. illustrated from P'oip, ~
graphs of the Characters and Scenes IN me me
Play. 12mo, PIP XIV. 81. Charles ScribnerS sons
81 4 onse NJ Maude eo PiaSsrs Edon
With illustrations from the Play IZm"' PP-
viii, 5l9 Dodd. Mead & Co.
Mr.. Hornung has way of his mo
Hero" if not startlingly original is at all
events fresher in motive than the average novel
is apt to be- In the first chapter we are intro
suced to one of Her Majesty's soldiers who has
hen seriously wounded Spion Kop, and has
t urned to London to hobble about with the
I'd of two sticks and to build up his health
if he can. He is summoned by a woman, Il
widow with whom he has been and still IS IN
love and when they meet she gives him d
rather delicate commission Her son, charm-
ing young fellow, is staying in an Alpine hotel'
where he has made himself and a certain widow
the talk of all the gossips in the neighborhood-
our invalid is asked to visit the scene and do
from what his mother regards a horrible
situation. The amateur diplomatist forthWlth
departs for Switzerland, and out of his adVen-
tures there Mr. HOrnung makes an extremely
Interesting story 1t would not be fair to re-
veal to the reader the upshOt of Captain Gle
pbanes strange campaign 1t is sufhclent 10
say that he takes unexpected lne with yer!
curious results. The book is we'll written ana
is commercially brief.
The author of "A Lad of the O'Friels' has
story to tell but it is reflection upon hIm 10
saw that the story, a story, does not fhuch
matter The main thing about tins BOOK Is lhdI
on the thread which binds its chapters together
the author has strung a number OF episooe9
serving to illustrate the everyday movement
and humor of Irish life. It contains some dla-
Iect. but not enough to spoil it. The characters
are communicable individuals, mostly youthful
and in what they do and say the Ie1tdeI lii'o"
moderate entertainments
In The Wind in the Rose Bush Mrs. Free
man tells six stories OF the Supernatural
The weird elements in them are handled III d
rather ambiguous fashion. To throw a nVS-
tery into higher relief by surrounding II Wlth
,.o,,p,onnIace incidents and accessories is an
old expedient, but in mixing the supernatural
with hopelessly commonplace types, in sur
,oundings similarly prosaic, the author of these
stories has ended by weakening her effects 1t
is as though a photographer were suddenly 10
tI-v to paint intensely imaginative pictures ana
had fallen so to say, between two Stools III
each of the six stories an interesting idea is
embodied but in Of them is it exploited
with complete success. The illustrations by MI
Peter Newell add to the readers discontinue
The Cavalier is a good novel, and we are
glad to see a new edition of it. But we cannot
say that in its latest form, the Julia Marlowe
Edition" it gains anything from having scat
tered through it photographs of scenes IN the
story as it was presented on the stage Some
readers appear to like this sort of thing. There
is no denying that editions of dramatized nov
els. with Illustrations like these are widely
popular But we cannot why they should
be Precisely the same remarks apply to Toll
stov's Resurrection" in the players Edition.
The halftones from photographs IN TINS booK
are not only unattractive in themselves but
seem especially inartistic when compared With
the brilliant drawings by Pasternak, which were
made for the novel in its original form.