The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-18

nouDro eho ouIT0unoe0 WIN eveIyJhlnG
that suggests material comfort, but they
Are all more or less involved In trouble.
With Katharine Mannering the trouble was
an inability TO live with her husband. Brioe.
She had fallen In love with him In the spring
years ago. He had quoted poetry and
LOOKED like Q young god. But now be was
middle-aCd and methodical. and II was
al 90 different. A Katharine explained
to her dear friend, Elinor Thaypr. Its
all small BEER she said. why, Nell, the
very care with which he has his trousers
pressed. II puts kind Of madness into mo.
] look Al that smooth. sharp fold and
want to cut It with my scissors. ! look Ct
his boots, and I want to burn them. be-
cause know he has pair for Wednesday,
and q pair for Saturday, and I know they
are In his oloset-ths toes al pointing
west
Elinor tried to comfort her. but with no
success- katharine continued
Il tried to bs dutihll, a6ectionats, and
hhce enjoyed bis dinner and settled Into
routine 10 took on middle ago - GREAT
ures take on fat. Then revoltsd. told
him No didn't caro- about each other. and
I asked him to let me 60 away
what did be sayf'
He said was run down. and must b
q good little girl. Then be read the even
ing paper
He was hopelsssly Unconditional person.
He was In the book business. II the fact
may be mentioned without prejudice, "
should like to say that Katharine had red
hair. Then there was Natalie. who was
also a MannerinS. Her trouble was that
abe loved young Richard Horne. who was
IN artistic young chap with wild blood In
him. he would work hard for q while %
. journalist. get good position. then throw
everything overheard to start for Europe
or the Andes. BY and BY he would come
back and have to begin all over again.
Meanwhile Natalie would walt for him and
water her planta We think the reader
viii be plsassd with Madam Walsingham.
We hope so, for she Is a charming old lady
whose talk Is always witty and worth
while. Moreover. We count II as some
thing admirable In her that she bad man
aged to get most Of her troubles disposed
Of in early life. Here u her portrait -
the author paints H.
'She was q moving echo Of youth. her
Agure a. slender ~ . girls. her air a. full
OF grace. She was dressed like an old
woman In Ill the perfect ways devised by
art; but there was something Incredibly
hsht and delicate about II Ill. A soft
black fabric chung to her, and little bonnet
fitted her had completely. Under II
showed some soft white locks. ct Oh by
. background Of floating lace. She was
swathed to the chin In lace, the square
chin that had not lost its contour; and her
face was ivory white with black brows,
Int aaI nv he
shadows darkling under them
Surely, such . picture a. that one fingers
over With pleasure, and. as might have
been expected. her views on the subject
| Of young gods and dome sticity seem sane
and sound. why. don't any Of you see.
said abe, sthat a husbands Q husbandf
You take Q problematio man and make
q wonder Of him. Turn him into husband
and he's no such matter. Accept him.
| but don't deity him. Make q civil con-
tract for the good Of the community. and
abide by 1t. But don't arrange . system
| OF worshipand eat your heart out because
tho man doesn't conform to 1t. He won't.
He can't
Troubles have . way Of Fighting them
selves II left TO do 20, and Miss Brown event.
ually brings all things to q satisfactory
conclusion. 1t L. at onoe a pleasure and q
privilege to say that We think this 10 IN
admirable book.
IN the Wlsosaan Woods.
When Robert Prootors uncle died and
bequeathed to him the wIlsonpoft Lumber
Company's sawmil the legacy did not
prove to b an unnixed blessing. sThs
Lsgatee' Houghton. Miniin 4 COY. q
powerfully written story by Miss Aho>
Prescott Smith. oonoerns itself mainly With
the troubles that bssst Proctor when be
p, took possession OF his Inheritance. Wilson.
port was a small sawmilling town on
northern Lake Michigan and its inhabitants
were cosmopolitan and peculiar Proctor
was from the South and he was the owneI
Of the mill. Most Of the villagers were hi
employees and he found himself oonfrontec
continually With an unreasoning hatred
For this Paul Livingston, q sombre-eyec
and moody person, was mainly responsible
He was the schoolmaster and he seemec
| TO suffer In Q pious way from what certain
stylists would have called . sore head.
| HIS vas Q species Of ssmi-religious manii
that led him to incite the mill hands to 70
volt on sooount Of grievances that wer,
In the main imaginary. Incidentally ther'
IL charming love story and some unusua
sosnes are wildly described: notably ,
kermess Of the Belgian woodoutters which
ends In q drunken brawl. and forest 6r'
which forms the climax Of tale that vii
find many and apprecistve readers.
Tho jew In Russia.
Tho Archierey Of samara' 10 describe<
in the subtitle - . mi-historioal romano'
Of Rusdan life, BY Mr.. Henry nioviz
Henry T. Coates and Company. TIL
story deals generally With the psrseoutio,
of the Jews In Russia, and In partcola
with the life history Of the High Priest o
a dty on The bsnks Of the volga. III,
Arohisrsy. the highest church dignitar!
of his province, 10 devout Jew at heaSb
but Il leading . double lie a. forcet
convert to the Russian Church.
In his preface the author tells US tina
he has been an eyewitness OF most Of tn
incidents narrated In this romance IL
the midst OF the scenes he describes b
says, she has lived and suffered. He hai
seen his fathar Knocked down BY the blow
Of q Cossaok's whip and his mothers hou,'
devastated By The tax-oouector. Tn
tarribls treatment Of the Polas during thai
last revolt 10 burned In bis memory. Th'