New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-07

.be rra,-s and tvnes Of a drvgoods store IN an
English suburb. it promises. vaguely, TO become
interesting and we find on persevering. that the
book is really worth reading. The hero color
less lad. to whose career IL seems unlikely mat
even the faintest SAVIOUR OF romance could ever
be added is. when all is said. a sympathetic
and even touching actor the obscurer edges
OF the great London drama. In his experience
we may see what millions of his class so
through in their daily life. sometimes rising TO
better things-as he rises-but more oIteh
living and dying the same squaHd pane
II is not an exciting experience, ana, as we
have indicated. even bored by some OF
the chapters which narrate his career All the
time, however. MI Russell is coming 10 CloSef
and closer quarters with his theme Is making
II richer in human significance and more appeal
ing to the imagination. and I'm his closing pages
especially he incites us to not unpleasant rehec-
tion. '.Borlase & Son" is another essay In
Photographic realism. with grain of feeling IN
it that lifts It above mere photography.
Miss Crowley. whose romance called "A
daughter of New France" is favorably remem-
5ered. has produced in her latest book Love
Thrives i'm War;" a pleasant blend of history
ana fiction The history is drawn from the War
Of 1872 and contributes to the book stirring m
cidents of earlier days in and about betol''
with well known militant figures. Inc author 8
romance centres in the ENHANCEMENT of a scotch
girl with three redoubtable suitors. OF course
the endeavors of these men to win her love are
crossed and complicated by public events ana
here Miss Crowley exhibits some Skill putting
her characters through their PAGES with apti-
tude in the ARRANGEMENT of exciting situations
1t is a wholesome. well told love story.
The Strife of the Sea- is taken up with some
rnisgivings, for. just we have had epldenlcs
of dialect stories. Colonial stories. stories OF
children and stories told in letters. we are hav-
ing now an epidemic of tales Of the sea FOR
tunatelv Mr.. Hams has been willing this
occasion. to keep the sailor-whO is. in fiction
getting to be nuisance-in the background. and
1rreals himself instead on fowls and fishes
..Tbe Old Man Of sand Key TO whom we are
introduced in the first of the stories collected In
this book. is not human being, but pelican
and elsewhere sharks, penguins, whales. and
so on. are given, IL may be permitted the
phrase the centre of the stage. Though Mr..
Hams is not the first writer to produce fiction
Of this kind il must be admitted that he has
given freshness and true dramatic toucn 10
his brief narratives. he has imagination and
spirit His book is piquant and not without
certain strength.
Madame Chrysantheme" is one Of Pierre
Lofts best books. and the translation by Laura
Ensor, which lies before uS-alu WHICH We oeolI
10 have seen tefore-gives Us a very fair equiv
alent for the witchery OF the French novelists
UNIQUE charm II is illustrated with the fanil-
lar drawings by Myrbach and Rossi, and, while
these are not reproduced as well as we might
wish the artistic quality is not all squeezed out
Of them The book is prettily bound in blue and
gold The new edition Of The Light Ihat
Failed" is none too well printed, but this is, we
suppose. matter of small consequence. since
it appears chiefly TO give publicity to its Illus
trations. half tones from photographs Of scenes
in the dramatic version of the novel recently put
on the stage by Forbes Robertson and Gertrude
Elliott These are no worse and no better than the
hashlight pictures with which too many popular
editions of dramatized novels are issued. The
illustrations drawn by Virginia Keep for Two
Prisoners in its new form are dainty in style,
and they are well reproduced in colors. They
form a welcome accompaniment TO Mr. Pages
delightful little tale. Mr.. Z. NJ. Ashe also has
been very happy in his pen sketches and draw
ings I'm color for the pretty book in which Mr..
Davis's dog story, The Bar Sinister has been
republished For its presswork and binding, as
well as for its pictorial embellishments, this
edition is to be cordially praised 'Fishin'
Jimmy" in its latest reprint, makes an attrac-
tive appearance. The fishing sketches in it are
particularly we'll done. The booklet has a dec
orative cover in blue and white and gold.