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THE LOVES OF MISS ANNE or By IS l 3 cr9f +
Everett I'i i2mo do. 42l Dodd. Mead & Co
FA1.AIsE OF THE BLESSED VOICE BY VIII
lam Stearns Davis Emo. PIP 500. The Mac
milan Company.
AS a breezy yarn OF modern adventure. spun
with cheerful disregard of probability. and
written simply 70 afford few hours of lively
entertainment, "a Chicago Princess is success
full Not that there is anything inherently i'm
possible in the character of the leading per
sonages Mr. Barr has drawn them broadly and
clearly from existing types. Granted that there
are few girls like Gertrude Hemster-the world
IS not big enough for many of her-she has her
counterparts in real life, and they are Just as
irresistible and just dangerously responsible
as she They may not all Of them set
their ambitions on hObnObbing with nothing
lower than royalty. but Gertrude did; and why
not? Her father had boundless wealth and
naIatial steam yacht She had beauty. accom-
plishments and tmperious will And still
royalty held strangely aioof until HeTnster
picked up Tremorne brother OF an earl. and
former member of the diplomatic corps. and
made him his private secretary. Trenorne sug-
gested beginning with the less important SOW
ereigns and working up" So he arranged. at
some expense to his employer. visit to and an
interview with the Emperor OF Corea, as a
starter. They never got any further for when
the Emperor expressed too violent an admira-
ton for Miss Hemster she slapped his face and
won his heart at the same time and set in train
n series Of adventures that keeps things moving
in double quick time until she marries Chicago
promoter whom she expects to furnish her
enough excitement to satisfy her for the rest OF
her life Barring the questionable taste Of intro
ducing as one OF the characters OF work OF
fiction reigning monarch OF even so insig-
nifcant a country Corea. and representing
him as a murderer the author is feIicItOus in his
clever adaptation OF real types and Oriental
characteristics 20 the purposes OF jOyOusly
amusing and unreal romance
Scarcely less unreal are the more commonplace
and less exciting adventures of Anne Fitzpatrick
and her friend and companion. Clementina Mac
Taggart as related by S. r. Crockett In '"The
Loves OF Miss Anne" Yet here there Is no de-
liberate disregard OF probability and literary
conventIonality. The story Is an attempt 20
picture an impulsiye but thoroughly Iovable girl
who consciously embarks on q career of heart
breaking-a sort OF female cheyalier. self-vOwed
20 redress the wrongs OF all wOmankind on all
the men she happens TO meet. Wiy-niliy. the
reader must yield TO the fascination which the
quixotic and wiful heroine throws over every
living being with whom she comes In contact.
while perforce he sympathizes with her hapleSs
victims. OF whom not the least Is her devoted
confidant and eager abettOr. Clementina- In the
delineation OF strongly indivduallzed Scottish
characters the author has done some good
work In Don MacTaggart. Sir Tempest Kill
patricks head forester. 1.-THE man with the
bill hook" Mr.. Crockett gives us a stern. I'M
yielding. but tender. Scotch Covenanter: in Dan
Weir. the shepherd lad whose love and ambi-
ton led him to make of himself the httest and
inevitable mate for Miss Anne. he provides a
strong and sympathetic hero. And the two girls
Anne and Clemmy. are delightfully."- human and
natural in their characters and impulses Where
Mr.. Crockett errs IS in representing them as
actually doing the things that romantic young
women frequently imagine they would like to
do. The consequence is that really strong
story is marred by the introduction OF a num-
Der Of farcical and theatrically unreal incidents
amusing enough. but quite impossible
Falaise is blind Patti of the thirteenth CEN
tury who is the adopted daughter Of the warder
of the Chateau Of POntOise She spends her time
in good works. singing and exploring the secret
passages Of the castle. Thther come Louis TX
est. Louis). his bride. Queen Margaret. and his
mother, Blanche OF CASTLE. Then around the
evolves and revOlves a plot so complex so devil
ish, so crowded with incident. that the entire
novel of 3GO closely printed pages is occupied
with the doings of only two days. Every move
ment, word and thought of a score or more
people is recorded with the fidelity OF the mov-
ing picture machine, phonoSraph and recordina