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Morley Roberts Lady Penelope"
published by L. C. Page and Company,
Boston. is one of the hits of the season
in new fiction, and has already gone
into its second edition, with the indica-
tions pointing to a much further de-
nand.. Lady Penelope is a marvelously
equipped British heroine, possessing
youth, beauty and originality, and be-
: ing twenty-one when the story opens,
and she, in a little while, has eight low
ers all signing for her, all desperately
determined to win her hand, all tried
and true. She sets out in life to reform
society, ito make it good and useful
and Straightforward and simple, and
utterly delightful. Therefore she
starts in with her eight principal lovers
AL the world of London really loves
her-to cure them of all intolerances
and to make them walk with humility
and becomingness in the eyes of their
fellowmen. Whimsically, in fact,
gravely as she opines, she pairs them
OF and swears them to faithful daily
association thus:
With Austin de We're. poet, who hates
bulldogs and motor cars, Captain Plan
tagenet CODY, late of the Guards. The
Captain to be taught to read poetry;
the poet to absorb physical culture.
With Leopold Norton Gordon. said to
have been originally Isaac Levi, the
Marquis de Rivaux, "anti-Semitic to
his manicured finger-tips."
With Jimmy Carew, Royal Academy
artist. Carteret Williams, war cores
pondent, who wrote with a red pictur-
esqueness which was horribly attrac-
tive
With Rufus @. Plant, 'born in vir-
gfnia" and trained to the saddle in Ar
iona. Lord Bramber, afterwards the
Earl of Pulborough, clever, but indo-
lent a true British aristocrat with the
accent of Ballot.
Then the reader, whose interest has
been already quickened in the story,
becomes intensely interested as to
what Is going to happen further,-what
Is to become Of the lovers, all of whom
proceed to strive to do as Penelope
suggests land as to which one will be
the winner of the fair heroine. She
finally assemblies together the eight
anxious lovers and with many blush
irgs and down-casting of her eyes and
trembling of voice announces:
Fer-for-for, you see, have mar
ried one of you!" Each lover accord
ing to his solemn oath denies all part
In {y1a f,voy
lucky winner, not till the last chapter
shall the eight know and the reader
find out, and Aunt Titania, Duchess of
Gorii1g, cease from being scandalized.
There is surprise and suspense all
around when the London Times APP
pears with the announcement 1.-THE
Lady Penelope Brading, on the 18th,
8 of a son. The wonder grew immense
" as to who was the happy man. All
London is agog over the announce
ment
The book is rnarvelously diverting.
The New York Sun says of it: ut is
extravaganza pure and simple, but of
such a bright and sparkling brand that
it compels tolerance for the one fault
which mars its diverting charm-the
undue prolongation of some of it's COM
ic opera episodes" The New York
World says: MORLEY Roberts is gull.
ty Of the seasons most outrageousIy
\ delicious book of humor, satire and ro-
nance. The Outlook says: "Original,
clever and amusing-so much so that
where the humor of the situation in
one of the chief episodes of the story
is a trif1e broad. laughter holds criti-
cism in allegiance" Price $3.50; for
sale by the Pease, Lewis Company.
Herman Whitaker, whose capital
new stories of the Canadian north
west, under the title of 1.-THE Proba-
TONER have just been published by
the Harpers, is keenly interested in So
cial and economic problems. For sew
en- years, he said recently, II studied
biological science and philosophy, put
8 ting in all my spare time and Sundays
with my books" Mr. Whitaker is now
IN the wiIds of Mexican jungles, trying
to appease his nature hunger, and is
continuing his social studies at the
same time. In letter just received
the mailing of which necessitated a
teu-hour horseback ride-he writes as
follows:
These lines are written from a solita
~ plantation on a lonely tropical river
From .where 1 sit I can see alligators
take the water; strange birds fly over
mead, birds of brilliant plumage;
strange venomots insects crawl under
foot. All about the Jungle spreads its
deep enormous tangle. Here human
life counts for little. In one short
month have seen one man killed and
two desperately wounded. Here slave
nv exists the cruellest form of slavery
that the wit of man ever devised-the
contract labor system. Last Sunday
Joined in man-hunt, for a poor devi
of a peon who had escaped from his
hell I Joined the hunt, trusting that
If the man fell to any one it might be
me. He was not, however, caught
Miserable being! Without food Of
shelter he will falter through the jun.
gle till starvation or some tiger makes
an end / have seen men fiogged with
n1achete blades, and women whipped
At night they are herded in great gal.
leries. that are surrounded with barbet
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