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irritatcs and annoys, but now ana Mlap
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volume makes plain is That Mr. r Kpiins:
has forsaken the plot for the outp,y u
n virIle and Wonderfully Characteristic
| Imagination. Imagination is II splendid
Huq 1nrs b IS aesl nnh,S n WrtsE as
.q!iate substitute for plot. story like
THE Captive" for example. has no dis
eovernble plot, but the conception Of the
| American inventor who grappled with tho
] proposltlon OF introducing his. new nu-
tomatic Held -gun to fighting Englishmeli
i and Beers; isunidue and very consider
Less SO. however than Mrs. Bathurst, :"
have read, and whose very s;trangenesss
1 genius. Far less 50 than the celebrated
! They" which probably touches he ell
max Of Mr. Kipling's development IN ,h, Is
direction But there is no use, IN , Im's
They" Critics shy that it is sheerest
twaddlc. duly and purnosely =, obscure cure.
which only the cover Of an , iins.r ,,on
| and critics say that 1t Is q marvellous
and mastery thing. among the most ex.
!, qulsite of stories. and the authors patent
to the nobility Of his craft. B Betty t.
these two somewhat dlametrlc verdcts.
let the reader steer his own way. Wire
less" Is another story from a teeming
cult : direction It tells Of constructive
apothecary's clerk who now and then sat
down and with toll and travail wrote
poems, and when they were written they
In nj
strange thing about IT was that the
apothecary's clerk was in no sense poeti,
cal and had never. even 30 much as heard
the name of Keats. This Is thus in the
same vein as that earlier Kiping story
OF the city bank clerk who told about
the life Of Greek galley SLAVE. Of whom
correctly as though he had been one.
Then there Is Lieutenant Pyecroft. run
ming through several of these stories,
burly gentleman OF semitic tastes. whose
These stories must command the inter-
est and attention due to everything that
this extraordinary writer offers TO an oc-s
casionaly mystied public. That they
Will agree; that this quality of curious
moss Is but the reverse Of something far
brighter and higher. hidden, to the ,in-
discerning, the discerning will vociferous-
~ maintain. Meanwhile Just what direc-
ton the man who did them Is pointing
for and how far he Is to go, no man may
say. #
OUTDOOR PAsT1MEs OF AN AMERI-
CAN HUNTER.-By Theodore Roose-.
welt. PIP. 36s. $500 net, Charles Serb.
ners' Sons, New York; Bell, Rich.
Perhaps the most striking thing about
this book Is the pictures, which show
the distinguished author in "a, variety ,,I: OF
tons carry a little lesson. You cannot
look at pictures like :.'At Dinner, and
AT the Tail Of the Chuck Wagon" with
out feeling a sense of personal adnltra-
&ly in them. You instinctively feel TINT.
Lesser man occupying SO lofty a position.
would shrink from placing himself IN
situations where the necessary lack Of
taken advantage Of. But Mr.. Roosevelt
does not need, II Is evident the bar
riers Of offic!aldom in order to secure to
himself the respect due e, 70 MS 1nie ce, ana
dignity is per sonal, no doubt. In himself,
not in the White House. And SO he Is
able to no b-nob on the most friendly
terms with simple and unpublished back
wodsmen, without SO far as we are
aware. any loss of personal or official
prestige.
Some of the papers published in this
book are new. some reprinted from maya
zines. Unquestionably they gain greatly
in interest from the distinction Of their
versatile AMI hisay interesting author
roo Of
lovers OF outdoor sport. The Presidents
huntinE-trip Of last winter. which sup
piled the press with a vast deal OF read
terial. and various expeditions or earlier
days supply the rest. The volume Is dedt-
Gated to John Burroughs, who was Mr.
5Roosevelt's companion on one of them.
handsome dress fully worthy OF It's au-
thor and of the wide interest 1t is sure
Ito attract.
SON.. PIP. 3o5. $3.50. Houghton. aMfflin
& Co., Boston.
The rocky Maine coast and the hardy
spirits who wiring living out of It have
seldom been better depicted than In this
book. The people of whom the story
treats are principally retired fishermen,
whose sequestered HE passed In continual
combat with the elenltns has somehow
cbliquity. Into his vigorous narrative Mr..
WATSON has tskilfully introduced what is
virtually a plea. for better order OF
ng and 91ssRs hep on he par Of
the church might be decidedly, advan-
tageous. Attention Is called to the out
rageous way in which the lobster and
prohIbItory laws are constantly being VIC
lated and more especially to the callous
and brutal way in which the business OF
wrecking is carried on. a young minister
who attacks his dllilcult TASK ~ manly
and uncanting way, IS one Of the strong
characters of the book and incidentally.
points the way in which the regeneration
Of places like Kentle Harbor must come.
sea captain Of sturdy manhood binds to-
gcthcr and ightens the more serious cpl
sodes Of the story. Mr., WATSON writes
With simple humor, close observation and
a, thorough knowledge Of his subject.
"Shay," II may be explained, Is q name
locally given TO an obsolete type OF fishing
boat.
THE DEEP SEAS TALE.-By James b.
Connally. PIP. 3lb $l.50. Charles
scrlbner's Sons. New York; Bell, RIci-
mond.
Some more Of Mr.. Connolly's excellent
sea stories, already well known to many
readers through "'rhe selners" and "Out
OF Gloucester" AS IN those earlier tacks
the present one deals with the hardy
fishermen of Gloucester Bay, who embrace
tho dangers OF The sra with an AIRY
blItheness that shows that they do 1t for
mi a