The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-24
NEW hooks.
Our Troubles.

1t must he admitted that the anonymous
story OF -Sturmsee: Man and Man" THE
Macmillan Company opens with scene
OF action. Here we have DR.. Sturmsee on
board a steamship saving Joe Belin,
stoker. who was about to jump into the sea.
Joe stood no chance. The doctor caught
him and rcsoutely preserved him alive.
AT last the man was quiet, lying on the
deck, with DR.. Carl Sturmsee sitting on him
and holding down hi, hands" The man
had fought desperately. Nobody had
ever fought lorg In Carl Sturmsees grip,
however, and this man was not strong
at best"
This is tho beginning Of a 100 page book
full Of sociology, The second chapter
takes us to Germany We have Schloes,
and Kammermusikers and Casts, and
Hoheits, and Durchlauohts. We are made
acquainted hero with the Prince Of Edel-
stein, a comparatively openminded man.
and with the Princess his American wife.
DR.. Sturmsee is here. The second chapter
Is antecedent to the first and DR.. Carl has
not yet sailed. There Is reason to doubt
and also reason to believe that the doctor
is going to marry the daughter OF the house
OF Edelstein. There Is conversation. Tho
doctor says 4Ijeber Gottl" and Meme
Prinzessin' and -Gnadige. Frau prin-
zessin" and -Aber, lieber Gott!" and the
Princess speaks Of her "geliebter Herr
Prinz.' and asks if the 'geehrte Herr Dok-
tor" is going to America. But the Prince
Fritz does best in this chapter. according
to our thinking. He says to DR.. Carl:
Cute Nacht, men Grossbube. Du sollst
oil ali ,te
we venture to translate as Good night.
my buster You shall be one Of our grena-
diers."
The remark Of Prince Fritz was friendly,
but not prophetic. The doct or came 10 Amer
lea and became Governor Of a Western State.
The third chapter OF the book is entitled
Problems" The fourth chapter is entitled
More Problems" We do not And that
the problems cease with the fourth cha pier.
At the tenth chapter We como to sympo-
stun held in Settlement in Delaney
street. The doctor Is here introduced to
Mr., Boggs. Boggs read a paper. which
is duly reported A discussion followed.
This is also reported Another symposium
is reported in the twelfth chapter, which
runs from page ll3 to page 1876.
Tho sixteenth chap er is headed 'Facilis
We cannot testify that We found it 80, The
seventeenth is headed -Decensus." Here
the brakes were put on. The eighteenth
chapter is headed A Pause on the Brink,
and the nineteenth A Diversion. At
the twentieth chapter We slide the rest
Of the way. 'Averno' is the title.
Running from page 233 to page al We
find the complete platform. constructed
by himself, on which DR.. Sturmsee stood
when he was up for Governor. We were
never more surprised than We we're, after
struggling with the platform, to find that
he was elected. Our idea is that he was
Governor OF Kansas in an arid and I'm
productive season. though we do not pre-
tend to be sure Of this.
Though Boggs occurred in the early
part Of the book We had not forgotten
him when we came to the forty fifth chap
ter, which is entitled The Triumph Of
Boggs." The forty-sixth chapter bears
the heading, Two Bad Quarters Of an
Hour" but it strikes Us that this is a n undue
limitation OF time, and that it flies some
what impudently in the face of facts.
OF the chapters called Organization
and Agitation and Law and Order,
we forbear to speak At page eas we come
to chapter entitled where Hope Lies
We do not hesitate to pronounce this an
apt title, for there is only one more chapter
in