The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-03

and the psychology Is rather OF the writer
than OF the simple people he describes.
Apparently IL is the pathology OF child
hood that attracts Mrs. Annie Hamilton
Donnell and which she describes in the
stories comprised in The Very Small
Person" (Harpers). No doubt small chill
dren have very sensitive spots that older
peo ple often hurt, but those Mrs. DonneKl
describes are abnormal little bundles OF
nerves that need 10 be ju~diciously sup
pressed. II parents were to try to develop
in their young hopefuls the admirable
qualities held up TO admiration in these
tales we might look for a generation Of
Inconsistencies.
The contribution OF Mr.. Richard Harding
Davis to the stage is included in a volume
called -Farces" Charles Scribner's Sons).
The pieces contained in the book ara The
Dictator, The Galloper" and Miss Civili-
zation.' The illustrations are attractive
portraits Of young women who have acted
in the plays and much less attractive pio-
lures of scenes from the same.
A new edition of a story by Molly Elliott
Seawell. frst published some years ago,
The Loves Of the Lady Arabella, appears
from the Bobbs-Merriil Company, Indian
apolis. IL is decorated with oolored il
lustrations by Clarence +. Underwood,
which are original in the liberal use of
chrome green. IL lie safe TO say that while
the drawing Ii good they are the ugliest
colored pictures we ave seen as ~illustra-
tons.
There is q total absence Of morality In
Bettina Won Hutten's short story, The
One Way Out" (Dodd. Mead and Company.
That Is the dlstin ctive ma rk that the author
tries to give to an otherwis rather common
place IL pretty low tale. The situation OF
the mai who is accepted at once by three
women he has proposed TO is humorous
and might have been made more OF. His
way out is wholly lacking in manners, but
good n have no part in the makeup
Of the society people described here.
A vivid description Of life on the planta-
ton in the days before the war and more
especially OF the relations between the
blacks and their masters will be found in
the stories contained in Mrs. James H.
Dooley's Dem Good Ole Times" Double
day. Page and Company. For local color
they are told by darkies and therefore
told in negro dialect. We rather regret
this, though to be sure. they would otherwise
lose a good deal Of humor. The colored
illustrations are good and very interesting.
It is a pretty foolish sentimental story
that C.. N. and A. NJ. Williamson ave con-
cocted in Rosemary in Search of a Father"
Mcclure, Phillips and Company. or
course. from that partnership We must ex-
pect a motor car somewhere. 1t plays its
part but does not dominate the story.
The mixture OF angelic child and Monte
Carlo badness was unpleasant in tinker"
and is unpleasant here. The improper
French woman is depicted witt feminine
acuteness.
The sentimental mixture OF truth and
fiction that Max Muller published years ago
with the title ~Deutsche Liebe' appears in
MIR. George P. Upton's translation in a
new illustrated edition from A. c. McClurg
and Company, Chicago. The artists are
Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong.
Their pictures are very interesting; they
miss the German character. but perhaps are
on that account fitting illustrations Of a not
wholly sincere book.