The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-05

IN entertaining Nnuah love tae mas
been evolved out II rather ~lhconRruois
materials In 'sandycer . Nv sara y Riggs
nlttie. Rf0-Fn and Company. Tho stage
sitting ia tho Maine copat, somewhere
around Mount f,oanrt. 80 surmise Ths
heroine and alrno ~ tho minor characters
are shatiyca. not real natives, hut sich
az tho idle fancy ~ ihr summer hoarder
may evolve Tho authors taste leads
her 10 decorate her young paragon with
yellow hair II the IiRhtest shade. canary
" Il called m ono occasion Tho plot II
borrowed from tho conventional meio-
dramatic literature that once waa s,ipposed
10 delight tho kitchen with this the
author seems familiar, Tor besides tho chief
intrigue that she employs there are irag-
ments 81 two or three other established
literary conventions thrown in for good
measure. None tho loss the story IA very
readable; there arc bits q description Of
nature that are good, and there are touches
Of character here and there that are we'll
drawn. II the reader " III put his memoir
to sleep n little he will enjoy IL. There was
no need Of transferring the action to Ger
many at tho end.
In The Girl With the Blue Sailor CDodd,
Mead and Company Mr.. Burton +, Stevenson
has written an attractive love tale. with
out p%retension and with the right lightness
Of touch. The addition Of the word hat to
the title would have removed ambiguity
and taken nothing from the interest. IL Ia
n summer boarder tale Of summer affec-
tons. The hero is properly ready TO fall
in love with any or every young woman
he meets and keeps the reader mildly per-
picked as to which one will happen to he
the last. There is one unusually nice girl
In the story, besides other pleasant people.
1t fits in with the summer humor.
Seven short stories of very even merit
will be found in Judge Robert Grants
sThe L~aw-hreakers" Charles Scribner's
sons. They are bright, of course, and
show similarity of construction. Each pre-
SCENTS its moral foible to he reproved, each
its mild chastisement. each a discreet ad-
mixture of humor and bitterness. The
punishment Of the reformer who lied In
his declaration at the Custom House may
seem too severe. but the girl who rejected
him on that account did not love him, and,
even il she had, must have been an un-
comfortable person to live with even for a
civil service reformer. The authors work.
manship has improved in thirty years, but
it il curious how little the point OF view
in these stories differs from that Of the
Confessions Of a Frivolous Girl
For those who can enjoy quiet, old fash
toned stories with touches Of hum or and,
perhap s, an excess Of sentiment, and with
genuine feeling for country life, Simple
Annals Uongmans, Green and Com
pany), by Mrs. Francis Blundell. whose
pen name Is NJ. f. Frances, may be safely
recommended. There Ia a certain same
ness about the stories-it may be because
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are very refreshing after the soul problems
and strenuous action and intellectual sub
tilities of the modern school OF fiction.
Mrs. Blundell's country and her rustios
, are very real.
Romance on very high stills will be found
In All for the Love of a LADY, by Elinor
Mccartney Lane (Appletons) Historical
periods and styles are jumbled queerly.
, 1t is a pity that the author should be carried
OF by her Ercles vein, for there were posi-
bilities in her two small boys and there is
character in the lawyer who tells the story,
though he is a very old friend in fiction Of
this sort.
A tale OFT the sea and OF the villa inies
chat may be perpetrated on shipboard Is
told by Mr.. T. Jenkins Hai ms in The Voyage
Of the Arrow O.. c, Page and Company
Il belongs to the class OF literature that
Mr.. Clark Russell made popular, combining
nautical experiences with a variegated
assortment Of unusual Incidents, and in
Producing an attractive young female
who is sadly in the way. Mr.. Hams has
had plenty Of experience of ships and
weather, so that the reader may feel quite
sure that his descriptions are accurate,
and he narrates his tale with energy.
After a few pa ges the sympathies Of the
reader of The oung O'Briens' blythe author
Of sElizabeth's Children (John Lane Com
pany); will be transferred to the unfortunate
persons on whom those rema rkable young
sters were dumped. Smart they were
and unconventional, but the author seems
carried way by her eagerness to turn them
into holy terrors. There arc plenty Of
bright sayings and bits Of shrewd observa-
ton of child nature, but $50 pages OF juve-
nile scrapes may be as tiresome as that
amount of gush. We do not believe that
any Irish children are as constantly the
sla yes of impulse as these.
Other Books.
Though he calls his book Later Queens