New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-06
...,,t NooeIs of Domestic Life and
picturesque Adventure

8 Co. vrp BY Mrs. Henry de Ia Pas
PETERS mo MoIi Pp. SIS. E P. DuttOn g
sa OF HsgOBsT b Boston e Ff hsfs. GRS
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sc" or THE GODS BY sidney MO
rEE BREAI41n m 81 Little. Brown g ~
Call 49, ,.n,cER. BY Eln1a a. Travis Nj -
TIE PAM ssS Mcclure, Phillips O w.
ssorR1AN. By Eugene P rI LIE; r. i MnSa
TEE lEIg hi Illustration, 6{ paF Gsn & Co.
pp o." Rv W. Harris Dickson WIN
TEE RAY Ate+1ons by Seymour NJ S1ono -
IIppineott Conls~"' .-oa nop-
sv novel by the author OF 1nat o-.so NV
The He" "a yellow Aster." Is, .n spite OF IN
pisf s'O-s unexpectedly commentators pOO.N
fsOi's widow. Patricia, is a really IAsoi.---e
TIE yOul-s ., her almost Quixotic TENDERNESS
LIS nsopIe's feelings, her self-resl
ior " N.s her womanly pr1de' he[ -
ssAs = ,1ecttve JuxtapOsition IS the Hs uAe -
i''a,o ,ri6ovy, Patricia's mediterranean =
sDO.-, saint and egoist whose DeheA ~
fss.-fsc4inns and IN those OF her ueeAo 0OA,
e"A -ei,gion Patrfcia's husDaIiu N'S
pe'S q hypocrite, diseased IN 1li-1O -
y creature who has secretly done e'-
D'1I NJ his life. and who has Oy .-40' - 80
,,stiou in his viii left a ouIueii " -
-,,s.ry upon his innocent glII VIZ -
S"1 lens an Incredible animal YET II mus
pss that the author has given MIN al 0AA
cO1fssse1 ,i.r the other male characters are
q resAH aracieut. The two heroines OF the
s'n7H., ths stage: the other personages FURNISH
w. -.c.ssa-v machinery Of the story.
ne ne. -,,-,s On their relations TO one ah-
1H7 1a+rfcia's gallant striving Win heE
ou1sN -,oss on her capture Of the estrangeu
ha- how. and, we are glad to say on tue
hsa'I -, If her enemies. The reader may
hulu.--'--- hA+ber Patricia was right ana al
9afsHD d, offe-ing up her own happiness on th e
lHN'-1 ~ r77o+her-ir-law's belief in the an
@.A ,,.I,+ies of that nasty abnormallty' heI
gen patricia. Of real life would not be such
---.bIa goose-but then her story Wouio no
- 90 entertaining And entertaining TINS
- Action certainly is. among the ple'S1'ti'-
- = al the characters IN the current NOVELS
% pa.-ic,a PortaI-a good and loving Woii4ah
&c her adnliring young son says plays '--e
- With all her honest heart
...- domestic tale IN which the heroine
-. I,ke a star above sea q troupies =
s1lnos 1Io+pa-- This mother is a delightful
,.,ng "a piece Of tender air full OF
1.o. wife who has spent her youth unoer
=. tyranny Of en- elderly husband a common
~ -,ar With a streak OF inherited obtuseness
-T1paTiLT, ne IltS IAeAAc BC--A-o
az ,s-+vrdou1. and, after his death. Peter her
--s -. enough Of his father in him TO seek 70
fo- -...Ts the process Mary energies from the
'S---.- r+ieing wretchedness in which her
ar6 cIererness have gone for naught-
,oI5 he no story worth telling Il the Ialr
- bsd not been SO released-and the thlng
g.. tn fashion which considerably starties
- 7-,sre Is brilliant portratture in this BOOK
- ,tn,ns as the story is, it is absorbing IN
It's interest
s,.c,sI phrase ought to be invented TO de-
..,bs tba Kind Of book that Mr.. E PHILIPS
o,,snbssrn has written in "A Maker OF HIS
,o-v" It IS not novel IN any serious sense
rbs author deals II those reckless inproDaDlI-
.,s. snd those sensational incidents winch hANe
caused q certain type OF book to be called q
,sul.ug shocker' or e penny dreadTuL 1es
Mr. Oppenheim IL neither penny nor SHINING
writer. but, on the contrary. g man with
rather striking faculty for fiction He knows
huv 70 keep the reader in GREATNESS suspense
and he does this most Of the time IN legftlnate
,asbion. TIE trouble with him is that he sticks
6; nothing 10 keep his mystery hidden, bur,
with all imaginable coolness. makes demands
upon the readers credu!ity which are enough q
leave that long suffering soul bankrupt and ex-
kElerGIe1 EOT LIE CbLSOdN $500
this story turns IS the Kidnapping in Paris Of
yuung EnglishTnan who has. by accident been
an eyewitness Of a secret meeting between two
European potentares. This does well enough to
start with. but Mr. Oppenheim asks Us to believe
that an English subject could be thus spirited
away IN France. and what IS more. his sister
tsgusstered in the same high handed manner.
without any steps being taken among their
afTf or
inform the press Nothing daunted he piles
ebsurdity upon absurdity. The missing young
lady is brought back to the neighborhood Of her
Own home. masQuerading as the daughter Of an
American millionaire. and explaining to the man
who has risked the gravest perils TO accomplish
her rescue that she does what she is doing Of
her Owl free viL-and Secrecy Must be Pre-
served! It IS all preposterous. and It is all SO
entertaining that re read "A Maker OF History
through at a sitting aad are grateful for the ex-
element il provides Decidedly we need q new
phrase 10 apply 10 clever mixtures like this Of
interesting stuff and utter nonsense.
As sn effort Il convey some conception Of the
national spirit Of Japan, the absorption Of the
individual soul into the national life. Sidney
AcCalTs novel, The Breath OF the Gods is
more than ordinarily felicitous BY making the
heroine Japanese girl who has been educated
4 America and, through her intimacy with the
daughter Of a United States Senator Cafter-
ware American Minister to Japan, introduced
.l'o the gay life Of the Capital, the contrast
peI"een the social ideals Of East and West has
0een The more strongly emphasized. The study
q me struggle Of Yud to readapt herself TO
japanese conditions on her return to her native
-sAo-a struggle involving not only complete
'e'efsai Of The standards to which she had been
accustomed in her years Of Occidental training,
Iul renunciaCou Of her lover ana her mar
-Nse 10 Japanese statesman-is carefully
--aoe' The plot paIpitates with interest, the
-'scters are ably tndividualized. social and
A life IN Washington and in Toxic. both
/" !sgation and rative circles Is drawn with