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deep pathos following the most thrill
ing climax makes those who knew the
| Lawson OF old understand what has
been added to his remarkable person.
atty by his recent bereavement. The
| characters of this book are not over
| drawn; they are live men and women.
IN Beulah Sands, a southern girl, who,
by hereditary instincts, education and
early environment was all that Is for
| eign to the commercial life of New
YORK, the author took long chance.
In bringing this woman into the money
mad swirl OF the street Mr.. Lawson
never for an instant strikes a false note.
In all his writings the Boston financler
never depicted the System" in such an
unenviable light as in this story of love
and speculation. The reader finds him
self held in the grip of compelling
interest, and to start the book means
to follow the fortunes OF the hero and
heroine to the end. Unquestionably the
most interesting story ever written by
To attempt to read this story In serial
form would be sheer aggravation The
Illustrations in the book are admir-
able.
son. New York: Doubleday, Page g. Co.
Los Angeles: Curtiss, Cunningham &
Welch company
Edith Wharton has written another
remarkably clever little book dealing
with the intricacies OF an international
love affair. In Madame De Treymes"
the author has depicted the French
woman of the holdover nobility. She
has shown in a most convincing way
the heartbreaks in store for American
women who marry members of the
broken down French aristocracy.
Fanny de Malrive's love for her child.
hn1. IN hoinur 20 ha
soil by the law and custom which de-
crees that divorced women must not
take their children from France makes
tragic story. This is heightened by
the fact that It chains the man she
really loves to foreign land or sep
arates them forever. Americans will
see in Nine. de Treymes a type doubt
less peculiar to Paris. Her motives and
emotions are probably distinctlvely
French. The book is handsomely IL
lustrated and the tale holds interest. It
is short, deeply interesting story.
Madame De Treymes. BY Edith
Wharton. New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. Los Angeles: Curtiss, Cum
ningham & Welch company.
Current Literature under it's new ed
itor has become a record Of contempo-
rary life. The leading articles for
April are: "The Seven Railway Kings
Of America; Roosevelt and William
H." an interesting exposition Of the in
Innate threads of international diplo-
macy; "a Theological Thunderstorm in
England" by the Rev. r. ]. Campbell,
prophet or hereto, whose recent utter
ances have set a thousand ministers to
preaching sermons; immortality Of
Present-day Fiction" and George
Moore's Onslaught on Puritanism in
Literature and Life" THE Menace of
Feminine Christianity" will make every
reader sit up, while Completion as a |
Basis Of Universal History" is one of
the most sensational scientific theories
ever put forward by serious thinker. |
The play reprinted this month is
Charles Klein's "The Lion and the
Mouse" Among other dramatic arti-
cles an essay on How Belasco Creates
Dramatic Stars" and THE Waning Glo-
ry of Gerhardt Hauptmann' are reve-
lations in themselves. Humor. poetry,
fiction, criticism-all are represented in
this magazine.
The May issue of the Peoples Maya
zine opens with THE Mysterious Mis-
sion." The action takes place largely
on board train in it's cross-continent
trip from New York to the Pacific
coast, which is an unusual setting. Tho
fight of large corporate Interests. and
the manner in which this fight has
drawn into the combat the personal af-
fairs of a group of people, make the
story graphic and exciting. Those read
ers of the Peoples who remember 1.-THE
Castle of Doubt" will find another
charming complete novel in this issue. |
The House of Guggenheim" an arti-
Gle In the present number Of Smiths
Magazine, is one of the most remarka-
BILE contributions in any of the current
magazines. How Meyer Guggenheim
came to this country f1fty-eight years
ago, and with his seven sons built IN
business valued conservatively at
something considerably exceeding five
hundred million dollars, is a story of
more than usual interest 1t Is we'll told
for the first time in Smiths Magazine.
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