The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-12

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keeping ont the dust.
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sDod DIAL more 9eutiy-so much more gently
that the too manner are hardly to be cnm-
p4r4ss The readsv GILL ~ fairly fsscins,eJ
nv Isabel Otis talking wittily a. tho Gwynps
dinner tabis che Gwynses 81 Csphcs'on,
including the Lady Victoria GSynne. q
great beanty still untsmed ss the age ~ 70.
and John Elton Cecil Gwynne. her -on. who
would surely nave beep q Liberal prm
Minister IL fortune had not blasted him Ivy
making him a pecr) and dominating easily
the great and brilliant ball In the Duke ~
Aroot's castle. The English part % the
story is more interesting. Ia our mind. than
the part which deals with Lord Jack after
he had thrown over the distasteful business
of being a peer and had settled himself in
California for the purpose 81 trying his hand
at American politics. Isabel was a Cali
fornian ,she was mistress Of q great ranch
there. on which she raised armies OF white
Leghorn chickens). and ~ II was natural
that she, too. should live in California and
not unnatural that abe and Jack should nee
q good deal OF each other. AZ for the
strictly ancestor" part OF the story, We
cannot discover that il o to very
much. She and Jack were cousins (suni-
ciently remote. of counsel and there vas
some spanish in their blood. but il there had
not been any, or II Il had been there n the
fact had been concealed. We are sure that
the reader would ave liked Jack and Isabel
just as well.
Jack did not And when he came over
that he was prepared 10 like America imme-
diately. Isabel. q lover as well a. a critic
Of her native land. asked him. Of course
tho great American question. His reply
vas: Il hate IT, Warrington IL . crude,
unwieldy village. New York 10 like one
Of those Nightmares q certain class OF
writer's project and label Earth in the year
1000 Chicago 10 the entrails Of the uni
verse. The small interior towns and vii
lagos OF the Eastern States are open mauso-
leums for people 50 old and so dried up
that their end will be not death but desioca-
ton. There is nothing picturesque in those
old towns. for they were dead before they
were civilized. Some OF the cities and
villa ges Of the South are certainly attrac-
tive to look at and have q background of q
sort. but they are a. hfeless ~ their negroes.
The cities Of the West are hives. and when
you have seen one you have seen all. Its
smaller communities are horrors pure and
simple. Much Of. the country 10 magnih-
cent. The Adirondaoks. the Hudson River.
the Yellowstone. those great prairies and
deserts. atone for . good deal" But when
the San Francisco earthquake occurred
Jack Was considerably interested II IL
noticeable that this earthquake 10 treated
with moderation In Mrs. Atherton's account.
There is no Alexander Hamilton here risk
ing his nee to shut parlor windows. A
wise and pleasing restraint. In many OF
its pages. certainly. q highly interesting
and exceedingly well written story.
Asstatisns From Q Land q Sheep.
We have no wish 10 be fulsome: but q. B.
L~ancaster's stories heave with the strenu-
Gus style. They arc a strong reminder
Of the Coney Island form Of recreation
called the -bumps." The reader 10 tossed
ana eeweu ana otOou upon mn nesa. Oh
the paper cover Of -Ths Tracks We Tread
a new book by q. b. Lancaster tDoobleday.
Page 4 Coz. he publishers speak temper-
stely Of tho work ~ n tremendous MARIA
tive by a. genius in whose writings the
conventionAlities OF civilization are un-
known This 10 precisely the case with
the Coney Island pasrime. The -bumps' arc
tremendous: A genius planned them. They
dispense utterly with the oonventionalitieso
civilization. The title Of @. B. Lancaster's
tale 10 misleading. The reader does not
tread these tracks. He bounds and plunges
amid tho lAboriously invented ssags and
obstacles OF this tortured and grotesque
steep. This h q very different matter.
There are people fairly worthy to b oon-
sidered who do not like II. Thinking TO
read q tale. 1t 10 not agreeable to them 10
DO jerked about In Q razxle-dsxxle. But