New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-25

l2mo, pp. 37s. Charles Scribper's Sons.
REED ANTHONY. CowNAN. An Autobiography.
Miflin & co
AS YE HAVE sOvN. BY Dolf wyllarde 12mo,
PIP. 1868 John Lane Company.
TEE SLIM PEINcEss Ey George en-, ade m nl I4o
indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill Company.
A new novel by Miss Murfree means, OF course
@ new novel about life among the Great Smoky
Mountains and in 1.-The Windfall' we have
many mere of those affectionately drawn land
scapes with which she long since made us Ia
1niliar. There are other things about the book
which would Immediately betray its authorship.
whether the name Of Charles Egbert Craddock''
bsupened 10 be on the title page not. There
gre the well known types in homespun. and
there IS the well known tendency to take little
LANCER in the telling Of the tale than is strictly
necessary But in addition TO all the old char
sc+erisiics Of Miss Murfree's fiction there is
7,pon this occasion a motive somewhat more at
rrsctive than any with which she has dealt in
recent years. The hero is the manager of
kind Of travelling circus, a Street Fair that is
carried about the country and set up with all
manner Of bedizenments. including a Ferris
Wheel o. in places which rejoice in such enter
tnirn7ents only about once in a thousand years
When this peTipatetic funmaker erects his
booths IN the public square of the little town OF
Colbury. he is not long in discovering that even
the High Dive" of his partner will not serve 10
repenish the treasury. He faces discontinue
and dulness. But he reckons without the magi-
cal atmosphere of the Great Smoky Mountains.
He IS in region where strange things may
happen. and presently very strange things hap
pen 70 him. a series of surprises eliminating
naturally. in a romance. The plot of The
Tindfall" is. for ell this not a particularly
complicated affair. and the author easily main
r,f,,rr he 90 e;,,
pacty which her talent is best suited to ex-
press The emotions of her mountaineers are OF
q primitive sort. She handles them, as she
handles the qualities Of her finer folk, with
yympathv and despite her disposition TO use two
pages where one would suffice she makes her
book steadily interesting. The quiet. unas-
surning temper Of her work is not unwelcome
at time when the f1ashy insincerities of the
average novelist are only too much in evidence
similarly refreshing contrast to the crude
fensationalism of the day is offered in The
Militants' a collection of short stories which
IS made 10 seem ''all of piece" by the genuine
feeling which the author has brought to her
task Mrs Andrews shows a firm and whole
some touch where as modern fiction goes, that
is almost the last virtue for which one would
look 4 number Of her stories are about clergy
men. and in these stories there is not hint OF
exaggeratio Of nawkishness, or of patronage.
The ror1osrcer who sets out to exhibit the simple
human na tlire benearh a clerical garb, TO show
that the churchman IS other men are. must
possess above all things tact, and Mrs. An
drews has tact in abundance It is largely for
This reason that her pathos rings true. that her
sentiment does not lapse into sentimentality.
Her art is not always on a level with her feel
ing After the admirable technique of THE
Bishop's Silence THE Witnesses" and THE
Diamond Brooches" it is a little disappointing
10 read the story called Crowned with Glory and
Honor" a story in which the outline is far less
clear than IT is IN its predecessors. But gen.
orally these tales are, equally satisfactory in
substance and in form. We put the book down
feeling not only that our interest has beer main
tanned. but that we have been in the company
OF a generous and gentle spirit
Mr. Andy Adams's latest volume is of
those productions which are full of facts as
Ia fall rather uncertainty under the rubric of
fiction and yet have something OF the
machinery and much Of the atmosphere of
story told for it's own sake. He deals with a
subject that he has treated before. the life OF
man whose energies have from boyhood up
been devoted to the raising Of cattle. Other
interests may occasionally break in upon this
life but It Is on the whole a homogeneous af-
fair a life filed with the sight and sound and
smell Of horned beasts. The present volume
has plenty Of human interest, II is not without
the thrill Of adventure but the impression II
chiefly leaves is one Of peculiar experience, an
experience saturated in the influence Of great
herds We read It as we would read other ,
story. 10 learn what happened to the hero Of
the autobiography set forth, but all the time
We are gaining also a knowledge of what men
have done in this country to build UP one of
its salient industries. II is a thing apart from
The usual summer fiction. Those who care for
gosssner love story with which to while away
an hour n hammock will not find it especially
appealing. But men who appreciate a good yarn
tbout manly things VIII be glad Of Mr.. Adams's
Etsaighttorward, spirited narrative.
sAs ye Have sown" is sweetly pretty story
Of quick tempered Englishman who makes an
unfortunate marriage, and. on learning the full
extent Of his wifes turpiiude freezes up with ex-
enplary unselfshness. Carrying his troubles 10
James Piocadilly fifth Duke of London, he is
much struck when that judicious nobleman ex-
plains that scandalous explosion over the in
hoelty of his high born but excessively vulgar
vie would mean gross humiliation for them
ooth' The revelation has extraordinary ef
'sct upon him. He had been shaking" says
lhe duke. literally shaking with his passion |
sna suddenly he Gained down as If some one |
haa turned him into stone" But never was |
mere more obliging man than this unIucky |
-ai bloomington. 4 see quoth he TO the duke |
see mat you arc looking al It from point |
- We" winch is not native to me | belong TO |
Ie hidoAe class. as my wife has been at some |
I'm ~ Snow me by subtle means than |
ePeech. Having married a woman of rank :. I
"'s IL Is incumbent on me 10 behave &C In |
her class Of life. I Will enao..o =. -. -. |
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