Los Angeles herald., 1908-07-27

norant Italian girl, who loves passion
ately, but finally in a fit of Jealousy
drives the lover from his liaison to his
wife with a stiletto. His second is
purer love, who dies leaving the lover
free to return to his wife.
OF course the book is well written
and interesting, facts which account for
it's publication.
We know that humanity, in these
days, is and must be tolerant of much
that is vicious and wrong, and that
men and women are so human that
they often willingly and freely do
wrong and are vicious, yet we shudder
that vice and evil should be praised
and idealized, and we realize that such
books make necessary the censorship
of librarians and of the fathers and
mothers of the country, and that such
censorship is propers
The >Cobbler. BY Elma A. Travis.
New York: The outing Publishing COM
pany.
When lovely woman stoops to folly
is the topic of another, well written
dramatic tale, and the story Is exactly
what it's title indicates, "The Woman
Pays"
It's foreword is a true criticism. 1t
is announced as an intensely dramatic
story dealing with the three founda-
tions of human life-the love of home,
the love of self and the love of the
lover.
1t is a vivid tale of New York and its
people, of a brilliant pastor, a bril-
liant playwright and a beautiful and
strangely magnetic woman. The latter
is entranced by the popular preacher
and loves him too well and pays the
penalty in the breaking up of her de-
lightful home, the whipping of her own
conscience, her disgrace and death.
Yet the pastor. too, pays, for he is de-
throntd and disgraced. The story is we'll
written and interesting to the end.
The Woman Pays. By Frederick F.
Ladd. New York: Mitchell Kennerley.
Under the title of "God and Music"
John H. Edwards has written book
that is Illuminating on a subject of
general interest. While not all music
is religious, it appears that in its
origin most of the good music was of
this kind, and today much of the best
that survives or that is produced is of
this character. This book is not his
tory, but a treatise, and in its pages
one will find a beautiful philosophy
concerning the outpourings of the hui
man soul to the Divine. In fact, there
is so much more to music than most
persons imagine that this book will to
many be in the nature of revelation,
and it certainly ought to be a delight
to all who have more than the most
superficial idea of what music Is and
what 1t means.
God and Music. BY John Harrington
Edwards. New York: The Baker &
Taylor company.
Davis and Chow Leung's Chinese
Fables and Folk Stories" is the most
recent addition to the popular series
of eclectic readings, and is intended
for supplementary use in the third and
fourth years of school. 1t has hith-
erto been an accepted belief that Chi
nese literature does not possess the
fable, and consequently the examples
given in the book, which are familiar
to the children of China, are of special
interest The tales show the different
phases of Oriental character and
habits of thought, and will help
toward better understanding and ap-
probation of Chinese character. The
Illustrations are from drawings by ma
| tive artists.
Chinese Fables and Folk Stories. By
Mary Hayes Davis and Chow Leung.
New York: The American Book COM
pany.