The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-14
THE WAYFARERs By Mary Stewart Cutting, Published by Mcclure Pub fishing Company New York

Cutting, Published by Mcclure Pub
 fishing Company, New York.
 In "The Wayfarers." Mary Stewart Cutting has again done excellent work, It Is much above the average of the summer novels and will be read. as 1t has been already by many, in Me- cure's magazine, with satisfaction and profit. It Is a bright tale of domestic life with a pretty and absorbing love story thrown In, and sixteen apt illus trations by Alice Barber Stephens add to the books attractiveness. The story opens with a good picture of the GUS tomary ferryhoat scene In New York waters in one of the rush times of the day On the boat Is Justin Alexandey and he meets there Mir L.everick, Large. jovial and shrewd- eyed" and crises comes In Alexander's life in the shape of an allurlng business proposl- ton from Leverich, who offers him control of large manufacturing bus lness and agrees to deposit s50,000 in the lbusiness to Alexanders credit 10 be used as working capital. the Inter- est on which loan would come out of the earnings Of the business. Alexan- der accepts after due consideration. Ills devoted wife, Lois. appears at this time on the scene and Is of course on the qui vive when she learns the news and what Is probably meant In improved financial conditions at home. Alexander Is described as possessing "the grace of slngularly attractive countenance" and mo one could look at him and not know him to be man of sweet and fine honor" As to Lois, the wife, her form was beautifully rounded and her throat and neck were of a soft white ness peculiarly their own. Everything about her was richly colored-her lips, her cheeks, her blue eyes, which had a certain rayed starriness in them, and her brown hair which. when 1t lay, as now, unfastened, fell in large loose curls upon her bosom" Lois had mar rled her husband because of the bright honor and force of character which at tracted others, and because of his con quering love for her" The next event of the book is the introduction of The odosia. "Dosla," for short, daughter of Mir. Under. who had been professor in a small college and who with hls second wife, Dosias kind and lovable step mother, had moved from the wes. to the far south, where he resided and enjoyed his small income. Dosia, who was pining away in the dullness of her home life, is startled into joyousness. A rich aunt In Cincinnati had written
 -t,,I, ip and spend the winter in the suburbs with a married cousin, Miss Lois Alex ander A great awakening comes to posia. En route to New York there Is an awful smash-up of the train and she Is rescued from the wreck in which she was plnioned, and was carried 10 safety in the darkness half unconscious by refined muscular young man with a magnetic hand touch and voice which thrilled her innermost being Then when she was safe the young man disappeared. The girl had not seen his face. but that hand touch and that voice of his she could never forget. Thenceforward the story deals with the uneven current of the lives of the Alexanders and with the loves of Dosia, who, an extremely pretty and lovable girl, does not lack for admirers and who narrowly escapes wedding a handsome, gifted, absolute young scapegrace, who perishes In a mining camp opportunely for Dosia's best welfare. Dosia's final choice chimes in with most dramatic situation which Miss. Cutting tells wildly No one who likes charming and wholesome book should miss reading 'The Wayfarers ' It Is already in its second edition.