The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-18

BROKEN LINKS" by Job Taylor: the C. M. Clark Publishing Company Boston, Mass, Sl50
 In Broken Links" MT. Taylor has shown decided ability in the construc- ton of his plot and facility as writ CT, coupled with this he has succeeded where so many new writers fail Tn producing a very readable and at times quite exciting story. one which promptly secures and holds the inter- est of the reader. The climaxes and exciting and dramatic but here cvid- ences appear that the young novelist is not tried and trained in the realm of fiction writing as these crucial pe- drawn and too profuse .n ejaculalions for exact comfort. The book tells of the experiences of young sociolcgist in his study of life in a mining and factory settlement He arrives st q time when conditions are ripe for gust such enquiry and research, ripe tAr the contention attending an O ltbreak of labor. Young Dando. fer that is the name of the scholarly investigator, finds plenty of material for observa- tion and enquiry as to labor, it's rights and wrongs, it's just and unjus. claims, He finds two conflicting clements among the men, one an archiStlc throng ready for riot and revoluti )n or even murder or anything to town capital, and the other sane ?nl req sonable but insistent for q lair in crease of wages. The young man, our hero, takes sides firmly with the latter finding their demands just He as firmly opposes the anarchistlc crowd and here his troubles begin. Perhaps we might add that his hap pness in the shape of loves young dream began at the same time flr he finds reciprocated his love for Seiu- tiful and very intelligent young lady whom he had become acquainted with when she was at Smith college and who has become deeply interested in Dandos work and ambition. She was, moreover, the daughter Of the rich owner of the mines where the trouble was brewing who was very rich and very proud of his family name and escuteheon Our young hero incurs the displeasure of the rich capitalist through the calumnies and misrepre- sentations of the anarchists who belle the young mans mission and efforts. Wrongfully judged and now persecu,- ed by the red flag supporters, he per severes manfuly in his work lmpelled by a sense of duty. Now things get lively A big crisis comes. The torch is applied to the buildings. Dan do heroically saves the life of the young woman he loves almost at the loss of his own. He is smitten down and his mother arrives to find him nursed' back to convalescence by the lady he loves The lovers then each through fantastic ideas of honor drift apart hut in the end after one hero's return from a long absence in Europe love finds way. The book is we'll H. i lustrated by John Goss
 Anna Chapin Ray, in her new book The Penalty" which Is to be present ed early in March by Little, Brown S O., deals with Quebec society, at the same time giving study of Catholic. ism and the needs it supplies. Little Brown 6 Go. will bring out in a fortnight by the way. . new story by Mary Inlay Tay. lor author Of The Impersorator. etc, entitled "The Reaping" It deals with the love of rising politician fol A young girl and his struggle against his sense of duty to a beautiful wom- an who rejected him for wealth and position and then divorced her bus band iii order to get back the man she tilted,