New-York tribune., 1910-01-16
FICTION.
No7cls of Life at Home and
V" 4brodd.

TONG AGO. BY Elizabeth Cal
M LAND or Illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson
rert H.Iob Hal Strong. 12mo, pp- 2sO- Boston
ana ana Brown * Co --,
-r- OATH or "a, E-izabeth Stuart Phelps IL
sTobIhsS Emo pp- 3'4- bostOh- AN'
lustr-ssl,so1n MlffiH Company
n,N BY L ouerido1 Translated 111sG 20 troa Ssf
ToilL. % Dutch by r; ;, -
tne Putnams Sons
g. SEARCH OF 4 WIFE. BY Alphonse
sfFyRT l.1seT- y Emo. pp 2o7- Brentano :
00ai'. C7cNET. By Frederick NJ. smith Fl
,r stolen = NJ Shaler. Emo, pp S1S
F6saeId F1SsaSId Co ,..
of Kentucky, who achleNeo sc
sun' "a instantaneous a popularity thai
ereai '--~ asitions Of the book recording hel
oaf'rt" 20 called for in rapid succession is
sasisS .r;ef figure in her creators new vol
sg@ia u land of Long Ago" containing hel
ume' - If life in the Blue Grass region II
Trole' IA savs before the war. with rem
TX So Z war times. az course. and an abun-
:, sbrewd. homeIy comment on Nle as siie
d--' - and as she has seen II changing
fAS - 80 long sojourn n her favored olt ol
CUE oo5 earth The new book has All the
Geas o,,,;as Of its predecessor-the OLD lady's
fAD - intelligent simplicity; her kindness
=. and sterling uprightness OF character
'e--. sistf-IeG FROM experience by close
~ VS. -, s, environment whose narrow
=, MT lack depth. her optimism, sunny
'r7s .-7oarirv and belief II its future. and
.--nor Without literary pretenees or pre-
e- ~ -.,o hook is yer vel written, because
.,e audience for which il is written
- ,,rsaviaring dsrectness 10 what IL
".- Amt James personality. every trait
-tt.9 fe adhered ,o with happy consistency
- Effected in al her stories OF The life she
lrown and in her comments on these who
~. -aorled it, one quotation from her long
- a poienaut note on war as women
I'D feel II. I've heard folks say that the
-.rs rl,e saddes1 thing about a death; but
-.55e~ ming to have q death without a
.zae-aL7
-.--,+n situations IN life continue 10 present
.A.7,s.lyes 10 Mrs Wards pen for treatment.
,1s--sare has occupied her much. these twenty
IS ~. so-marriage Ihat has its root IN love,
=. - ra-rIexins flowers She IS not Of the
-.1.ssrn school. rather does she champion the
=, = 4o,ior,. in fact. il becomes difficult TO say
-.-.4,;rg nov or novel Of q writer who so long
=, ,sve ,,s the index Of her talent and Of the
,rsnd = the views which II inteTprets, without
-,,,,., change OF readjustment Of viewpoint
Those stories al least one Of which we recognize
ss old acouaintances first made in the maga-
g,nes are somewhat aloof from us-@out OF the
rover7ent~ as the French have tt-even the
nile story. modern though that be in subject.
having a rnid-nineteenth century favor. I'm
amrloved~ is Of our own day. with its cruel age
rroi- hlIf as tract for the times il leaves one
rnsat;sfied: the happy ending ends nothing but
,he srorv. The one tale Of these eleven that is
distinguished by a delightful originality is that
rsued Covered Embers." which plays whimsi-
-snv win that abhOrrence Of Mrs. Wards, di-
TUToe
lis d depressing picture which NJ. Querido
iraWg Of a section Of the peasantry OF Holland,
picture as gloomy and repellent as those of
Zsa and Tolstoy, OF Of the Phillpotts, of Chill
5-er q the Mist for the existence OF the dis
inherited children Of the soil Of Europe, treated
II EsEmotherly fashion by her, who has 10 bear
50 nZr burdens and whose resources their
is fundamentals, north or south or east or
Fest The scene Of this powerful, realistic
STUDY stained with dark laturalistic patches, is
market gardening community near Amster-
eat lp The small profit and a bad year means
Inevitable ruin. BrEtalized by priyation through
Ellers CT enforced idleness, broken down by