The sun., 1910-09-10
snn,e sen,rmher E1c,ien.

The nIted States has selected strange
lndl, .duals To represent Il abroad, out
none 80 eccentric a. the Consul 20 fez,
whom Mr. Roy Norton employs TO turuiAh
q comic element to his story The Garden
Of Fate' w. ]. Watt aud Company. New
York. The author shows soms sym
pa,hy for the Moorish pretender With
European education and evolves a harrow
ng tale d the harem TO account for him
Ne fails TO make the reader comprehend
the herotne's sentimental fancy for him OF
her fathers treatment of him as u black
man His model apparently - . Hindu
1gitator rather than a Moor. One white
hero Il a sentimental version OF the Eng
hshman who trained the Moroccan troops.
the other " the stock American Admirable
Crchton Of all adventure tale~. There
are descriptions Of Fec and OF Moroccan
landscape; apart from this the place might
10 any fanciful Kingdom where fictitious
POLITICS and military operations are car
r,~d on according to the authors ~hIm.
The book has nothing in common With
Mr Hichenss The Garden Of Allah
In -Ths House OF Whispers ,BTeO-
,anoS Mr. William lie QueuX reaches the
dapths Of sensational writing with neither
s-vle nor in'ere-, Every person in the
rory has mystery attached and acts
N,tnout a particle Of sense. especially the
villains and the great man who directs
IN international syndicate 10 fnaucierr
there il impending disaster IN every chap
'sr with very tame catastrophe. The
story 10 extremely dull and u weighted
town with heavy historical and antigua ran
natra. run into tn. text With no apparent
al, k,..A I, k.s
bAdly story ~ this sort could b. written
~ haS succeeded
There ., much fine writing a. the begin
rnz of Mr. Charles Neville Bucks A
Kev - Yesterday w =. Watt and Com
panvl For instance We are told The
man Wa not Nv nature susceptible
omen - seN rragnate- mad mtle part
w nl- life cosmos The author. however.
i-nuS thus ~ he gets IN crested IN hi- story
and the reader - able to folloW hIm The
srorv turns on a mans losing hI- identify
IN being struck on the head and recover
ing IL after another knock II involves a
MIXED ~ south American revolution and
much talk about a1 and ART life. II -
readable and will hold the readers atten
iion II he "a mt deferred by the hrst fec
chapters.
hOlRn OlOtN Tor uOfen uekeGtlNs $40
-iss will he found IN The Quests ~ Paul
Peck- by Mcdonnell Bodkin d.ittle
brown and Company The same imper.
'urhabla sleuth bob= up serenelr IN all
hr the space into which his adventure
I, Condensed in each case IL too limited
for the proper exposition ~ his cleverna--
Tns eject II that ~ reading the abstract
- a plot rather than the real story. and
much of the interest IL therefore lost
4 hatch % stories about life in Alaska,
about the miners and about he natives too.
. -on,ained in The Trail n Sourdough
~ Nav Kellogg Sullivan Orchard q,
Badger. Boston. The incidents narrated
40 Interesting: they are told simply aud
sol
In The Passover IR ' Fenno and
.mpany. New York; Mr. clifford Howard
.- ie-take. to enlarge on the Scripture
100 .nt ~ the events Leading up to toe
pass.rn This includes hs Interpretat iou
80 actions ~ Judas lscariot. whom
~. ahe- rejected aSpirant for the hand
70 Mary tho sister 81 Martha
T.a fr~' chapter ot Eliza Calvert Halls
'sr lane ~ Kentucky - published
a,a.aly under tho title Sally Ann's
l.u4rsncs' by Little. Brown and Com
Hr The frpntispiece and the picture
80 cover ars good. ths decorative
.i--s some people may like. The story
. ."-v good