The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-14

The author % The Girl from the Marsh
Croft- little. Brown and Company.
selma lAgeTl0f. has received the NObel
prize for literature. an award which may
hs justified by Scandinavian standards
or by her other works. which We have not
read. The irst chapter % the tab which
gives the title 10 this collection l. q great
short story: from the artistic point of view
the author should have stopped there.
The continuation turns q into a pretty
idyl u country life with the charm that
attaches 20 like stories Of the Ncrthland
whether the sceRe 10 Norway sweden OF
Denmark II 10 found in BIOnsOn's early
stories and Ia other Scandinavian writers
The other tales are short and slight, the
last one tAlls how the author came ~
write. u 10 impossible from them 10 dis
Germ the authors individua lity. that may
BE- due 10 the fact that they are translated
The tone. the qualities and the peculiar
charm are those that We have been led %
expect from Northern writers from Hans
Christian AndsFssn's tins down. when
they have not endeavOred 10 eKpOund
psychological problems. Selma lAgerloi
writes a. we'll and much the same 90 the
best u them
A very persistent villain causes ell the
trouble IN The Princess Of Forge by
George e. Shedd the Macaulay Com
panyi He makes up IN insolence for
lack u ingenuity, his methods are 50
clumsy that all the other people see
through ham a. once They abstain from
REFRESHING him. apparently in order to
see hoW FAR he will ~ and also On Ac-
count Of some ineHplicable admiration
for his impudenCs. n they used common
sense the story would end prematurely;
az II is Il - kept up In a series o. exciting
incidents all the author makes up his
mind 10 end H.
FOr once Harold Bindlo-s loses his grip
in The Gold Trail Frederick A Stokes
Company IN describing the Canadian
wilds HIS story ~ not lacking ~ IN
terest. but 10 put together with little care
II shifts from accounts o. camping life
10 repeated wanderings IN search u
Loot gold mine aud IL interspersed with
contrasts between the ennObling effect II
canada upon EnGlishmen and the petit
ness u life in the old country The IN
eenuitV aud resouroe shown bv bis hero
when put 10 the test makes q hard 10
understand why hs IL content with his
usual shiftlens condition
When g. Nssbit writes about English
children. ~ she does in The House Of
Arden ~ y DuttOn and Company.
she. IL usually entertaining She intro
ducss ne 10 a charming little girl and q
rather excessively and need lessly sulky
little boy and takes them On excursions
into the past The construction 81 the
tale 10 pretty clumsy and 'hs end com
mOnpIace. but there are pretty descrip-
tions and some delightful passages. The
reader will regret that the author does
not follow her fancy more
Another collection Of short stories.
some az least intended for young read
err, will b. found In Making Good
(Harpsr'sl. Mr. SpeaFman's four golf
stories arr spirited and amusing Some
Of the others are entertaining Those
By Mr. POultney BigelOw are written down
to the Intelligence Of youth In q manner
that most boys resent.
Tbs chief merit Of Tbs American IN
Paris by Dr. Eugene Coleman savidEs.
which h published In q third edition by
the J. B. Lippincott Company. lies In the
pictures ol french life Immediately be-
fore and during tho Prissian invasion.
especially those % Paris under the Com
muns. In che philosOphic ideas and the
mslodramatic plot We have been unable
10 become Interested.