Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-08-05
BY WILLIAn HAMILTON OSBORNE

/, nature into his works. He has been an
| evil influence in this unfortunate coun-
try. Every literate ass in England
implies tina the best has been done.
But literature and the arts are only
| just beginning. Shakespeare had low
ideas. Look at his women The critics
think that IL a woman Is like nature
she is false to- Shakespeare. Instead OF
| going back to nature, we are TO go
back to Shakespeare. All literature
that tires a girl of twenty-three IS
radically bad. Have you ever found
In uplifting phrase In Shakespeare
which brought tears to your eyes,"
The book Is not a discussion. 1t Is
a mighty clever story, built around
mighty interesting characteristic con-
trasts. The reader feels giddy with
triumph every time Thorpe scores and
he scores early and often. The dia-
logue is rs interesting as the Dolly
Dialogues, not so subtle, no so delicate
but it has, perhaps, more sting-more
spice-more shock.
Thorpe liked Molly's brother Forty.
1t Is true that Forty aped the nobility
by talking horrible slang. When he
tool his stand with Thorpe, and after
calling all his enemies '~lop-eared
blighters," Forty opines as follows,
other sentiments: Some coves
seem to think that their own women
amt like the others, but some sort of
especial gilt-edged security with a
double guarantee like Egyptian Uni
fed. However, they amt. Gals are
just human women" Which last re-
mark Thorpe proclaimed as a great dis
covery. When you finish reading Nor
ley Roberts you will conclude that the
nobility's great ambition is to speak as
incorrectly as is possible. When pre-
sented at court bear this in mind.
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IN "THE BLACK CROSS GLOVE"
(B. w. Huebsch, publisher, N. ~,
Luby has drawn a very efrectlVe
character sketch of a h~alf-breed IN
dian girl, whom stephen Eltringham'
his hero, found in a remote
region somewhere in the State OF New
York. Ruth Freer is the name of this
girl, and she is the only distinctive
parsonage worth considering in the
book. Though she has indian blood
running in her veins. 1t Is not ap-
parent to birmingham at the start. The
scene is laid at Winnesook, so called
because of a peculiar Indian legend
attaching to the place-a legend to the
effect that the spirit of a prehistoric
Indian lover is imprisoned in the
mountain, and can only be released by
the great love of some woman.
The Indians name was Winnesook.
Ruth Freer, wildly Imaginative, fan
tastic, high-strung-declares her love
for this spirit and calls. calls, calls to
him-and hears him answer. The girl
appeals tremendously to Birmingham,
because behind all her modern Inter
acy, her boorishness. lies her wonderful
imagination. She is the incarnation of
poetry. She meets ltringham clan
d~estinely-but to herself she imagines
he is Winnesook, the spirit that she
loves. Their child, s~ingularly enough,
Is more of the Indian than its mother.
The end of the story is tragic. To
what ends Ruth Freer's i~nfatuation
for the mythical Winnesook leads her
and how Winnesook himself claims
her for his own at last, must be left
to the reader to find out for himself.
The art of the author lies in linking a
startlingly wild. imaginative tempera-
ment to a commonplace, physical and
social nature. Out of this inconsistent
combination he has produced al in
teresting and remarkable result.
The story is a well-constructed one.
There is plenty of excitement in it.
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