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pose than to give color to the validity of
the claims filed against her.
"Pariah'' is a cheerful experiment of
the Edgar Allen Poe type. In detecting
crime through an expert handling Of
psychologist method.
EASTER: A Play in Three Acts; and
Stories. BY August Strindberg.
Translated from the Swedish by
Velma Swanston Howard. Cincin-
natl: Stewart & Kidd Company.
Strindbergs spirit is SO soaked In gloom.
his souls journey so confined to the I'M
derways of the world, that even the
Easter renewal of life and hope turns
out. in his hands. to be little better than
a drama of despair. Human ignorance
and its mistakes, stold endurance. or Bit
ter revolt, uncOmprehensions, groupings,
a chilly CLEAN of poetry here and there.
momentary lighting up of the darkness
these are what the irritated and impa-
tent reader CLEANS off from the surface
OF this Easter play.
4. D., author of THE Queens Fillet,"
etc. New York: Longman's. Green
& Co.
Miriam Lucas" is the story of curse
of its dire effects from generation to
generation. of its ultimate fulfIiment and
lifting. Upon this worn warp of super
stition, of legend and poetry, Canon
Sheehan weaves. magically, the full wool
of modern Irish life and character. The
growth of Miriam Lucas from girl to
woman passes the romance out of d relic
OF feudai existence straight into the
swollen tide of modern lite, with its cut
ting distinctions of class, and into the
unholden strife of these, one against the
other-Protestant against Cathoiic. the
laborer against the employer, the social
.st against the individuanst. The ground
work of this tale holds the reminiscent
charm of Cd things. each of these mel
lower and more beautiful in it's deCadence
than II ever was in the glory of its new
ness This part nestleS in the sleepy
hollow of Glendarragl, down by the Irish
sea. with the lady in her crumblng cas-
tie. and. round about her, the adoring
iealty OF an Irish peasantry. The real
thraIl OF the adventure lies here. Up I'm
the city the story concerns itself in most
transcTiptive manner. with all sorts of
modern questions and problems, each of
which is woven cOmpactly and brilliant
ly into the fabric of current Irish life.
The whole makes an inclusive and many
sided story, one that stands to add no.
tabiy to the growing body of literature on
the perennial subject of Ireland and the
Irish people.
FANNY BURNEY; at the Court Of
illustrated. New York: John Lane
Company.
When Fanny Burney came into high
notice through the success of her two
novels, ''Evalina' and Cecilia" Queen
Charlotte, to honor Miss Burney, brought
her into the English court as the mistress
of the robes. This means that the author
passed from writing novels to the bust
ne IS of taking out and putting away, of
folding and unfolding the queens dresses.
Her friends, DR.. Johnson. and Horace
Wa pole among them, cried about this
change thinking the gifted woman had.
world To a closet" What the ingenious
Miss Burney did do in the between whites
OF folding court dresses was to keep Il
diary of the daily doings of the court of
George III and Charlotte. 1t is this diary
that Constance Hill gathers into the vol
ume in hand, Illuminating it's text with
a truly amazing array of Illustrations.
The record reads with the freshness of
yesterday on innumerable topics of keen
interest-on the family life of the king
and queen, on the traits and appearance
of one or another of the royal children,
on court ceremonials. on the diversions of
the period. Distinguished men and wom-
en-. commonly immured in the mOldiness
OF unread histories here stand in flesh
and-bloOd reality. Perhaps the most vivid
and Interesting of all these sketches is
the trial of Warren Hastings. at which
Miss Burney was present. picturing
Burke and Fox and Hastings himself in
an amazingly realistic and dramatic man.
ner. Not many nowadays, save the aca-
demic student of the rise of the novel,
read "Evalina" and Cecilia" They are
too long, too sentimental. They have in
a hundred years, as matter Of course.
los. step with our reading taste. I..is
diary on the other hand. brings Fanny
Burney into immediate present of
fresh and absorbing interest. The vol
ume is in every respect one of great
distinction. one for which readers are in
debt its editor and commentator and
illustrator.
THE SAMPO; Hero Adventures From
tho Finnish Kalevala. BY James
Baldwin. author of THE Story of
Siegfried," etc. illustrated by N. G..
Wyeth. New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. Washington: Brentano's.
Like all other carly peoples. the old
Finnish folk learned about their an