The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-13

enough to write Eleanor. and .Dian:
4 Mallory" Az Mrs. Manisty vanishc,
(she 10 introduced only as a dinner guest
the, spell IL broken, and once more W.
are at the level OF Lady Merton. Col
onist.''
/ pretty English girl who paints water
colors of a sort and who, being loved
by rich young lord, prefers a poor
tyoung barrister. AS moral, Edmund
Melrose is presented, changed by dis.
| appointment In love to a brutal eccen.
| trio. This Melrose has driven his Italian
wife and her boy away from his house
by his severity, but twenty years later
| he takes a fancy to Lydia's barrister
! tries to corrupt the young fellow with
f! his MILLIONS and almost crucifies love
1t is really an ordinary story such as
one of the score of authors might have
| written.
THE ROAD OF LIVING MEN: By win Leving.
ton Comfort. PHILADELPHIA. B. Eppincott
Company.
viii Lexington Comfort has a new
heroine. She is Mary Romany of "The
Road OF Living Men" and we follow her
!. amid much mystery and adventure in the
pages Of that recently published ro-
nance
We have Mr.. Comforts assurance that
Mary is a beauty. Her father is a giant
with a leonine head. who ventures into
strange places. In Spain, in China, In
q South African Businesses where gold
Is to be found and where a clash of arm
ed men, like real war, is the closing in
oident, there we find the grizzled father,
the lovely daughter and the lover, Tom
Ryenson. All this makes Just a story"
ESQ the author calls it in his dedication)
but a very vivid story. which one reads
with no hating interest.
The book has the style, but il is lack
ing in the subtlety of the man who
wrote Fate Knocks at the Door," per-
haps purp0sely so.
STELLA MARKS: BY William J. Locke. New
iork-John Lane Company.
Although the final pages OF "StelIa
Maris" contain murder and a suicide.
the story is by no means a tragedy It
Is rather fantastic comedy of the sort
that Mr.. Locke has mastered before. On
the shores of the south coast of England.
In beautiful room, in a beautiful man.
sion, dwells an invalid girl who cannot
lift her head from a pillow. She is sur
rounded by comforts and luxuries, and
she Is ministered to by an uncle and
aunt, ~ nurses and maids, and by two
devoted friends-Walter Herrold, an ac-
tor. and John Risca. journalist. Her
name is Stella Blount, but she was called
Stella Maris on one occasion by Herrold,
and ever afterward she was known by 1t.
Upon her associates she bestowed nick
names. Her uncle and aunt were His
Great High Excellency and Her Most
Exquisite Auntship. her nurse was Her
Serene High and Mightiness, Risca and
Herrold were. respectively, His Great
High Belovedest and His Great High
Favorite. and there was also a canine
a Great Dane, who was known
as the Lord High Constable.
1t is beyond the bounds of all romantic
reason that so beautifuI a heroine should |
remain bedridden through the entire |
length of a novel. When it is about half |
over she miraculously RECEIVERS, anG. still |
innocent and ignorant of the world and
It's ways takes her place among the |
social -haunts Of men and women She I
comes to know that love has more than |
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