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been born anew. Love 10 aef was
nothing. she had gained the power "
the true artist, always hers. but atrc-
phied, as il were. for the tine by the
influence of feminine. purely sexual
alteration.
Bonner, author Of Rich Mems Children
etc, with illustrations ny Arthur Will
fam Brown. The BoDbs- Merrill Com
pany. indianapolis. IND
Hall Gaines Last Noses.
The Woman Thou Gavest Me- =
a book for the multitude. Its author
has eciipsed himself as a writer who
appeals to the crowd IN thu market
place. His methocs are well known
Melodrama is his reliance. exploited
with such an abundance of nsawkiea
sentiment that il cannot fail to at
tract the populace for whom il e
written. Mock heroics and sent-
mental, hysterical religion are his
hand-maidens and his audaeleHs skill
in their use Is justified BY the sue
cess he has won with them. These
agents may fail in real life: they
rarely do in romance, or fiction. %
On the stage. Women VIII wear
feathers torn from the living bird.
leaving its breast bare and bleeding.
they will wear the pelt Of ereatrre
just born, or even still an embryo
wrested from 1t while il breathes. and
never experience 4 pangs men will
shoot pigeons for hours while barrels
of half-dead bleeding creatures stand
at their elbow, but neither .he wom-
an nor the man can restrain tears.
real tears, as some moving. nleio-
dramatic story. as unlike actual life
as possible. is unfolded behind the
footlights or in the pages of a novel.
None knows this better than Hall
Game.
In THE Woman Thou Gavest NE"
the very title suggests a melodrama
the author has taken as his heroine
girl who is welded to q wicked
peer by the will of her father. though
she has long secretly loved a young
Arctic explorer. Mary O'Eeill Is q
Catholic and does not believe IN dir
vorce. In her mind she conceives a
plan of escape for herself. On her
wedding night she persuades her hus-
band to leave her until she shall con-
sent to allow him to approach her.
The wicked peer-it would seem that
he must have had generous strain
in him-after conserving to his brides
desire. quite naturally consoles him
self with a lovely girl. one Alma lier+
Her he brings to his home, Castie
Raa, and abandons himself to orgies
such as those chronicled long ago Of
Medmenham Abbey.
Indeed, Lord Raa's friends ilu-
proved upon the devices of the der
bauched coterie of the notorious abr
hey. At their freak" dinners, as they
called them, the company al Castie
Raa exchanged their places sex
ually The men sat at table attired
| in women's clothes, the women IN
mems garments. The male voice was
changed to initiate the voluptuous
| treble tones of the female and the
women adopted a masculine timbre.
as far as they could. 1t is not stated
| in history or the classics even by
Lucian or Aristenaetus. that the an-
4 clients knew of this pleasant renue-
ment of luxury or were so far ao~
vanced in a degenerate taste
/ Still further to add to the bizarre
tone of these dinners. the guests
| when surfeited with food. used It to
/ lombard rhe painted effigies OF LORD
Raa's ancestors on the walls. The
| coveted targets of the bomharoiers
were the noses of the portraits and
when these were plentifully besprin-
killed. screams of laughter rang through
the great dining hall of the castle
Such were the refined banauets OF
Hall Gaines creation and his
| friends
| M ---~-A%~
by her own choice, sat alone In the
castle until Martin Conrad polar ex-'
| plorer and her youthful lover, APP
nears tlpon the scene. Then, at once.
| her passion scarcely admitted be-
| fore to herself, becomes an intense.
| devouring flame. such fire OF love as
! the women of the causual, everyday
tread mill of existence not only never
experience, but such as they canno-
| even imagine.
Lord Raa. wicked, but not blind.
soon becomes aware of his brides
obsession and takes pains with the
! aid of his mistress, to throw the
lovers together, leaving them alone
| in the castle upon any p-etext
At last they understand, the
fame leaps up, nature holds sway
and Mary turns. her nair aoWn, neI
beautiful arms bare, her breast as
| open as it had been in the balcony
and she walks with a strong step
| across the corridor into Martin
room. At the next moment strong
arms were around hers there need
to say any more2
Some months later Martin goes
away on another exploring expedition
| to the South Pole and Mary Is LEFT.
| soon to become a mother She tells
her husband. fees in the night with
only a few pounds in her pocket and
| lands in London. friendless and alone.
This is Hall Gaines story. The sur
fering of Mary eliminates after her
| child is born. IL falls i'll. She sees
no way to provide physician or medi-
cine for it unless she descends into
the streets of city where she can
be one with $4,000 women in one
smile, who only smile at night be-
meath the gas"
/ She is Just on the point OF speak king
to an elderly gentleman, when in the
| glow of the light in Piccadiily Circus
she sees Martin hurrying out OF the
tube. There is bliss for time and
then Mary dies.
1.-THE Woman Thou Gavest Me BY
| Hall Game. Heinemann. London, 1913
| Literary Notes.
Albert Bigelow Paine. author Of
| MARK Twain-A Biography" has
sailed for a winter in Europe. He
has taken his car with him. and ex-
poets TO motor through France and
Switzerland. gathering material for a
series of articles to appear later in
weil-known periodical. Mr.. Paine has
told how during a former trip abroad
which resulted in his book The Ship
Dwellers," he followed closely in the
\ footsteps of Mark Twain and the In
nocents Abroad
"The Iron Trail" a new novel by
Rex Beach, is published by the Har-
pers. The author of The Barrier"
and 'srhe Spoilers has returned TO
Alaska for his background and In
SEPARATION. The opening up Of the
country by railroads--the iron trail
is the theme, a gigantic struggle
against natural obstacles and the OPP
position of business rivals. The Irish
! Prince" engineer and f1naucier is sur