Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-27

semi plilosoPlLc form, NJ. Harrison
works out with rare charm and deli.
caey in his picture Of Or. Wyian's liz.
nuence upon Carlisle.
"Justaa word thf1 OF the plot for
these Of you wEo wno have not read
the book. T}r. Y EiTiap is a Stun
physician w!l;1 a steI4er inheritance,
VINO lives, III a tenement ana brothers
everybody. He forgats his fees. sends
no bills, gives 70 tramps his best
clothes, puts mis- modest fortune into
a settlement house, identifies himself
with the toileTs and champions their
cause to the extent OF exposing in the
press the murdsrous conditions 10 the
tobacco works of Heth, a newly rich
magnate. Heth has daughter. Car
Isle, a Tare beauty with a mother
bound to marry her off to a multi
millionaire, Hugo Canning. The girl.
eager for her mothers game allows
cowardly falsehood to be fastened
upon Jack Delhousie, one CT her dis
earded summer lovers. It is about to
get into print and ruin the Lad. Vivian
has been trying to save the boy from
drink hears the story, tries to get
Carlisle to deny II by giving cor
rect version. 70 save her face with
Canning, she refuses and the boy is
sacrificed. Then begins a battle be,
tween Eugo Canning on the. one side
u win Carlisle as his wife, which
means the, drowning Of her soul in
tne whirlpool of the idle rich. and DR..
Vivian on the other to stir her snir-
itual nature. Hugo succeeds at first
and. Carlisle becomes HIS Hance, but
the suicide OF Jack Delhousie hefps
the doctor, who finally wins oct. falls
In love with her. himself, finds his af-
lection returned and Just as hfs plans
for factory reform are about to bear
fruit. is himself killed by the giving
away Of a rotten floor in the Heth
works. This bare recital does no JUS
tiee TO the dramatic power of the au-
thor. Though as literature the book
is distinctly mediocre and occasion.
ally sloVenly In style, it grips one
nightly because Mr.. Harrison knows
how to picture the life of the soul aud
gets down TO the fundamentals in the
realm OF human personality. While
/ he outlines with some skill several
minor characters, he gives ali his en-
ergy to his two leading figures, DR..
Vivian and Carlisle Heth. The book
may well be called the winning of a
personality, for the man never for a
moment sought this end. Her love
went to him uHasked, his was hers
spontaneously-an entirely ideal stu
alton with no Wpoing on either side.
What Vivian wanted was to lead her
to her largest self, to win her to CT
ordinated, united personality. He
succeeded. After such success mar
rage is but an incident: an ideal in
cite1t grant yop. I'll. 81 W. bur
death also is but an incideht, for the
eternal consnmm atfoa for the Two has
been reached Hence Yivians death
Us of the very genus OF drama.
Pen Sketches Of the. Eyes
Bach then 10 the theIae of the
book the winning az a personality,
How was IT. done?
By eve, RcwsT--s VS. eyes. The
Echosce CT this title gRs not wheily
dictated by the demands CT the sales
counter: The, eye is the portal OF the
Isopl, &c back n your New Tesla
ment and trace the story Of the eye
| cf Jesus sternness, infinite COM
hassion. sorrow CT s6ul, power to fell
foes to the ground, Gods inexhaustt-
ible forgiveness, winsomeness that won
the children to MS arms, and anfath-
enable lcve-al this and more are
told of the eyes of t1s Galilean. Car
penter Vivian was unconscious OF the
language OF his eyes Fer the eye
speaks best the message Of the sub
conscious self He is lucid about the
gaze, somewhat tTBstful in his lock,
odd looking in some elusive way
about the eyes. ,aesubtle, enVeloping
! visit tIIaess,' his eyaa filed with 2
sudden compassion. a quality Of
youthful hcpefGlIess; making her
angry and huHhappy.f "a shining look,
like some eonfding child,--theseN are
few CT the suggestive pen sketches
of Yivian's eyes.-The man. was a
truth teller in his words but the real
meaning CT his soul passed out the
eye gate. (. ~.
If the object Of this man with this
woman had been anything lower than
his own pure, lofty, unselfish. appeal
10 the godlike in her the authors
splendid unfolding Of eye. power wculd
have beent impossible No eye can
convey the degradation OF the soul as
we'll, as its transhguTatiCn but the
doing CT it curses this instrument
meant for divine use. Y, VS. eyes
were employed cay in o Christ e.
rand. hence TIE ! Significance and
beauty CT the title 10 one who has
read the beck.
The man Vas absorbed II bringing
The soul CT this woman into harmony
At the close CT his frs interview with
her Vivian s8ru, = 70 htU9c.f, i heT
hearing. All that beautT without. AMI
netting 81 FL T'.tt.-C. So Lo-e-y &c ne
eye, and emmy where t2a Le--t shcvld
he. Cod pity CT. coo7 lille thing
The heartless1ess e Eer treatment Of
Dalhcus,e won ION Vivian these
words. yer lhe 15xr moment. when
his suhcc-2c ic&212ss Jhat found ex-
preston = - t-r-t'-! .c1E 9 hisevo,