The Washington herald., 1913-09-21

the young American is caught UP in
an amazing adventure while he res
cues Mary Carruthers from a Turkish
\ harem. 1t is reverse in the Koran
that sets them all a-going. For under
| the Turkish law Jack is impressed to
act as proxy husband, so that the
girls seventy-year-old Turkish hus-
band, Ahmed the r h jeweler, may re-
! marry her after immediate divorce.
Returning from Mecca on a wager, in
which his fortune is at stake, Stanton
falls in love with the girl he was un-
expectedly forced TO wed. He forgets
his fortune when she begs him not
to desert her for she doesn't want to
go back to old Ahmed. Stanton starts
to rescue her.
Only Isham could have invented such
plot, and only such a master could
| unrsvel IL. leaving not a. dervish and
an houri-but a dashing young Ameri-
can, who has saved a beautiful Eng
lish girl That such a story can be
told without once crossing the boun-
daries of possibility makes Il a mas
terpiece of adventure.
THE WAY or AMBITION: By Robert Hichens
| New YOrk-Fredsrick A. Stokes Company.
This new novel by Mr.. Hichens differs
J from most of his other works by its nor
NAL tone It does not deal with some
conflict between love and duty, some
| breach of conventional morality, or some
| ingenious problem of sex. It tells the
story of the way of ambition with ge-
MUS. The ambition is a young English
woman's; the genius is her husbands.
He is a composer, who shields her gift
from the world. a servant and master of
music, to whom popularity means moth
ing, to whom, indeed, IL would be un-
welcome. His is the music that hand
full OF people would worship the world
over, but which the great world never
will understand. This retiring young
man is led into marriage by young
woman, n member of an artistic set
much given to lion hunting, and she re-
solves that he, too, shall roar" The
genius is thus driven 10 writing an
opera, whose libretto is of the Carmen"
| type. An American impresario produces
| the opera in New York; the result is
failure: but in a deeper sense husband
and wife find each other, and his true
career begins.
1t is the treatment more than the story
itself. that creates the unflagging inter-
est in the book. Mr.. Hichens sketches
his characters firmly; he has a knack
| of social effects; he is as picturesque as
ever-everywhere Indeed, the operate
! history in the book is a novel in itself.
The struggle for the possession of the
libretto, the jealousies and intrigues. the
complications. all is told with steadily in
creas sing interest
BECAUSE OF JANE. by J. z Buckrose New
York: George Doran Company.
Jane, aged six, is in full charge of the
development of this delightfully."- live story,
which creates smiles and tears. but ends
with a smile. Little Jane, who has been
asking God for years and years" and
who came to think that ii was time to
say thank you" 1t is because OF Jane,
to keep End House, the beautiful nome
which Jane loves-that "Auntie Beatrice"
decides to live with the chid's mother
"Emmaline" the estimable daughter OF
the estimable RusseIs. 1t is still Be
cause of Jane" that the happiness
snatched from those dearest r the child
is given back
The setting of the novel is a little Eng
I.lish town, "Marshfield of whose analy-
sis, social and ethical, this writer has
proved herself master before. Its petty
jealousIes. petty ambitions. petty tri-
umphs, and failures, are told with a