The San Francisco call., 1913-08-25
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family, the two older ones exhibit very
disagreeable characteristics, being
stolid, shiftless and lazy. 1t is to her
younger brother that Alexandra turns
for sympathy and understanding. Left
at Il as the head of her family, Alex
andra reaches the forties before she
marries her childhood playmate.
IA young Bohemian girl lovab1e,
beautiful, entertaining and versatile,
shares the honors with Alexandra. OPP
posite in every way. she, too. has a lot
to put up with in this vast monotonous
fight for existence.
The book is pulsating with things
that are. It's author, Miss Gather,
makes her characters real and natural.
so that the reader feels as If the book
were of personal knowledge rather
than y product of the Imagination. In
the same bold way that the pioneers
plodded through joy and sorrow, Miss
Gather depicts with impartiality the
ups and downs of life, its happiness
and tragedies. Her tragedies are not
sordid, but are told with simplicity
and compelling truthfulness. Art
and realism are finely interviewer.
with so many stories dealing with
sex problems. crime, etc, 1t Is refresh
ing to be waited to the Nebraska prai-
RES before agricultural development
and live through the progress of the
Scandinavian and Bohemian frontiers
man.
fHoughton- -Mif1in company; 1926
metz
THE LADY AND THE PIRATE
In very warm weather It's too much
of an effort to read anything but the
l'ghtest kind of fiction. and THE Lady
and the Pirate Emerson Hough's
latest output, is surely meant for the
silly season. Put the box down at
any place and on picking it up again
the hero is still following his lady fair
The author has very little sympathy
pirates, aged IL and IA, are the most
real. The hero. Henry Drake, a mill
lionaire bachelor, seeks youth, adven-
ture and love, having been surfeited
with too much wealth and lost his boy
hood He joins with his two small
friends. all three in the guise of pirates.
to enjoy life. Black Bart, the piraticaI
name of the hero, for he tells us con-
tnually what hero he is for fear we
loose sight of the fact, has had an un-
fortunate love affair In small boat
the three pirates pursue brakes sweet
heart, and abandoning her supposed
lover on shore, steam off with their
unwilling captives, the girl and her
aunt. The atmosphere of the abduc-
tion and hiding along the Mississippi
river is most preposterous. Among
the unreal situations is a shipwreck
which one feels is slapped in to cover
space. Mr. Hough has fallen far be-
low his other books in this burlesque.
Chapters ramble on which could be COW
cred In few words. Piratical Lam
suage Is carelessly flung around. max
ing the atmosphere ridiculous. and we
feel desire to make Black Bart pop
the question and end our agony
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