The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-14

i've, who lands In Victor Huso's sewers
The author splashes more or less !ncor.
rect history around recklessly. He has
written a fairly exciting tale of its sort.
but 1t is far below some work that he
has done
The old time historical romance with
all Its faults IL revived by J. e. Snatth
In Anne Feversham" tApplctons). The
fair daughter of a noble prison keeper
fees with youth condemned 10 death
for treason to Queen Elizabeth. her
KIND father had horsewhipped her for
disobedience. She wears leather riding
breeches because she IL fated after yari-
Gus adventures Of open air lie to meet
w Shakespeare and his company of
players and to act tho part " Rosulind
before the Queen. Then tho Queen and
the poet havo hot argument over the
case until she makes up her mind 20
pardon everybody. II tho reader can
forgive Mr.. Snaith's treatment of
Shakespeare and Of tho Virgin Queen
he may enjoy his story.
A Boer young woman with much
sense In tho heroine OF F. T.. Mills
foungs Valley Of Thousand Hills'
lJohn Lane Company. She seems 70
nave her own way pretty decidedly, so
! that II Is difficult to understand why
she does not send her unworthy sutton
| about his business when she dissolve re
| mat she does not care for him, He Is
gradually supplanted in her affections
| by another man, Of whose worthIness
We are assured by the author and whose
behavior 10 the heroine is unexception-
able We have the South African land
scape, We have good deal of the vice
| that Englishmen like 10 bestow on their
coIonials. including a tendency to as
sassinate people who are in the way.
nut otherwise the tale is mild enough
| to NJ In an English setting.
\ young Southerner studying FOR tina
| priesthood gives up his vocation to helm
his family in Esther w. Neilrs THE
Red Ascent n'. J. Kennedy and Sons
New York;. His father and sister are
hard to deal with and he IL impractical
enough TO let his pride stand in the way
or securing the aid he needs. He does
what he can, however. and liz stinulate ed
py young woman toward whom he
feels attracted. The family comes into
money IN a rather surprising manner
no discovers that his attraction il no,
love and after an act Of heroism IL glad
10 Follow hls call. The young woman
ana the seminarist's level headed friend
ere entertaining and brighten the story.
In THE House OF Deceit" (Henry Holt
ana Company the anonymous author
mas drawn an unfiattering portrait OF
: radical labor agitator. He has I'M
pounded confidence In himself. unlim-
ited impudence and a glib tongue. IT,
: Is constantly talking and writing abou,
work without doing any himself: in
tent on himself only. His politics
career and hls success In life are adj.
vanced at an absurd rate; he is always
: an orator and always violent. The
author takes the opportunity TO show
the utility of the political profession,
about helping the poor, he attacks tn,
, Intolerance OF the disse nters and dis
e cusses Catholicism. He has even NOR,
to say about religion than about poll
ties. He shows up HE hero as a hum
bug in every way and he seems to ven
, his spleen on several real persons 1,
j his asides.
j. Vigorous sketches OF life among Nh
y Tennessee mountaineers are the r..
deeminS feature In Edith STOW,
Nancy the Joyous" (The Reilly an,
Britton Company, Chicago. The hero
ines conduct is eccentric. the reade
!, must accept the authors word for he
" admirable qualities; she seems to drif
=, with the current. The story reads n
- II the author had collected the materia
u for her tale and had not worked II III
Tie first successful story by Gen
Il Stratton-Porter, Frecltles." il issue
: in gorgeous new edition on tinted pa
q per- with illustrations by Thomas E'o
IT garty doubleday, Page and Company
d The artist has been far more success
d full with the charming headpeces I