The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-18


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war intehoeo Tor the RUSSIANS "hieh
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knoWledgc oi the oHecrs' as pork ana
pianos. The passengers are two hirta-
tious hospital nurses on vacation, a
purlo'ning- Mals! couple, confidence
man, with an attendant train Of Philip
pine conspirators who intend to seize the
ship, and the owner. methodical but
unnautical business man who interferes
With the running OF his vessel. Every
| one, including tho officers, has some
Illicit scheme to carry out. and the con-
| fusion that comes OF IL In ca pital farce.
| There 10 something likab,e about all the
men, but the author seems to have a
grudge against his two young women.
! An ecstatic little French mother tells
the story Of her baby and Of the people
he makes happy in zone Year of P,,r-
rot" co. =. Putnam's Sons), The char.
ac,er of the patien,. loving peasant girl
! IL shown with wonderful symnathy and
no such detailed ana elaborate uescrlp-
ton Of the charms OF a younr infant
has ever been written, we venture 10
SAY. IL Is broken by some delightful
and poetic cp,sodee and enliyenpJ with
and an eccentric American. but uniess
the reader is In full sympathy with the
mother he may find a full volume O.
laudntion monotonous. II he has en-.
loved the baby he will re on, hin taking
off. as barberous az Herod's massacre
for the story il pathetic enough with
out Il and tho author had already found
a hitting termination Tho Yale shout
is discordant and dangerous for care.
fully as the story ~ written il IL artj-
ficial and II would be easy to make fun
OF IT,
A remarkably sordlt view OF English
provincial, life IL presented hv Mary T..
Mann In Mrs. Days Daughters" ,IIod.
! der and Stoughton: George IL Dorm
: Company). save in the case Of the long
suffering heroine se!ilshnoss and alsron-
tent are the characteristics of all die
persons who figure In the tale, and the
J simple Incidents which in most stories
and Ia life have cheerful side are
made depressing and repu,sivc. The
one person who shows human aelina
and Kindness ~ turned into a lunatio.
The author takes the conv.n .iunal plot
OF most English novels and paints It
black for n change
1t Is 40 tale of Fontcnoy that Ran-
. DAN Parrish tell, in Shea OF the Irish
! Brigade" "A. C. McClurg and Company
: Chicago. but a nightmare ot scurryins
through "A mysterious cas,l. fun Of fam
tastiC brigands. The expectations OF the
beginning are not FULFILLED
4 pretty German short story by Colt
+ fried Keller that has long served to in
> troduco American youth to the intricn
! cies of Language that will lose that form
2 -. usefulness through the appearance
y Of IA good translation ny a. e. Bahlmanu
. Of "A Village Romto ana Jdi.et
A Charles Scribners sons. Mrs. Edith
. Wharton write. an introduction In
t which she gives An account OF IN,
= author, whose books apparently mus
p now bo read over again IN the light a.
q Nietzsche's philosophy.
a. a