The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-22

! notion that June 20 is midsummer we
have been unable to make out.
For some reason Ralph ID. Paine is
dspleased with the treatment OF the
privates in the marine corps by the
commissioned officers In THE Wall
Between" Charles Scribners Sons) he
emphasizes the evils of caste by con-
trasting an exceptionally efficient nom
commissioned officer with an unusually
blackguardly Lieutenant. We infer
that he objects also to caste in the navy.
While all readers will agree with his
high praise of our marines and will he
ready to believe that there Is some
ground for his complaints they may
find difficulty In understanding how
discipline can be maintained In any
body of men when rank Is disregarded
or in approaching the democratic free
dom Of the hero when out OF uniform
The love affair must recall the similar
predicament on board H. NJ. g. Pinafore.
The sample OF marine work in Near
aqua is at the same time an indictment
of mismanagement at Washington.
The story OF the Bonaparte-Pa Patterson
marriage and OF the wife's efforts to
obtain recognition from Napoleon is
told jauntily by John Talbot Smith In
Inc bldCk 1dTulndl 7 Inc ,HdUlpldlIl
Press New York; and interviewer with
| the intrigues against the Pope and the
| III treatment OF Cardinal Consalvi The
author manages to detach sympathy
from every character he introduces into
his narrative and his diplomatic and
court intrigues are so involved that the
reader can make nothing out Of them.
His people seem TO be as childish as they
b a 1ualrinrr in N n honor
Though the author insists emphati-
cally that his book is a novel Don
Diego" by Albert r. Reagan CThe Alice
Hartman Company, New York;, il a
description OF the ceremonies. customs.
myths and life OF the Pueblo Indians
and an account Of their subjugation by
the Spanish authorities in the seven
tenth century, illustrated with pic
lures, many in color. of archaeological
remains. What story there is halts
while the author describes in every de-
tail what was done and why II was
done. incidentally he gives his impress
sion OF what an Indian woman may
have suffered in times OF warfare. 1t
is a learned and interesting book. from
both the photographic and historical
sides. but as far removed from a novel
as may he.
There is provokingly good work In
Great Is Discipline" by o. c. Ironsides
tE. J. and J. Henryson. Halifax. Eng
land). In the description OF character
and in domestic scenes. which will make
the reader regret the business side OF
the hook. This IL to depict industrial
conditions in England from the side that
Is opposed 10 labor agitation. One in
dustry is selected, that of dyeing: 1t is
described with the preciseness Of a trade
manual and there are frequent economic
and political digressions. The account
Of the differences between the en-
ployers and the workmen is partisan,
but not unfair Toward the end the
authors Imagination works out an
actual war between the organized en-
ployers and organized labor. which IL
graphic to say the least. He certainly
can tell a story II he chooses. and we
can only regret that in this instance he
has written instead a polemical pam
phet.
The revival OF the melodrama The
Silver King" by Henry Arthur Jones
and Henry Herman, is the occasion for
the publication of the plot, arranged in
the form of n story by Alfred Wilson
Barrett &c. w. Dillingham; Company.