The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-07

got into her swing and her account Of
the NileS of two of the girls To capture
| the prize and of the others self sacrifice
is very readable II Is a sordid tale with
a low estimate of humanity that il not
redeemed by the one fairly decent char
aCter in it,
| For once G. y. and A. NJ. Williamson
| abandon the automobile in their descrip-
ton OF foreign parts in "a Soldier of the
! Legion doubleday, Page and Com
| pany). The result is melodrama of a
not very elevated kind The scene is
the desert end of Algeria and the hero
| is an American officer who by an In
/ tricatc but rather Clumsny cuntrived
| artiiice Is made TO enlist i'm tho FOREIGN
Legion. He has met on the way a
{ lovely but extremely impulsive YOUNG
woman and manages TO escort her
| through dangerous places. She succeeds
in getting into extraordinary messes in
an Arab household and with a repre-
hensibe explorer. but the hero watches
over her conducts her through the
| desert and OF course marries her The
authors tag on a paragraph that sends
him into the present war. The story is
exciting enough. but we think the
authors have done better with their
motor car and guide book romances
| The same unfortunate Foreign Legion
has attracted l. a. Il. Wylie with THE
Red Mirage" CThe Bobbs- Merrill Com
/ pany lndianapois), which Is likewise
melodramatiC. The author harps on the
brutality Of the training and the dis
reputable character of the cosmopolitan
legionaries The hero is "A British officer
who sacrifices his reputation to help a
I 4,
I him He enlists IN the legion. in the
regiment of which his unknown father
is Colonel There no meets with harsh
treatment and much trouble, chiefly on
account of the woman and her unworthy
French husband. He IA helped out at
! critical moments ny another woman, an
English girl with a past. who watches
over him. There Is a very effective
fight with Arabs. complicated by a sand
storm and mutny. in which the hero
| shines and is in consequence condemned
to death by his father. lie gets out OF
that scrape too with credit and every
thing comes right. though the author
deals death around as literally as at
the end of Hamlet It is an exciting.
melodramatic tale that sticks TO the
| legion for it's theme
An antiquarian. unduly sensitive 10
unpleasant sensations, Is impressed with
! the feeling that something IN wrong
Whlle visiting n country family in
Marion Fox's Apes Face" (John Lane
Company. That Is the ungallant
epthet applied by her brother TO a
young woman with tho peculiar features
that characterized the early Britons
me antiquarian, who is on a literary
"rrand, hears Of several fights between
brothers In the family at various periods
IN the past; he hears strange sounds
IN the storms on the downs. smells aleer
smells. and is told repeatedly by the
Young woman that she expects trouble.
by that time both he and the reader
are impressed by feeling OF terror. II
is relief, therefore, when the outcome
Is merely "A fight between the two sons
OF the family over a flirtatious female
artist and an attempt 10 throttle fine
master of the house by his psraIvzed
slster-in-law. The reader may ask him
self what the nightmare means.
The strange adventures Of a spr,zhtlv
young woman reporter are recoilnted nv
Kate Trimble Sharber In "AnazIng
Grace" CThe Bobbs- Merrill ComnanvS
She IL charming, OF course, and bcIona ,s
to an old family in tho Southern town
where she ives. but has always resented
me attempts to make her live up to
nor ancestors. She has Inherited the
loNe letters OF once famous novelist
to an equally famous artist ancestor
ana is tempted To publish them. but
rrtralns' hoping to burn them some dav
III the English mansion where they were
written. she Interviews for her neUs-
( paper steel magnate. who has turned
un"r al! reporters. He falls in love
win her' nut goes off angry because she
~ engaged and also because her in
lerNieW Is printed. Then her newspaper
sends her to England. where she hunts
up the mansion, finds her Inaenate in
| it IN possession Of the other half Of tbe
correspondence, and they fall into each