The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-03

literary conventions are thrown
aside by Robert w. Service in the
Pretender" (Dodd, Mead and Com
pany), and the reader is led dance
that IA often amusing and more often
confusing. His hero IL an author. roll
ing in wealth through the production
Of ~best sellers" who decides to go to
Europe without money and tackle real
p,.ro,ure He is obsessed by the
phrases and the situations in the sto-
Pie, he has written and whenever ne
fee,e emotion doubts its genuineness
Oecause he has described it in fiction.
After q certain amount OF horseplay
In New York, in Naples and in Lon
don the amiable youth. meets
French watt. Q grIsette out OF Murger'
marries her and takes her to Paris.
Then Mr.. Service settles down 70 bust
ness and describes enthusiastically
many bits Of the Latin Quarter, be-
e,dce showing of his familiarity with
the streets Of Pars. The two struggle
with poverty till the young man be-
gins to write again under a new
pseudonym and once more produces
.best seller" The development OF the
love between the two is pretty and
IN handled delicately, notwithstand-
ing its absurdity; the reader will
resent the hoax perpetrated on MIN
toward the end. Mr.. Services recol-
lcctions OF Paris are pleasant II
corventionaliy bohemian; his story is
entertaining in spite of Its intentionai
ahsurdities and incoherencies, wnich
make one provoked with the delicacy
OF touch and Of humor that he shows
I'm the most unexpected places. he
has succeeded in writing a very I'M
usual story.
No greater contrast can be found
to this than in the eight short stories
included in Katherine Fullerton Ger
Guilds The Great Tradition" (Charles
ScrYbner's Sons). The author stands
I'm a class apart from the generality
of writer's OF fiction. She uses the
English that Vernon Lee writes. that
Mrs Wharton has written. that Mr..
lanes can write when he pleases. She
has the gift of analysis the artistic
sense of values and proportion. Yet
she employs her talent in exhibiting
her virtuosity in mental and mora
pathology, in defining shades OF emo
ton that are not likely to arise IN
any but neurotic temperaments, IN
dissecting mental processes that are
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