The sun., 1915-03-06

Though the war in Europe is
brought IN from the side that the war
correspondents have left alone 80 far
the nghung on the Polish border
Will Lexington Comforts Red Fleece"
Doubleday. Page and Company Is in
substance a tale II Russian revolu
tonists, continuation Of the epic OF
,1c ploughman Of Liaoyang, which
broke of short in previous novel
The revolutionaries are intellectuals.
, poet, a singer. the newspaper man
of the earlier tale, an anarchists =
daughter. they serve in the hospitals
and persuade the men not to kill.
The praise of the Shv peasant IL
continued: his dulness is admitted
but his virtues are shown also. and
throughout the author mourns the
vlckedness of making men kill each
other. There are hideous war scenes.
plenty of brutality on the part II
officers and of savage repression by
officials. The chief concern. however.
IS for the awakening of AN American
war correspondents soul to its duty
IN the common man. The reader will
he Interested in the love affair and in
several of the characters. especially
II he has a taste for Russian fiction;
he will feel horror at war, AT the spy
system and at the oppression Of the
common man Perhaps he may SYM
pathiZe with the authors vague crav-
lngs for indefinite socialism.
With bold d sregard for probabilities
fo lxst Ia.
pins yarn II smugglers in the
Romney marsh when England was
lighting Bonaparto in DR. Syn
Doubleday, Page and Company. The
Dymchurch people in their lawlcss-
ness seem to have secuted at all
thoughts of caution and tn have had
poor opinion OF the ability of the
Kings men. which can hardly be ac-
counted for by the fact that their
parson was disguised pirate. The
author seems t. care more for pic
turosuue details and dramatic scenes
han for a story that shall hang
together. His small boy with the am
htion to be n hangman IL amusing <
and carries the story along for while.
With his smartress, however, and his
wandcrings in the marsh and with
u whole village banded together in a
'ommon pursuit, ii seems strange that
10 should he the only one who does
10, know what is going on. Later an
adveuiurous young woman is the oc-
casion for some artificial society fun.
]! the construction is careless the
workmanship is good and the story
5 entertaining.
Plain adventure. likewise regardless
of probability. is what II. c. Bailey
.'rves for n The Gentleman Ad-
yenturcr" (Methuen and Company,
George VI. Doran Company. His
hero IS named Peter and is therefore
amiab,c. he is kidnapped, sold for
2 slave n 2 Jamaica planter tortured
ly his demon daughter and drawn
.nto mutlny and piracy. He scours
the West Indian waters first as an
nnderling and then as chief. and
captures the stronghold OF a diabol-
iral lord Of pirates with all the vices
" Roman Of the decadence. The
rad people in the tale are very bad
indeed, Peter hurries from one scrape
.nto another with the haste and in
congru!ty Of a moving picture hero
II may not be the most elevated form
u fiction, hut it certainly provides
ample excitement.
A popular author in search OF a
plot and rich soc. ETY. young woman
WITH exalted IDEAS of making her own
way IN the world come together as
shoo teachers under assumed
names in Pennsylvania Dutch town
IN Helen X. Martins Martha Of the
Mennonite Country" doubleday. Page
and Company. She leads the simple
l'e al the village tavern. having a
able to herself with dainty fiXings
ordering dollhouse flowers from the
W wearing costly furs and spending
her week ends in Philadelphia, she
aso praises the authors books &c
lin but dcspises him for the lack OF
ambition which keeps him in a coun-
try school IN spite OF his evident edu'
cation and breeding. He IS puzzled
by her ana has doubts as 10 her re-
'pectabIlity, though he has all his owr
comforts in his room. but he devote'
most Of his time to watching the ma
lives His landlady is an amazingly
mean and selfish person, who abuses
hsr meek stepdaughter and speaks
very amusing dialect. The girls ex'
''sslve patience, simplicity and good
ness work on the worldly author, who
hnally marrles her, while the othel
school teacher finds her mate In hi
equally popular illustrator. The plot II
ahsufdly Ingenious, as is the handling
o' the Characters. hut there is mucf
hlm'r and shrewdness in Miss Mar
ms rnmtr>s and observation, and th'
SNlr'Cl portrait of the modern youni
woman re'"rmcr : very clever. With
its crut tic. the story is ENJOYABLE
IN Ann" Warwicks "Thc Chall
Line John Lane Company 4
N0Wa1 who Is bored hy her husban nt