The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-06

married and then the story begins to
spoil: the hcro's obtuseness IL In strik-
ing contrast with his former intuition.
He forces the masterful sister who has
ruled him on his young wife In season
and out, and himself becomes Jealous
Of her brother and her young friends.
At last she runs away from him. Her
return is rather absurdly theatrical.
but It makes a pretty ending. 1t Is a
pleasant and enjoyable story Of gentle
people. into which the author dags,
with no ostensible reason, the matter
of mental or Christian healing.
Though It Is difficult to make q spy
attractive and harder still to create
sympathy FOR one who IL decciving
both sides. George Gibbs succeeds In
doing so In "The Yellow Dove" Gap
pletons), n tale Of conflict between the
English and the German secret SER
vices. The young woman who UNDER
takes to spur her lover on to action
has a pretty lively week Of IL. She Is
chased In an automobile, has her room
entered bt burglars. Is kidnapped and
imprisoned in Germany. Is examined
by a brutal officer. plays hide and seek
on a mountain side. and finally has to
steer an aeroplane through the Ger
man lines TO the British headquarters
in Flanders, with her wounded lover
helpless by her side. There Is plenty
OF excitement, it will be seen, in this
tale, which is more of mystery than
a Nar story.
The last hold OF the cowboy is in
the moving picture shows and that
refuge is sought for his hero by WILL
lam Macleod Raine in steve Yeager"
tHoughton Mifflin Company. He runs
into "a real villain. however. among
the film people. and as they are sta
toned on the Mexican border there Is
room for much picturesque action
There is no call for rational behavior
so long as there are enough hair
breadth escapes. The brutal and the
smooth tongued MeXicans are up to
the traditional standard and tho SUI
p~eriority of the gringo to the greaser
il always manifest. The hero and
the heroine both rush into danger with
great lack of common sense. The ALL
thor has sketched various attractive
characters, but fails to make use Of
them, preferring tn hold to the es-
tablished tricks of melodrama.
once more IN THE Glorious Rascal"
John Lane Company Justin Huntly
Mccarthy calls in Francois Villon TO
assist him. lie holds closer 10 the ira
ditional story of the vagabond poet,
describing the adventures his biogra-
pliers attribute to him and adding
enough fiction of his WI to fill the
7 .Ta1rnrNa Fr, rt.A
him for English use Villon has been
put to as many uses almost as Robin
Hood. He serves to make Mr.. Nc
Carthy's story exciting and entertain
ing.
III THE Man from the Bitter Roots
81. +. Lippincott Company Caroline
Lockhart Is 50 carried away by her
scorn for her tenderfoot villain as to
spoil the story she has TO tell. She
describes Isolated episodes in the life
of her hero. The picture of the little
boy fleeing from the harshness or his
father Is vigorous; so Is the fight In
the shack. The chase after tho young
woman OF the picture and the struggle
for the stolen gold mine are interest
ing. il somewhat incohcrent, but the
itoA skO' 10 tidl " tHc dtttII1Dl IL
set up an electric plant In the wilder
ness. this involves much technical In
formation and is a disheartenlng &C.
count of incompetence and treachery
When the hero has failed the heroine
ONES to his rescue.
Why the murderous scoundrel. oi
whom the young woman who narrates
the story in Randall Parrish's Beyond
the Frontier CA. 4. mcclure anC
Company, Chicago) has SO much t
tell, abstains from ~subduing her and
killing the hero Is ineXplicab.e, except
that IN that case the story would bt
shorter, They Journey from Quebec
through the wilderness to the grea'
lakes and to Fort st. Louis, which Ii
Sale had recently established. 1t |,
a somewhat complicated tale Of civil
lied villainy which seems out Of pace
in a primitive society. The younl
woman rapidly gets over her unsophis
iicated IDEAS and is a match for thu
rather stupid villain, We are ief
in no doubt about the wickedness O
the men that opposed La Sale.
a dozen charming short stories b,
Dorothy Dounell Calhoun are con
tanned in Blue Bingham Folks 9TH,
Abingdon Press, New York;. The,
are Of New England village life. tale
of simple country people, several o
them the love stories of stranded spin
stcrs. The author tempers her senti
ment with plenty of humor.
!: In THE Gray Dawn" doubleday
Page and Company Stewart Edwar
White continues his description of tn
early days of San Francisco, with a.
account of the Vigilante troubles. Tha
oft repeated ale is exciting and pic
turesque enough in itself to interes
readers without any admixture Of fc
ton, The story the author has de
Vised Is not very attractive becaus
he experiments in the realism that
built on sordid motives and action.
which Californian writer's favor.
enables him, however. to make hi
suggestions characters take part /
the events that really happened whic
makes tho descriptions l~ivetier tina
they would be in a formal h~istorica
narrative.
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