New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-20
ANGELA's BUSINESS.

LsL W.. yryT-s.t.r, Ply Frederic X Cruiser lemo.
~ IS Ths uush,yn Mifin COMPANY
u. have already learned to receive
x,,b confident sntieipatory pleasure the
announcement Of new novel by Mr..
a.r-,son. Ii Is no small achievement
q, writer the count Of whose books
,Sp, far is only two. lie, AT least. re-
cats his work, and fingers over It
IN true artists pleasure; the lure
- rspid production ana its gains has
:. attraction fer him He is resolved
- Give US bis best, and only that:
vbsrsfo.e la this age Of evanescen:
. .nnplsrites we remember his name.
I, has come % stand for humor. the
i,s.b outlook upon life Of youth, an
q. ,rstely American atmosphere, and
api;al Workmanship. All these we find
80 new novel. "Angela's Business"
"a b. published next week.
Ths boos Is, indeed, the best Of the
.hrss Mr Harrison has written thus far
Il msrks far step forward in his art
Yof one thing. lie has abandoned that
..,pmptior Of worldly wisdom which.
specially in "V VS. Eyes amused his
.isrs He has chosen here 10 be a
rovth among young people. to take to-
S,y and lie Grt,cipations Of tomorrow
tOi his province. and to leave to. yes
,rdsy the experience Of the elders,
xhieh. after ell. iilumlnes the road they
Isys already traversed rather than the
path before the juniors who are 10
succeed them.
Nr Harrison here takes youth with
pipeh Of huuor. which is. after all,
ks first evidence OF approaching ma
.urity. Here is the new generation
.noeking g. the door with whole IL
brsry Of modern theories, chiefly fem
ninistic. His hero is Z young novelist
lsmphatica IS unpublished as yeti who
,pse;sl-es 30 the New Woman. He has
progressed far beyond the Frehchman's
rsvpoiat Charles Carrot viewed
Woman never as La Femme. hut eXclu-
ryelv as Is Question. Himself the New
Nan. obviously. be saw Woman solely
ga Movement, meditated about her
t.rie,ly as a- Unrest. His eye reviewed
sad criticised her, not as Sex, but
szs,ly g. a human being against an
environment" In short, Charles Gar
ro,t fattsrtt himself that, as purely
elective student Of Woman, he had
a,hered con derabie knowledge And
hen came Angela, the antithesls OF
Nsry. who was assistant principal OF
he High school and the prospective
Nere.ary Of the National League for
Eiucauora Reform, as competent a
No5err Woman a- ever shaped her own
aresr and wed her own life. She was
20 modern that she ~teutatlously took
u Miss Tra.lraa. VINO had gone away
% live rer own life with married
Esn, and who lad returned home to
Nnilnue % i've alone An lmprudent
ing for an educator Of American
EVth 70 DO. as the novelist limited 10
Nary IN fact. be often was cOnserva-
TIE anon. radicals, if habi-Ially a
uoicsl smoH- conservatives.
What was Mays business The
additional. conventional, primitive one
q Making a Home for her parents
ior the present. 90 she said, for some
nan Of De. oHu 20 the future. She, our
!ouag novelist judged at once, was OF
as shrinking -ype that sits at home
ysi;ng 10 De chosen But Mary opened
bis eye !. her he saw the Life Force
{; vors, mo-. bodily, a. in Shaw's Man
and Surermar.' but gently, cllnglngly'
.Fomaliy, hunting without appearing
to hum, PEI st.ut. purposetul in a
'5emrg.y helpless, passive way. ne
lssrly became her victim.
Readers Of 'Queed' viii remember
tAs great pleasure dog Behemoth; they
vii be even more interested in the
Rome Making Fordette,' the little
rErabout iu which Angela set about
Ter srduous business Of making her
ssn market. az the saying goes. The
little car pursued the young novelist
vherever he went, IL overlook HIM IN
tie highway and byways Of the CITY.
All u carried other men by the SIDE OF
ne demurc little huntress OF home
bat she was G no way trained 70
'issp. II IS delicious comedy with
'srious, a very serious, deeper mean
10
As for Mary. the competent, the self
reliant she, cuuously enough, led the
ssvildtred young man in the opposite
treetlOn-tiom the inGIrecuon, the
'enplexi.y OF The simple, old-fashloned
~ TO the underlying simple teml-
slnity Of the complex New Woman. IN
~ closing pages Mary rather loses
Ter interest for us; Mr. Harrison Is
20 losth 70 part with her, he fingers
100 long over his closing scene, after
Angela has settled her own romantic
saslnsss with staggering, selfish mat
'a-ei-fsctncs. A. for the young
iselst, IN the course Of this liberal
.dDeston Of his he retrogresses to La
Femme, again leaves her far behind
I'M, and 1 the end finds himself with
hi more experience, but, one thinks
NFh little more knowledge Of Woman
Hsn before
A delightful book, as thoroughly en-
l:so.e q, IT, two predecessors, as fun
dhsmsn Nndi.ucss As they, but OF far
ssssspei under landing Of the prelude to
'Ms. No space BIS left TO refer 70 the
many minor characters who play their
ssrs 80 crtertaiHugly and purpose
i9iy in this tory with which Mr. Har-
,lsoh, notw.iD landing the regrettabie
aunp OF its closing pages, may De SAID
"bsye arrived once for all.