The sun., 1915-03-27
MANY THEMES
AND SCENES IN
LATEST FICTION
Conrad S Hero Who Believed in Negation Of Every
thing A Tale Of Two Dsreputable Vasabonds.
Mr.. Pocock Flouts Tradition Shorty McCabe
Again On the Job-A Lone Womans Feelings
A Beauty's Diary-Mr. Chamberss War Romance
Serious War Books From Many Viewpoints

, woman's feelings. AS a young gi.l
SHE is practically forced into marriage
with "A man for whom she does not
care. Her feelings and thoughts from
the moment the idea is first sug-
gested are described minutcly and the
reader will feel sorry for her. From
the consequences Of that marriage ahe
is delivered by an accident. She then
becomes the slave Of an invalid
relative. who il she devil. The
young men who should have helped
her out of her troubles keep away.
AS grown woman n. educated and level
headed she Is induced to go to a
summer resort by a physician. who
intends to fiirt with her He is selfish
and ambitious and makes her under
stand that he will not marry hor.
She falls In love with him rather
deliberately and let's him know Il.
He seems, perhaps. moro contemplate
than he really Is because the two dis
cuss the matter from their respective
sides with a candor that would hardly
do in real life. After a time. though
she knows his views. she is induced to
her gives her grounds for divorce
and hopes to marry money. She finds
! that she is TO have a child. but as sne
IL now aware of the mans baseness
her love for him is killed. She deter
mines that he shall not spoil the
child's future and so divorces him.
Some years after he meets her again.
discovers that he has IA son. tries
to get him even Mt the cost OF marry
ing her again. They argue the case
and she refuses. Her subsequent
| marriage to man she can love. but
who haa been unconscionably slow
| in finding out that he loves her. seems
to bc a concession to sentiment. The
| story is concerned solely with OK
pounding the wonan's side.
Lapse OF time IL abundant excuse
| for Charles Tenney Jackson's poach-
! ing on Mr.. Gables preserves in "Joan
the Fool" tThc Bobbs- Merrill Com.
pany). The scene is the Louisiana
swamp land on tho shore of the gulf.
! land which Texas engineer ~
! determined To reclaim and charm
! ing and spirited young Louisiana
I woman IL equally determined to haze
left just as ii is. The only proper out
! come must he that they unite forces
/ at the end. The author impresses the
scenery Of the swamp strongly on the
| reader: ne makes il very attractive.
7 but supplies 1t with enough insect
pests to keep people away. III"
| Northern people. the middle agei
bachelor who tells the story tho sel:-
-
the disgrunted young engineer serve
chiefly to sing the Texans praises
The natives. even the picturesque
former SLAYER. are looked upon some
what as curiosities and excite little
| sympathy. The reader gets In the
habit OF being irritated at their ir.
rational behavior Till the explanation
is vuuchsafed. II IL n pleasant story
which would have been much more
interesting II the Northerners had
been kept in the background
A good looking young girl in a New
York village is pulled violently out oi
her surroundings in Molly Elliot
Seawells THE Diar, Of Beauty
81. B. Lippincott Company by ar
obstinate old summer visitor whC
wants companion. The girl i
ambitious and clear headed she inn
proves her opportunities in New Yor.
city and IN Europe. She receives
much attention from young men VIII
think she is an heiress. She falls IL
In Germany. whereupon her employe
aband ms her rather heartlessly. TIL,
girl drifts to Switzerland. where sh,
stays til her money gives out: Sh
meets a Swiss dramatist who confide
play to her, returns to New Yori
and after some hard times gets
manager to accept the play and Civ
her u small part. The play IL sue
Cessful. she refuses TO marry tn
dramatist and instead marrics
> young aristocrat who has cared 20
: her all the time. The heroine Of thi
I artless tale is fortunate enough I
. he made very pretty by the illustrate
| in all the pictures,
In previous book Eleanor Atkin
= son showed an inclination for eX
ccssive sentiment and she gratifie
! that inclination again in "Johnn
! Appleseed" CHarpers). She grow
i excited over the refining and soothin
: effect of apple trees on the pioneer
4 os the middle West. takes FOR he
, hero an eccentric character of the tim
u and introduces him into many pleasar
pictures of the early days OF Ohi'
. Her hero made It his mission to dii
y tribute apple seeds and start nurserit
i in the wilderncss he was also
Il Swedenborgian and a vegetarian. II
wandered from settlement to settle