The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23
CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASONS
LATEST OOK
New Fiction by Mrs. Burnett. Sidney Mccall, Ralph
Henry Barbour, Louis Tracy and Others.
What an American Woman Saw in the Marine
Country-French Pamphlets-Balkan Problems.
Many Sides Of French History-Books on Art. Vaca-
ton Resorts. Cooking and Other Themes.

forcible than ladylike. The friend from
the outside takes matters into her
own hands; she reads the riot act to
the mother and the lover who has
danced attendance on her all his life,
packs the girls of for a visit to New
York and sets to work to restore the
decayed mansions in the town. The
effect Of tho shaking up IL that the
girls return with the proper regard for
he mother and also with lovers OF
their own. and that the mother and her
old beau develop energy enough to
marry. The author has great faith
which are described with proper mi
%nuteness. There are pleasant descrip-
tions in the story and some unpleasant
passages.
Another pleasing summer Irritation
tale by Ralph Henry Barbour. Hearts
Content" 81. b. Lippincott Company.
begins auspiciously. A wandering
pedestrian accompanied by a disrep-
utable dog puzzles several New Eng
land country people by asking for n
house which he describes but knows
not where 1t may be. When he runs
across 1t ne finds pleasant people in II.
including the right girl, who is get
ting over a broken engagement. As
he has means and social position he
stays on in the neighborhood, display
ing a vast amount Of assurance. much
f%rankness and mor eccentricity.
Amusing at first. he becomes a good
deal Of a bore as the story goes on.
with the inevitable wedding at the
end. The other people are bright and
entertaining; so is Mr.. Barbour's hero.
for that matter, nj the start. Like
some brands Of bohemianism. a little
of him o e a long way.
Into the quiet life Of a Breton hsh-
ing village. with its peasants and art
lists. Louis Tracy in Flower Of the
Gorse' edward j. Clode. New York;
injects a somewhat conventional melo-
drama Of the outer world. This Is
brought about by a shipwreck. and
his description Of the rescue is spirited
and fine. The heroine is n splendid
girl. though she IL addicted like the
rest of the characters to dissect and
explain things at great length; her
unworthy mother Is a we'll drawn type
OF a selfish woman and the Breton
fisherman Is capital. The other people
are either conventional or belong to
the stage. The story itself Is not edl-
! flying; though propped up with a
lot OF unnecessary villainy, It Is the
common enough occurrence OF a wife
who has abandoned and divorced her
husband returning to trouble his life.
There are bits of scenery and of Bre-
ton customs and with the sea Mr..
Tracy wakes up. The story holds the
attention.
The hero OF iona Gales Hearts
Kindred (Macmillans) Is presented
to us as a sor of caveman with the
primitive instincts that flourish In the
West. He rescues the equally print
tive but charming heroine from a dis
tasteful marriage, which makes II
necessary for them to go East. first
to Chicago. There. unfortunately
they run into the question of war
about which they differ. They proceed
to Washington, apparently still in tn
garments with which they started
and discuss war still further. At last
the hero comes around to the hero
ines way OF thinking and they marry
A perfectly good story turned without
excuse into a manifesto against war.
In THE Bachelors" CHarpers) VIII
lam Dana circuit while discussing thu
effects OF the tender passion on thu
middle aged masculine heart avail'
himself of the opportunity OF freelnt
his mind on n variety OF subjects
matrip,npy the duty OF parents, col