The Washington times., 1915-05-09
:"GREAT TRADITION"
/ WARMLY WELCOMED
Second Volume of Mrs. Kath-
crime Fullerton Gerould's
Stories Is Out.
THE GREAT TRADIT1oN-By Katherine
Fullerton Gerould. Charles Scribner

THE GREAT TRADIT1oN-By Katherine
Fullerton Gerould. Charles Scribner
| Sons sl.s5 net
This. the second volume OF Mrs.
Gcrould's stories. comes to the circle or
| her readers with warm welcome. IL
| would be a pity If such gems as each
| one OF the eight undoubtedly should
| vanish to the place where the dead dust
| OF magazine stories have their untimcly
end. But her publishers, realizing this,
have made into permanent thing.
book worth buying, these latter studies
| of Interesting men and women which
| Mrs. Gerould, with the skill OF the care
| full painstaking craft of the etcher.
| draws for US.
One O. a very small group Of the past
| masters of the art of story telling, one
reefs through each of the stories that
| make up the present volume the care
| 1ul phrase, the restrained description.
and when all is said and done. the real
ness Of her people. Thus. and so and
only thus thus and so could they act.
Only go could they have been brought
10 such and such a state Of mind:
| One leaves the book with the feeling
| That one has seen the work of perfect
painter of the human figure. We know
| that under the marvellous flesh tints.
the bone and sinew are there all tho
| while.
| Arthur Wills SpOOner. Sher-
| man. French & Co. Sl.35 net.
| In a serious foreword the author. Mr..
Arthur Willis Spooner. says gravely
She did kiss the young soldier good
by" And the following two hundred
odd pages that follow seem to be a
| dreary treatise on the fact that she did
But 1t has been done before in war
stories of every nation; not perhaps as
Mr.. Spooner asserts in just exactly
|
done. There may be those who can
read with patience another civil war
| story. But with the avalanche of Euro
pean war stories alost upon US. we
| should say that Mr.. Spooner had delay
ed this one novel by full decade.
AUGUST FIRST" by Mary RAYMOND Ship
| man Andrews and Roy Irving Murray.
| Charles scribner's Sons 81 net
Let not the hurried traveller, pausing
before the newsstand acquire the pres
ent volume under the impression that
he's getting a thriller. But II there be
these who prefer their religion canded,
| OF III one in desperation desires a gift
| fol- ones seventeen-year-old niece let
him purchase this volume. Whimsical
| at times, In spots reminiscent of such
Classics as the Elsie books. August
| FIRST Will have an audience. IT were
| a pity to spoil a plot in a brief book
notice, but it's all about a girl and a
| Young clergyman, and August First"
| Is the name the girl chooses to be
| known by In a series of letters until
such tune as Fate reveals to the athletic
| clergyman her true name and place In
| the world. Needless to say they are
married and live happily ever after
| V ard I.
| THE GLEN PATH" and other SONGS by
| Samuel Theodore Kldder. Sherman, French
| Co. 81. net.
| pleasant uneventful collection of
| poems. none OF them remarkable. but
sjme of them thoughtful and gentle.
One especially is full Of color: Sunset
| to Cleaning" several Of the hymns are
| above the average.
| LOVES CREED"-By Albert Edmund
| Thombly. Sherman. Frcncht& Co 81 25
| net.
This Is Mr.. Tromblys second bool,
OF collected poems The hfst entitled
| The Springtime OF Love" attract ed
| favorable notice at the time of it's pub
| lication. Certainly he has the technique
| for the sonnet form which he uses Is
| strictly preserved sometimes even al
| the expense of Clearness. All the poems
| are melodious. the one entitled Hes
perus being especially so. And to the
volume there is attached a certain dig
nifty that makes II worth more than a
passing or hasty perusal.