Omaha daily bee., 1915-01-01
New Books


~ Fiction.
NEIGHBoRHooD STORIES. BY IONA
Gale. 9o7 Pp. H.Sos Tho Macmillan COM
peny.
The senerosities end the meannesses
the quarrels and the love affairs OF
Friendship village--how real. how vivid.
Miss Gale makes them all Moreover, In
these tales OF life In a middle western
village we find many Of the problems
which vex and worry US all-the questions
OF politics and poverty and the Biggest
Business for example-treated with
shrewdness and insight. Miss Gales work
possesses In abundance that quality 80
many writer's strive for and 80 few at
tain--that quality we call humanness. Il
Is not merely that her people are real.
that we feel as though we had known
Calliope and Miss Toplady and Timothy
and silas Sykes and Mis- Holcomb-that-
was Mame-Biiss" and the rest all our
lives. II is that they are-well, Just tolksi
THE THREE SISTERS. BY May Sin
clair. Sss PIP. Si-a5. The Macmillan conn
pany.
Three distinct types Of womankind. not
infreuuently encountered, are presented
In this book. out Of their different atti-
tudes toward life. particularly toward
love and marriage, Miss Sinclair has
made an engrosslng story, and has lost
none OF her ability to analyze human mo-
tives, particularly those motives which
people rarely acknowledge, even TO them
solves. She shows up her characters as
they are and as they believe themselves
10 be-very different things. especially
with the vicar and @ith Mary. she gives
us too. some fine pictures OF the dare
scenery, when Gwenda, the inveterate
walker and lover OF out-of-doors. goes
on her long tramps up from Morfe to
where ''Karva lowers its head and sinks
back upon the moor" or where the flow
oring thorn-trees on Greffington Edge bo-
come white and beautiful in the moon
Hight. This Is a powerful novel. written
with both vlgor and delicacy. dramatic.
absorbingiy irteresting-and very painful.
MAY VERSIONS CAREER. BY Eliza
beth Jordan. 2s Pp. H.5. Harper &
Bros.
This new book relates the experience
of the grownup May Iverson. whose girl
hood has been pictured in the author 3
previous books, 1t IL. however. story
in itself, and can be read and enjoyed
by those who have not followed the
earlier developments OF the heroine. May
Iverson. who had always had a talent
for writing, comes TO New York and be-
comes a newspaper woman.
THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HARTMAN.
| BY II. q. Wells. 525 PIP. $3.50. The
! Macmillan company
The book Il about marriage, and it's pri-
mary purpose Is to show that so long az
marriage Is regarded as In any sense a
thing OF ownership. whether by the mar
OF the woman. as Il happens in the story
itself, or by the woman Of the man, OF
even by both Of one another. just so lonS
marriage il based on degraded idea
and must partalse OF that degradation
Given q man like Sir Isaac, the man whs
grasps and holds. who wishes to denim
ate the very thoughts. the very solitude
OF his wife, a man, 70 whom ownership Il
the first essential. and the woman
whether she knows Il or not. IL prisoner
in prison far more fatal ana desperate
than that OF stone and iron scorned b!
Lovelnce. IL IL I'M such a situation tina
1--we discover Lady Hartman. at about IN
time when she herself becomes aware Q
II. And It is her efforts to escape fror
this prison. without reiinquishing her &C
cepted Duties as wife, that make Ii
story.
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