The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-06

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ffsxe will be found in Agnes and Eyer
ton Castles THE Haunted Heart"
(Appletons). As the tragedy. which is
made known chiefly through the i'm
presstons OF a Scottish Catholic priest.
IL essential TO the development Of the
thesis, some improbable events must
be accepted at the start. Such are the
inaction of the priest at the critical
period and the violence and despicable
behavior OF both husband and wife
after many years OF marriage. Grant
ing the authors premises however,
their argument is worked out logically
and fairly to the end In a manner TO
hold the readers attention closely re-
CARELESS Of fne descriptions Of scenery
in the Highlands and in Italy, of care
full inventories of interior furnishings
and accounts OF womens dresses and
OF much sprightly conversation among
women Of fashion. The most human
and entertaining character IN the story
Is the modern young gin who is
dragged into the ENHANCEMENT, who
10 keen witted enough to sec through
the other people and who tries quietly
to help; notwithstanding all her ef-
forts she Is treated as an outsider by
the Scots who have forced her into
their family and the reader will be in
clined to sympathize with her when
she washes her hands of them all.
The sole reason for the priests re-
hgion, apparently, Is to save argument
about marriage being indissoluble; he
as a Catholic must take the view OF
1t which the authors prefer TO advance
here.
Two distinct influences will be no
tlced in Margarete Muensterberg' S
Red Peoples" (Appletons) In the
first place she names her hero Peter
and in the pleasing chapters that tell
about his boyhood adheres strictly 10
the Peterite conventions. He is a
very nice boy with the knack of get
ting his own way and with artistic In
stincts. A mass OF red peoples makes
q deep impression, probably because
the author likes red; otherwise II
might have been green apples or white
daisies; whenever he is inspired he
sees the peoples. When he grows UP
he becomes a painter and shows a
the author turns to art life. He
Yields to the women who patronze
art In Boston, to the coarser bohe-
milan delights of Munich and to the
aesthetic maunderings OF Harvard
instructor. A capable young woman
keeps her eye on him, however, anC
Strengthens him out at critical mo-
ments. The author Is severe on the
Boston female MRcenas; she seems &c
admire the Harvard dilettante phi.
losopher.
The authors Of "Three Gentlemen
from New Caledonia, &C. i. Putnam
Sons), an English prize story, l.. ID
Hemingway and Henry de Halsalle
have studied the classical French Grim
inal tales to good purpose and use ex'
cellent English. The dolngs of theii
gang OF malefactors are told in cpl
sodes which are worked out artisticallN
and are more entertaining than thu
story itself, though that Is interesting
enough. There Is poetic justice il
making both the evildoers and the de
tectives come to grief. The minr
characters are capitalize old walter
the Dutch receiver of stolen goods tn
French detective at the beginning tn
young couple who provide the love in
terest. The authors write UNUSUAL!
good English, they can pick out tn
salient points in character and II
scenery. and they can tell story well
We hope they will turn out NOR
serious work than this.
If Gilbert Canaan had only givel
some idea OF what his hero is drivint
at we might take more interest II
Young Earnest" (Appletons). As
Is, he is painfully like a common prod
uct OF the colleges whose chief idea o
art or literature or life is to fiout tn
conventions. Here we have the revol
of the uncomprehended soul agains
woman. The hero Ia brought up in
duh English Industrial town, goe
through school mechanically and be
comes a schoolmaster lie analyze
his mother and Is dissatisfied with her
he does the same with his brother
wife; he is more pleased with hi
father, a disreputable loafer. A we
TO do young woman takes him up an
marries him, but he finds somethin
lacking, cannot stand her posing, an
after a while abandonS her and hi
work. He drifts to London, where h
runs across factory girl who is hon
est and natural. He becomes a chauf
feur and after a time lives with IN
girl. Then he becomes dssatsfie
and when he finds she Is to be
mother he leaves her He is trying I
get at his real self and is abetted b
philosophic painter. This is the mos
interesting portion OF the book, for NJ
Canaan likes to make people in 10
life attractive. With some money b
inherits the hero sets up garag