The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-19

can tame the hero, however. Is army
discipline and this makes necessary
an exciting campaign in the Philip
pines with which the author Is not so
successful.
The hero and narrator OF The
Record of Nicholas Freydon' George
II. Doran Company follows the
fashion in beginning with his baby
hood, which does not seem to be espe-
cially significant. Tho story Of his
boyhood in Australia is bright and
entertaining: II he Is uncommonly
fortunate in the starts he obtains in
life there is novelty in the country he
describes and particularly in the way
he writes from the Australian point
Of view; his digressions are few. Then
he returns to England and the charac-
ter OF the book changes. He has a
bitter struggle against poverty in Lon
don before he makes n living as n
journalist and a writer; he ruins his
digestion. he marries wretchedly. hut
Is soon freed from his wife. What is
worse, he takes to describing social
conditions. the shady side OF journal
ism and Of politics and other topics,
with dyspeptic realism: this portion
il discursive enough to be autobio-
graphical. II Is clearly the part in
which he IL most interested. but the
reader. we imagine. will care more for
the natural development Of the boy in
Australia than for the events that
soured his later life.
The cheerful subject chosen by sgd
ney Tremaine for The Auction
Mart" John Lane Company is a
girl brought up to do exactly as she
pleases by a m~isogynist father who
hopes that his training will send her
to the bad. This is arbitrarily pre-
vented by the author. for the girl Is
apparently ready to go to any extreme
several times. He derives amusement
from the contrast between her neon
ventional behavior and that OF others.
She finds out the good qualities of n
swindler. a drug fiend. the wooden
youth she marrles and several women,
and is allowed to redeem herself after
abandoning her father. who wished to
force her into an objectionable mar
r!age, and becoming a dancer In a
Paris music hall. II Is an edifying
tale.
The Of dukes and their
families. OF which Cosmo Hamilton
treats almost exclusively In THE
Miracle Of Love- George II. Doran
Company. are surprising. Mr.. Ham
ilton opens with a lively scene in a
noted hosiery at Dover. in which an
unhapplly married duchess and a
dukes younger brother on meeting
for the first time fall In love with
zach other and come neal eloping
Then he unfortunately stops in order
to relate the previous history of each
and goes into needlessly unpleasant,
details regarding the lady's married
life and the Objectionable duke, her
husband. Tho young mar discusses
the case with his delightful but de-
cidedly middle class family. but is
still bound to elope. He Is stopped by
Mr.. Hamilton's ruthlessly destroying
his brother, which makes him duke
Soon after tho bad duke dies. leav.
ing his widow penniless. As the book
IL nea It's end tho Inference should
be that the lovers marry. Here, Mr.
Hamilton introduces a rehnemen,
which Americans may not be able tc
grasp fully. The new duke has here,
tofore been a gentleman. but he is
poor and must keep up the title: or
this all who know Of his love affair
including the lady. agree. Conse-
q~uently he Is hastily engaged to a
convenient and wealthy American
girl. the only proper thing to do, in
British, or perhaps only ducal, eyes
The author is merciful, however, he