The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-13

, plantations Of apparent wronKdoinr,
which gives the touch Of originality
To these stories. In only one instance
II the ten stories 10 q real crime CON-
mitted. and that is detected through
a vision and not by the usual mental
processes.
Pleasantly and mildly humorous
tales and sketches by Stephen Leacock
make up "Moonbeams From the
Larger Lunacy" John Lane Com
pany). The authors natural mode Of
expression liz apparently the ponder
Gus and deliberately prepared British
joke favored by Punch: 1t has been
tainted slightly by contact with the
American humor across the border, so
that he occasionally carries out his in
tention of being funny.
h fusion of the play with the
story continues. The dramatiZation of
Horace Annesley Vachell's bright story
"Quinneys'" has brought about a re-
issue OF the story. illustrated with
scenes from the play George II.
Doran Company. A successful play,
THE White Feather has been put in
story form by Lechmere worrall and
j. +. Harold Terry Edward ]. Clode.
New York;. Another play. apparently
from the West, with a business wom-
an heroine, The Little Shepherd Of
Bargain Row." has been novelized by
Howard McKent Barnes (The Reilly
and Britton Company. Chicago. FL
nally William Hamilton Osborne has
turned the scenario of a p%hotoplay,
THE Boomerang" into a story CRob-
ert NJ. Mcbride and Company. New
York;.
The coming of the Christmas season
is announced somewhat earlier than
usual by the advent Of many booklets
containing Christmas stories. Out OF
Norman Duncan's novel The Meas
ure of a Man" has been extracted the
story of Christmas Eve at Swamp's
End" (FIeming II. Revell Company
How a poor little girl managed to give
her smaller brothers and sisters a
happy Christmas is told by Caroline
T.. Jacobs in "A Christmas Promise
The Page Company. BOSTON,. The
fathers ultimate success hardly pal
liates for his abandonment Of the chill.
dren. Closer TO the Bible story Is
Edgar Whitaker Works. THE Folly
of the Three Wise Men George II
Doran Company. a moral lesson in.
culcated at the expense of the Magi's
reputation. More religious even in
tone are David De Forest Burreli's
| pretty allegory THE Gift" (F1eming
II. Revell Company and s. d. Cor
don's "A Quiet Talk About the Babe
Of Bethlehem ,Fleming II. Revell
Company. a pretty little book is
The First Christmas (The Abingdon
Press, New York;, the Scripture &C.
count Of the Nativity, with colored pic.
lures and decorations by Harold
Speakman.
A Chinese Christian girl walks abou,
the streets Of New York in her native
costume and shames people into behav.
ing az they should by her assumption
that in a Christian country people live
according to the Gospel which they
send missionaries to teach to the
heather. That Is the theme Of Louise
Rice's THE Girl Who Walked With.
cut Fear tFIeming II. Revell Com
pany).
The war in Europe IL used by Mary
Raymond Shipman Andrews in 1.-THE
Three Things" little. Brown ant
Company to knock sundry erroneous
notions out Of a wilful American boy,
head. Not many Americans. we imax.
inc, would have such violent preju'
dices. but all might share one Of
more in some degree. The war Incl.
dents are employed legitimately ant
the girl Ia a concessio to sentiment
1t is a good story with a strong moral