The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-02

VOtH SEXES VIII ~. ftdTDen III Inc
Inner Law" (Harpers) has written a
very depressing tale. 1t abounds in
detailed descriptions of disease and
~deathbeds. which the author seems to
enjoy. His hero Is an aesthetic youth
with literary tastes and more than
his normal share OF vanity and selfish
ness. While some excuse may be
found for his behavior to the sirl, II Is
difficult to account for his heartless
conduct when he takes his dying
father to the sanitarium. Mr.. Harden
seems to think that vice is hereditary
and differs from modern science IN
his views regardi. g the transmission
Of, certain diseases. After half a life
time spent in dawdling with his
artistic temperament his ero starts
In to reform; he meets his son.. who is
camping under the Palisades. and they
take to each other: then he ~persuades
the woman he had betrayed in his
youth Ia marry him The Atlanta men
We are introduced to are painfully
vicious and disa greeable and the hero's
misery sister is as bad. All the good
Qualities seem to reside in the Georgia
poo whites.
The hero Of II. y. Somerville's
"Some Women and Timothy tE.. l..
putton and Company tells his own
story. He is a kind hearted young
EnElishman, who has a way of doing
what women want him to do. even
when he sees through them and when
they maltreat him. The one of the
story is humorous. that only excuses
his adoption Of a stray infant. his fall
ing in love with the designing una
who intends to blackmail his brother
and his dancing attendance on the girl
who Tilted him. The hideous tragedy
that is dragged into the story spoils 1t
n make much of the fun that
preceded seem like irony. and the COM
plications that keep the hero and the
mi he loves apart are so long
draw out as to he tiresome. The
sentiment does not ring as true as the
good natured banter with which the
author started.
To those acquainted with the late
Thomas W. Hanshew's band of French
nalefactors there can he little diff
Guilty in solving THE Riddle Of the
Night" doubleday. Page and Com
pany). This consists Of w strange
murders and the presence on the scene
Of a large assortment of persons on
whom suspicion turns. The authors
clever reformed criminal u n the
various clues to earth with great in
genuity; he is not as doGmatic or
intuitive as most OF the great detec-
tives Of fiction. The story will hold
the readers attention till the author
gets ready to explain.
Eleven short stories of Irish country
life by the ladies who use the names
i. O.. Somerville and Martin Ross are
included in "In Mr.. knoX's Country"
(Longmans. Green and Company.
Nearly all touch on sport, particularly
fox hunting, but the point of the
stories lies either in the hlimors OF
Irish country life or in tie matri-
monial affairs of the amiable narrator
and his friends. They are capital n
Snjoya BILE tales. Miss Somerville pro-
vides the illustrations, which are very
good.
The idle and the industrious APP
prentice are Contrasted rather crudely
by W. Dane Burke in Treasure"
George ii. Doran Company, greatly
to the discrcdit of HI latter. one
tradeSman in an English manufacture
ing town marries for love. lives hap
PLY with no thought OF money and
never amounts to much; his compan-
Ion marries for money. prospers, grows
avaricious and is led on to crime. Their
family life Is presented in alternate
chapters. The author exercises him
self in realism OF the Arnold Bennet
kind; he expresses laudable sentiments
and puts life into some OF the people.
But he nowhere shows the individ-
uality that marked James"
In THE Coming Back of Laurence
Averil" edward j. Clode, New York;
Maurice Drake mistakes brutality for
realism. The story itself is crudely
m~elodramatic; there is no reason why
h college graduate we first meet
should degrade himself into a primi-
tive brute when things go wrong with
him and he takes up d fisherman's
life. The pictures of the sea and of
the trawler's work are vigorous and
clear; We imagine that. rough though
the life may be, fairly decent men en-
gage in II, With the scenes in Lon
don and with the heroine again the
author feels bound to resort to cave
man methods. The humor of the
stock transaction also is rather raw.
The author has talent and the gift OF
expression; he seems TO lack as yet "A
sense OF proportion. so that when he
Is most energetic he is in danger of
becoming ridiculous.
In another Canadian
"Harding of A~llerwood" ~,Frederick
A. Stokes Company, Harold Bindloss
breaches the employment OF improved
farming methods as a defence against