The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-17
WOMAN IN MANS EYES.

WOMAN IN MANS EYES.
To begin with Henry Sydnor Har-
rison in describing "Angela's Business
Houghton Mifiiln Company is bright
| and amusing from beginning TO end ;
he manages to tell "A lot OF truths
| about women, which will probably
make them fumc. without uttering a
| single unkind word; he analyses one
form of masculine intelligence and one
kind of literary worker infinitely and
w.ttily. he has crammed his book full
with epigrammatlc phrases so that il
must he read slowly and carefully.
We can imagine no better fun than
reading any chapter aloud to an audi
ence OF women. II they will allow the
reader to finish, yet the story un-
doubleday drass. as the author intends
IL shall. 1t is first class newspaper
work, but in spite of the pains the
author has taken We are not sure that
1t is literature.
The hero is an author. as yet unsuc-
cessful. who seems to have means
enough to live on without working
He is possessed of an analytical mind
which implies indecision in action and
J"usHSH'' t"'' ''"' - iHttHSiicu Wy
wide and miscellaneous reading. IL Is
ms business To understand women
thoroughly in that study he does not
restrict hlnSelf 10 the perusai or all
the literature on all the woman ques-
tons. but employs his own observation
and his own philosophic analysis as
well. He is an amiable youth, trine
iadylike, ana whie he houts social
conventions III MS thoughts ana words
he holds 10 them pretty closely In his
actual hehaHior lie Is IN a rather
critical MOOD When the story opens
not quite SATISFIED Win me character
OF an advanced woman whom he has
known ana cared Tor AL ms ne, ana
ready to ma fault with all the tads
put forth at meeting OF a radical
club which he attends. There he finds
simple natural cir, who knows
nothing OF the movements that excite
the others IA "omanly woman and he
begins 10 mediate on her business IN
life and undertakes to observe her Tho
account of the club meeting is a bril-
liant piece OF work; 1t viii draw the
most hardened novel reader on TO read
what follows
lhere Is nut one way apparently In
winch an lhqulrlhH author can dis
cover what Womanly young persons
business IN thls world may be- and that
IL 10 nirt with her' III is mia irritation,
10 ne sure ana ne ~ sure her business
~ 10 make nome nut AT the critical
po'nt ne na'hs ana then begins 10 see
iau''S IN the g'rh u is sell that domi-
mates HeT' Sne ls HgnllnC 10 get away
from uhpieasaht SURROUNDINGS by the
oh'S means sne knows winch ~ TO an
neN nuS'"iiu' ""e ~ seherailS sue
V'SH'u' III St''I"S "nat she wants ana
,'c Se''P''o''s oi H'r persistence IN
her OBJECT ana ms frightened ehorts to
e.au' her are iuhhS' ~ Is not a part
vi ""io" man can ne PROUD now
oHet' nv - "shai'eu Oh H. ana al Inc
p"'i'SoP"S ""'oi' nv tfnl's "tlle ne
le'''a'eS uoea not '''aMe up ior the
uup'oaS'i'' situa,'on' me reader gets
'i,pa,'.n' WIN Nun ana VIII De IN
.,'lo" 10 'aI' 'le young woman cat
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