The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-20
CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASONS
LATEST O
Rural Life. Recurrent Family Traits, Love Of the Old
for Children and Other Points in New Fiction.
Impressions from the Battle Front, Recollecions of
the Kaiser and Other Themes Bearing on the War.
Superstitions Concerning Jewels. Biography Of
Kipling. Care Of Infants and Other Subjects.

their rough way the stories are e.
fective.
A charming young girl who plays
the violin and is remarkably ignorant
of the ways OF the world " the heroine
~ Grace Miller Whites Rose O. Para
disc" (The II. Is. Fly Company. New
York;. She is prosecuted by an abb
normally heartlcss pair Of villains,
such as exist only in p~hotoplays. and
Is sheltered by amiable derelicts. With
much that is absurd some scenes in
the story are pretty.
a detected millionaire talks to an
Intellectual nursemaid on Riverside
Drive in Eleanor NJ. Migrants "a
Mans Hearth" 81. r. Llppincott Com
pany), and her influence is strong
enough to make him break with "a
married woman who is planning to
divorce her husband in order 10 marry
him. He drives his car into Jersey.
hires a house back of the Palisades,
n then induces the nursemaid to
marry him and give him a home, while
he sets to work in a factory. The
moral Is excellent and the author
makes 1t clear that the spread " di-
vorce is going to change the accepted
conventions of fiction.
The attempt OF Esther Singleton to
write a story, "A Daughter OF the
Revolution" tMoffat. Yard and Com
pany), Is not very successful. TIL.
heroine is interesting at first. so long
as she works for n She
seems to lose her backbone morally
and intellectually after that and serves
merely as n means OF describing In
ter!ors. costumes, places. an operate
performance and such matters. She
drifts into the society that provides
the title for the book and instead of
attending the convention goes sight
seeing around Washington. The au-
thor marries her OF at last. for she
clearly does rot know what else TO
do with her.
h understanding Of old people for
little children is described very prettlly
by Clara f.. Laughlin in the beginning
Of When My ship Comes Home"
tFleming II Revell Company. and so
il the boy and girl friendship in the
Gloucester home. When the hero!nc
grows up and undertakes to develop a
voice she becomes commonplace. and
the introduction of the authors travel
impressions Of Naples and vicinity Is
rather violent.
Descriptions Of the vacations OF an
instructc: AT the Robert College and
OF excursions around Constantinople
Will be found in Stanwood Cobb's
"Ayesha OF the B~osphoruS" Niurray
and Emery Company, Boston,. The
recount Of his making love to a Turk
:sh girl and of his religious gymnastics
Is realistic but not very cdifying.
y refinement Of sentiment that
eludes ordinary comprehension will he
found in Anna ~Strunsky Walling's
"Nio!ette OF Ierc Lacha!sc" OF'reder!ck
y. Stokes Company. The heroine de-
vclops an exaggerated and morbid in
terest IN the great Paris cemetery and,
as she grows up, n craving to 60 on the
stage and a hanker.ng for anarchist al
socialist meetings h also has \
sort OF love affair. At no time does
she arouse Interest.
n number of short stories are pub
iisiied separately. Some are about
In The Little Red Doe
tLlttle, Brown and Company Chaun-