The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-23
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vious i%ncarnations. This constituted
a rather glittering privilege while he
was lying for days together fast
cinched in his straitjacket. Even
when he WAS a little boy there had
been some foreshadowing Of this un-
usual power. The minister who came
visiting to the Standing home IN the
old farm up in Minnesota brought
along some photographs Of the Holy
Land. and little Darrell volunteered
his own remotely drawn recollectlons
OF places In Samaria. These men,
cries surprised the minister and
pleased Darrell's parents. In one Of
h professors visions n he lay In
his s~traitJacket he left his prison
house "at a bound and went walking
among the stars. His apparel is de-
scribed; 1t consisted Of fieecy and
shimmering robes Of n delicate color
ing. In his hand he carried q glass
rod, with which he felt himself
obliged to tap upon every star as he
went along. This was like DR.. Samuel
Johnson. who needed to touch every
post when he walked in. the street.
A number Of the ncarnations re-
called by the professor make short
stories. which give to the book an
entertaining variety. In one OF them
the professor IL the Count Guillaume
Sainte-Nsure who thinks he can
marry the Duchess Philippa, widow OF
the last Duke of Aou,,ane contrary 10
the wishes Of the pope The pom, N
sets four duelists unon him Of wbo,n
he kills three. onjy IN he finished oY
by the fourth. In another Of the in
carnations the professor fnds himself
invested in the mortal body Of Adam
Strang. an English mn rlner. who sailed
TO Asia and married the LADY ON "a
very flower OF woman" The pair led
n gorgeous life for two weary Adam
governed seven provinces. But then
for forty wears the two were pevse-
cuted by the powerful Chonp Nonp.,u
1t was "A long time. II II had been ten
or twenty years longer Adam and Om
might have died of old axe and with
out At the end of the forty
years, however. happily for the de-
mands of an exact poetic Justice. Adam
was ena,a.ed to lean upon Chong and
strang gle him as he was riding in his
palanuuin on the cliffs OF Fusan by
the Yellow Sea,
The book IL vigorous. pa,Ticularly m
its detail concerning the unusual
rmnishments visited by Warden Ather-
ton NJ the san Quentin prison upon the
"lifers" and the "solitaries'' in his
charge. 1t IL like Zoe In some places.
but no in all.
In THE Story Of .Ju.ia Page" by
Kathleen Norris Doubleday. Page and
Company) We have a tale Of s]cripuIous
realism. The scene is San Francisco.
We read of Emelinc, ,Iulia's mother,
who seems to have had something OF
% habit of being disrnrtented n
| tired of her home. which could not in
Iced have been vera, charming. To he
sure her father and BROTHERS worked
| steadily and at good wages. So tha,
'thc family income ran well M toward
$500 a MONTH enough to provide a
very rood home; bu, II was not an
interesting family, and Eme.ine liked
to escape from IL and TO walk up and
down Mission street, goss!ping and
chewing urn On leaving school at
II she went TO work in .'D~eIphine's'
millinery store. and there several wears
| later she mel George Page. n drum
mer.'' whom she married.
The story tells lust what happered
m the housekeeping of his pair. They
lived in a fiat and were happy for d
time. George did not drink: he was "A
good husband. Trouble came when
! Julia was born. Eincline changed
again: she grew discontented again;
and il may be mentioned that she came
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