The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-06
SHOCKING DEED
IN FAIRY LAND
Vow Thurston story Takes Us
70 Irish Mountains-War
"reminiscences.
yoJiNG READERS BOOKS

r Temple Thurston's story OF the
,...,onste Crime" ID. Appleton and
~c.unauy) takes us TO the mountains
iceland and among the fairies. The
.,vslts, tell. how he set out TO learn
No whole truth in the case OF Anthony
s,rel the poet, who slew the beautiful
,.,.ess Anna Quartermaine, leaving
,.- living in the heather with q knife
. mar breast-a crime for which he
-. hanged at Cork shortly after
hey found him sitting on the shore
.. lake. apparently IN a distracted
snte Of mind.
IN the mountains about C1ogheen
=. novelist walked for miles In the
ali, and came to the hovel OF an old
AVIAN who told him IA little. At
,nrln. which you may see very well
,.om the commanding peak OF Knock
~.Au,ahallion. they told him n little
nors but 4, was the old man called
Malachi, who dwelt on Crow Hill, from
,bom he got the whole story after
~. heart of the old man had been
,,soed with n bottle OF the real stun.
no tale that Malachi told Is the real
,,d the true tale. and the translation
\, Il is sufficiently strange and i'm
,rs.ve, though the povelist calls 1t
feeble in comparison.
lid Anthony Sorel believe In tho
dries? That was a point upon which
Anna ouartermaine desired particu-
,r,y 10 he informed. When Mary
/ royue. who's. face held the beauty Of
II women, followed dancing after the
grange light and music and fell into
, gravel pit and broke her leg, an
.,tury which made an end Of her. was
Z really a case of the fairies? An
songs reply to this is suggestive.
she has the emotions OF her own
eauty.' he said. They are bringing
Or death. That is how these noun
vn people come near the truth. They
ave the power Of vision to see the
rnbols Of their own emotions" But
when Anthony saw Anna's face look
NJ in at Malachi's window. and when
% followed her out into the night and
conversed fearfully with her, and re-
ssed the temptation to get within the
magic circle that surrounded her, I'M
i1nhtedly he believed that he was re-
.s..ng a fairy who had assumed
| a.n.f. laa,,t.- yt p.a Annals ehnftnr-
NJ OF the poets ideal OF love, how
ever, that moved him to STAY her. He
Nnsidercd himself as dragged from
is spiritual heights-probably a
rgined in his capacity of poet.
We do not believe that the reader
vii have much sympathy for him
Tie specimens of his poetry given here
ce really not remarkable. We may
-ent!on that the of this tragedy
ras not far from Bal;ysaggartmore.
The war "reminiscences Of William
: Doster. Lincoln and Episodes Of
,hs Civil War" (G. =. Putnam's Sons)
ave a certain interest because thu
sithor as Provost Marshal in Wash
s,gon had the opportunity TO sex
rme peculiar phases Of war times
lis opinions must be taken with som'
aat!on. for he seems to have retaine,
rs animosity against many men. Th'
opening chapter contains his lecture
On Lincoln. delivered before Lehigl
University,
The "reminiscences OF the Princes
Lazarovich fIrebelianovich. published
trder the title Pleasures and Palaces
The Century Company, relate chief.
u the time when as Eleanor Calhoun
te was It noted actress. She had tn,
opportunity then Of meeting In Lon
con, in Paris and in other places man.
q the notables in literature, art, poll
'c', and, naturally, the celebrated
s'tors Of the time. She describes then
a. very pleasantly and has anecdote
70 tell Of many. She also had occasion
10 see a little of royalty. and at. tn
nd explains her interest in the Serbs
An account Of The Torrens System
o. land transfer and an argument 70
~ adoption has been written by A
'lyot Cameron CHoughton Miflil
'onpanyl. The author dwells on tn
'lccess OF the system in other coun
res and States and endeavors to ex
lain why II has failed III New Yorh
ne writes ComDetently on a GubieC