The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-14

The pe%culiarities OF the heroine In
IIrs. David G.. Ritchie's story of Two
Sinners (E. u. Dutton and Company
will interest the reader. We nave
1faud Moncktoh at Brighton looking
across a winter sea at "A sunse when
"a admirably described. whereafter the
young lady moves th~oughtfully along
me quickly darkening Parade. finger
enx the letter in her muff and trying
10 be enough to drop II
into a letter box. IL she does drop 1t
IN II will come very soon into the
hands OF Major kames, who is at
Princes Hotel, not far away, eagerly
waiting for IL, and she will be en-
ragged to marry the Major.
why should she hesitate? The In
fiuence Of the narrative from the be-
Ginning Is such that the reader will
like Major kames. will be his friend
and strong partisan. and will wish
impatiently that the understanding Of
the heroine could be quickened. II
Win be noticed that all the other char
acters in the book have no difficulty
ct all in Hiking the Major. Maud's
younger sister. Stella, wanted to get
Him for herself, and Ursula. her other
sister, who was elderly. opened to him
without delay her lonely and COM
pretending heart. Lady Dorothy was
Immediately won over-the dowager
aunt, who lived in Brown street and
had the shockingly Ill tempered little
Pomeranlan dog.
But If Maud's letter had gone into
the box with quick and eager decision,
with q cordial and grateful rattle and
thump, the plan OF the story would
hove been violated. Maud Is pur-
posely made to be provoking because
aho n . study of one form of what
the paper cover OF the book. echoing
EB ANAL words of Faust" second
puRE calls the eternal feminine. The
Major was rich and strong and good
0os1fng. He had great common sense;
b was an excellent oak for a vine
b cling to. Maud was afraid he VAS
- Old but ne was only 3S. and mas
muuh as Maud was IS she was really
NJ % very far behind him. Just
afosr she had posted the letter she was
thrilled by the strong voice Of her
sim young cousin. DR.. George
Droughton. George had ar earnest
manner: he talked biology and chem
isuy with much enthusiasm. II APP
peazB later, however. that ne had his
Limitations. Stella a extravagant,
and after he had married her George
wan unhappy because he could not
NEST the household expenses. The
young pair had TO be helped repeat
edly by Aunt Dorothy and the others.
The breaking of Maud's engagement
with the Major makes a curious part
Of the story. The young lady was not
religious. and she had never set eyes
on Father FtZherbert before the day
when she left the decision in this i'm
pOrtant matter entirely In his hands
She seems to have been greatly In
fiuenced hy the fathers lean snd
powerful face. "It was as IL the
sculptor had moulded features OF al
intellectual type and then had scored
The forehead and the lips with a
chisel." The rupture 81 the engage.
nent was Immediately painful. but Il
had valuable consequences. II al.
lowed the eyes of the heroine % be
opened. Set In a more removed rela-
t1on to The Major she was enabled tr
zee with great distinctness values Il
which she had hitherto been blind
The matter still vested with Father
Fftzherbert. He watched Maud. ant
when he saw that her vision had be
come quite clear he gave the wore
whereby she and the Major were made
happy.
7. The story relates the death Of Aunr
Dorothy's Pomeranian dog. 1t was
Vicious little creature, and Aunt Doro,
thy's butler was unfeignedly and rea,
0onably glad when it passed away.