The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-08

difficult to see. considering the things
she does and what she knows. why
she should draw a line anywhere. That
she should wind up In a high church
community Is again a violence done
to the story to suit the authors con-
venience. He gives his heroine no
chance to develop In any direction. but
blocks her path with something foul.
The woman In Samuel Merwin's
THE Honey Bee" (The Bobbs- Merrill
Company. 1ndianapolis) does not sue
cumb to temptation. for which we are
grateful. She Is q business woman.
the efficient buyer for a great de-
partmert store. who steps aside from
the beaten path In Paris. This leads
to her looking after a strange baby
left to the care of a lot Of chorus
girls and to making the acquaintance
Of kindly and gentlemanly prize
fighter. Her humane impulse brings
upon her certain amount OF trouble.
as such impulses always do. but II
also entails a change In her manner
Of life. which is highly beneficial to
her. as she is in need OF a vacation.
That portion Of the story Is satis-
factory. The humanizing process ex-
tends to her flirting with the pugilist
which enables the author to describe
boxing contests and a great prize
fight in Paris. a part OF the book that
may appeal to a more limited public
She is saved. however by the recol-
lection OF her passion for her first en-
ployer. married man. a tale that
is repeated several times and is con-
t.nued with much propriety when she
meets that gentleman In Europe. She
decides that she Is a worker and no
queen bee and returns to the store
after her vacation in a much enhanced
state Of efficiency. We have been
unable to become interested in the
analysis Of the heroine's amatory
emotions.
Humor is not John Galsworthy's
stronges; point, and that shown in the
collection OF miscellaneous papers
called The Little Man and Other
Satires" Charles Scribner's Sons) Is
very mild, but all that Mr.. Galsworthy
writes is pleasant reading. OF the two
little plays. the first. besides the satire
on selfishness, makes fun Of national
peculiarities, and the authors notation
Of American pronunciation Is interest
ing; the second plays with the readi-
ness to think evil. The stories are
amusing and the last one Is pathetic
in a conventional way. The essays
are rather perfunctory REVEALS Of an
obsolete style Of composition.
precocious and voluble infant, far
too mature in mind for any eight
year-old. makes trouble for her elders
consistently and without cessation in
Lucille Grinnan Lyons The Green
woods" tThe Neale Publishing Com
pany. New York;. Her society Of in
dependent orphans with It's defiance of
guardians Is a noble invention, and her
skill in aggravatins her elders by be-
having properly is admirable. The
fun Is kept up we'll. but a whole
volume OF II in one key Is perhaps too
much OF good thing. In holding up
the young person 70 admiration the
author has dealt rather shabbily with
the grown people: they are made to
appear snobbish, dull and inhuman
by the persistence Of the young
heroine. Bright as she is, she seems
to be a rather heartless child.
An overaoundance Of sentimentality
marks Emma c. Dowd's "Doodles"
CHoughton M!ffiin Company as Il
does the authors other books. Her
sweet tempered and talented little
cripple lives in a tenement house in
habited by many amiable people. He
possesses wonderful bird. q very
capable brother. IL able to solve two
melodramatic mysteries and IL des-
tined to be cured by the agency of the
heroine OF tho authors earlier tales.
In the short stories contained In
The Kidnapped Damozei" (The
Franklin Book Company, New York;
David skaats Foster essays different
forms Of humor. The title story de-
scr!bes an elaborate hoax In a banter
Ing tone and some portions arc funny
The Oval Diamond" IL an excellent
detective tale Of tho hide and seek
order. tribe too bioodthirsty at the
end. but with . fair love story. In
~Alraschid In Petticoats" the author
has tho right idea Of the nature Of the
medieval 3ast, but 10 not very success
ful with his antiquarian English.
In The Book Of the Serpent" (Sher-
man, French and Company, BOSTON,
Katharine Howard tries her hand A
improving the story R the Garden Of
Eden. We arc not sure whether II IA
meant b. M q nrr~> 0~>-, - -,