The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-25

er kind must be. but she is very
lcvable and natural with her various
pets and she makes her way into tn.
Intimacy Of ell the c~antsnkerous
jewellers in tho apartments. She
humanizes them all. conducts W. love
affairs to happy cndiuGs and removes
the ostracism Of children. dogs and
cats from that building at least.
With the skilful Use Of the methods
If the rouKher school Of realists Bea-
s%capegrace force himself as a servant
on an explorer IN My Lady of the
Island" CA. &. McClurg and Company
Chicago) and personally conducts him
10 New Guinea. There he meets the
heroine and proceeds to fall in love
with her. The travellers go on to the
bismarck archipelago. which gives the
opportunity for unfattering remarks
about the Germans and their colonial
methods. Then begin the real adven-
lures. the quest for a pearl isla nd, a
hight with mutinous natives and an ex-
citing and harassing trip through the
interior of New Britain among canni-
bal tribes. TIL they reach the settle
ments and find hat England has
seized them. 1t is an excellent,
straightforward adventure tale. from
which We could have wished to have
the abuse Of the Germans left out.
Pleasant pictures OF Scottish ountry
life. with an enjoyable love story thai
runs pretty smoothly. is what Amy
Mcl-aren offers in The Heir OF Dun
carron' &c. +. Putnam's SonsJ. The
heir is q brave girl. but 1t lie tlst as
we'll that her lover appears to guide
her at the outset. for she seems pretty
helpless. The author II inclined to he
sentimental and has built up more thar
she has cared to Use. but the story ie
readable and attractive.
Another pleasant Scottish tale. Jo-
seph Laing Waugh's Betty Grier'
david Mckay. Philadelphia. which
! a gone through several impressions.
depends chiefly on the characters for
! its attraction. The narrator In an
invalid recovering from an accident;
he is a fine fellow and the girl that he
falls in love with and helps has charac-
ter. Both. however. are cast in the
shade by his delightful old nurse and
her quiet husband. 1t il a very pretty
story indeed.
The narrator Of "Gibby OF Clamshe!l
Alley" by Jasmine Stone van Dresser
'Dodd. Mead and Company, is IA small
boy living in the disreputable end OF
a New England seacOast village. lie
uses a somewhat artificial dialect and
has ideas much beyond his age. but ne
tells very entertainingly how he starts
In the clam business and makes it
succeed. how he Engages in other
enterprises with his small boy com
panions, how he keeps the village as
tonished; II tells too Of his dolngs with
several picturesque peope. iii his
%parentage is discovered and the black
guard who bullied him is punished
The boys are natural and amusing and
the story is exciting.
With a Clumslness that does NJ
credit TO their intelligence Edgar Rice
Burroughs hero and heroine in "Ths
Beasts Of Tsrzan' "a. &. McClurg ana
Company are kidnapped ana returned
TO the African jungle. There the here
reverts TO his primitive habits. gather,
apes. panthers and natives about him
and proceeds to hunt the heroine again
The descriptions OF wild life. of tn.
forest and OF the fights are "a vivid
As a the earlier books. They are sub.
stantial y repetitions Of those adyen,
lures. one foe Is exterm!nated. hu'
u IL ,ctt alive after the two arr
Rescued. 50 that the author has hi,
chance To return to Africa whenever
he il ready.
Though SaN Iiohmer's Chinese vii
lain was pretty effectively annihilate,
in 4 previous book. he M back I,
life and To mischief IN The Return o