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fulfl them than his American class
mates. He straightens out his next
brother, on whom the blame for most
Of the village wrongdoing was put.
The oldest girl wants TO improve her
condition; she becomes a servant for a
few months, learns the American way
Of doing things. then tries to force
them on her family, but gives 1t up
In order to marry early. The next
girl Is lazy and shiftless. caring only
for pleasure; she marries early too.
Then comes one who becomes a school
teacher rather against her will. but IL
wholly A~mericanized. The stories Of
other children are much moro human
and the good natured, shiftless Ameri-
n farmer and his wife who watch
the progress OF the Poles are lovable.
THE BIGAMIsT. John Lane
Company ny r. r.. Mills
Young. (S1.35.)
The artistic simplicity and truthful
ness with which +. L. Mills Young re-
lates the story Of The Bioamist John
Lane Company may compensate for
its unrelaxing painfulness. A young
wife in South Africa who has been
married for five years to che man she
loves suddenly discovers that he has
left n wife behind him In England.
Her love for him and the thought Of
her children makes her yield to his
entreaties to keep on living with him.
He loses his respect for her, however,
begins to neglect and to abuse her,
takes to drink II 90 running after
other women. He avoids marrying her
when his real wife dies and turns out
to he as dcspicable n cur as n
woman has painted. He Is paralyZed
and the girl. who has ceased 10 love
; him. decides to marry him and TO take
| care OF him. A man who loves her
tries in every way to dissuadc her and
To have her marry him instead. but
she has learned her lesson and sticks
10 what she believes Is her duty. II
Is a pitiful and tragic story.
kINsMEN. George II. Doran
Company ny Percival J.
Cooney. Ri.bO.)
Some sense OF his responsibilities
and duties toward the clansmen he
took with him to Canada would have
given force to the central figure in
Percival j. Cooney's Rinsmen George
, II. poran Company. AS II is he,
through his agent, dlscloses merely the
vulgar trickery OF a modern land
%swindler. modified by occasional out
breaks OF senseless violence. in which
he is protected BY the laxity OF the
law and the corruption OF the officials.
He never shows the qualities OF n
Scottish chief. though he tries TO en-
force his privileges. His suffering
clansmen are picturesque, so are the
supers.itions which the author de-
scribcs. The love story is satisfactory
and the hero Is capable and gallant
the heroine's gentleness to the chiefs
d%issolute son Gems out OF place In
view OF what she knew about him pre-
v!ously.
THE WOMAN OF MYSTERY.
dThe MacnuIny Company.I ny
Maurice Leblanc. tsI.25.)
The crimes OF a iend!sh German spy
who has the happy faculty of being
able TO change from a oma Of fash
ion into an army officer are described
by Maurice Leblanc In Tho Woman
Of Mystery (The Macaulay Com
pany. New York;. She is yer present
and all powerful. but Il n match for
tho hero's remarkable intuition. Max
ing her a Hohenzollern and dragging
in the Kaiser and his family do not
help TO make the story attractive.
TOM ANDERSON, DAREDEVIL.
GHoughton Mimtn Company.)
ny Edward Mostyn Lloyd.
taI.SO.p
Beginning with an elaborate and
p~ainstaking account OF an interesting
Virginia family during the Revolu-