The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-12
CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASONS
LATEST. BOOKS
Barry Pain Picks His Stories He Thinks the Best
Angela Morgans Short Stories.
Justice in War Time Robert Herrick's European
Impressions. and Other War Books.
Text Books on Punctuation. Spanish Business Terms,
French Juvenile Plays-Other Themes.

An authors judgment on his own
work will he found in the volume OF
COLLECTED Tales" tFredcrick \. Stoke
Company, the bakers dozen that
Barry Pain has picked out as those
he thinks the best among the many he
has written in twenty-five years. lie
has been very industrious In that time
and his stories have found "A ready
acceptance. for they are always care
ful,v constructed and well written. Tie
has excluded in his selection all stories
h a we're intentionally humorous, fol-
lowing the advice of the late w. II.
Henley. which is rather To I've re-
rretted. FOR Mr.. Pains natural m
clination IL to be humorous. Nearly
all in this volume turn on a super
natural. mystical or fanciful theme
and all are very interesting, Ihey
have too a distinct literary duality.
with none OF the anectat'on, whether
in language or IN psychology. which
afYlicts the latest generation of Eng
lish story writers. The second volume
promised u expectation. FER
haps later Mr.. Pain may lit the ban
on his own humor.
II is "A decidedly youthful story that
Dorothy Fisher Gilman has written
in THE Bloom OF Youth ,Small. May
nard and Company, Boston,. a story
that may open the eyes of parents to
the peculiarities of twentieth century
children. There is "A good deal oil
mild satire about the ways OF Boston
who. apparently. except IN
externala. remain the same from gen.
Grafton to generation. and there IL a
sketchy background OF Harvard and
of Radcliffe. which will satisfy those
familiar with these institutions and
will not mean much 10 strangers. Inc
heroine is a young girl OF the blues'
Boston blood. who is swept away ny
the outpourings of "A Callow Harvard
eocialist and decides to so TO college
instead of taking her place in society
At Radcliffe she shows her democracy
BY consorting with a plcbeian lta!lai
girl and a negre>s n avoiding hef
natural associates. she takes courses
in economics and cugen.rs and sen
problems and listens 10 all kinds OF re-
FORMERS. Sh" u q ''Ne' h'a'e" gu
hoveye". and by the time she il read!
10 graduate has had most of the non
sense knocked out Of her. she - also
health.ly inscnSihie To all kinds oi
love maN}Ag' I"' i''S''""' "'.''
or the DINER h'hu' " "'''"E 800,
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author 'md-Ih"i''h' Inv "'"N EN'
q hr!S"t n am0SsnS P't"'e Va NV
energy "t th' n'oderh t"''
with IN" pest I" MAKE 'n'
love OF l~iar'e4lIn ana 'oluh'p'l' pu"''
zeal ana lahthu'' MAR" '"'T III IN
Immortal 'ymrdsts '''orse IL
Doran company Turns L. "'Ve' an
into the pretty bu' commonplace ""'
man mould Harlequin WIN MS power
OF perception - op' "iSS'e''""S
hut IL ch"rmihs'N matte
OF TACT ana pfosa!c' Inc TWO 'aN'
charge OIL the io'e anal'S W S"f"'
ordinary morta!s' q oeIIcA'e Nouht
girl who Is rHted ny q coarse crea
ture ana IL rescued ny d very n'''
hoy with a nicer mother IN" scehe'
these three IN Il
garden ana those enacted III ,o'us'
bines dairy are charm'hS' me au
thors charity eN'ehns even 10 'Ne eN''
doers, "hon she mahes app "'.e'
doing her pest 10 pre1ndice the reaoe'
against them she Is lar 100 ''pera
IN descriptions OF interior decora'ioh'
n or dresses ana Some poe.
zeal eniorescence might ne pruned al
vantageons!y' put the s'or' ~ pretty
M characters ATTRACTIVE anu '"e 'o''
~deiishtiui'
The disease which anilc's the mar
Sator or W. R!leTs Netheric'eh ~
p. Putnam's sons also interfere
with his story. u ~ some myS'eriou'
anection or the heart' whI'h mas KEEP
him on his back Tor twenty-five year