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lightened as the story proceeds; she
rather than to suggest modes of relief
and she apparently advocates the sin
gle standard OF morality.
Gardening and q Girl.
Though n crafty old lrishman's
matchmaking schemes and a pretty
and efficient girl distract the attention
somewhat, II is the praise of horticul-
ture hat fills Frances Duncan's Ro-
bcrtd Of Rosc6crrU Gardens Double
day. Page m Company. The people
In the nursery are very attractive. the
old proprietor with his visions of prog
ress. the skilled experimental. the
genial foreman with his blarney and
the engaging girl who is interested in
every detail Of the business. Between
them they manage TO convey a lot of
information about plants of all kinds.
about methods Of handling them and
marketing them. The young man who
appears M carries off the heroine Is
almost an intruder. he probably would
moi have won her IL he had not pro-
vided her with a gardening job. The
people are so pleasant In this story
that we grudge the time and space
devoted to gardening.
4 Husband TRANSPORTATION.
There is so much ak Of n mans spell
of restlessness and craving for adven-
lures n so much stress put IN the
other woman's strenuous past in War
wick Deeping's Bridge Of Desire ROB
ert NJ. Mcbride and Company. New
York; that the reader is led to expect
more than a vulgar intrigue. The man
is a writer, happily married. whose
wife IL his intellectual comrade as well
as the woman he loves. He meets NJ
adventures who want him chiefly
in order to take him from the other
woman: his Imagination is fired and he
dreams OF all kinds of adventures with
her. He behaves shabbily 70 his VIE
in every way and elopes with the other
woman: they go TO Paris. 10 Monte
Carlo and TO Switzerland and are dread.
fully bored with each other. The wife
preserves the prophecies by saying
that her husband has gone away for
his health. and waits patiently for him
to return to his senses. That does nj
take long: when he !s ashamed of his
conduct he goes back to her and is
forgiven. The passion that might OK
cuse this performance is wholly lack
ing; the sole reason seems to he that
the man was bored by domestic bliss
All Men Brothers.
It is a plea for the removal Of nj
roao prat,,l,,.v ratla, thnv IN SfnrNs
that the Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon hI
written in OF one Blood ,Small. May
nard and Company, Roston). The
story opens with n prize oratorica
contest in a Kansas college which hd.
among its students fourteen varietlo!
OF human beings, differing In Ian
guagc, color. religion and race. TIN
winner OF the contest is a negro q
extraordinary mental ability n grea
amiability. As the outcome of an un
Just accusation against him a clu'
Is formed in which all the n|ationalitic
are gathered and thcir common hu
mainly is demonstrated The chi"
actors in the subsequent rather dis
, connected episodes are the negro,
! Jew, a Kentucky m|ountaineer who be
l comes a preacher and a plain Amer
> can newspaper mar who loves
.Jewess who repels him. They singl
! and together help in carrying out re
> forms that Mr.. Sheldon advocates. .
description OF an attempted ~lynching /
the most dramatic incident in tn
V book, which probably will appeal TO IN
. special public that the author nd
dresses.
n A sanitarium Romance.
r Most Of the vents In Charles 1
Lerrigo's The Castle OF cheer Hlem
ing II. Revell Company occur in
sanitarium for tuberculosis paticnti
The plain sensible talks OF the ol
doctor in homcly dialect about healt
and philosophy and other matters al
enjoyable and the love affair betwee
II the lawyer and the younger nurse
properly conducted. There Is hume
IN the encounter between the harb'
and the quack. There is much nect
q lessly complicated mclodrama ahol
n the quack and his appliances, more
II the nature of the magazine exposure
n than Of fiction. that hamper the stor
\ Harvard
Both the heroine of the Rev. Micha'
4 Earls's Marie OF the House D,Antci
a ,BenZiEer Brothers, and her JcWes
friends are attractive girls: VIC cou'
have wished them detached from tt
somewhat absurd villains who pers'
> cute them. The most coherent threa
in the story is the conversion of II
:. Harvard mar with an undeserved Ii
crary reputation to Catholicism 10y Il
study of Jewish history and condition
v at the time OF the destruction of Jcrl
y salem by Titus. The rcason for Il
= conduct Of other characters is rath'
% hard TO follow and the connection