Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-02-23
AMONG THE
NEW BOOKS
Some Coming Fiction
Reviewed

number of interesting stories, by
the Putnam Publishing Co., early
in March. Among these is BARS
of Iron" by Ethel M. Dell, author
of "The Way Of an Eagle" and
"The Keeper of the Door"
Bars of Iron are smybolical of
a memory that imprisons,-the
memory of a sinister act that de-
MES the soul escape from it's own
torture chamber. 1t is the story
of the repression of a secret the
telling Of which may turn wo-
mans incipient love into hate, but
the withholding of which leaves a
man, tortured with the obligation
to tell, exposed to merciless and
unshared intimacy with a spectre
of the past.
Star of the North by Francis
w. Sullivan, author of Children of
Punishment and Alloy of Gold, is
a bold, brawny tale of the North
land,-the land of the trapper
and the dog sled. 1t is a story of
love and rivalry, of the matching
of an honest mans strength of
purpose against a knave's cum
ming. The heroine is a woman of
Astounding, glorious vitality,
equally at home in the dark tan
giles Of the forest or on the wind
swept ice. Her trustfulness-she
measures others by her own un-
tainted outlook upon life-is both
danger and a protection, expos
ing her, on the one hand, to the
brutal cunning of the man who
seeks to wreck her life but enlist
ing on the other, the chivalry of
his rival, who seeks to save her
from the fascination to which she
is succumbing by diverting that
fascination to himself. Star of
the North will also be published
by the Putnams in March.
Readers of Leslie Moore's "Pea-
cock Feather" will find in her new
book, "The Miser Folly" to APP
pear in a few weeks, a story of
kindred interest. The action takes
place on an old estate. The occu-
pying family holds the estate as
the outcome of a series of violent
happenings in the past, culminat-
ing in a written remuneration of
former baronet. The document re-
cording this remuneration has,
however, been lost. With the
opening of the story, there steps
upon the scene a descendant of
the man who made the renuncia-
ton, and this claimant has all the
necessary proofs of his kinship.
Dispossession of the occupying
family seems inevitable. Out of
this situation the author has de-
veloped romantic tale, with
many pleasing touches and a
strong love interest.
"The Road to Mecca" which
the Putnams will publish in April
is the story of woman with as
pirations to acquire the ways of
the Smart World, who begins her
career in a little town where lack
of taste and severity of conscience
are the besetting virtues. The
door of her prison house is.
through an unexpected circum-
stance,-benevolent it seems at
the time-thrown open and the
way of escape leads straight to the
fashionable set of New York. The
doings-one might say the mis-
doings-of society are traced un-
falteringly in this story Of a So
cial climber, woman who is dis
tinguished by her beauty and her
cleverness but who in equal de-
gree is false, Unsuitable, and with
out heart.
Drifting Waters" by Rachel
Swete Mcnamara, author of "The
Fungi of the Desert" ETC., deals
dramatically with the rebellion,
secret rather than expressed and
tempered with resurgences Of 10y
atty, of a young girl, budding into
womanhood, against the jealous
proprietorship of mothers love
There has been much in the mar
ried life of Mrs. Tudor to account
for her bitterness of soul and to
explain her tyrannous affection,
an affection that demands from
the daughter loved singleness of
devotion to the exclusion of every
one else. The daughters fancy is
in time caught in the meshes of
love, and the clandestine express
sion of her attachment. which the
circumstances demand, involves
developments of far-reaching in
terest to the unfolding of the
story. The scene is in part Eng
land, in part Egypt; and readers