The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-19
CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASONS
LATEST O
Forrest Reds Story Of the Boyhood Of a Poet Who
Went Into Trade.
John Bosardus" Paints the Episode Career Of a
Wanderer Who Does Not Develop.
Scenes Of Village Lie-James Oliver Curwood's
Hunted Lady" an Exciting Mar rative.

OF difficulties and the stage is an i'm.
provement on the life she leaves be.
hind. With the wise virgin. who only
turns from her respectable surround.
ings because she is bored. 1t Is harder
to sympathize. The author seems
thoroughly imbued with the middle
class notions OF the immortality OF
managers and actors. great and small
but manages to rescue her two
heroines before she closes.
II Is with much Of the rapidity and
the delicate psychology Of the photo
plays that James Oliver Curwood hur-
ries along the heroine Of The Hunted
Lady" doubleday. Page and Com
pany). Her experiences In out OF the
way places all over. the globe should
have prevented her behaving like q
girl just out Of boarding school In the
rough, head OF the rail camp In Can.
ada It was necessary for her, how.
ever. to meet the hero, Il famous au.
thor, under auspicious circumstances
As soon a. they get together the
strenuous life begins. for they have
villainy OF all sorts to contend against
In some OF the adventures Mr.. Cur.
wood shows his familiarity with the
Northwest land. In others ne is merely
m~elodramatic. The story is very ex.
citing.
Even more strongly IL the influence
OF the moving pictures shown In Jack
son 0regory's THE Outlaw ,Dodd
Mead and Company, in which life on
the ranch is turned into a rapid sue
cession Of me.odramatic situations
h faith OF several persons in the
rather unprepossessing cowboy hero
Is justified in the end: he is also en-.
abled by means OF q remarkable dis.
play OF bad n TO distinguish
between the right girl and the wrong
The author revives Bret Harte's gen.
tlemanly gambler to add To the y.
element.
Though the three young girls IN
Marion Ames Taggart's "Hollyhock
House" Doubleday. Page and Com
pany) are described as OF tender years.
they talk and behave as older people
do. They are engaged chiefly in edu-
eating their mother. a singer and en-
tertainer who had abandoned them
because she could not live without
s"o Sppsnuco VI tAc puUIiC. CNe comes
home when she loses her voice and
her daughters try to keep her con-
tented and amused. Fortunately there
are no money difficulties on either
side. The description Of the type OF
woman In whom the motherly feeling
II wholly undeveloped IL very good:
II u difficult to feel much sympathy
for her even when she wakes up.
There are pleasant scenes and pleas.
ant people in the story.
In "Emmeline" (Houghton MiHiin
Company Elsie Singmaster tells the
story OF a young girl who accidentally
was on the firing line at the battle
Of Gettysburg. The farmhouse in
which she happened to be was used
by the ~Confederates as a hospital and
she helped. The one-armed rebel In
charge succeeds In showing her that
even the enemy could be kind and
gentlemanly. II In an interesting
story. particularly valuable at this
time because It shows a side OF war
that is being overlooked, though
plenty Of testimony comes from the
fighting lines Of the kindnesses shown
to each other by the contestants.