The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-20

mother Is represented as devoted to
comfort. though she seems to II
her husband and to look after her
daughters pretty well. She has n ro-
mantle aunt, one sister who is Il
naughty beauty. another who Is sem
timental. all three doomed to spinste--
hood. When the girl grows up she
marries her friends brother against
the wishes Of her people. who drop
her. Her husband is devoted to her.
she has children and they live com
fortably enough till she persuades
herself that she has never loved her
husband. a bad scare rids her of that
idea; then she worries over her chill
drcn because they are very modern,
the war brings them together again.
1t is n faithful enough though nos
very kindly picture Of undistinguishei
people: the author notes the changes
in clothes and in furnishings. II win
less detniteness those in and
ideas.
4 Climbers Progress.
The heroine Of Florence lrwtn's The
Road TO Mecca CO. i. Putnam's Sons)
is consistently selfish from beginning
TO end and is never betrayed into
an ordinarily decent action; she also
has extraordinary luck. u starts as
, the shiftless. uneducated daughter OF
plain farmers and marries "A mar who
has in him the making OF a successful
man. h picks up her ideas of style
from the fashion papers. She Is taken
up by an u~nprincipled and ~disslpatcl
New York woman. acquires the neces-
sary vices Of society and IL enabled by
an accident which makes her husband
rich TO transfer herself 10 New York.
There she schemes to break into the
best society and succeeds in her OH
| lcct MS n result OF her husband
wealth and reputation and her own
shrewdness. How she makes up 70"
| the defects In her education Is not
! shown neither Is II made clear why
she should indulge In adulterous in
trigues, which are not needed for he,
social progress. The author appar-
entity ssumes that adultery is the rule
In exclusive society. AS she has dc
prived her heroine of passion M pro-
vided her with all the money she
wants. her sole motive seems In he
10 cut ont other wo'nen Her lover tires
OF her. her husband Is al.enated from
her, her children do not care for her.
yet she has the position n sougt.
and is nevertheless discontented Tho
idea Of anything like moral principle
/ Is unknown to the people that appear
in this story.
\ P~oIitician's Confession.
Reformcrs will rejoice in the highly
colored exposure OF the iniquity OF
politicians and the wickedness OF their
methods made by Samuel G. Blythe in
4 Western Wdrtcick George II. Do
ran Company n even more In his
implication OF the trusts and other cor
rupt corporate interests. a political
boss describes with great frankness and
with the e~loquence of the m~uckrake-
how he secured control OF his party
convention, nominated his own man,
secured the necessary financial back
ing and won the election. Then he
tells how he controlled the President
for four years and fulfilled the prom
ises he had made TO his supporters
He also describes the disastrous re-
suits of overconfidence to himself and
his candidate. lie IL a Republican
and a protectionist. so that the III
natured may apply names tn charac-
ters and to Incidents on which Mr.
Blythe has POLITICALLY n e%loquently
embroidered.
WcIshman's s~truuxle "a Rise.