The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-15

Tho new woman with her
views Of life and disregard of con-
ventions holds the centre Of the stage
in many of the stories at hand. though
the outcome for her seems to be much
che same as for the old type Of girls.
She Is a nurse In a psychopathic insti-
tuition in Margaret Turnbull's "1Iandie
With Care" diarpers). skilled in car
ing for moral and mental derelicts.
Being on the verge Of . breakdown
through overwork she finds a pleasant
village in Jersey to rest IN. becomes
acquainted with the natives and rubs
against the black sheep Of the commu-
nifty, a shiftless drunkard with q jail
experience. She liz led gradually into
an attempt to reform htn, w1ii1e no
becomes interested in her and hopes
20 win her by behaving himself. As
he 10 a college man who has gone to
the bad there are few difficulties In the
way. ave those prepared by a spite
1Ol and omniscient female journalist,
tail she decides to put him through
. long probation. The awakening Of
tho girls affection and Its development
3 told pleasantly. there Is much
charming country life. the village peo-
pie are interesting and the artist coll
ony and other summer people much
lees so. The girl is at her best when
the author forgets her professional
character. There is too much sticking
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the heroine fiouts public opinion.
The business woman is probably a
leas common typo In England than In
this country and Una l.. Silberrad in
abandoning a for one form OF
realism in Co-Directors' George II.
Oofan Company evidently feels that
she u breaking new ground. Her
heroine Is middle aged and eminently
knsthodical and practical. She supplies
ne capital for an inventor who has
0eV4sed a method for making artificial
01Ats. The realism consists in the de-
0cf1ption Of the process and Of the
successive difficulties the inventor has
70 overcome. He will never admit that
he 70 beaten and begins all over again
after every check. The partners meet
O8S0Al ~ u PCIleCtly DuSlIlcSSllke vIldn-
nor. but with singular disregard OF
APPEARANCES. She grows to admire his
courage and persistence, while he
counts on her understanding INC sym
pathy. When they lace failure they
discover that they are in love. The
author gives us besides an amusing
and not very kind photograph OF a
ooft spoken woman who always has
her W way. She has a poor opinion,
apparently, OF the Welsh quarrymen
and their physical endurance. The
story is interesting and Miss silberrad
writes good English.
Through very many pages Of
oprightly fireworks in Stella Benson's
u Pose tMacmilians) the reader may
imagine that the book is "A b~urleeque
on the open air romances. with hits
~ any question OF the that
attracts the author. The characters
are grotesques and there seems to he
no story. Gradually the author works
in an O OF an ocean voyage, OF
a visit to tropical islands, and gives
human characteristics to her monde
script rowing hero. to @ matter Of fact
young woman. TO "A hypOcritical
clergyman and above all to a mill
tAnt s~uffragist. Then she grows more
serious II bitter; she sends them all
back TO England and describes the suf-
fragist's power,ess efforts to help
Workingwomen and to undo the harm
done by the clerical improvers of the
poor. She ends with something like
the shrieks of protest OF the suffMgist.
The banter at the beginning is anus
ing. but there is far too much Of II.
Where there Is so little charaCteriza-
ton it does not seem worth while to
demonstrate that the hero is inslncere
IN his posing, while the heroine be-
lieves in her cause. BY the time she
gets through the author has certainly
turned her book into a plea for
women's rights.
A remarkably independent young
oma is the heroine Of Rupert
Hughes's Clipped Wings" tHarper).
She inherits dramatic talent from sew
eral generations of famous actors and
she also knows how to have her own
way. When she grows up she is Mt
tractive to men. She decides to be-
come an actress and her stage career
IL the occasion for much information
8NHd dlilS Ali' N"Ss va ~
actors and the stage. She marries for
love a business man. but after a few
years of family life begins 10 pine for
the stage; to ave her the husband
generously let's her go back and In
abetted by various men who have been
in love with her. the leading man, the
manager and the playwright.
The first part of Cecil Adair's THE
Sails OF Life (Brentano's) describes
the successful settlement work OF a
High Church Clergyman in h slums
of London. This engages the atten-
ton and secures the cooperation Of
some friends of his, an officer from
India who Is about to retire, an aSisto-
cratic old lady who holds a salon and
very charming and outspokeH young
girl, who naturally confuscs the clergy
man with his work in admiring it..
She IL in consequence very rude to an
offensive peer. who draws much money
from sweating Industries, The clergy
man IL not for her. however. for the
second part Is devoted to his q for
an invalid recluse, living near n OF
the Italian lakes. who from afsr has
yearned to work in the slums. They
marry and are happy even after her
death. The girl II also provided for.
The clergyman aHd the author plead
strongly for the literal Interpretation
and application OF the Bible and for
faith IN the near approach OF the Sec
ond advent.
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