Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-12-21
BURTON KLTNE'S NOVEL
SHOWS A NEW BOSTON
"Struck by Lightning Drops
Conventions of Classic At
mosphere and Such
srEygcE ~ cIIaIrNtNo " notl.o 600.

srRucK nv ttoHrSrSo Nv .nurteu kline
John lane COMPANY New Nork
Anything Il likely 10 happen In ncston.
novelist can make anything happen thorc
TN the Modern Hub whieh u by no means
the Modern Athens of Holmes. Lowell.
Aldrich oresies Brownnon. whipplc Fields
and others--without fear Of bclns held up
Tor fracture OF the realities or the unlues.
one has only 10 remember tho ineredulity
that swert over the Middle West. long
grown out og ezubcrant and eupcptc pro
pensity 20 such dolrEs. Ut hrst paEe
news story ot few years hEo NOV oho
lone bandit but bovy ~ them shot up
washington street somewhere oeyonu
whore that interestingly named thorough.
fare. Peter Farley iauc. enters the citiued
CowpNth named after the father OF h's
Country, For not only dld they roo Nnu
slay, but they made getaway TO mos'
appropriate haven. Forest lills Cemetery
aud u took posse cOmitatus several days
TO end their wild career
Mr. Kline. n "g'ruck by lightning,
has no such pgRdlo nud Adams angle to
hls plot hut what happens In his story "
not Just what would happen IN the hos'ou
~ Mr. Howclls or Judge Grant lie ~
keen FOR tho fact thu, Roston has ohhnE'u
and that the nogtOn convention IN hetlon
ia outmodcd 50 he skaters traditions anu
Illusions and writes n story that gives w
reader something imprrse'oulFtlc or VIC
uoston " today n story That Is na mooue
nnd as Internationally brilliant Ne the levin
that Evca Il name and one Illuminate"
by constant flashes ~ cpigrnm.
struck by Lightning" n not a mover
with "a purp1rc ur n 10 BE- the purpose ~
sheerly to entertain u has No prohiem
and NOT n great deal % psychology thonsn
tho traits and moods 10 tho adventures
are rather kcrulv analysed u ", In snort.
fantasia In terms ~ realism Mort or
all Il H. d1shlrE romance. both In lhG
sense OF what devlutcs from the Inrh'l
and usual and in tho derived collohu'n'
sense ~ devotion 20 sentiment romance
that does not dlVinin turninE TO COMEDY
Woman r. either dynamo or n thunder.
bolt according 10 the srlf-nppointed Mentor
" the rising young statesman who hEnr''
rs hero-Aud ~ course, temporary dupo'
aimee there ia tho aforementioned ndNrh-
turrsH succcss iu ne depends ON whether
q man ls oucrElscd or shocked by woman
~ would not uc fair to anmmar'fc 'nN
plot: it never Is Ia tale whore the plots
the thing. and rchaahing ot mcloaroma ''
~ unpllatahlc as tho rechnuUe OF an "mr-
let Rut thls story has such factors OF
compelling interest aH a wldow-Whp wins;
! "a political campaign which lands the some
| what errant hero under tho ncEts ot the
Sacred CadHsn I'm the guhernatorlal chair
| despite h|u gaWlvonilur like "A gnddinS VINO
about tho trs,llz ut l1vr; an Industrial
crlEll In which bS rs a vital force balny
| hours ON ono ~ tNr beaches; Harvard
| aRaIf-ur course and naturally, a IRE (:
| ~ lot ~ Old families and uomc % later
| foundation than lcJs and marvellous
! motor cEctpado following EomrwhUt tho
! route OF puul Revere. and ending In
canoe Iaunt that would DO credit 90 Elinor
| Glyu.