The sun., 1916-09-02
CRITICAL REVIEWS
OF THE SEASONS.
LATEST Q
Mrs. Deland Dissects the Modem Young Woman
A Tale Of the Modern Girl in England.
An Unpleasant Story Of British Artistic Circles
A New Farce by William Game.
New Books Viewing the War from Various Sides
Practical Subjects Miscellaneous Themes.

inebriate sees things. the other mans
reputation is imperilled. but after sew
eral comic situations and some up
roarious fun everything. even a o
affair, is arranged satisfactorily. Mr..
Game is really funny with the familiar
material he employs.
PRUDENCE SAYS SO. (The Bobbs.
Merrill Co., lndianapolis.D NJ
Ethel nueston. (a1.cJ.)
Though Ethel Hueston's Prudence
Says So (The Bobbs- Merrill Company.
1ndianapolis) is the sequel to a girls
book. the minister's daughters grow
so rapidly that four Of the five arc
married before the book ends. The
title is misleading because the two
older girls are married of early and
Prudence plays little part I'm the story.
The heroine is II OF a pair Of twins.
who has amusing misadventures while
she is growing, believes the attentions
of her twins lover are directed 90 her
self and finally finds the mar she cares
for. 1t Is n pleasant, homelike story
and, as the scene is laid in a Meth
odist parsonage. is likely to find many
readers.
THE WILLOW WEAVER. tE. r.
Dutton & Cob ~ Michael
Wood. (S1.)
The poetic descriptions of nature. In
the eight stories contained in Michael
Woods The WiIioW Wedrer are ex-
quisite and the analysis or human feel
ing is delicate. Nearly all are protests
against the wrongfulness and cruelty
of mems judgments. They are rather
poems in prose, put in admirable Eng
lish. than stories. although in zach the
author makes his point emphatically.
THE HOUSE OF FEAR. tDeubIe-
day, Page & Cob BY wadsworth
Camp. ($1.35.)
The reputation that a long unused
New York theatre has Of being
haunted is enhanced by the mysteri.
GUS occurrences that fOllow upon one
another when a determined manager
decides to open it again In Wadsworth
Camps The House Of Fear. We have
a ghost with q limp. ar Invisible cat.
spirit voices over the telephone. death
from unknown causes; enough to
| prove that same supernatural agency
is at work. The manager. however. is
also a detective and a material.st: he
thinks the matter out and reasoning
ingeniously from slight clues unravels
a criminal plot to his own and the
readers satisfaction. Attention Is dis
tracted from his work by the success
sion OF seemingly supernatural incl
dents and by the work. OF the dramatic
company which Is preparing the play.
This procedure is fair in mystery tales;
the complications to the Low episode,
on the other hand. seem petty clumsy.
Ii IL a well constructed story with
original touches hat holds the interest
we'll.
SHORT STORIES FROM "LIFE.'
doubleday. Page 4 Coz Edited
by Thomas l.. Mason. lSI..5.)
An account Of the prize contest for
short stories instituted by Lie pre-
cedes the eighty-onc stories that were
accepted in the volume of Short
stories From "Iifc." The limit set was
1900 words. which is about the length
OF Il newspaper column, and the
writer's were paid at the rate OF Ii
cents for each word less than the
limit; their pride in their work, how
ever, kept most Of those who passed
the critics pretty close to that limit
The labor of the readers was very
great. for 10000 contributions were
sent in. There is little to choose be-
tween the stories which received prizes
and the rest; many of them are pretty
good or contain an idea that Is worth
developing. Toe many are the con.
ventional product Of hardened maya.
zine writer's. who should have been re.
stricted to a single sample.
JUNGLE CHUMs. (Henry Holt a
COB ~ A, Hyatt verrilI
tS1.3b.)
Much information about British
Guiana. It's forests n rivers and the
natives. Is tempered with the nara.
tive Of exciting adventures In A. Hyatt,
: Verrill's Jungle Chums. The hero Is
a capable American youth who has &c
thwart the schemes Of a band Of male
factors: he Is aided and often saved
by a friendly native boy and his tribe
The book Is illustrated with many
photographs.