The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-18

his mother and decides to boom the
town with the assistance Of a capable
seaman. They discover that the rail-
roads control the politicians and pur-
posely hold the town back and Cypress
the farmers. On the hero's return the
heartless corporation and Its henchmen
are exposed and thwarted. Moreover
the heroine's brother. who IL a black
guard at the start and u sot when the
hero comes back. Ia transformed In a
few months into a fairly decent and
capable mai Of business. 1t IL q queer
tumble Of heterogeneous matters.
The cav mar theory probably leads
Edfrid A. Bingham In 1.-THE Heart Of
Thunder Mountain" (Little. Brown and
Company 10 make a society girl visit
ing Colorado fall In love with a violent
and extremely rude young man. She
devotes herself TO him. which annoys
him greatly. and PUSHES after him
when he goes In pursuit Of an extraor-
binary wild horse. They are caught by
storm and snow on an inaccessible
mountain. where. as he has broken q
leg and Is helpless. she tends on him
and they pass the winter in q cave.
That. OF course. subdues him at last.
The descriptions Of the mountains and
the girls love making are fine. and the
endeavor to tame the yellow wild horse
is interesting; this makes up for many
crudities In the story.
In Arthur f. McENarlane's Behind
the Bolted Door" (Dodd. Mead and
Company q neurologlst undertakes 10
lte,AxyAs |kA aVnat-afn ~ a vnpHNnr
according to certain formulas he lays
down. The reader will soon infer cor
rectly who the guilty person u. but
the neurologist insists. after the man.
ner OF his kind. on tracing all other
suspicious trails and persons first in
order to eliminate them before bring
ing forward his " proofs. The au-
,bor has taken more pains In con.
structing a complicated crime and
evolving a scientific theory than he
has in making his story ineligible. He
wen uses the device OF making the
professional detectives stupid in order
TO obscure the solution.
An amiab!e naval officer whose eye
sight has been injured and several en-
ter;aining natives Of a large island IN
the New England coast are myst!fed
by the vagaries Of a charming young
woman in Sylvia Chatield Bates's The
Geranium Lady (Dufield and Com.
pany). She Ia a professional nurse and
Is occupied In breaking of her engage
nient to the oculist she works with, be-
cause she has found out that she loves
the officer. She would have saved a lot
OF trouble II she had acknowledged at
the start that she nursed him when he
was injured and unconscious. There
are delightful descriptions Of the ISL
and. which might just as well be named.
and Of the people Who dwell on 1t. The
story is pleasant, but the melodramat!c
termination rather Jars.
In Captain Gardiner of the Inter-
national Police tDodd. Mead and
Company Robert Allen describes the
events OF sixty years hence, when the
war has brought about the confedera-
ton OF all the Western nations and
the Yellow Peril, which In this ease Is
chiefly China. The chief form Of con-
vtyance by that time will be airshlps.
For the operations the author seems
TO have borrowed a leaf from the Boxer
rebellion and the march on Pekin.
The hero in spite OF his exploits does
not arouse as much sympathy as the
genial airship commander. II is not
easy to take Interest. in fictitious war
! operations or politics. The story is
I enlivened by two love affairs.
Nine entertaining episodes in the
domestic life Of a suburban couple are
related by Sophie Kerr In "Love at
Large" (Harpers). The heroine is
sprightly and kittenish. she does not
seem troubled with high standards OF
conduct. and her husband is certainly
long suffering. They are interested,
however. In the things that seem to oc.
cupy most people nowadays and which
will interest many readers also.
A play by Fred Ballard. young
America" which was founded on a coll
lection Of stories. has in its turn been
put into story form by Samuel Field
and Is illustrated with photogra phs OF
the play (Dufie!d and Company.