New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-03
HENRY HAZLITT.
THE CRIJSE OF THE JASPER B.

THE CRUISE OF THE JASPER Is.
THE CRUISE or THE JASPER -. By Don Mar
outs l2mo ~ 3ls. D. Appleton Go.
Clement J. Claggett, copyreader on
"The New York Morning Enterprise,
receives news that he has inherited
half a million dollars. He forthwith
tells his managing editor what ne really
thinks of him, walks out of the office
and across the Brooklyn Bridge TO his
rooms. They. like Tartarin OF TaraS--
cons home, at a glance betray the real
character. the hidden temperament OF
this quiet, steady servant of the public.
Dumas. Stevenson, Stanley j. Weyman,
Clark Russell. Harrison Ainsworth, q.
p. X. James, Gustave Aymard, du Bols-
gobey. Anthony Hope, Walter Scott:
clavmores, daggers, broadswords, To-
ledo blades, pistols, warlike pictures.
After twenty years Of repression, Gag
gett is free TO seek the adventure ior
which he has thrsted. There is some-
thing of d'Artagnan in him; he knows
II. Something of Rassendyll, and ne
knows that too. Something OF Ma
poleon. and even of this he IS not I'M
conscious. His opportunity has come,
and he is ready. r, :.
So he buys the Jasper B. She is
moored to a canal bank on Long Island.
The natives call her scow; he knows
that she is a schooner He Will put
masts into her. equip her and san the
seas in search of pirates and maidens IN
distress. Instead, the adventures come
to him The pirates seek him out, so
does the maiden whom the villains still
nursue. but she is a widow. The maiden
iadv from Newark. y. j., follows after.
Clement has his hands full, repeliing
boarders from the Landslide, watching a
mysterious houseboat that has an
chored across the mouth of the canal,
cutting off his escape by water. lie
ventures singlehanded into the head
quarters of the villains-an inn on
shore. There is grewsome dead man
chest. there are mysterious boxes
and notwithstanding AUTOMOBILES
and runaway horses and storm tha'
takes the sticks out of the Jasper b.
Clement J. Claggett enjoys himself IN
tho midst of il all he even finds time 70
enjoy himself objectivell and the
reader enjoys even more all this whim-
steal. topsy-turvy invention OF advent
ure seeking out the hero IN the most
unlikely of places. The book is good
fun.
THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING.
THE PROOF or THE PUDDING. by Meredith ~
Nicholson. VIII Illustrations. l-mo' pp' 90
Tie Houghton Minlin company
For once the publishers blurb on the
slip-cover speaks true. This novel does
combine several OF the best qualities
of its authors earlier novels. The com
bination has been skilfully made on
the whole, and yet one wonders IL tne
emission of some of these ingredients
would not have made better
stronger book, though decidedly not one
with greater chances of popularity
For one thing, the story is somewhat
out Of focus. The hero and the nero
inc are not its most interesting char-
acters To burden the jeune premier
with the comedians role as wei Is
hazardous venture at best. In this IN
etance it achieves only half success
Jerry Amidon, pushing, cheerful
sIangv. modelling himself upon MS
bean ideal of a gentleman. amuses US
As a lover. as the hero of the romance
NJ the hook. he is unconvincing, not,
witbstanding all his rough diamond
nohIe qualities. And the heroine
",rabhIes." II is her own word. In the
and Inc yyabbles right, but she fans 10
impress US as do the real characters II,
the hook. the whimsical yet purposeiui,,
Eaton, the divorced Mrs. Copeland, al al
| but her return TO her reformed BLACK
guard Of a husband, and old Farley ARE
Who is not a captain Of finance but =
rotirod Middle Western merchant OF
tbo conservative old type. Mr.. Nlcnoi'
cor tben gives US in this story three
oonres-a social study OF the cnangt
from rom the old to modern metropolitan
mann and morals in an Indiana
town town, a novel of plot, and a romance nG
of love The result is truly read.
oble thoroughly entertaining story i ii
a aO season. likely 70 achieve the popular
Success Il which it unmistak ably L.
s lined, It's parts are greater than the
Mole, but it is thoroughly well VIII