The sun., 1916-05-06

To some readers the chief attraction
In William John Hopkinss Thos.
0tIlcspics CHoughton Miffin Company
Will be his applying TO the modern
Boston OF subways and automobiles
the knack OF genial. faithful dcscrip-
ton which he had previously exercised
on Cape Cod and rural New England.
In this ne is helped by the delightful
drawings Of Lester G. Hornhy. who
brings out the poetic and artistic side
Of the real Boston thrusting the
modern intrusions into the background.
Tho central figure IN the story is an
angelic and precocious small boy. who
by being on hand at critical moments
directs the fortunes of hts elders. lie
picks up an amiable youth. who writes
plays and who engages In ludcrous
games OF golf makes him known to
his attractive aunt and helps the two
20 fall In love with each other. lie
keeps his wayward mother from clup-
Ing with a Boston Lothario. whose
power OF fascination may escape the
reader. and also saves his father from
attempting suicide, Through his
agency everything comes right IN the
end. He is an amusing and lovabe
little fellow. who does not tit in with
the exposure of tho perversity and
frivolity OF the modern woman OF
fashion.
The Right Sort Of Girl.
The path of love rurs pretty smooth
in Grace $. Richmond's IHdcr the
Country SKY doubleday, Page AMI
Company, though the reader may feel
In doubt for a time as to which of three
men will win the heroine She is a
college graduate with high ambitions
and with rich relatives Gud friends,
who make her ycarn for the opportn-
mites and pleasures that wealth can
bring. but she stays at home in a
country village to keep house for hcr
invalid father. She is efficient IN all
the many tasks she has to undertake.
and performs them cheerfuliy, though
she keeps comparing them with the
things she would like to do. She has
the opportunity to taste the pleasures
she dreams Of and is tempted Ia snatch
at deliverance rather selishly, hut
she resists and after that the way ls
made easy for her. There is danger
that she may become ouamoured Of a
rich and impctuous youth ur that She
may mistake for love her affection tor
the young man who has grown up
with her. The mate she finds is able
to satisfy all her intellectual CRAVINGS
end nobler desires and at the same
time to supply her with the comfort
she has missed. 1t is a very pleasant
story about nice people ard the girl
and her ideas are alike interesting.
A Patriotic Romance.
There was white slavery in the
North in the days before the war. as
Arthur Goodrich shows in The SiJn OF
Freedom (Appletons). \ little oTphan
boy is bound out to a brutal New Eng
land farmer who Ill treats him shame
fully. a girl tells him what the Fourth
Of July means and gives HIM little
flag, which he wears as a sort Of anu
let. He picks up some schooling and
r. at last driven To running away, when
he meets with queer adventures. HIS
pluck and persistence get him to Bos-
ton, where he works in an eating house
till he is pursued, then he falls in with
burglars who use him as an innocent
decoy; when he escapes from them he
lives for a while with country doctor
and learns the new art of telegraphing.
He has adventures on coasting schooa-
crs. gets to New York and enlists in
the United States army Just before the
war breaks out. He has been fasci-
mated by a capricious little Southern
girl. and his war story is chiefly of the
way she plays fast and loose with him.
When he Is wounded he discovers that
It was the girl who gave him the flag
that he really loves. II is what the
nag stands for that impels him on his