New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-15
Some Current Fiction
Comedy and Tragedy, Advent.
ure and Mystery

Dumas the Elder, and it is therefore
not surprising that his works peren-
nially appear in new editions. Inc
latest is K. S. Garnett's excellent trans
lation of "The Neapolitan Lovers" puo-
lished by Brentanos in a l2mo of 1886
readable pages.
Two novels with a distinctly re-
ligious flavor, yet of much interest
simply as romances, come to hand from
the house of Benziger Brothers. They
are 1.-THE Ruby Cross" by Mary Wal
lace, and "In Spite of ALL" by Edith
Staniforth, both l2mo, with frontls-
pieces, PIP, respectively. 303 and 2Ss.
Sometimes novels are adapted to the
films for motion picture shows and
sometimes motion picture shows are
turned into stories. The latter is the
case with William Addison Lathrops.
entertaining volume Of Little Stores
From the Screen" charmingly written,
published by the Britton Pu0llshlng
Company in a handsomely illustrated
12mo of 324 pages.
A war romance by an actual soldier
of heroic experience should greatly APP
peal to interest, and that interest,
howeves high it's anticipations, VIII De
amply gratified with "No Mans Land,
by "Sapper," romance of fine senu-
ment combined with the realism OF the
battlefront. The George II. Doran
Company publishes it, limo. PIP. 55os
with an exquisite colored frontisplece'
lack Illness 1.-THE Blue Streak" III
Illustrated, 12mo, PIP. 27O; George ~.
Doran Company is blood stlsrins
collection of tales of the dogs OF the
Far North, their labors and their pat
ties, told with fine spirit and sympa'hS'
"The Wives of the Deacon" by Venus
G.. Booth, is an emotional melodraha
of bigamy. Indian customs and what
not. beginning near New York, but oc-
curing chiefly in Oklahoma, the Dig
amy being committed in the latter state
as a seuuel-not, let it be hoped, as a
consequence of getting religion.
The Fifth Avenue Publishing Company
nuts Il forth in an illustrated limo OIL
32l pages.
The old Santa Fe trail seems to be
an inexhaustible source of romance,
and by no means the least interesting
of the tales which have been written
about IL is Margaret Hill McCarters
! "Vanguards of the Plains" published
by Harper & Brothers in limo OF
39S pages, with a fine colored trontls-
piece. 1t is a story which breathes on
every page the spirit Of adventure on
wild frontier.
Cecil Starr Johns has written capt.
tai story in with Gold and steer
(l2mo, pp. 327, John Lane Company,
a stirring tale of Henry of Navarro and
many deeds of derring-do, holding the
fascinated interest of the reader from
beginning to end. We must say, now
| ever, that in some respects 1t IS oadiy
written. the eccentricities of punctua-
ton and the failure TO separate sem
tences properly being at times exceed
! ingly exasperating.
Constance Garrett has made an ex-
cellent translation of "The Gambler
and other stories, by Feodor Dostoyev-
sky, published by the Macmillan Com
rany in a l2mo, pp. 3l2. The volume
| is the ninth in a set of Dostoyevsky's
novels which the same translator ana
publisher have issued.
In CECILIA SECS Herself" Miss Z. NJ.
Delafield has fashioned a somewhat
tcmperamental romance, in which the
various characters are defined with
more than ordinary individuality and
in which the career of the heroine
from childhood up is developed with
steadily increasing interest. (lZmo'
pp. 300; Alfred A. KnopfJ
Nancy First and Last" by Amy +.
blanchard ILLUSTRATED in color and
black and white by W. F. Stechert;
l2mo, PIP. 304; ]. B. Lippincott Com
pany), is a novel of the war only in
- L ,f az f1io
provides it with a climax and conc u
sion. 1t is an interesting study of the
Qualities of heart and mind of charm
ing girl, related in a thoroughly enter
tanning and sympathetic manner.
The mystery of the sea, and still
more its rollicking comedy, are sympa-
thetically depicted in the budget of
stories Of sea life and adventure which
James u. Connolly presents, under the
title of Running Free" Charles Serb
ner's Sons publish it in a well Illus
trated limo of 9O2 pages, which. to the
reader means 800 minutes of sheer de-
light.
Robert J. Shores has published'a sec
ond printing of Crittenden Marriotts
fine story of international intrigue in
South America and elsewhere, "Via
Berlin" with frontispiece, 12mo, pp..
275). From the same press comes THE
Death Cry" by Harby Hauck. with a
frcrtispiece by Eleanor Howard, in a
limo, of 295 pages, blood-curdling
mystery story of murder. Still an
o-hor Shores publication is "The Years
of the Locust" BY Albert Payson Ter
hume, with colored frontispiece by
Eleanor Howard I2mo, PIP. 1922, which
IS an adventurous romance Of life and
love somewhere east of Suez."