The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-07

locking interviews built up complete and fatal
revelation Of what Germany with the connivance
of CoNsTANT1NE's Government had planned to do.
AS Novelist.
Mrs. Browns work as reporter of royalties
and others and even her photographed books
such as A Child of the Orient and Haremltk are,
strictly considered outside the scope of this sketch,
which has to do with her primarily as an American
novelist and a woman. As novelist she has sew
era books to her credit besides her initial offering,
The First Secretary. The Dukes Price, written
with her husband; FtneLa in Fairyland, In tho
Shado,U of Islam and The Grasp of the Sultan,
which was first published anonymously C'by f''),
are all hers, as well as The Heart of the Balkans.
OF all these The Grasp of ~the-Sultan, which re-
ceived serial publication and sold well even before
the disclosure of the authors identity, is the most
interesting
The story is told with EXPERIENCES, without indi
rection, with fine control of suspense and with
thrill after thrill The finest thing about it is the
constant discovery to the reader of the authors
thorough knowledge of her people and her setting.
Assuming that it could have been written by an
American it must have been preceded by weeks Of
study supplemented by foreign travel whether q
person not born and bred as DEMETRA VAKA was
could have written it. even after extensive 'dOcu-
mentation," seems doubtful. We should say the
thing would be quite impossible were we not mind
full of the late F. MARION CRAWFORD of whose in
genious and convincing tales Mrs. Browns inevi-
tably remind us. He, too, wrote one more novels
of Constantinople with what historical accuracy
we can't undertake to speculate Possibly Mrs
Brown can pick hundred holes in them respect
ing matters of fact! However, they had, for the
American reader, effect of perfect versimilitude
and it is this effect precisely that Mrs. Browns
stories are enriched with. Only, in her case we
know that the likeness to truth is felt because the
truth is there. She should do for us hereafter if
her restless spirit will permit, what CRAWFORD did.
Give Us romances DEMETRA VAKA, give us tho
East; stay with u.s. write for us novel after novel
of the sort that used to come one or two year,
from that villa at Sorrento where lived long and
wrought so faithfully the creator of Dr. IsAAcs and
the chronicler of the braveries of Prince SARAc1-
NEsCAl
Job" as Greek Play.
66VI/AS the Book of Job written as a Greek
" tragedy Yes The following consider
atoms show Why
That's our idea Of the perfect way to start book
of serious sort. And it actually is the start Of
The Book of Job as Greek Tragedy, by HORACE
MEYER KALLEN, published by Moffat, Yard & Co.
Now you may not be exercised over the possibility
of job having been drama. 1t is therefore Mr.
KulEN's duty to interest you And he does Yesl
First by the simplicity and directness of his writ
ing. Second by the vividness with which he por-
trays Greek and Jewish contacts in the first and
second centuries of the Christian era Third by
little descriptive touches such as the "reminiscences
of the men of Abdera in Thrace. You must know
that the playwright EURPIDEs had fame and
honor for centuries wide as SHAKEsPEAREs and
more honest Where thousands give SHAKESPEARE
lip worship only, EuK1pIDEs struck into mems
hearts Well, these men Of Abdera (LUc1AN tells
the story were SO obsessed by EURIPIDEs's An
dromeda "that they went about the streets en-
tranced, murmurng to themselves, % Love- high
monarch over gods and men," But who goes
incoming along Broadway murmuring snatches Of
PERCY MACKAYEf
The reconstruction of Job as a Greek drama is
highly interesting business; if you happen to know
anything about the Greek tragedies you II find Mr.
KALIEN'S book exceedingly persuasive And INV