Arizona republican., 1919-02-09

Slo Eh CAhHlE mas never been and will never be best seller" in the American realm of books, just as it's author Theodore Dreiser, will never be a popular favorite, except as realist, in literature. The book is too real too true to the life that people know and live to be truly popular Yet there are enough thinking hooklovers in the United States to warrant its publish CTS, Boni & Liveright, in putting out a new edition and to make the tale a foremost topic of discussion among those who really know books.
 There are no heroics in Sister Car Tie.' no great splashes of sentimental nonsense and romance to attract the casual reader. Past years have shown that the great mass of people do not care to read about their own kind of existence. It is the kind of book that lives. however, when the popular best sellers of it's day are gone and for gotten.
 like most of Dreiser's stories, Sis ter Carrie" reminds the reader of all the sors--dness and utilities of life. It is a commonplace tale. At times it is almost squalid in it's portrayals. Its characters are the kind of people everybody knows and meets daily. It is essentially true to the reality of eX- istencc.
 The tale is just the dragging life of too many. It centers about Carrie. the little country girl, who comes to the city to make her way. Her experiences are too natural to be thrilling. It is story of the great middle class life of the country. admirably depicted and thouEhtfully written. Its scenes art laid in the Chicago and New York of thirty years ago, and prove Dreiser knows his America of that day. Old time Chicagoans readily recognize the places to which he refers and prac- ticalllv all of his characters were real in their time.
 lt is only natural that Carrie, the heroine. should begin as a factory girl, when she came 10 the city. It was natural she should dislike the work and long for the tinsel of life. The reader is not surprised when she goes 10 live with Drouet, tine typical drum mer." Later as she ascends the ladder Of mddle-class life and thought, it is inevitable that she should be attracted by Hurstwood. the resort manager, who stands one plane higher in char acter than Drouet. When she accom- panies Hurstwood to New York and finally gets upon the stage. one does not wonder that she deserts her lover as he, out of money and morbid. begins to descend the scale, as she rises.
 The tale ends as real as it began, with Carrie a stage success and str,v ing ever higher unsatsfied with what a few years before, she thought the very pinnacle of life. Hurstwood whose attitude and experiences. as his money gives out and he looks for work are so real as to give the ordinary man an unpleasant memory of his own experiences, vanishes to die a beggar's death. Drouet wanders on. merrily having his good time, and is forgotten
 To person who reads merely fol pleasure and light entertainment nothing can be said for Sister Carrie But to those who appreciate the mas ters of literature and who read fol profit. it cannot be too enthusiasticall! suggested.
 THE CRIMSON ALIBI is, for ;
 modern detective story, rather an in | novation. It has plot that is ex ! tEBAibHdAif titNfls d Adlf that iS db
 sOrbing and best of all. character
 that seem like you might meet then
 in real life. It is the sort of stor.
 that the average reader wants to fin
 ish at a single reading, after once get
 ting a good start.
 The book, however. is conventiona
 along the lines of it's type, so far q | plenty Of thrill, d great deal of actio | ( h | conventional detective story. it's char
 acters share as much in making it en tertaining as does the plot. and it ! dramatic situations; they are all thor l oughly human. and understandable.
 The tale itself centers about th
 mysterious murder of an old million
 aire who is generally hated-Josia
 Quincy David Carroll is the nam
 that csmouflages the usual master de
 tective hero, though he is a yer
 modest, inoffensive and human cha
 in the book.
 From the start. the author-who. b
 the way is Octsvis Roy Coher
 who has won many admirers with hi
 late magazine stories, and who is
 welcome addition to the writers fo
 Dodd, Mead & Co, the publishers
 keeps one guessing. After the first tw
 chapters. you swear Fanshaw. tn
 crook and former tool for Quincy,
 absolutely innocent. Presently yo
 swear Andrew. Quincys nephew an
 heir, is not guilty, and become inter
 ested in his love affair with Juditl , Darlington, the Quincy butler. is dis
 missed as innocent farther on. an finally the reader narrows his sus picions down to hsfrry Conove
 escaped convict, who turns out to hay
 been "railroaded" by Quincy. Conovs
 and his wife. Ellen, the maid are SUI
 10 get the readers sympathy. never theless.
 The climax comes when Carro finally places the guilt on Fanshay surprising everybody, including Il } reader. It makes very satisfactor ) ending, although the idea of havin , the crook confess, finally, when he 1 cornered by the detective. is tc familiar to add to the books charr The manner of the denouement is Vel well worked out, however. and the boo caps it's other virtues by being ver , well written.
 } ROOSEVELT BIOGRAPHY. It VI most expected that there should al
 pear. immediately after his recel
 death. almost numberless more or lei authentic and sufficient biographi' ? and autobiographies of Theodoi | Roosevelt. In the daily newspaper ' magazines, weeklies and syndicat, I periodicals. not less than a dozen a ? being currently published. But. who ] the towering genius in America th l will furnish us with such q maste piece as the biography of John Ha! { Who will measure up to the literal | excellence of Washington Irving's Ii s of George Washington? The man