Arizona republican., 1919-03-16

he adventures that are supposed to be nding her soul for her. or something Ike that. She gets into Mrs. Chis- olms life. playing with men who wilL uy dinners without going too far, and . finally winding up as a secretary anu | igurehead for a famous gambling | ouse keeper, eventually ruining him to | nale money to save her husbands ! 
 For, meanwhile, it seems. she has ound she really loves HumphreT- and n the end they elope again togetH his time with full understanding or what they are doing and determined 0 live happily ever after.
 THE HILLS OF REFUGEE will \. Harben is a novelist who has no leed to be taught the secret that writ ITS, like tabled Antaeus, gain strength )V keeping in close touch with their native soil. He knows his Georgia, it's 'ites, it's small towns, it's plains and it's mountains, and the spirit of its people. lis new novel, The Hills of Refuge" ioes, it is true, begin in Boston, but he hills i'll which the hero takes refuge Ind finds love are those of Georgia.
 The romance is based upon vicarious sacrifice, that of man for his brother. and the ennobling and regenerating ef- -ects of such sacrifice. The wastrel becomes a man when he finds himself bearing others burdens. Again. in reading a Harben novel, one is struck with the frankness. the barring of the Inner nature. the confession of evil and the pentecostal conversion, which bring to mind similar characteristics of some Of the Russian novelists. Man is an animal, yes; but one always goaded by the spirit-both Russians and Ameri- cans seem to teach.
 In The Hills of Refuge" two broth CTS, William and Charlie Browne. live Tn Boston. William is the trusted and respected officer of a bank; the other IS drunkard and d gambler. but kind hearted and loved by few who know the good that is in him. When he learns that William contemplates sui eide because he cannot pay back the money he has taken from the bank. he insists upon lifting the load to his own shoulders, that his sister-in- Jaw and niece may not suffer. It is an easy matter to divert suspicion and he dis appears from his old life. A new friend and the roaming existence of circus employe help Charlie over the frSt year. Then, when the troupe passes through Georgia, he decides to stay there. He becomes a farm-hand On the run dow nplantation of a run down family, the Rowlands. The two sons nearly kill man in a drunken braWl, and Charlie's sympathes-which soon become loye-are aroused for their sister Mary. He tries to hide his feel lngs from her, but she divines part of the truth he will not disclose. He is torn between his love for her and his duty toward his brother. MT. Harben lets the reader witness the steady. qulet growth of character from weak ness to strength which radiates its power for good to all about him.
 AMELIA BARR is dead. Within a few days of reaching her SSth birthday this celebrated authoress passed away at her beautiful home at Richmond Hill, New York City, last Monday night Mrs. Barr suffered a sunstroke last July and is thought never to have fully recovered from its effect, Her death is said to have been directly traceable to this cause.
 Mrs. Barr is believed to have writ ten more successful novels than any other writer of modern times. In her long hst of titles, more than 15 in all she IS never known to have suffered single failure. More than that, hel
 books have been decidedly successful She was born in England, educated al Glasgow high school; was married tc
 Robert Barr in 1850; went to Texas where her husband and three sons diet of yellow fever; with three daughters she removed to New York, where sht
 wrote for various periodicals, earnine Q precarious existence until her frs
 novel, Jan Nedders Wife" won hel
 almost immediate recognition.
 Some of Mrs. Bars better knowl
 books are: Feet of Clay; Remember tn,
 Alamo; A Sister to Esau; The Belle O
 Bowling Green: Playing with Fire
 Measure of a Man: Profit and Loss
 Joan: An Orkney Maid.
 In the last year of her life, Mrs. Bar still tireless and active, gave us he
 last book. The Paper Cap.' soon to b, published by Appletons. When on considers that Mrs. Barr wrote he first book at the age of 50, during period of illness, and reaped her sue cess in the g years following, we ar
 astonished at the genius that has jus departed from US.
 WILL ROBINSON'S Story of Ari
 zona" will be reviewed in these col
 umns next Sunday. 1 have read tn
 new book carefully and can earnestl, recommend it as a compact, concise i breezy, entertaining and instructiV
 narrative of the baby states biography ! There is nothing of the statistical tha 1 robs much history of it's charm; noth
 ing of the tiresomely technical tha differs little when written of one stat
 from that of another; nothing of tn
 commercial, that advertises hotels, re
 sorts and corporations; but much
 very much-that one should and love to know of the general and specis periods through which a commoRwealt has struggled upward to become on
 of the splendid sisterhood of polite,
 divisions that set apart this countr
 from every other in the world. It
 pleasant to be able to say that there
 no blot in the childhood story of Ar
 zona that any need blush to own g
 Q part Of the process through whic
 he, himself. has become a sovereig
 citizen of it.
 THE LEGEND" and the Temp Dancer" new one-act American opera were presented Wednesday night the Metropolitan Opera company f. the first time on any stage, in Ne York, according to Associated Pre- dispatches.
 "The Legend with music by JoseI Breil and book by Jasques Byrne, d