Arizona republican., 1920-10-31

Stephanie Sobieska, a movie actress capitalizing on her position.
 2. Going to New York to regain his D. c. M, which the princess press agent had stolen for publicity purposes.
 8. Going back to his British Co., lumbia farm and wooing the daughter of a British colonel who is settling there, eventually winning her after courtship in which the autor fails to develop any dramatic, romantic or even 1 interesting situations worthy of note
 Donald's story is a dull one. It lacks point, and it lacks a lot of other things. The Princess Stephanie is unreal and does unreal things. Her press agent Is unreal. Mary, the girl, is the best character of the lot, but MT. Gibbon fails to develop any romantic interest
 with her. Even Donald is rather color less. One wonders why the author
 troubled to write a book before he had 8 real plot and some real char acters.
 The setting of the tale is picturesque,
 in the Canadian woods and in a beau
 tiful valley in the west. but here again
 MT. Gibbon does not provide the reader
 sufficient interesting description. The
 books greatest fault, however, is the
 tack of convincing situations and the
 absense of well-planned story in
 which every passage should have def
 mite purpose or part.
 The Conquering Hero" is published by the John Lane company, priced
 at g.
 Those who are fond of plain
 human tales of the real west
 will find plenty of interest 1T Tales from the X-Bar Horse Camp, ,, by Will c. Barnes. published by tn, Breeders Gazette. Barnes, though no enjoying the popularity of the host c writers who let their imagination roam in an unreal wild and wool, 1. : west, is widely known as the author 0 range stories, most of them appearinl 3 in livestock journals. The presen book is collection Of number of hi tales.
 Tales from the x-Bar Horse Camp. , should be of particular interest in thi
 state, too, for of the Is tales in tn
 book many are laid in Arizona whil ' practically all of them take place i {. the southwest. Barnes knows the rang Il as we'll as anybody. in all probabilit. e and his stories reflect the life of tn : stock country as it really was. Mos K of them are noteworthy for their real t istic portrayals, and all are of interes : though readers who think a weste story has to be full of six-guns. out e laws. and rapid action will find theI q strange.
 q Among the stories of interest al Il "Just Regulars" '3An Arizona Etude 'f Camel Huntin'," Lost in the Petrifie l. Forest" and 'The Mummy from tI l. Grand Canyon" all of which concer g the old days in Arizona. 'Popgu Q Plays Santa Claus" is one of the mor Q powerful tales in the book, but ever | story of the eighteen is we'll wort le while for it's account of the daily If sr the troubles and joys and sorrows. ' the men who lived on the ranges of u y old southwest.
 m
 None can help liking a detecti'
 story in which the characters are re; re the events entirely within the boun, th Of everyday life, the action perfect IS, natural, and the hero not at all supe of human, and that is just the kind of 1e detective story The Hand in t n- Dark" by Arthur J. Rees. is. Nor on over. the book is unusual in its cla te for its style, for Rees is clearly a writ or as we'll as a detective story teller al " his new work contains some fine q n- scriptive passages.
 es However, plot still remains the dor ;al inant feature of detective and myste ly stories. and here too Rees makes TT Iia Hand in the Dark stand out, for It
 both an ingenious and thrilling now
 The story centers about young Phi