Evening star., 1921-07-17

fine and leisured body Of Its details
and upon the delightful humor Of Its
insight. This is an unfinished story.
action set down. but, instead. upon the
death Of her husband cast its full out
line for the benefit of readers. Since.
however, this writer is one who gives
a page-by-page pleasure, one who Is ap-
pealfng by his own personality rather
than \by the structure of his novels.
there is no feeling Of lack here. The
unique genius that gave this author
such immediate and general recognition.
GUNsIGHT PASS. BY William Mac
Leod Raine. author of 1.-THE Yu-
kon Trail" etc. Boston: Hough-
ton Miffin Company.
Mr.. Raine chose a dramatic moment
, for the development of his new novel
Of the west The cattle range here
passes Into the oil fields: A new life is
opens it discloses the typical group Of
cattlemen. William Harting together
In the fracas man is shot David
Sanders. not much more than a lad and,
venture. is charged with manslaughter.
tried and sentenced to his term in
prison. He was innocent. of course.
Heroes always are. Upon the end Of the
prison term Dave comes out to find the
old cattle range teeming with pres
From this point on it is Davidss struggle
to make headway against his prison
service in the new field Of industry.
After more than any one mans allow
lainous mischief-makers. David emerges
into substantial success, both in the
field of finance and in that of matri-
mony. The tale stops for nothing, but.
gathering momentum and difficulties in
a fine impartiality. it sweeps toward it's
lsn luyfn
THE SIXTH SENSE. By Stephen Nc
kenna, author of Sonia" etc.
New York: George H. Doran Com
pany.
AS he SO likes to do. and usually does do.
Stephen McKenna draws this new novel
out of London life on its fashionable
and somewhat exclusive side. 1t opens
with the war and. thereafter. centers
upon the outlook and activities Of the
with this event. Smart people come
and go here. as they have way Of
doing in the McKenna novels. They all
talk great deal. much Of the time
all at once. but one has to admit that
they are. in the main, we'll worth hear
| ing. Upon this speeded-up group the
| outcome OF the war depends, or so one
gathers from trailing along here. Out
of their excited mental attitudes a sug-
geStion OF that other sense, of which We
have heard so much lately. develops in
one of the characters. This manifes-
| tation is. however. neither singular
enough nor positive enough to name the
book adequately-but, never mind. Book
| titles are a plague. anyway, it is said.
To get back to the story. 1t is 4 ro-
! Of the new type-notionS in the mind of
the young woman. free views of matri-
mony, advocacy of no matrimony at all,
and so on. After a fair amount of so
| cial effervescence and patriotic to-do.
| the matter settles down to the custom
ary ending of the popular .novel. An
engaging book Of the familiar McKenna
stamp.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TIME. BY
Robert Hichens. author Of "The
Garden of Allah" etc. New York:
/ George H. Doran Company.
| The war had completely played him
out. So Derrick Merton, Englishman,
was hustled off to Switzerland by his
doctor to get himself into shape once
more. This is the story of what hap
pened to him there while on his way to
well being. Like the rest of Switzer-
! land, this small corner of it was packed
with refugees from more turbulent
regions. A large assortment Of royal
| ties and near royalties were in evil
dence. All Of them were in poverty.
| All OF tneIn were oH tIle tTdii VI tIle
wherewithaL That is. all but two. Two
ladies', undeniably ladies, and with equal
certainty women of high degree, came
into the eye of the Englishman. A
dignified and stately acquaintance
fsprang up between him and them. They,
in time. come to accept the presence
Of this man of their own order. but
| never under any amount of justification
did they accept from him any substan-
tial thing. like lunch. or such little
offerings as ordinary women delight in
This troubled the friendly Englishman