New-York tribune., 1922-05-14

"Shoe-Bar Stratton" Century,, by
Joseph B. Amcs, is Western story
of the standard type, replete with the
usual paraphernalia of mystery, gun
play, cattle rustling. romance and hair
raising fights. It is nothing if not
melodramatic
l., Plaster ',l'l,s Saints by Frederick Arnold
amazed bachelcr discovering chorus
girl in his apartment He won her in a
poker game at a friends house. Being
be) he had intended taking her TO her
own home. But alas She lived at 11oth
Street and even heroes are human. some
times. ITS too late to go to Albany to-
night, he said. SO he gave her his own
room and bunked in the paror. When he
woke up he didn't remember that he'd
ne scents trouble He happens to be in
love with 'tho best woman in the world
ard that kind is usually difficult about
the other kind. He gets all the trouble
ne is looking for Another man who had
been at tho party tolls his missus and OF
course she tells all her friends, including
tn" best woman in the world" But WHY
s" 60 on, on1Mr' ummer might write better If
he tried. He couldn't write worse.
,sIais dhe inve E1Hnarh Chase" BY Felix Grendon
really not pretty story" 1t is modern
Even advanced. And bohemian. .'''N'j on. h.
near' t,ea ,, yes 1T records the adventures CT
rivals of the Greenwich Villagers Why
are are American ds can bohe'nians SO dull? Why
a4es if,s. one ,hfu feel SO fond Of the "burjoyse
after this sort Of reading?
Pirates Hope" by Francis Lynd. fscrih-
er's)--The desert island tcst invented hv
q. x; Chesterton is used by Francis Lynd.
yo,na IN MS latest yarn wherein Desperate
Souns mlll'onaire. In order. to find some
real people. has dozen New York ac-
9uaintances all,l 1' shipwrecked with him on r
idea was that even your Aunt Ma,io
might be bearabe on a desert island be-
ca use of the loneliness Of 1T. Francis Lyndes
ters under adversity If. like Alice in
Wonderland, you are able to believe six
impossible things before breakfast you will
gallop along through this tale. It is de-.
cldedly readable.
"Homcland." by Margaret Hill McCar,.r
ldarper)-Mrs. McCarter has written an
{d,io {1ldofashioned novel with an old-fashioned
seminary educated mother would fail Ia
approve it, but what would the smith
College daughter do with it? Nothing. we
suspect 1t is good novel for the small
town club woman to read when she is
consciously resting between committee
meetings.
THE Odds and Other Stories" by Ethc,
~. DeIl tPutnam(--A the most pop
ulaT purVcyors OF romantic fiction count
Ethel NJ. Dell, whose new volume of long
short stories Will not diminish her favor
IN the postwar reaction from violent fcn
inlsm the cave man i= fer the pregent bet.
ter than ever. Miss Dell was clever cnoupt,
to see that MIR. Rochester, first brutal
then kindly commanding. only needed
some new clothes. She gives them to him
in Her Own Free WILL" one of the stories
in the present book The author has p
trick Of catching Your interest In spite Of
Yourself, and if YOU like to read love
stories you will enjoy these.
"One Woman by Alfred ollivant
doubleday. Page & Co.)--Now here is q
real novel by the author of that delight
ful dog story Bob Son of Battle" II is
careful book, in which the BACKGROUND
is beautifully worked and tho characters
hlIed with the breath Of life. The scene
is la'd in Sussex. at the beginning of the
war, and there is something of the poll
tics tics Of those times. of the doings at Ulster
and OF the nutiny of the officers at Cur
ragn, an example in direct action for the
Labor party. The story moves, however.
about the woman. splendid rnotherly
earth loving creature, in whose veins
there runs the blood Of Sussex farm folk
livened by that of the Spanish buccaneers
Three men love Ruth, and her fir,tl choice
of the best OF these, her husband. con
cludes the rather slim plot