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THE PAINTED VEIL, by W. Somerset Maugham. 12mo, 289 pages, George H. Doran: $2.00. The horror of the actions recalls the forgotten pleasure of the most exciting fairy tales, and yet the accompanying thought leads us to mature speculation. The characters are superficially drawn and the theme is pulled awry by a husband who is a little too bad himself to point a moral for his frivolous wife, but the barbarous action together with Mr Maugham's power to entertain and employ our results in intelligence, makes a kind of grown-up midnight tale of terror.