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This remarkable sale o f Wall Paper Remnants includes
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these Remnants o f Wall Paper in beautiful designs will
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ences and conclusions o f the
pabliaiied rt ihrlr roqorrt.)
There is, as always, such a novelist, doubts the. sincerity or
multiplicity o f new books, ap­ the srrtonsuess of the story.
“ V. V.’s Eyes” is a book about
pealing to all tastes, that, in
order to systematise the matter which there are conflicting
somewhat, I shall first briefly opinions. The Bookman’s critic
consider the volumes given by lonnd it “ dull, dreadfully dull,”
the Bookman as the six “ best while others think it one of the
sellers” for the past year, and most absorbing stories of the
then take up some of the more day. “ V. V.” is a physician, Dr.
recent books. These best sellers Vivian, who is devoting his life
are: Winston Churchill’s “ The to the welfare of others, giving
Inside of the Cup,” Henry Syd- hjs medical services free to the
nor Harrison’s “ V. V.’s Eyes,” poor and living in their midst.
John P ox’s “ The Heart o f tfie In the course o f his sociological
Hills,” Jeffery Farnol’s “ The work he writes a newspaper
Amateur Gentleman,” Sir Gil­ article criticising a certain tobac­
bert Parker’ s “ The Judgment co factory, saying it is not safe
House,” and Gene Stratton-Por­ for the operatives, etc., which
naturally prejudices against him
ter’s “ Laddie.”
In “ The Inside of the Cup,” not only the owner o f the factory,
Mr. Churchill has treated very I but also his family, including the
seriously a question that a large daughter, Carlisle, a beautiful
number o f earnest, thinking girl, but Carlisle, who appears to
people are inclined to treat very be the exact opposite in character
seriously. It deals with the of Dr. Vivian. By a singular chain
intellectual and moral changes of circumstances her ideas are
through which a man passes revolutionised, and she comes
from a faith which he has ac­ not only to admire Dr. Vivian
cepted on tradition to a faith buj to 'love him. The factory
which he has achieved; from ac­ finally collapses, and Dr. Vivian
ceptance o f an existing industrial loses his life in the attempt to
order to one which meets the save one of the operatives. Some
demands o f his creed as a Chris­ think that the one or tw o really
tian. You are probably all worth while personages in the
familiar with the story, the story are squandering their
yonng clergyman who comes energies upon trying to save a
from a country parish to a city number o f other persons, who
church which numbers among are not in the least worth while,
its vestrymen and members from the consequences o f their
some of the wealthiest men in own follies;* while others are o f
the community. Although earn­ the opinion that it is a winning
est and sincere, he finds at the story which makes kindness at­
end o f tw o years that be is not tractive without making it a
obtaining the results he desires, text.
One is always out o f doors and
and through a chance happening
is led to spend the summer in the with primitive people in Mr.
city instead o f on the yacht o f F ox’s stories, and “ The Heart of
the leading man in his church— the Hills” takes ns far from the
from a financial standpoint, at madding crowd, from hectic fie
least. At once he comes in con­ tion, and from many other dis­
tact with a family who have agreeable a n d unwholesome
fallen from comfortable circum­ things; still, in the mountains
stances into the direst poverty, there are deadly family feuds, in
but the man refuses the clergy­ the blue-grass region there is the
man’s proffered help because be tobacco trnst question with
is the rector o f the cbnrch which night-riders in its train, at the
is controlled by the rich man state capital there are tw o sets
w ho is the cause of all his mis­ of contending officials, so that
fortunes, and that very night he tragic moments are not lacking.
throws himself into the river. But even these problems are
All summer the minister labors finally settled, the course of true
among the poor, investigating love at last runs smoothly, and
their problems and passing, all ends well. The author de-
through many trying experiences, ‘ serves the credit of being an un­
with the result that his views usually even writer. If you like
__________
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_ His
_ _ _ first
_ _ one of his books, you are apt to
are greatly changed.
sermon in the tall, in which he enjoy the others.
The fourth book on the list,
calls upon his parishioners to
Mr.
Farnol’s “ Amateur Gentle­
make clean the inside o f the cup,
is such that his resignation is man,” is a manufactured story,
asked for, but he decides to re­ a kind of tour de force, full o f
main and the poor flock to the ’blood and thunder,” if one may
church. The critics say that Mr. ■ > express it. The skill with
Churchill has written much bet­ which it is done is undeniable,
ter novels. The popularity of and its popularity shows that
this one, which is still selling, is the love o f the old-fashioned
dwe to the tact that he takes up romance still persists.
England in the shadow o f the
problems which lie very
SHE «H O T BOOB
m
Boer War is the theme of Sir to “ arrive” socially. Mrs.Whar-
Gilbert Parker’s “ The Judgment ton is entirely at home in tug-
House.” Byng, a big-hearted getting those differences between
but coarse-grained capitalist the social thoroughbred and the
with a fortune at stake jn Oom imitation which many novelists
Paul’s land, is strongly depicted, fail to report through lack o f ex­
and even more so is his half-Boer, perience.
half-Hottentot servant Krool,
Less searching, bat perhaps
who is at once a Boer spy and more enjoyable, is Mrs. Watts’
the devoted slave of his English “ Van Cleve.”
This story ap­
master. The later scenes of the peared serially in the Atlantic
book are laid in South Africa, Monthly nnder the title o f “ Van
and have fine descriptive quality. Cleve and His Friends,” which
The working out o f the tempera­ better describes the book, for the
ment o f Jasmine, Byng’s wife, reader finds himself led into in­
is not as successful as some of timacy with a group o f charac­
the other characters, and the ters, each distinct, each intensely
depictions of smart life and Lon­ human. Van himself is not
don drawing-rooms have beep heroic or emotional, but stead­
criticised.
fast, reticent, with his mind
“ Laddie” is one o f those stories close to business, tolerant of
that disarm the critic; he is glad others’ faults, readv to bear bur-
to know that people read it. dens and make no fuss about it,
Gene Stratton Porter is not faithful in love and friendship.
especially profound or erudite, This is Mrs. W atts’ third noVel,
excepting in regard to the lore and all three are worthy a place
o f butterflies; but she is blithe, bf honor ip American fiction of
and kindly, and wholesome, and this centnry.
her books all leave you with a
In “ The Coryston F am ily/’ by
sense of having enjoyed a pleas­
Mrs. Ward, one meets the good
ant hour or tw o o f sojourn in
manners and cultured diction of
the heart o f some rolling, bal­
the English men and women
samic woodland, where the
who move leisurely through her
branches overhead are not to o
stories. Lady_ Coryston does
dense to keep the glad sunshine not: succeed in making her sons
from filtering down in fine net­
follo w her despotic political lead­
work of pure gold. There is a ership despite love or conviction.
tonic value to her books th it is The lesson of her failure is that
often missing from more serious
individual responsibility mast
and pretentious writings.
pie vail, and that where one can-
While this list omits some of 11 ot lead one must tolerate.
the ablest books o f the year, it
Mrs. Burnett’s “ T. Tembaron
shows, at least, that if the fiction
in its general outline has much
which is widely read is not the
fiction o f genius, it is the fiction to suggest “ Little Lord Faunt
o f ability, skill, and the whole­ Irttov.” The hero begins life in
New York *as a newsboy, and
some life.
shortly falls heir to the great
In Mrs. Wharton’s “ Custom
estates o f Temple Barholm and
of the Country” one gets a wav
£70,000. a year. His entangle-'
from moral struggle but not from
ment with Lady Joan, his friend­
moral conditions. Starting in
ship for elderly Lady Alicia, his
Apex City and ending in P^ris it
management o f his astonishing
is a study of the pretty, h »rd,
esta tes, are all marvelous bits o f
ambitious American girl who
g r o w n -u p fa iry tale. In the end
has no morality but a relentless
and very practical determination
Contmiisd on pago*
GEORGE
A N TIC
Abundant Resources and W ide
Connections, coupled with government
supervision and a record o f conservative
management covering
twenty-four years.
United States National Bank
Resources $460,000
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