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look down those endless side stree' endless areaways hung with “t and simple flannels of the poor.’ seized with an overpowering home- sickness. Well, it was January 1, 1902, that we woke up at exactly the same place. and saw exactly the ‘same sight, and were seized with exactly the same overpowering homesickness. It swept over us again, after twenty years, as we read this book. We had to pause to shed a tear of pity for our vanished self. The book never got us that way in, You see, the hero became an editor—and we became the slave of editors. Between us and the hero, after this first. chapter, existed a subtle antagonism. We found it difficult to make a hero of an editor! We also found it difficult to believe that | all the wonderful parties this editor tended were as jolly as the \ they were. We were at several of them— and moved to the country. He er, we have to Charlie Towne and entertaining than our refr self. Anyhow, as a picture of literary York for the past two de Chain” is an interesting book. admit that is both more entertained rated “The Love Legend.” By Woodward Boyd. Charles Scribner's Sons. at seems ve Lege ‘irs, go out and get him! to be the moral of “The I end,” by Woodward Boyd. The scene is Chicago, the heroines are four sisters, modern young misses, of whom only one, the most beautiful, accepts their mother’s romantic dictum that if they are and good the real, right, everlasting Prince Charming will come along and grab them. Of course, it is the sweet, spiritual, beautiful one who To be sure, after a careful reading of the book, and a consideration of the males the other three captured, we are not prepared to affirm that her fate was wholly trag But doubtless it is not for one of our sex to judge. Miss Boyd is a snappy young person we gather from her sty! She is a Chi- cago newspaper woman, but she appears to have escaped the influence of Ben Hecht. Freud isn’t once mentioned, and all her sentences have verbs. sweet misses out. “Memories of a Hostess.” From the diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields. Atlantic Monthly Press. SomMETIMES it is good to be reminded that there were kings before Agamem- non and American literature before Lewis and Fitzgerald. A good bit of it, too, was published by Ticknor and Fields, in Boston, and Mrs. James T. Fields, who lived well into the twentieth century in her old house on Charles street (now a garage!), saw quite as much of the literary life of America in the 1860's and ‘70's as Charlie Towne’s editor did in the 1910's. She not only saw, but she recorded. When Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell dined at the house, she got out her diary as soon as they had de- parted, and jotted down what they said and did. When Charles Dic America to read, the Fields entertained him. 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