Life — May 28, 1896 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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LIFE: 441 LIFE’S TIPS TO SUMMER READERS. you want to be cheered up a bit, and when you have success- for he is strong and straightforward and a little bit of a fully cut out a rival you want to read a solemn book with an well-bred briite. immense ‘moral problem” in itso that you can ease your We have always disagreed about Mr. Davis's stories. conscience by a moral tussle with another girl's social sins. You read them with the avidity that you once expended on I've long believed that your reading is a succession of emo- marshmallows and chocolates. (Since you have become an tional plasters or pellets for heart-aches ; and you, no doubt, athlete I believe you prefer a chop and a mug of Bass). I have a private classification of authors, something after the have always insisted that Mr. Davis is a most admirable manner of an old-fashioned lady's medicine chest. teller of short stories—but Van Bidser riles me. He comes You never read anything but the newest books, and any- too near a certain kind of good-natured snobbishness that thing over six months out is for you an ‘‘old fossil." I'm patronizes anybody out of ‘our set.” But Van Bidber sorry for you, but that is your look-out, and I shall not waste delights you, and you can read more about him in ‘' Cinder time trying to persuade you to read the classics. ella and Other Stories.” He is at his best in ‘* Cinderella.” There was a time when you “ doted on Crawford,” but you The finest story in the book is ‘The Reporter Who Made made some remarks to me about the ‘* Lauderdale" books Himself King ""—a regular man’s story of adventure, with that nearly severed our friendship—for Aatharine is a friend not a glimpse of a pretty dress in it. of mine. ‘ Why doesn't he stick to Italy?” you petulantly But in the line of stories of adventure you will like ‘Irra- asked. Well, you have your wish, for in “Adam Johnstone's lie’s Bushranger," by E. W. Hornung; for the bravest Son" he has put the story in Amalfi where your yacht once character in the book is a woman who does not faint at the stopped fora week. You will like the story, Ithink, because — sight of blood, and loves a man though she half suspects it is a real love tale from first to last, with a girl in it who that he isa villain. It is a most ingenious Australian story throttles a brutal Italian and saves her lover from being with a mystery in it that puzzles you till the very end. stabbed, You like to think that you are that kind of a girl— In the same ‘Ivory Series” is an intense tale of passion a couple of winters in a gytinasium has made you vain of and sacrifice by Quiller-Couch, entitled ' Ia.” He is one of your muscle. The young Scotch lover will please you also. the best writers of English among the younger men, and this ME RECENT PUBLICATIONS THE SCOTCH NOVEL OF THE SEASON. PELAND AND DAY, Summer oe ROBERT URQUHART. 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