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442 -LIFE- LIFE’S TIPS TO SUMMER READERS. story is admirably told. It is something like the ‘ Scarlet Letter,” and the heroine has many points of resemblance to Hester Prynne. There is a woman in Mr. Howells's A Parting and a Meeting" who will chime in with your heroic mood, and there is a man whom you will equally detest be- cause he gave her up when both were young and dreadfully in love, to become a Shaker. There will be a day this summer, no doubt, and I suspect that it will be at Bar Har- bor, when you will believe that all young men are cowards like Koger Burton and afraid to put the dream of love to the test of lifelong com- panionship. There are some mar- ried men who will say that Roger did not underestimate the trials of matrimony. A companion story to this is ‘The Day of Their Wedding,” and in both Mr. Howells returns to the poetic manner which was the charm of his early novel,‘ The Undiscovered Country.” novels” are joyous butterflies like you who only know trou- ble at second hand. It is a new kind of emotion and you devour disagreeable books to get it. The appetite is part of the insatiable cry of the modern girl for experience. You will find a young woman who is the logical outcome of that appetite in Harold Frederic’s ‘‘ Damnation of Theron Ware." The novel is a remarkable piece of what is called realism, and shows the degeneration of a certain kind of flabby, masculine mind when brought in contact with an advanced modern woman of a rather unusual type. Another type of disagreeable ‘ strong" woman is revealed in Suder- mann’s ‘‘ Magda,” of which Mr. Winslow has made a good English translation, Perhaps a reading of books like these may repress a certain tendency which I detect in you to be too positive about the need of women freeing themselves from a number of conventional ideas that you are fond of calling old-fashioned. As an antidote I prescribe a few novels of the modern Scotch school. They devote themselves to the idealization of all the homely virtues, and every virtue is shown to thrive on poverty and oatmeal. In addition to Barrie, Crockett and Maclaren, there are several ether Scotchmen in the field with an equally fine line of righteousness and sentiment in NOTABLE BOOKS THAT NONE SHOULD MiSs. His Chimmie Fadden” has enjoyed a long, con- tinuous run at the Standart Theatre; and bis new book, “A Dauzhter of the Tenements,” will be pat on the § ja New York, on October 1, 1808.) BY EDWARD W. 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