Life — August 17, 1905 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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O* = would hardly look to find Mr. Ham! victim of the epidemic of occultism which se ging in literary circles. One would expect the qual- ty of his imagination to render him immune, and after ny The Tyranny of the Dark, one understands that acteriologist and not as patient that Mr. Garland isinterested. His story is that entist who aad it is as a young sc girl possessed of medi- becomes involved in the rescue of un and fa the phen ic powers and who is being exploited by self-seekers s for their own ends, and his discussion of Dr dramatic re- listic pie hoddy in the na of spiritualism is an informed and w diced one and kept duly subservient to th quirements of his work, and, in spite of of love story, the most readable thing which Mr. Garland has written for some time. Barbara, ing as the philosopher in her own garden or the commen. tator among her own neighbors, than asa romancer, Her new book, At the Sign of the Fox, is the first in which she has not appeared in person, and is the least attractiv is the least Barbars true that her pen friends, an are many, will recognize her touch commuter's wife, is certainly more charm. THE BLESSING OF CHI as! IP VOU SPY A YFLLOW-PASSENGER WILD IS LOOKING RATHRE GLUM, ike of her writings. It LETHSUSS WILL St A CHRERY WoRD, WNUMERATH THE TIDKITS OF THE DINNER ME REFUSRD— RINK RACH COURSE TO HIM AS IT OCC nd, if one may loosely put together terms of the open fireplace, it do The work story of a Ca promising bit ain, in their stories which are contained in his number of the series, Ssstnyton, is a vol of Howells, Mrs 1 impe- 1 y steer Il, is a novel which i n amusing picture of half-baked that it is a bunch of foolishness, and in places quite shock- success ing. It is likewise a novel to which one calls the attention of the appreciative for the same reasons, Its ingredi re, mixed by an author who rl emptor. Kerfoot. called Enchantment, wife selection for catch-as-cate € writing in ton is an attractive widow wi inw dt uurse presents 4 reading ha young a fraid to marry Venus ef Cadiz, an Extravaganz by Richard is unwise to recommend, seeing cunious writer in her he is unwilling to give v iddte society which just falls es F. Warwick's bi y of Mirateaw and his- of the French Revolution with which das | round of histor’ y of her attempt Mts are nonsense and human n thinks of funny things and says them ca fs that portic was iden ader is a work which occupies writing, the ground that ane of important original investigation and the middle lies below Tyranny of the Dark, Vy Hamlin Garland, (Harper and Brothers, yet definitely above the level of mere compilation. It is ad, with a the work of a student, thoughtful and widely r and the medium of a style Fox, By the a {The People of the Whirl an Company. $t.5 By Esther and Lucia Chamberlain, (The Century ch to present The Pocket Books are a series of 1 to be easil read and to serve ammer fill-gaps. Mr. Harold MacGrath’s gift of in- vention and knack of telling a a favorite and his Man on the b By Charles F. Warwick. The ndy little volumes ott Company, Philadelp Enchantment, By Harold Ma Indianapolis. ) which have made him The Venes of ax a success, make the five ried and easil (The Hobbs. Merrill Company, Ry Richard Fisguill, (Henry Holt and Company $1.50.)