Life — November 2, 1905 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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THE LATEST ST , by Ka re is no s 1 Thurs- ates it to the previous work of its author, Her first book, 7 literary feeling a ness to the welcomed by the public. second book, Zhe Mas gquerader, she deliberately turned to the production of a , and its instant suc- 1 ation of 1 in the field of their Through The Gambler es of Mrs, Th ce their way in that which they literature, th admirers will fc nfounded, see int ¢ ilar fiction, it isone will fai the stand; from that of po book is non-existent ; of the disappointments of the y Alfred Tresidder § aging personality eppard, is a a tale witha with the glan’ neither k an foibles, ali Ma wan rast to Mr. Sheppard's charming resurrection of the past. It is a love story whose lovers one cannot love, and whose * every page proclaims it a typical “historical-romance""—a product of delving and determination. volume by ward Moral Educa- book, not only y but as a socio- ion of The recent How gs upon tion is an exception, work on pedazo; ical treatise and the expres as “LIF E- ** ate ERROR 1S OF SENSE, = Mat NOT WHAT SHE INTENDED, SME REALLY MEANS A FENCE— BUT 1 AM NOT OFFENDRD." an earnest and balanced thinker upon many problems that lie close to the root of human worth and human happiness, The author is an enthusiast of singularly broad mind and calm judgment; he thinks, one may say, in three dimen- sions ; and the ue of these qualities is doubled by the fact that he is holarly and an able writer. Just now, when th ally puzzled over Bernard Shaw, Wilde's /ntentions is one of rei timeliness of a new publication. These essays by a master of E h and of paradox belong, like the work of Shaw, to that department of critical commentary which is only seriously worth while when not taken seriously. ‘They but mental thank- 1 travelers to attention, and ations are intellectual thunder- Anglo-Saxon world is so enthusiastic- a new edition of Oscar sues which has all the of us, Not a philoso; a’ams to jolt sel nes and rand only tu ng cr sour ms, clearing m lacks imagination, el Captain of the Ranks, the because ¢ George Ca Pyyleston’s story of a young Confederate offic part, at Cairo, nN . in the business revi the author tells us in his preface, almost wholly fou cts have to n fact. Perhaps this is w ails it. F. er along in the imagination over a slow fire before fit to make romance of, and as these are decidedly perhaps they are underdone. Certainly the story is able in places, and in places crude and unformed. sin ytical pessimism the romantic mésalliance is no longer available to contemporary fiction, So much, be it of grudge or grati- we owe to the realistic move- But that which is forbidden in fields is still admissible vhere pleasant ignorance spreads its idealizing veil. Mrs. Hugh Frazer's vl Maid of Japan is a pretty tale which claims this sanction for its idyllic but not to be too closely analyzed Anglo-Japanese alliance. Sxcept for the ends of ment, The Gambler, By Katherine Cecil Thurston. Harper and Brothers. $1.50.) ed Cravat. By A he Macmillan C y Alice MacG MacGowan Cooke. (1. C. P al Education, By Edward Howard s. (B.W. Huebsch. $2.00.) ations, By Oscar Wilde. (Brentano's. $1.50.) iptain of the Kanks, By George Cary eston. (A. S. Barnes and Company. $1.50. A Maid of Japan. By Mrs. Hugh Frazer. Henry Holt and Company. $1.25.) New edition The New Generation and the Old. AUNTY OVER. HAT a funny old man, mam- ma. Why, he got up and gave his seat to that woman.”