Life — March 8, 1906 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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x 7 H setting and mate WHEEL OF LIFE, Miss Ellen Glasgow's new novel, the al for which she has found not in Virginia but in the liter- ary and New York City, is at once the most labored and social circles of the least fact duc inspiring of her writings, a not to this change of milien but to an exaggeration of her chief failing, the careless or el ling of plot clements, and tensificat of her chief constam ¢ : of her narrative with analytical and descriptive digres Bridewell, Arnold Kem Adams are Miss Glasgow's objective Gerty per and Roger with presented grasp of personalities, but the story in which they are among the chief actors and into which character after char acter is ushered with ceremonious ar detailed ten or abandoned at loose ¢ formality. only to be forgot- drags with little suggestion of di- the reading and itself out does not Miss w's work does, in retrospect even pull together, as most of Glas By rights. fiction should be officially divided into fixed classes when it is entered for judgment in’ the literary bench show, To praise a1 i ising: hound-pup and set aside a pedigreed mastiff for lack of strike the most hypereritical fa points unreasonable, but in one breath to dis Miss Herbert para Quick's Double ay easily seem preposterous, ow praise Trou xed nature of the entries understand that Double is entered in the hound-pup ing to the # Let us then class, It is a lively and amusing story built around a case ef what in mode psychology is known as “double per sonality.” and in it a cultured young Wisconsin banker disappears and wakes up some years later as a gay oil operator in Pennsylvania. It is iully entitled to an honorable mention. by M. Layard, is Profusely The life of Kate Greenawa H. Spielman and G. S. most attractive volume illustrated with unpublished and drawings including some fifty re- productions in color, comaining selec- sketches ‘LIFE: tons from both sides of the long cor- respondence between Miss Greenaway Ruskin much anecdote is welded together by the text and besides other letters and and reminiscence, the whoie wherein the authors have given a hap- pily intimate picture of the woman, her work, her charm and her foibles Lloyd ath Sea of Wild Osbourne’s stories of the collected under the title Justice worth reading Coming from a writer who has intre duced himself to as asa clever adapter of the automobile to light literature the author of The Motormaniacs and HUITRES POTAGE Wem ait, “Hors DIE UVRE Stud Cu dea POISSON Rowak, Later, RELE VE Cola Head Seb Doms ‘ENT REE AG vt, Sorget HESITATION ROT! Wolssoains Onamasoge’ Beast ENTREMENT Of DOUCEURCHAUD Kaan Sade \ places MONTEES Wonraw a, CAFE ENTENTE COROIALE FOR A WEDDING BREAKFAST. of Baby Bullet, the streak of good. tough gristle in them is rather a sur- ‘They are very uneven and oc- brutal without result, but stuff in them, and the story of the plausible pirate and the United States Consul fect of its kind prise, casionally ere is good is nearly per- The seventeen railroad stories by Cy Warman in The Last Spike deal with incidents in many parts of this coun pada and ze from the completion of the Pacific railroads in 18h9 to the there, as in the tient drummer in The Wannan de bal snap-shooting. but he wholly lacks try and Cs presen’ day. Here and sketch of the impa- Limited, Mr. es a first-rate picee of ver whenever he a the story. sense, and tempts to exchange description — for fiction his work is ragged and point less Strangely enough in these times when so much is being written of the jorions days when we were boys, it does not scem to have occurred to. anyone to remember the less trucntent but no less wonderful days when some of us were girls, Miss Agnes Reppli has come to the rescue with of delightful little sketches called Ja Our Convent Days, than which nothing could be more inno. cently remindful of the scent and the time in however. a volume promise of apple blossom Jen. The Castlecourt Diamoud Case. oy Geraldine between meals for the hungry clamor There is Bonner, will serve as a bite ers for detective stories. nothing about very deceptive or unless it be the fact that the very new apparently evident solution proves to Miss telling stories be the actual one, but Bonner, who is always better t inventing them, manages to be entertaining, although she fails to be mysterious. J.B. Kerfoot. The Wheel of Life. By Ellen Glasgow, (Doubleday, Page and Company. $1.50.) uble. By Herbert Quick. (The errill Company, Indianapolis. $4.50.) By M. H. Spielman and G. P, Putnam's Sons. Ry Lloyd Osbourne et) The Last Spiks. Wy Cy Warman Scribner's Sons. $1.25.) # Days, By Agnes Repplier. (Hough- and Company. $1.10.) The Castlecourt Diamond Ca Bonner, (Funk and Wagnalls Company. Bobbs- Kate Greene S. Layard. (D. Apple- (Charles By Geraldine $1.00.) comicbooks.com