Life — March 15, 1906 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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; p nama THELATEST BOOKS Ge FORGE perl MOORE. more who at heart is essentially an art- English writer, in his latest book, The Lake, iful study. haunting obsession of vin any present offers 1 delicate and he unshad- owed morbid parlance it woulc emer to call he work a novel the history of a mental cri with uraet un Trish priest: in: and with the letters of an whom story of an study” tri- a wor we never meet. It is the awakening, an “analytic: hantly guiltless ef “ar Tythe consummat lysis.” in whic srouping of agre outward results, we are shown whole course of an inward strug: I you think yoursel ule. Finally, if he nur r who at the “hut did’ he end will ask marry the girl?" be sure that it is not for you. In that case, however, The Resur- Miss Cynthia was for ye especially Kingsley, and written well Miss Cynthia is a England old maid whose doctor gives and whom the news ration of family tradition and village convention in the determination to do all the things she wanted to do and never dired, We no that a year to live tes to the de has always confidences in doctors are i hintir som alarmists, James Outram, the author of In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies, is the holder of a rather remarkable record. Of the forty odd peaks of the Cana- dian Reckies exceeding ten thousand feet which have been climbed half in height by man have first stre- ) It is a descrip tion of these first ascents, the solving of these huge puzzles of icy precipice and crumbling rock that will make sok attractive to all who love mountains, The individual verdict upon Miss Myrtle Reed's new book, «Ifthe Sign of the Jack 0’ Lantern, will depend upon the degree of indifference with which the reader regards an inadequate and anemic plot as compared with a series of amusing character sketches. Miss Reed's gift of hitting oF queer old parties, both pleavant and unpleasant, has never been so lavishly drawn upon as in the company of human oddities that settle themselves upon the young couple of her tale, but the tale itself is the least of her lavender seri Mr. Harold MacGrath’s stories have them something of the tight- rope. Across a frankly perilous and unlikely situation the author trips deb- onairly at ease, about mecting each threat- ened loss of equilibrium with the quick balance pole of rippling dialogue. But he is not in form in his latest exhibi- Hearts aud Masks, a story of wm- invited guests at a masquerade, The situation is sufficiently Grathian but the wkward, doubt a passing indisposition. The papers published in| Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s Part of @ Man's Life come under the head of what might 1 Ned “intellectual au- tobiography.” They range from anee- dotes to estays; are all. broadly speak- ing, reminiscent and concern them- with id than events. If occasionally rather ently self-conscious, they are scholarly and genial; scholarly the classic precision of an older learn- ing, genial with the courteous formal- ity of an older school. They belong unmistakably to the generation th: led the black stock but dated the negligee shirt. The hand-book of Sea Shore Life, written by Alfred G. Mayer, director of the marine biological laboratory at Tortugas, and published as the first volume of the New York Aquarium nature ought to prove quite as handy and valuable at the seaside as the now indispensable flower and bird guides do in the fields and woods. It deals with the invertebrates only, is fully illustrated and is written as nearly in tion, balancing is selves more with insist- both with sirece ante- series, almost lish as the exigencies allow. J. B. Kerfoot. The Lake, By George Moore. and Company. $1.50.' The Retnrretion ence Morse Kingsley. pany. $1.50.) In the Heart of the Canadian Rockies. By James Outram. (The Macmillan Company. $3.00.) Us the Sicn of the Jack o' Lantern, By Myrtle Reed. (G. P, Putnana’s Sons.) Hearts and Macks, By Harold MacGrath. (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis.) art ofa Man's Life. By Thomas Wentworth (Houghton, Miflia and Company. of the case (D, Appleton Miss Cynthia, Vs (Dodd, Mead an Shore Life. By Alfred G. Mayer. Barnes and Company.) AS comicbooks.com