Life — March 22, 1906 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: Poverty has already ame by John Sparge me of Mr. Hun- protest Rovert HUNTER’S treatise on borne excellent fruit in a vol called The Bitter Cry of the Children ter's statements last year gave rise to a storm of Nowed by nd Mr Wy array of facts and his quiet, frank dignified marshalling of them makes his book not only a and denial in local school and other cireles, self-investigations smug told you Spargo’s overwhelmi crushing reply to these denials, not only a powerful appeal to all who have the impulses of pity. but the most popularly understandable statement yet made of the truth which mod ern sociolegy more fi y side issue of charity is coming realize and that this question of child-health is 1 but a matter of vital, national self-interest to more Benson has tried a difficult if not an The Angel of Pain ry and realism in a society novel is suffic impossible To ently risky, but to attempt to domesticate Greek mythology in the New Forest an in his new novel. mix to prove an abstract point in from the events of a single Lo lessly for a fall, Of course Mr. {satire and his occasional epigrams make but in The luge! of this al breakdown of an elabo- mic philosophy to ride reck- Benson's women, his ¢ don season, his his pages entertaining, Pain cleverness but emphasizes the rate artificiality Holman F. Day, who in The Pine Tree Bi where has sung the sentiment and ihe written a novel called Syuire [hin form” that it is unmistakably: the F's verse ‘old sirs” of ads and else- of Maine. has which is so “true to prose brother to the an- lhe Palermo, drawn with Mr, Day's graphic skill. man Thompson melodrama, of form a sort of Greek chorus te a Den which the return of prodigal to his native village 1 tle old take up old feuds and set the foundation. As usual in’ American the 1 stalls and the applause melodramas. ghter will come from from the gallery A new brand of local color is offered in G. 0. ter’s tales of New Zealand sheep “, The life which the author depicts, gh men at cat with rougher Nature, is big in its elemental simplicity and the author is thrilled by the spirit of it. But he has overdone a_ legitimate artistic impulse in fitting his man- ner to his material, and in aiming at a rugged style for rugged stories achieved an artificial work of English which will dis- courage most of his readers Sons heasecan grips rock- has TUF HOUSE If you should happen to have a little girl, and she should by any chance happen to be a very matter-of-fact little girl at one moment, say when the curiosity -question mood was upon her, and a very recklessly imaginative little girl at other moments, say when she was busy digesting your re plies, you could not please her better than by reading to her the adventures of little Sue Betty as they are told by Hildegard Brooks in The Larky Furnace. Tf you do not happen: to have a little There is nothing like them, irl, get one. Margaret Collier Graham, who has already published a volume of similar Western tales in Stories of the Foot- hills, is the author o the ti heir C the six stories lately published under je of The Wizard's Daughter. These, in spite of ‘alifornian setting, in spite of their modern garb and oceasional mask of an “unhappy ending,” are casily recognizable as our old friends of the Sunday school brary, where Providence keeps books by double entry and has pay days, of which these well-written tales are records, The perfect presswork and general make-up of MWash- ington and the West, by Archer B. Hulbert, together with the title page announcement that the volume contains the text of Washington's diary of his journey to the Ohio val- ley in 1784 and an introduction and commentary by the editor, all suggest a book of more than possible interest. The twenty-page intreductory summary of the matter bears out this promise, but the diary is dry, matter of fact and devoid of color, and even with Mr. Hulbert’s commentary demands a very specialized interest to make it worth while, J. B. Kerfoot Th Company. $1.50.) Philadelphia $1.50.) Spuire By Holman F By GT jitter Cry of the Children, By John Spargo. (The Macmillan Ry FE. F. Benson. The J.B. Lippincott Company, Day. (ALS. $1.50.) (Doubleday, Page and Company. ny. Lancaster. St.50 The Larky $1.25.) Furn (Henry Holt and Com pany Daughter a, Mip Washington and the W and Other and Company, $1.25.) Ry Archer B. Storics, My Margaret Collier Ibert. (The Century Come pany. $2.00.) Thrice Injured She Whose Cause Is Shaky. OW much is it fair to charge an injured woman for ¢ damages from an injurious man? A New York law firm in good standing collected $17,500 in such a case. Out of this sum it paid $2,500 by agreement to one of the lawyers on the other side, and divided the remainder almost equally with its client. The injured woman thought her proportion of the winnings—$7,426 out of $17,500— was too small, and indeed injury at that rate seems hardly profit- able to the victim oF MIRTH. comicbooks.com