Life — April 12, 1906 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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© [os ey S R. CROCKET'S Fishers of Men is a North-of-Tweed * version of Oliver Twist in which, for all its complete ization and in spite of its Lonnet and kilts, onc never loses sight of the striking parallelism. For the rest, this history of young Alexander McGhie in the underworld of Edinborough is as fluent and as panoramic as any of its author's tales. From the first pa last the persuasive magnetism of his narra- tive is un nes and characters are as convinc- ing and as purely objective, as brilliantly visualized and as kly dissolving as any of his celightfully readable and surprisingly forgetable work. The Truth About Tolna is a new novel by Bertha Runkle, the author of The Helmet of Navarre, in which confusion be tween the real Tolna and the romantic figure which his mana- ger has invented for the ends of operatic advertising involves a number of pleasant people in a social comedy of errors, a comedy whose rapid fusillade of cross-purposes never quite drowns the consciousness of make-believe, but which is none the less likely to find and to entertain many readers. Frederick Rowland Marvin, the author of The Companion- ship of Books and Other Papers, is a master of the almost forgotten art of being ponderous. His volume contains no less than ninety articles, big and little, upon topics living and dead, a large majority of which are classed under the heading of “chips from a literary workshop,” but chip or block, essay or aphorism, no least one of them is less than a disquisition. Hazel oj Heatherland is an English novel by an English writer, Mabel Bames-Grundy, which in spite of its distinctly etting is very American in its spirit. That is to it is an English parallel of the American studies of type England or whatever—whose humor and human interes so generally failed to touch our cousins overseas. Ha tells her own story, is an amusing hoyden in a decorous British hion, and if her diary mig without loss, it may be read with the assurance of a pretty story and a good deal of genuine fun. ‘The man who has either studied psychology or really studied himself will find Henry Churchill’ King’s Rational Living both an interesting and a helpful volume. The author has aimed at a series of practical deductions from the more gen- erally accepted results of modem psychological study, of which indeed, and of some of their more immediate philo- sophical corollaries, he gives an excellent summary. The book is full of suggestion and wholly free from faddishness. Miss Primrose is the title of Roy Rolfe Gilson’s latest story which, like all his work, is full of loving memories of simple things, of smiling pathos and of humor with moist eyes. Senti- ment is out of fashion, but sentiment so sound and tender as this story of the village doctor, from dreamy boy to kindly man, is always in stvle. Why does the title of Mrs. Henry de la Pasture s novel, The Man jrom America, instantly suggest either something strenuous and up-to-date or something humorous and up-to- date? Asa matter of fact The Man jrom America is an old- fashioned English novel, eminently suited for the consumption of “the young person,” with a touch of Devonshire dialect and five heroines all caught young and conscientiously accounted for at the steps of the altar. It is described in the sub-title as a sentimental comedy which, while a doutle exaggeration, is nearer the truth than the unwarranted suggestion of the title that the contents are cither in the manner of Mr. Archibald Clavering Gunter or of Mr. J. Storer Clouston. J. B. Kerjoot. Fishers of Men. By S. R. Crocket. (D. Appleton and Company. $1.50.) The Truth About Totus, By Bertha Runkle. (The Century Company. $1.50.) The Companionship of Books and Other Papers. By Frederick Rowland (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) of Heatherland. By Mabel Barnes-Grundy $1.50.) Man from America. By Mrs. Henry de la Pasture. (E. P. Dutton and Company. $1 Rational Living By Menry Churchill King. (The Macmillan Company $1.23.) Miss Primrose. By Roy Rolfe Gilson. (Harper and Brothers. $1.25.) (The Baker and Taylor Just the Thing Younc Lapy To CLERK IN Bookstore: I am looking for something suitable for an old gentleman who has been mar- ried fifty years. Can you suggest something? CLERK (promptly): “A Half Century of Conflict.” - | | | = J}! ) THIS MORAL WAVE Mrs. West (recently divorced): DON'T YOU WANT THE CANDY, GERTRUDE? (0, THAN! THAT ARE PURCHASED WITH ALIMONY. $; IT'S AGAINST MY PRINCIPLES TO ACCEPT GIFTS comicbooks.com