Life — April 26, 1906 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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iN Taunt ¥ Sev UT rn =e ps; poser, The Genius, considered as a fictitious biography, is amazingly realistic. Her attitude of stating facts is maintained with such complete assurance that we find our- ments of her hero as historically indisput- clive fiction, a lower order. signally Margaret lish in But considered as i book's merits hat which Miss eved in The Divine Fire, Potter has utterly failed to accom} The Genius. She has, indeed, described a person, but she has not created a person- ality. We know all Ivan, but we never knew h supernatural suggestion which is presumably intended as a connect- ing link between t nd the next number of her announced “Trilogy of Destiny,” it is so purely gratuitous, so speciously unrelated to the rest of the work, are ¢ Sinclair so about her unhappy As for the the epilogue, s. stor, A POOR RULE THAT that it may be dismissed with a shrugged shoulder. The first of the four volumes of Henry arles Lea's History Spain is a generous instalment of an im- portant and deeply interesting work, Mr. a, although modestly deprecating the one worker can make nt material in the s_nevertheless come His style, at once is admi le, dd to , secular as f the Inquisition of upon the sup. Spanish from them heavy laden. ceful and dignit archive: well as ecclesiastical, the book will prove a rich sour Humination nt stories which Henry C. Row- slishes in The Mountain of pong the most insistent and effective attempts at the literary { horror. They all concerned. with those underlying, primal passions still lurk- ing behind the veil which generations of communal ¢ woven for the hiding of the brute are two thing: them which, over and above the activ the author’s gruesome imagination, make them carry conviction. One is his high ‘cars y exploiting power of visualization and the other his clever obtruding of the psy than the physical aspects of the bruta which he depicts. In the five stories of Old Washington, by Harriet Prescott Spofford, we find ourselves at the opposite extreme of human impulse, where conventions hold sway inst instincts, and passions have been refined into prejudice. Here, in the backwater of unofficial Washington in the early seventi we meet little old ladies left over from older day, little young ladies coming in with the dawn of a new, and the various company of the aftermath of war and social upheaval Stories of a certain delicate charm if of no y novel or uncommon type. E. B. Greenshields’ volume upon Land- scape Painting and Modern Dutch Artists is a work which can be read with the great- est benefit by any who are secking an intelli- gent understanding of the nature, the sources and the aims of landscape art. It is written by a man of genuine fecling, who quotes intelligently and who expresses his own views in language still unenbalmed by the professional critics. It contains a short comicbooks.com