Life — October 12, 1911 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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art while merely talking vocifcrously to the gallery; to appear bent on minutely developing a situation involving a sup- posed problem in social ethics, while he is only writing brightly against time and waiting for the proper moment grace- fully to beg the question; to appear, in short, to travel at headlong speed for over five hundred pages without ever meaning to get anywhere. This is a dif- ficult picce of fictional prestidigitation and Mr. Chambers accomplishes it with such technical perfection that one is obliged to admire his skill even while deploring the elaborate futility of its employment. J. B. Kerfoot. Confidential Book Guide The Big League, by Charles E. Van Loan. Nine snappy stories about professional base. ball, recommended to fans, ex-fans and others. The Claw, by Cynthia Stockley. See pre- ceding page. The Common Law, by Robert W. Cham- bers. See preceding ‘page. The Corner of Harley Street. Anonymous. Informal character sketches and genial com THE VANDERMONK'S COACHING PARTY ment on life in the form of letters from a London physician. The Dangerous Age, by Karin, Michaelis, The self-communings of a sexually morbid woman, translated from the Danish. The Glory of Clementina, by William J. Locke. A story that, manages to be enter- taining in spite of trying to be eccentric. The Legacy, by Mary S. Watts, A. novel of American fife in the nineties that is still worth reading six months from publicatio: The Long Roll, by Mary Johnson. A really remarkable delineation of the charac: ter and campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, with an obligato of negligible fiction. The Miller of Old Church, by Ellen Glas: gow. An able and ambitious treatment of rather commonplace fictional material. The Price, by Francis Lynde. See pre- ceding ee Quecd, by Henry Sydnor Harrison. A story of the contemporary South hy a new writer with promising talent and an attr ive_literary personality. “Thorpe's Way, by Morley Roberts. A bril- Hiantly witty love story, describing a profes- sional unconventionalist’s clever compromises with convention, Three Plays, by Bricux. | Selections from a great French playwright’s work. Tense. succinct, dramatic presentations of social probiems, The World of Dreams, by Havelock Ellis, A book that ‘admits us to the laboratory where an expert is conducting his investiga tions into the psychology of dream mechan- ism, Inured - R. GILFERS,” says the caller, will you serve on a committee to draft a set of resolutions protesting against the high cost of necessities?” “Why, are things higher than usual?” “Higher? Great Scott! Sugar, pota- toes, flour, meat, butter, eggs—every- thing getting dearer every day. It is simply unbearable. You must know of it.” “Well, you see, we spent the summer at several different resorts and got so used to being robbed that I suppose we never even noticed the price of things here at home.” Foolish Question HE editor of the woman's page was on his vacation and the sporting editor had jumped into the breach. “Well, what do you think of this?” he snorted, as he held up a perfumed communication, “ Here's a fool woman wants to know how to make a lemon tart; just as though a lemon wasn't tart enough already.” comicbooks.com.