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THE LITERARY WORLD REFLECTED IN REVIEW
WILLIAM D. HOWELLS
"COMES BACK" WITH
NEW NOVEL OF OfflO
a. -i
r Maud bivcr
. sQ riM. CJer rron. f l.W yet.
A slowlns; tale of Anglo-Indian life,
Jkdlns h ,,orX of,lha Tlroh
"Kipttne'ot hit bttt novr peopled
' Alo-lndte better than hat Maud Diver
& this book." Boston Advertiser.
"At ttory it it perfect, as a literary
eP'-A Record.
"An extremely well-written novel . . .
VM" nivcr has attained a pluco In the
', . "Knv one who knew Capt Desmond,
vV. C.. a" powerfully portrayed by the
JSwr pf word painting and portrayal
character and soul, knows what to
!LJt of 'Desmond'sDaunhter,' and
' .ever does ehe fail'. . .Much more real
San ordinary history, for it is written
m? only on Inside Information, but there
U the heart Interest of the writer,
which Is the key to all history . . .There
Vai been evolved a masterpiece that is
a classic" Boston Advertiser.
Other Books by
Maud Diver
Captain Desmond, V. C.
The Judgment of the Sword
The Hero of Herat
The Crest Amulet
Simla, Himalayan Idyl
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Writes Entertainmg Story, J
"Tho Leathcnvood
God"
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Statesman and
Diplomat
1830-1915
By Frederick W. Seward
Afittant Secretary of State jinder
Lincoln, Johnson and Hayes
8, COO paces. $3.50 net.
The' son of William Henry
Seward, Secretary of State
under Lincoln, Mr. Seward had
n a remarkably interesting and
distinguished career. He1 was
sent to warn Lincoln of tho
"' plot to assassinate him in 1861.
He was Assistant Secretary of
'State for twelve years. "He was
.1., nearly murdered in his father's
defehso April 14, 1865, and
) later participated in many
events of national importance.
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from the free
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Si matter of tho most intense
.interest to every live .American
Si that the- reviewer has the ut-
'MM.it 1tA?A1tl tn rU.M(nf
iVwhat to refer to." Brooklyn
Eagle.
'"Far more fascinating than
ja novel, tnis lively volume,
. richer, too, in the quality called
atmosphere and in suggestive
. inspiration. The kind of book
that may bo read over and
6ver, reopened anywhere."-r-
Chicago Herald.
, "An interesting volume of
real recollections, the very
index of which reads like a
roster of Threat deeds and
great names.". Phila. North
American.
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"The -
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A fine thrilling
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adventure and
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open. By CKarh
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TJIR tKATItKHWOOD OOD. Br Wllllura Tn
Howells. The Onturr Compsnr, Nrw Totk.
The dean of American novelists hss re
turned to his native Ohio for the locale of
his new offering. Its strength of concep
tion and nklll of execution ars In great
Contrast to Its septuagenarian origin. Mr.
De Morgan Is not the only one of the "o)s,
boys' who can write vital, virile, vivid
Action long past the Psalmist's altotmAt
of years for man. The novel Is, too, of 'a
divine length in comparison with "Joseph
Vance" and "Allce-for-Short." It runs lee
than 100 pages. It Is truly i case of
strength, not length. There Is power In the
200 odd pages, which tell the tale of a
religious Impostor who has his rise a and
fall in the pioneer West of the early "part
of the last century. He Is the "god" Vf the
title. Ills deserted wife Nancy and Squire
Dralle, a wise, witty, essentially sound
mocker, are the other jirotagonlsts. The
background of their story Is a somewhat
primitive life, rich In pictures of the political
and social phases of a very remote Amer
ica. They reveal the fact that Mr. Howells
Is as accurate, as Informed In his Ohlo'as
'he has shown himself to be In the New
England and the New York where he has
set many of his later stories and where
In the, main hlu career has been spent and
his experiences registered.
The "Leatherwood God" differs from tne
average religious fanatic such as John Alex
ander Dowle or Joseph Smith, who were
content to assume the roles of latter-day
litophets, In that he sets himself up as
Deity. Ills drama Is therefore one of ele
mental emotions, since he touched a primi
tive InstlncUthat of religion, In a primitive
folk. IIowTie obtains followers, how he
masterfuly tyrannises over hls,cult and how
his Imposture crumbles Into nothingness aro
stages 1n a swiftly moving narrative that
sweeps the reader forward on a rising tide
of powerful scenes until the moving climax.
Such a motivation In a day of spiritual un
rest, when new creeds; aro born and live
their brief day In rapid succession, will com
mend the novel to many a modern reader.
And they will find something very fine tn
the restoration, for a complex age, of pioneer
simplicities of feeling and doing set In a
s lly cleared forest, that .In Itself Is
as -vigorously alive as the settlers who Irk
somely wrest a livelihood from Its huge and
gloomy depths.
Indiana Once More
"DESMOND'S DAUGHTER." r Maud Diver.
O. r. Putnm's Sons, New York.
Probably for fear that the list of stories
dealing with life In that fascinating coun
try: India, has been diminishing, this new
est novel by Maude Diver Is published. It
makes the "steenth" example of Its typo
Issued within the last month, and tho num
ber of writers addicted to the. school-Is In
creasing dally: Maude Diver' herself has
written seven or eight stories with tho
same setting. The present is a sufficiently
gripping novel of army life In that mystic
land to please the average reader. It Is far
"from real. greatness, but It holds the Interest
steadily after a rather prosy nrst part. Tne
Desmond referred to in the title was the
hero of another of the author's novels, but
sho can be commended for no more than an
occasional reference to evepts of the first
story. One point of considerable Interest In
the book Is tho fiery defense the author
makes, of the army. Her remarks concern
ing the necessity of war, the Impossibility
of lasting" peace and the like sound a little
unusual, considering that the writer Is a
woman.
A New Man of the West
SOULS nESimOENT. Br Marlon, Hamilton
Carter. Charles Scrlbner! Sons, New York.
Fertile Us the West has been recently In
providing settings for popular fiction, Mar
lon Hamilton Carter In "Souls Resurgent"
has touched something entirely new among
the diversified elements of ranch life. In
stead of tm) western man, big, dominant
and conquering, there comes a new type
weak, vacillating and shiftless physically
and morally whose regeneration la accom
plished by a girl, of course: but by a girl
bred in the East and one whose very being
radiates culture, That the girl Is a sister
Instead of a sweetheart detracts not one
whit from the interest Intensely human
and Intensely significant of American life,
the story1 lays bare relentlessly the con
flict among Its racial and social elements.
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IRISH POEr AT FKONT
A PROMISING WRITER
William Dean Howells, whose newest story, "The Leatherwjod God,"
has Just been issued by Harper & Bros.
TARKMGTON WRITES
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Edith Wharton Also Among Au
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In development and
A Strange. Creation
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in tha Dust." He Is a modern knight
arrant with decidedly materialistic views
on life, and its various ramincauons.
"I am not striving," he says'os the
fashion was in times past, to right men's
wrongs, for that Js quite Impossible; but
trying to make the wrongs'once done easier
.to bears not succoring the Innocent, out
lending a hand to the guilty, in an age
like ours the innocent appear to need no
help." . ' ...
This extraordinary cerson travels In com
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village me icngin ana urcnuui "i buivjimi
doing astonishing deeds. "Deeds that
helped," as his companion says.
And so pursuing his curious method of
aiding the guilty, he meets Brother Mel
choir, who had done a grievous wrong, and
in tine of tha most dramatic chapters tn
the book "Cigarette" slays him by obliging
the monk to drink poisoned wine. True, the
. unhappy roan had hts ohotce of two vessels.
out wJgareiie saa kh mo jhcwuuvt.
to place poison In eaehen,
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ld"Ciarett," "I suddenly lost my faith
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KvsaU In the Orient
wPUwa8238o:" aSt"E2&;'JillK
Comvemr. -'. - '
Alesavder'AareAeshn had already seen
published In" the Atlantic Monthly the
chapters which now , have been gathered
and published in beek form, in a band,
some volunw, ,lH4od, by the'Ifeufbteft Mif
flin CoeapMiy, wtOer tb4 title rVW the
Turks In PaieeUtML" Mr, AaroMeho's h
jeot isMhato mptac Je ynety ft the
AetoD, PWJ torPsUsiu., -a laod'of
proaalM mvt to be attalaed," wbeee
"dreamers ratuswd to surrender, and ev
asnbl the stash of gua and swords, ev
FENBOD AND SAM. By Booth Tarklnirton.
Doubledajr. rare Co., Garden City. New
York.
In this second volume reciting the divert.
Ing adventures of Penrod Schofleld Mr.
Tarklngton more than ever Invites compari
son with Mark Twain as a writer of stories
about unusual boys. And, truth to tell, the
Iloosler writer's work does not sutler so
much by the comparison as might bo ex
pected. Penrod may be a trifle less amazing
than tha redoubtable Tom Sawyer and the
extraordinary Huckleberry Finn, but ha Is
decidedly more real. Seldom do his pranks
seem even a little bit exaggerated, and there
Is no trace of abnormality about him. It
Is for that reason that one Is inclined to
believe that Mr. Tarklngton knows his boys
rather more Intimately than did Mark
Twain know his, and ds not compelled to
rely so much upon an active Imagination.
If Penrod Is true to type, so also Is his
partner In mischief, Sam "Williams; so also
are Herman and Verman, tha two darky
boys; so Is Oeorgle Bassett, the painfully
well-behaved, anV Corlle Chltten, the
smoothly plausible. They are all delightful
boys for other boys, of from twenty-nve
years upward, to read about.
Storiettes by Edith Wharton '
XINOU. Br Edith 'Wharton.. Charles Scrlb-
ner's Sons.
A volume of short stories by one who
customarily, writes full-length novels Is like
ly to be viewed with suspicion. This sus
picion is not unfounded, either. In these
days of rather frequent pot-boilers! Hap
ply It may bo said at onCe that Mrs, Whar
ton's present volume Is not, only excellent
but shows her at her best, which cannot
be said of some of her more recent novels.
A woman who often chooses queer subjects,
Mrs. Wharton had the happy faculty of
developing those subjects with exquisite
taste and dramatic strength of an unemo
tional, reallstto character, Never has this
characteristic been more clearly shown
than In the last (and by far the long
est) of the present series of stories, - "The
Bunner Sisters" ought to excite a great
deal of favorable attention. .Its true-to-life
surroundings, into which are Introduced
the well-drawn characters of the two sisters,
are depicted in masterful style. There are
true pathos, a sort of homely dignity and
faultless technique In the "Bunner Sisters"
It la by far the most dominant of the
stories. "Xlngu" is a delightful satiric com
edy, which shows quite another side of
Mrs. Wharton's versatility. Few cleverer
denunciations of tho present-day "feminist"
erase have ever been delivered In the guise
of a Joyous little comedy. "Kerfol" Is an
other excellent tale, queer and .somber In
From South America
TALKS or THE PAMPAS. Br W. II. Hud
son. Alfred A. Knopr, New York.
The wisdom pf 'Mr. Htfdson, after having
written bo flno a thing as "Green Man
sions," In publishing this series of snort
stories with South American netting may
be questioned. They are, to say the least,
uneven, and the best of them hardly can
be called out of the ordinary, "El Ombu,"
the first of the collection, and the most
widely heralded, has moments of great
strength, imt It Is. crude strength at the
most, and lacks the literary polish of which
Mr. Hudson' Is capable. Like all the other
tales, it la glveri a South American set
ting at the beginning of the nineteenth
century, the tale being plentifully Inter
larded with murders and sudden deaths.
Indeed, only some amazingly beautiful de
scriptive passages save the rather flam
boyant story. Four shorter tales and one
poem In excellent blank verse complete
the volume. They are of the same char
acter as the Initial .story, as weird and as
uneven.
Francis Lewidge, Lor'd Dun-
sany's Protege, Shows Flashes
of Inspiration in His Verso
BONO 9 OF TITO riKLCfl, Br Franels Ltwiace.
New York: fouffleld Co.
As nearly every one knows, the war
turned poetry from what was generally con
sidered a boe Into a banner i banner
Haunted by nbpert Urooko, W. W. Olbson
and other Kngllshmen. Kven beforo Au
gust, 1914, there had been a decided popular
trend toward verse. The naturalistic work
of Kdgnr Lee Masters, Itobert Frost nnd
their fellow Americans had something to
do with this, and the Influence of a genius
John Masefleld who cunningly played
first on rustro pipes and then on larger In
struments, can hardly be overrated In the
way It drew peoplo's attention to rythmed
measures.
This month's output of verse Is not so
great as Usual, but It contains a number
of pleasant. It not epoch-Axing volumes.
No less a poet than Lord Dunsany Is
sponsor for tho slim green "Songs of the
Fields" of Mr, Iwldgo. Slim and green
are adjectives that fit welt the content as
welt as the exterior of this book. The nuthor
Is a young Irishman, now at the front. In
tho preface his royal patron tells, with
characteristic simplicity and tender dignity
of the youth's life nnd unpretentious be
ginnings. Lewldge has the earmarks of
the Celt charm of emotion, dlffuseness of
Jthnught. lack of vnrlety In form. Now and
iiiium, in me miasi or. nis preuy paiavcr
Ings, he achieves high notes with n strange,
breath-taking effect. There arc single lines
and couplets that are the very quintessence
of poetry, mingled with Indifferent nnd
worse. On the whole, one may hope, and
hope warmly, that with the passage of time
Mr. Iewldge will slough off his amateurish
nesses, and come out Into the sun a second
Masefleld If such a miracle Is possible.
Lundy's Long Lane
THE BATTLE OF LUNDY'S LANE. Br Dun-
in umpmi neon, new lorKl uteres it.
Doran Companr.
The Battlo of Lundy's Lane." by Mr.
Scott, Is a long, a very long, collection of
whnt ore Bometlmes described as 'Vagrant
verses," though probably the nuthor would
prefer some other title for his products. Be
ginning with n dramatic account of the light
from which the volume taices its name, he
passes through nearly every channel of
rhymed expression familiarized by tho Vic
torlans. Ho does not give any striking
variation to tils old themes, and his old
technical processes aro not what they should
be. He has a faulty sense of meter, but his
book Is never dull or febrile. A personality
of some sort Is behind oven the slovenliest
of his verses. On that account he wjll repay
a reading by those who know that every
poet, no matter how small, must bo a man
as welt. .
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TWO GREAT WAR BOOBS
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