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THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, FEBRUARY 1, 1914 47 FICTION FOR FEBRUARY lt 4 frooa resre chllil," thers should ba If perfection be aJmsd at. Also and this ia the main point i-he reader's attention ia riveted from start to finish. What It there be aome read on who wish. In such itorlei, a style like roe'a, or, at least, the convincing air that Conan jDoyla knows how to conjure Into hla creations. What if Mrs.

Green characters shiver and tremMe and faint and turn doathly white and confess Crimea and Indulge In cataleptic fits? What If thy never actually live! The fart rtrtnattu that they tangled up In euch a shroud of mysterious crime that there, ia no help for the reader until he lets the author tear it from them in her own rood time, drawl nit smilingly aeide, and exclaim: 'Tfow, dldyou ever think that the man who brained Mr. win not the loutish 11. nor the unllkahle but that extremely respectable Mr. PT I)lt you, now?" And, ten to one. you will have to confess that you did not.

Dark Hollow ranka well with the irnod stories of Ita kind. Ita action li ewlft and terrible and sweeps the reader along Irresistibly that shortcomings of atylo and characterisation are eaally overlooked, or not even noticed. In the fascination exerted by a well-wrought plot. After all, where Queen Melodrama and her devoted handmaiden, Mystery, play their parts well, he who wants more may lay himself onon to a charge of ever-eaptiousness. And these two ant certainly busy In Kara Hollow." A word of sympathy must be said before turning the taat page In the book for that other well-known character of roelodrtuna.

Uie long arm of coincidence. It receives a wranoh In this latest of Mr. Green's stories which. It la safe te say, will not be equaled in any book for some time, DAVll) LISLE'S STORY OF A STAGE HEROINE. TUB IKH'I.

OC I.irK. OH HAT 1 UiVHT Hy lhnd l.ile. New Turk rrederh.k A. Blokes Company I'rtce, fl.35. THOSE who delight to conaort with tie beautiful women and cultured won ief oosmopolitan Tarlatan so ciety, to drift from the salon of the aria, tocrai to the sumptuous boudoir of the reigning stage favorite, who would re-gala their nostril with delicate odor and gratify their eyea only with the charming and exquisite thing that appertain to the wealthy aesthete and edocUc, will find pleasure In this new book by the author of The Painter of Souls." Ita garish splendore fairly rival the voluptuous and epicurean dreams of an Oscar Wilde, and provide a magnificent setting tor the primitive nation of a Gerome, the tender love of.

an Isola, and the tainted Imagination of a decadent poet. The tango of characters la wide; It Includes a masterful Rusnlan frlnceas whoiio heart is kept warm by a buried romance; her protegee, an Innocent and refined young girt with dramatic ambitions and a longing for "experience;" a dissolute poet only too eager to gratify her gull. less desire, and the tine young Englishman, whose honest love win the day and eaves hi lady from the results of her aally Into the crude realities of stage life. A further motive In the complex plot of the novel Is furnished by the hopeless passion of Lev Bella Oerome, a great actress and a womaji of the most primitive type, for the poet Le Vesian. The author portray vividly- the unbridled nature of this woman, and the bitterness that enters bsr aoul when ahe discover that ae has overtaken her and that her marvelous beauty Is failing her.

The openlnjr of the novel finds Isola, "Who baa entered the dramatic profession despite ail eg position, vainly striving to Interpret the part of a "Jeune fille of to-morrow aly, exaggeratedly vain. Immoral of thought before Immoral of action." In some Inexplicable way Isola proves a suueera with her audiences, although artistically she comprehends bar part not at all. Robin, the typical clean-minded English hero, tries vainly 1 win her front, what she consider bar career and llfework. Meantime, Do Veeinn, who would teach her the ways of his world, wooa her insidiously with his magic tongue, while the rapidly airing actress, spurned by the poet for this young girl, complicates the matter -by a tigerish Jealousy. Fortunately for the happiness of the hero, the poet, carried away by an Impulse of the moment, klases Isola' arm: the veil la torn from hur eyes and she suddenly realise the true significance of her aur-rounding In all their aordldneas and ugliness.

La Iielle Oerome quaffs a poisoned drink, and thus the way la cleared for a' happy ending la the marriage of Robin. and Isola. It The Soul of Life doea not tiv up in aome reajpecta to I La title. If ita stylo tends toward the florid, and Its characters seem at times unconvincing, the novel Is one that proven neverthe-loss thoroughly readable anil provides thrttls that would affect even the most Jaded appetite. MISS STERRETT'S CLEVER FARCE COMEDY NOVEL THK fllRt By Frances R.

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