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ft bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbs mimm Vg kl3 PPf SSS eC3S i Ijc 335 sstr il fa Ml i ft ffiH 9tt 8 sAaq jratAoiscQ ociENrp smbkS 90k BwoiT Books VFamy A ummmr jk saws sSbssssT P3Jfc JHBvift5iBjKSfwr uraiN szmiji7r ATE DQUGLAS WIGGIN is probably the most popular of Amer ican women novelists Certainly she has contributed more than any other woman to the entertainment of her day and generation She is witty without strain ins after effect she is a charming story teller and she puts so much real human nature into her characters that no one can make their acquaintance without becoming fond of them Her series on Penelope gives the untraveled reader pleasant glimpses of Great Britain with a dainty love story as a special attraction The Diary of a Goose Girl hits off many of the insular peculiarities of the English but it remained or Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm to complete the conquest of Mrs Wiggins admirers Hebecca is one of the most delightful girls in Action and the story of her childish troubles jvlth her two prim New England aunts her imaginative outbreaks which shock the rigid Calvinism of Massachusetts and her final victory over her detractors is one of the best that haa appeared in recent years The great success of Rebecca assures a very large audience for Mrj Wiggins new book The Affair at the Inn which is brought out with piany fine illustrations by Houghton Mifflin Co Although Mrs VVlggin bears the bur gen of this story she collaborated with three other bright women and the result is a comedy mosaic that hasnt a dull page In It Her three collaborateurs were Jane Findlater author of that pathetic Scotch story The Green Graves of Balgowrie Mary Findlater who WTOte The Rose of Joy and Charlotte Stewart who under the masculine pseudonym of Allan McAulay wrote The Rhymer These four women spent the summer last year In the Devonshire moorlands and they amused themselves with the writing of this tale each taking a character and developing it Mrs Wlggin takes Miss Virginia Pomerpy of Richmond Va the hero ine who is traveling in England with her ailing mother Mary Findlater selects Mrs MacGil of Tuhbridge Wells a fussy middle class English woman who fancies that she has many ills talks incessantly about her ailments and is a monstrous bore Jane Find later chooses Miss Cecilia Evesham comr panion of Mrs MacGlll one of those English girts who has been compelled to waste her youth in feeding the selfishness of old women Miss Stewart selects Sir Archibald Maxwell Mackenzie of Kendarroch the hero a downright plain spoken young Scot wth not a jot of sentiment or poetry in his composition These people are thrown together at an Inn in Dartmoor near the scene of the romances of Hardy Blackmore and Eden Phil potts The young Scotch baronet is touring Devonshire in a motor car with only his valet He is shy of women and especially of the American girj and he treats Miss Virginia bo cavalierly that her Southern blood up and she determines to bring him under subjection She is drawn by Mrs Wiggin as a charming young girl rich but unspoiled and the plans that she devises to conquer Sir Archibald are extremely amusing Her recital of the events in this campaign is made more amusing by the comment of the other three characters all of whom Jot down nearly every day the incidents that have made up their uneventful life It is in this comment that most of the fun of the bodk isfound Mrs Wiggins part is the cleverest She fairly riots in witty turns and allusions reminding one of Thomas Bailey Aldrlch at his beat Here is Miss Virginias comment ton Sir Archibald after their first meeting When the young Scot haa shown no interest JpC her robed as she is In a Red fern gown and hat 5 He showed no symptom of requiring me for any purpose whatever That is the trouble with kthe men over herer so oblivious so rigid Jfrlgtd so conventional so afraid of being chloroformed and led unconscious to the altar 9 I think that too many of Great Britains young men must have been killed off in South Africa and those remaining have risen to an altogether fictitious value I suppose this Sir Somebody thinks my eyes are fixed on his coronet if he has one rusting in his upper drawer awaiting Its supreme moment of presentation He is mistaken fI am thinking only of his motor Heigh ho If marriage as an institution icuM be retained and all thought of marriage banished from the mlnJa of the young of both now deughHUi society could be made 6s for an parties I I can sea that such a state thing would be quite mpossible but it presents many advantages A amUsiny and as true aa this are Miss vTrginla Ideas on British exclusjveness which she deyeloprfor Sir Archibalds benefit lh afchance conversation after be has made that fatuous remark that he doesnt get on jpieularly well with girls ilcan quite fancy thaV Not one American girl inahundrediWould take the trouble to un Iderstand you Tu need sudh a lotof under atandlng that an Indolent girl or a reserved one ior a spoiled foney or a busy one would keep thinktegv Doeailt payt get on deUght fully well with you because I have lota of ilelauraJustEfeowjtp aevote to your case Qt KCOure lt would be a great economy of time nd strength if you iphoseftoinieet people half wayr erperhapsi one eighthV Youmust be Urar anough to know a lady or a gentleman when you see one and you dont take such frightful risks with ladies and gentlemen Although she tells him many plain truths Sir Archibald seems to think none the less of the American girl and in the end of course he falls in love with her Though she has flouted him and made cruel gibes at the expense of his stolidity she also is fond of him and the romance ends in the customary fashion with the prospective ringing of marriage bells Mary Findlater has done some admirable work in Mrs MacGlll whose unconsciousness of her selfishness and her platitudes is a work of art She wears out her companion with her complaints and her constant calls for service at all hours and she seems to set herself up as a censor of the American girl and what she regards as her forwardness and frivolity She Is most amusing however when she sets about triyng to warn Sir Archibald of the matrimonial designs of Miss Virginia Cecilia Evesham is a rather colorless character but Jane Findlater has made us see a lovable young woman who has had no chance for happiness Cecilia helps Virginia with her romance and incidentally It is plain thattshe has not been entirely neglected herself as a young painter takes a keen interest in the girl The Scotch baronet is hahdled in such clever fashion by Allan McAulay that if one did not know that the writer was a woman he would declare that only a man could do this work Sir Archibald is a fine type of the young Scot who loves outdoor sports and detests women He has absolutely no small talk arid his comment on the American girl before he really knows her is full of good things As a story this book Is remarkably readable but beneath the surface fun thefe is much wholesome truth in it and some good lessons in tolerance of national peculiarities It may be commended to any one who wishes entertainment for It Is as bright and clever as the best comedy on the stage The late Henry Seton Merrlman Just before his death finished what must be regarded as one of his strongest novels It was called The Last Hope and it is Issued in uniform style with his other novels by Charles Scrlbners Sons It is not so powerful a noei as Barlasch of the Guard as it has nothing to compare in vividness and grim realjty with Napoleons retreat from Moscowinor has it any single character that equals the old French campaigner The story deals With that historic myth of the escape of the Dauphin the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from the Temple during the days of the Terror and of the return to France of one who was accepted as the Dauphins son during that quiet Interval which preceded Louis Napoleons spectacular coup detat It is the same legend which Mary Hartwell Catherwood employed so effectively in Lazarre But the stories differ radically for while Mrs Catherwood has the Dauphin seek safety in Canada Merrlman makes him take refuge in a fishing village on the south coast of England and try to conceal all traces of his royal blood The fugitive even marries the daughter of one of the seafaring men of the coast But he is a dreamer and never develops any practical ability to cope with the affairs of the world One son Is born to the couple and he is known to the natives as Loo Barebone At the time the story opens this youth is an expert sailor on board the schooner The Last Hope commanded by his uncle Captain Clubbe He is distinctly French in appearance and manner though he has been well trained in English by the parson of the little fishing settlement of Farlingford And he has fallen In love with the parsons niece Miriam LIstoh a girl who is rich in her own right but who has Isolated herself In this litUe village in order to care for her uncle the Rev Septimus Marvin At this time the village iswlsited by Dor mer Cdlvllle an Englishman with many French connections and the old Marquis de Gemosac They come to find the descendant of the Dauphin to ascertain the proofs of his identity arid to Induce him to return to France and head a Bourbon revolt against Louis Napoleon The story of the old French noblemans conviction of Barebdnes geriu ineness of the acquiescence of the young Frenchman In their plans after Miriam has denied her love for him and of the departure for France isi told wjth rare skilL The author draws i wUh vivid touches these silent fishermen who are fond of the French youth though he differs from them radically in temperament and character It is only at times that he develops something of that Eriglish strength and stolidity which he inherits from his mother The change from the gray sky and he taciturn people of the Engllshcpasttolthe sunny skies and the exuberant people of France is admirably broughtlout 4 TtiJtmpossibleiheretoideveiop the story but itmay hersaid broadly that the young inn has grave dbubtaof his ownVgenuIhe claims i tdbe thepauphlnsispnf yet he puts these aside jwheheseeVh6wwhoily the Marquis defGemoiac and the mother royallsU believe In him and what It would mean to them to have him refuse to play his part All the episodes of the meeting of Barebone with the leading royalists and of bis Journey through the country districts with Colvllle are finely done Then come the arrangements for an active movement which are suddenly nipped in the bud by Louis Napoleons police who seize Barebone and spirit him away on a fishing boat bound for Iceland He escapes and reaches his old home whence he is once more dragged forth by Colvllle The end of all the royalist hopes comes swiftly and surely but it is not due to any weakness or indecision on the part of the pretender The story Is told with so much apparent ease as tfl blind the careless reader to the difficulties of preserving the illusion of reality Yet these difficulties were very great Told with less deftness of touch and with less sureness of knowledge of the racial traits of the two nations the tale would be simply incredible As it is one follows the development of the plot with eager Interest and though the love element is never obtruded it permeates the book and gives It vitality Miriam Llston is a rare character and her self sacrifice to help the man she loves is the finest thing in the story A powerful contrast to her is the daughter of the old Marquis de Gemosac fresh from a convent but clear eyed and worldly wise by Inheritance To her the young pretender makes love but she tells him plainly that he is only a make believe lover and that his heart is in the keeping of some English girl The love affairs of Dormer Colvllle and Mrs St Pierre Lawrence are mainly amusing and the proposal of marriage by Colvllle when he knows that her fortune Is safe and she thinks it is lost Is a fine bit of comedy The finishing touch ini this scene as In many others Is given by John Turner the fat sleepy eyed English banker of Paris who Is the custodian of the wealth many noble French houses He Is as good in his way as Captain Clubbe the taciturn mariner The book like all that Merrlman has written is full of sharpt comment on life and character Here is his description of Marie the woman of all work in the decayed country house of the Marquis de Gemosac and incidentally h4s estimate of the degeneration of the average Frenchman She unlocked the great gate and threw her weight against it with quick firm movements like the movements of a man Indeed she wax a better man than her companion of a stronger common sense with llther limbs and a stouter heart the best man that France has latterly produced and eo far as the student of racial degeneration may foretell will ever produce again her middle class woman And here is his caustic and pessimistic summary of the social change which has come in England in the last few years and which has made obsolete the old education and the old distinction between the educated and the working classes Like many of bis cloth and generation Parson Marvin pinned all his faith on education Give a boy a good education he said a hundred times Make a gentleman of him and you have done your duty by him Make a gentleman of him and the world will be glad to feed and clothe him was the real thought in his mind as it was in the mind of nearly all his contemporaries The wildest dreamer of those days never anticipated that in the passage of one brief generation social advancement should be for the shrewdly ignorant rather than for the scholar that It would be better for a man that his mind be stored with knowledge of the world than the wisdom of the classics that the successful grocer might find a kinder welcome in a palace than the scholar that the manufacturer of kitchen utensils might feed with kings and speak to them without aspirates between the courses Parson Marvin knew none of these things however nor suspected that the advance of civilization is not always progressive but that she may take hands with vulgarity and dance down hill as she does to day Many other quotable passages were marked but it Is better to refer the reader to the book itself One cannot fail to get something more than entertainment out of it if It Is read with care GEORGE HAMLIN FITCH The American State The Century Company has projected and partly executed a plan for the Issue of a series of eight duodecimo volumes of about 320 pases acht treating of The American State This work is under the editorial supervision of W1 Willoughby associate professor of political science at the Johns Hopkins Unlyerslty and will be participated in by Professor Goodnow of Columbia University Professor Macy of Iowa College President Finley 61 the College of the City of New York Professor Reirisch of the University of Wisconsin Associate Justice Simeon Baldwin of 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