Chapter 51

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A series of stories and sketches of life at Phillips academy, Andover, written by one of the teachers. Among the titles are: The unappreciated; The transformation; The ringer; A new boy; The infirmary; The foreign-born; A Napoleon of finance; Parents; The spy; The landlady; An affaire du cœur; Taking a chance; The vamp.

“Boys, and girls too, will like these tales, but so will older readers. A charming strain of humor enriches the sketches.” Hildegarde Hawthorne

“One quite believes of the sketches and tales that ‘boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen will find them absorbing and diverting’; but largely as an illuminating and slightly scandalous glimpse into a teacher’s mind. It is a book for adult non-combatants, retired teachers or superannuated parents or ‘old boys’ who recall their school days as a delightful lark.” H. W. Boynton

GRAHAM, JOHN WILLIAM.Faith of a Quaker. *$8 Macmillan 289.6

(Eng ed 20–23038)

“The author is principal of Dalton Hall, the hall of residence for Quaker students attending the University of Manchester, England, the author of an excellent ‘Life of William Penn,’ and other works, and is also a Quaker minister. The first four chapters, ‘The foundations,’ set forth the ideas of the author concerning God and man and the relation they bear to each other. Dissertations on the ‘Son,’ the ‘Living Christ,’ and the ‘Personality of man’ follow, all based on what precedes. The essay on war, which has been previously published, is a presentation of the incompatibility of war with the spirit of Christianity.”—N Y Evening Post

“The essentially mystical basis of Quakerism is well pointed out, and some useful distinctions are drawn between the somewhat vehement assertions of the early pioneers and the results of modern thinking. The community of Quakers is not likely to object to the reverent, but discriminating, analysis which is here given of many current practices.”

“The book is written in a spirit of fair-mindedness and not of partisanship.”

“The book, as a whole, is badly arranged and loses thereby in force. But the chief error of the author is that he has set forth as an exposition of the Quaker faith that which the vast majority of the Friends of England, as well as in America, would unhesitatingly disown, and thus he gives a wrong impression of the teachings of the body. Had the work been published as the faith of an individual seeker after truth it would merit commendation as an earnest, strong, thoughtful presentation.” A. C. Thomas

“It is when we come to intellectualize their position that the problems arise. This is the point which Mr Graham does not seem sufficiently to have apprehended, and yet it is surely the key to the whole position. His explanations and argumentations are in consequence too often extraneous, too often weakened by irrelevancies.”

GRAHAM, STEPHEN.Soul of John Brown (Eng title. Children of the slaves). *$3 Macmillan 326.1

20–21927

This is an English observer’s report on the condition of the negro in America today. He came to America to study the problem. He traveled south by way of Baltimore and Washington to Virginia, passed on to Georgia where he followed the track of Sherman’s march, went thru Alabama and Mississippi and to New Orleans and then followed the river north. He talked with negro workmen, preachers, teachers and doctors, visited their schools, churches and theaters, and he reports on lynching, the southern point of view, the effects of the war on the negro, etc., and writes of the world aspect of the problem. He finds that slavery left its taint on the white man as well as on the negro and says it is a mistake to view this American problem as exclusively a negro problem.

“The fact that in this book, as elsewhere, Mr Graham’s observations are more valuable than his reflections, does not detract from its simple, unescapable effect.”

“Mr Graham has, with remarkable clearness of vision, analyzed our problem of race relations. He has fallen into error in a few instances, but the great bulk of his book is filled with a correct interpretation of the innermost thoughts and aspirations of twelve million Americans who seek to be free.” W. F. W.

“He saw nothing, of course, that informed Americans do not know already, but as an Englishman he saw from a new point of view, and ‘The soul of John Brown’ has the interest of a genuine freshness which Mr Graham’s mystical habits of thought and expression do not obscure.”

“Mr Graham is an Englishman and may be forgiven for his mistakes in American history, except in the case of his opening chapter, which is lurid and dangerously misleading. It is entirely inconsistent with subsequent chapters.”

“We are more impressed by what he saw and heard than by his arguments. Sometimes, indeed, the latter are based on lack of knowledge.” E. C. Willcox

“His report of what he saw and heard is of unusual interest because it gives the observations of a man who began his study of the race question in the South without prepossessions and with the simple desire to learn the truth.”

“The mischief of this sort of book is the fact that it cannot possibly help forward the cause which the author has earnestly at heart. Like most people who think with their hearts rather than with their heads, Mr Graham seems to have taken very little trouble to learn more than his own side of the question.”

“Written with that easy yet glowing eloquence of which he is a master. But the picture that he gives is more notable for generous sympathy than for exact knowledge. It is, in important respects, one-sided and misleading. The book is written in the spirit of the DuBois propaganda, and again and again Mr Graham has taken the propagandist’s view of certain matters which sociological investigators interpret differently.”

GRANDGENT, CHARLES HALL.Old and new. *$1.50 Harvard univ. press 814

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“‘Old and new, sundry papers,’ is the title of a volume containing eight essays and addresses by Professor C. H. Grandgent, of Harvard university. Though covering a rather wide range of subjects, the papers included ‘have this in common, that they treat, in general, of changes in fashion, especially in matters of speech and of school.’ (Preface)” (Mod Philol) “‘Nor yet the new,’ is an address to the Smith college chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa on May 17, 1919. The other chapters are Fashion and the broad A, The dog’s letter, Numeric reform in Nescioubia, Is modern language teaching a failure? The dark ages, New England pronunciation and School.” (Springf’d Republican)

“Against everything contemporary he easily generates animosity so intense that it strikes one as bizarre. On the pronunciation of English as she is spoke in America, Professor Grandgent is popular and amusing.”

“‘Fashion and the broad A,’ ‘The dog’s letter,’ and ‘New England pronunciation’ are scholarly yet delightful essays on subjects which should interest every student of language. If there were more philologists like Professor Grandgent, Mr H. L. Mencken would have less occasion to complain that American college professors investigate forgotten dialects to the neglect of living English.” T. P. Cross

“Miscellaneous essays and addresses which, often thin as to argument, are at times rich in illustration.”

“Most readers will agree that what these essays and addresses have in common is their author’s wealth of reading and of reflection and his brilliant wit, rather than any unity of theme.” J: Erskine

Reviewed by Brander Matthews

“Prof. Grandgent’s witty impatience at new poetry extends to so many departments of life that one need not fear challenge in fastening upon him the epithet ‘conservative.’ The lighter papers of Prof. Grandgent’s combining wit and scholarship, are meant to give pleasure and will do so.”

GRANTHAM, MRS A. E.Wisdom of Akhnaton. *$1.25 Lane 822

20–17687

A poetic drama based on incidents drawn from the life and reign of Pharaoh Akhnaton, son of Amenhotep III, as read in the sculptures and inscriptions brought to light by modern excavations. These evidences reveal in the young ruler a new attitude toward life, a reversal of all inherited values. “There was no room for greed and hate and war in his conception of man’s destiny.... The episode chosen for dramatization is the conflict between the claims of peace and war and Akhnaton’s successful struggle to make his people acquiesce in his policy of peace.” (Preface)

“His portrayal of the ruler who acts in defiance of his military chiefs is managed with a good deal of skill and entire sympathy. The verse is adequate throughout, and the climax might easily be made by stage presentation into an impressive spectacle.”

“A poetic drama of some merit. If certain passages with too modern a ring, which make his Pharaoh seem almost a President Wilson in Egyptian robes, were brought into harmony with the tone of the period, the play might have a success in representation.”

GRATTAN-SMITH, T. E.True blue. il *$1.50 (2½c) Holt

20–14285

An Australian story for young people. Mel is a fourteen year old girl, Ned is her brother, and Jim Stanley is their chum. The three are expert in all outdoor sports, including surf riding, and Mel holds her own with the boys. The story opens on Ned’s birthday, with a hydroplane for a birthday gift. A few days later war is declared and the new hydroplane plays an important part. Altho the war-time plot is the now familiar one, involving the capture of German spies, the story has an added interest in its descriptions of Australian sports.

“Up-to-date boys and girls will revel in this wholesome book, and, unless we are mistaken, grown-ups will not wholly pass it by.”

GRAVES, CLOTILDE INEZ MARY (RICHARD DEHAN, pseud.).Eve of Pascua, and other stories. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

20–12450

With some exceptions the stories are comic and the title story tragic. A typical Englishman, whose boast it was that he never had been in a scrape with a woman, left England to escape the charms of one and betook himself to Spain. Immediately on his arrival he finds himself defending a woman against an infuriated mob. She is a famous dancer who has incurred the hatred of her native town. As he is conducting her to her home where she is seeking her mother’s reconciliation, they are run down by a stampede of bulls. The girl is killed, he almost. Later, when sufficiently recovered from his injuries he finds that it was the sister who was killed and that the vilified girl has slipped into the former’s place with the blind mother.

“On the whole, the book well sustains her reputation.”

“These narratives are unmistakably the work not only of a ‘born story-teller,’ but of a careful artist. There is a quality in the title-story which, with whatever apologies and misgivings, we can only suggest by the word ‘style.’” H. W. Boynton

“The medium of the short story is not very favorable to the work of ‘Richard Dehan.’”

GRAVES, FRANK PIERREPONT.What did Jesus teach? an examination of the educational material and method of the Master. *$1.75 Macmillan 232

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“The Christian association of the University of Pennsylvania started a campaign a year ago to enroll 2000 students in Lenten Bible study. The leaders were faculty men, secretaries, older students and outsiders, and these were all taught in a normal class by Frank Pierrepont Graves, dean of the school of education. Prof. Graves has yielded to a strong demand for the publication of the study material, and it appears as ‘What did Jesus teach?’ The book is based on the gospel of Mark, and is arranged in such form as to be available for other classes in college or out. Beginning with a study of the historical sources for the teachings of Jesus, the book goes on with eight chapters on Jesus as a teacher, his method of teaching, his ideas of God and man, the ideals and reconstruction of life, the future, the kingdom and the church, and modern society. A bibliography adds to the value of the book.”—Springf’d Republican

“This book is an experiment in pedagogy rather than a contribution to theological science. As an introductory book upon the subject, it should prove useful for many readers.” S. J. C.

“The book is noteworthy on two accounts. The first is the arrangement of the material. The running margin makes it possible to grasp the content of pages and paragraphs clearly and quickly. Also the paragraphs bear interesting headings; there are suggestive chapter summaries; the references to literature are excellent. The second feature is the substance of the studies. The prevailing accent is upon the ethical content of the teaching.”

GRAVES, ROBERT.Country sentiment. *$1.25 Knopf 821

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To quote from one of the poems, “Love, fear and hate and childish toys are here descreetly blent.” It is the first and the last that predominate. The other elements are to be found in the small group of war poems called “Retrospect” that come at the end. Titles are: A frosty night; A song for two children; The boy out of church; True Johnny; Advice to lovers. Among the war poems are: Haunted; Here they lie; Country at war; Hate not, fear not. This is Mr Graves’s second book of verse. “Fairies and fusiliers” was published in 1918.

“At the worst Mr Graves is schoolboyish and impertinent. He, we think, suffers at present from not having realized that the province he has deliberately chosen for himself, though small, is very hard to subdue. It is not enough to be simple yourself in order to achieve simplicity.”

Reviewed by R. M. Weaver

“The verse of Robert Graves charms you with a whimsical tenderness that is appealing but you feel all the time a hidden sense of something for which the whimsey is protection. That something is the stern reality of life.” W. S. B.

“Lacks the full richness of ‘Fairies and fusiliers,’ but remains a delicious collection of ballads and lyrics.”

“In ‘Country sentiment’ Robert Graves discloses a vein of poetry as fine as a line of mercury. But there is no singing heart in him to go with his singing throat. The music of his verse falters and falls into little echoes of other poets or quarrels line by line with its meaning.”

Reviewed by Mark Van Doren

“No better title could have been selected for the book; it is country sentiment at its sweetest and most auspicious. Mr Graves is indubitably a poet, and animating his verse is a fiery sense of right and wrong. He is always musical, his lines flowing with that unaffected charm that is so hard to capture.” H. S. Gorman

“Mr Graves plays upon a short keyboard, but he contrives some perfectly new melodies within his self-ordained limits. Perhaps it is in the love poetry that Mr Graves is at his most original, though many of the poems in the other categories are just as charming.”

“He writes his poems like songs—very good songs, too—and their supreme merit is that they are always absolutely genuine in feeling. His new volume shows him to be acquiring the technique which he used not to possess. Mr Graves should certainly be taken seriously as a poet with a future before him.”

GRAY, A. HERBERT.Christian adventure. *$1.25 (3c) Assn. press 230

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“There are no arguments about the truth of Christianity in this book. It is wholly concerned with the preliminary question, ‘What is Christianity?’... I have confined myself to an effort to present the message of Jesus as He gave it to the world.” (Preface) The author considers churches, creeds and theologies to be secondary affairs, never more than partially successful attempts at stating truths. Christianity stands or falls by mankind’s judgment of Jesus as the embodiment of the essential secret of life. Contents: Jesus; What was Jesus doing? Further features of the kingdom; Methods in the kingdom; Was that all?—the King; What does he want you to do? What about human nature? The resources of the disciple.

“This book is one of the freshest, clearest, and most stimulating statements of the Christian faith and program that we have seen in a long time.”

GRAY, JOSLYN.Rosemary Greenaway. il *$1.50 Scribner

19–15554

“The heroine is the daughter of a poet, who is also a bank clerk—and not very successful in either calling, though some of his verse is delicate and graceful. Rosemary adores her father, and is with him as much as possible, to the neglect not only of her schoolmates but also of her mother, and his sudden death is a great grief to her. But worse is to come, for only a year after her father’s death her mother marries again, marries Mr Anstruther, the homely, shrewd, and kindly schoolmaster, who makes her far more happy than the poet ever did. Rosemary bitterly resents this marriage as a slight to the memory of her father, and it is this resentment of hers and the way in which it is gradually and completely overcome which forms the theme of the story. She has many trials and many tribulations before she learns to love the stepfather, who at last gives her the thing she most wants and has almost despaired of obtaining.”—N Y Times

“A simple, pleasant little story for girls just entering upon their teens.”

“It is the sort of story to be read with enjoyment by girls in their teens.” R. D. Moore

GREENBERG, DAVID SOLON.Cockpit of Santiago Key. (Open road ser.) *$1.50 (3c) Boni & Liveright

20–775

A Porto Rican story for boys and girls. Young Felipe lives with an uncle on Santiago Key, a rocky island off the coast. His uncle’s sole duty is to keep the light burning and the island is seldom visited. From the point of view of Don Enrique and Don Alejandro it is an ideal place for a cockpit, since the Americanos, who had forbidden cockfighting in Porto Rico, would be little likely to find it. Felipe enters into the sport and it is only after he goes to the American school and comes under American influence that he begins to see what his old grandfather had meant by the “curse of the cockpit.” A hurricane sweeps over the island, and leaves Felipe homeless, but his American teacher adopts him and takes him away to the United States.

“Much information about customs and country.”

“Morals and local color are not, however, the only requisites for a good juvenile story. Plot is the first essential, and it is in this particular that ‘The cockpit of Santiago’ is somewhat weak.” G. H. C.

GREENBIE, SIDNEY.Japan real and imaginary. il *$4 (2½c) Harper 915.2

20–9726

It is the author’s claim for his book that he has given due regard to both the pleasant and the unpleasant sides of Japan, to the fine sights and the bad odors. Japan is in a state of transition, with resultant discords everywhere between the old and the new Japan, and the impression the reader takes away from the book is that in its present state it is an unhappy country. “To save Japan from itself we must stop exalting it; to save ourselves from Japan we must stop condemning it.” The contents are in four parts: 1, Impressionistic; 2. The communal phase; 3. The spokes of modern Japan; 4, Critical. There are many illustrations and an index.

“His book is of conspicuous value for the shrewdly observed wealth of detail it gives of the everyday life of contemporary Japan. The faults of the book are patent enough. With so much matter, it is to be regretted there is not more perfect art.” R. M. Weaver

“It is the best book on actual Japan, by an American, in some time; best from the viewpoint of fact, not poesy nor romantic charm. No one interested in the far East as related to America should miss it.”

“His writing is worth while because he writes as he really sees and thinks. His descriptions are like untouched photographs and his judgments square and fair. He is the calm and unafraid commentator, the patient and constant observer and recorder, and the caustic critic. The book weighs more than ten ordinary American books on Japan. It is vital.” F: O’Brien

“Mr Greenbie’s frank, lively, imaginative account of Japan may properly be called ‘a real book.’ It is entitled to this popular but expressive characterization because, by reason of its intimate realism, its sensitive perception, and, above all, its common sense, it stands out conspicuously from the great mass of variously interesting literature upon the subject with which it deals.”

“A very readable and beautiful book.” G. D.

“The people whom he met he actually studied and classified and he has endeavored to interpret what he has seen for the benefit of other Americans, the result being a book which inspires confidence.”

“He writes from experience gained from close contact with the people; and it is evident throughout that he is concerned to tell the truth without partiality or prejudice, and that he is by temperament qualified to recognize it in matters of every-day intercourse. But with the best will in the world he would have difficulty in appreciating the point of view of the Japanese, for it is a point of view that he—an American of the Americans—cannot conceive a sensible person adopting. It should be made clear that Mr Greenbie writes without malice.”

GREENWOOD, HAROLD CECIL.Industrial gases. il *$5 Van Nostrand 655.8

(Eng ed Agr20–1194)

This volume belongs to the series on Industrial chemistry of which Samuel Rideal is general editor. The aims of the book as stated in the author’s preface are “to give a general account of the manufacture and technical manipulation of gases, to describe briefly the development and general principles of industrial gas technology and to present a collection of data likely to be useful in connection with such technology.” The first part of the book is devoted to The gases of the atmosphere; Part 2 to Hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide, nitrous oxide, asphyxiating gases; Part 3 to Gaseous fuels. There are indexes to subjects and to authors’ names. The foreword by Dr J. A. Harker is a brief tribute to the author, who died shortly before the publication of his book.

“Notably thorough and authoritative account.”

GREGG, FRANK MOODY.Founding of a nation. *$2.25 (1c) Doran

This is “the story of the Pilgrim fathers, their voyage on the Mayflower, their early struggles, hardships and dangers, and the beginnings of American democracy.” (Sub-title) It is the narrative and romance of Francis Beaumont, which, the author states, is fact where it concerns the colony, and fiction where it concerns himself. In the foreword the author distinguishes sharply between the Pilgrims and the Puritans and points out in what the difference consists. As to the romance: Beaumont, a young English nobleman, was forced to leave England on account of a duel; joined the Pilgrims at Leyden, accompanies them to America on the Mayflower and describes all their trials and hardships along with his own personal experiences.

“Mr Gregg has woven a story which faithfully follows authentic history, enables the reader to visualize the life as only fiction can, and at the same time holds the interest through sheer excellence as a tale of love and adventure. It deserves a wide audience.” W. A. Dyer

“At fifteen, especially if feminine, one is apt to be partial to history in this form.”

“‘The founding of a nation,’ with its romance of early American days set in precise historical background, is particularly well adapted for adolescent study.”

“To the readers of this book, the first two winters at Plymouth will remain as vividly in memory as Crusoe’s stay on the island.”

GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady.Dragon; a wonder play in three acts. *$1.75 Putnam 822

20–13121

An obese king of Ireland and his second wife are in a quandary about the Princess Nuala who, according to a prophecy, is to be devoured by a dragon. The princess is a wild and wilful child who will not submit to a speedy marriage as her only safety from the dragon, and the king in a rage finally vows that he will wed her to the first man that enters the castle. The Prince of the Marshes had already come to woo, accompanied by two of his seven aunts anxious for his safety, but is sent away by the scorn of the princess. After the vow, the King of Sorcha comes, disguised as a cook, and claims her. The approach of the dragon concentrates attention upon himself. The would-be cook subdues the dragon and wins the princess. The play is a rollicking comedy from start to finish.

“It is highly entertaining and actable, readable too.”

“Neither the literary nor the dramatic reputation of Lady Gregory will be greatly enhanced by the publication of this somewhat childish little piece. The piece might not be ineffective in the theatre if given as burlesque or pantomime, for it is not deficient in the robust humor which has won popularity for some of Lady Gregory’s farces.”

“Lady Gregory’s ‘The dragon’ can not be classed with her best plays.”

“A pleasant enough entertainment for children; it is amusing, imaginative, and exciting. The queen is undoubtedly an anachronism.”

“The play abounds with humor, and yet the plot is strong enough to carry the interest from beginning to end.”

“What real Irish fun there is in it, reminding one a bit of James Stephens’s ‘Pot of gold,’ with a good deal of human character for all that; why it might ‘act’ well if well acted—all this you can best find out for yourself by just reading this bit of excellent fooling. it opens a pleasant escape into the realm of fantasy in these super-serious times.”

GREGORY, ISABELLA AUGUSTA (PERSSE) lady, comp. and ed. Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland. 1st and 2d ser. 2v il *$4.50 Putnam 398.2

20–26541

These various superstitions, beliefs, fancies and fairy lore of the Irish peasants are given in the versions of the people, as they told them to Lady Gregory. She has classified them into groups under appropriate titles, introducing each group with an explanatory note or quotation. In the preface of volume 1 she tells about the “Sidhe,” the invisible host, some sort of fallen angels, who still swarm about the country side, in turn helping, teasing and interfering with the country folk. The contents of volume 1 are: Sea-stories; Seers and healers; The evil eye—the touch—the penalty; Away; and an essay and notes by W. B. Yeats. The essay is: Witches and wizards and Irish folklore. Volume 2 contains: Herbs, charms, and wise women; Astray, and treasure; Banshees and warnings; In the way; The fighting of the friends; The unquiet dead; Appearances; Butter; The fool of the forth; Forths and sheoguey places; Blacksmiths; Monsters and sheoguey beasts; Friars and priest cures; Essay on Swedenborg, mediums, and the desolate places, and notes by W. B. Yeats.

“Almost every kind of reader will find these volumes deeply interesting. Taken down with patience and extraordinary skill from the lips of living men and women, they make audible the very voice of the Irish people. They form a valuable contribution to the literature of folk-lore, while Mr Yeats’ highly characteristic essays and notes add greatly to their curious charm.” F. R.

“Bacon said that some books are to be tasted, others to be chewed and digested: Visions and beliefs’ belongs to the former class; folk-lorists will use it as a work of reference (although scholars would find it more valuable were it supplied with a good index), while those seeking only entertainment will enjoy chiefly Lady Gregory’s interpretative passages.” N. J. O’C.

“It is well to read the essays for they are learned and enlightening, but it is well, too, to read them without reference to the visions and beliefs that make up this collection. One should read these for their atmosphere, their picture, their phrase.” Padraic Colum

“All those who pursue the great Celtic legend and all those who are interested in the curious imaginative adventures of the human race must have this book.” B: de Casseres

“The first and most striking impression derived from the book is a renewed conviction of the faithfulness and the essential realism with which Lady Gregory, in her creative writing, has rendered the spirit and the atmosphere of life in the western counties. ‘Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland’ is a notable contribution to folk poetry and a valuable revelation of the mood of the Irish mind.”

“One must welcome such a book as of immense interest to the general psychologist.” H. L. Stewart

“A large number of these tales, we imagine, have their origin in ignorance and an almost incredible superstitiousness; others obviously are barefaced lies—the sort of lies that ‘come true’ when told three times; others, again, are merely impudent fabrications told on the spur of the moment for the particular person, the particular person in this case being Lady Gregory with her pencil and copybook. As literature, these pages are worthless. But there will be few to tell that cruel truth to Lady Gregory.”

GREGORY, JACKSON.Ladyfingers. il *$1.75 (1½c) Scribner

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Robert Ashe, alias Ladyfingers, expert “on life, lyric poetry and ... burglar proof safes,” had been left a pennyless orphan at the age of six, had grown up without guidance—except the memory of the fairy tales his mother used to tell him—and without morals; had become a newsboy, a pickpocket, a thief, and lastly a safe-cracker, and through it all remained a poet and an innocent boy at heart. His career is thrilling and romantic, for one day he finds himself the grandson of a multi-millionairess, a crabbed old witch of a woman, and in love with a sweet country girl. Then the awakening comes. His past has been hushed up, smothered in his grandmother’s millions. But the girl will have none of him for all her love. She fears a criminal inheritance for her children-to-be. Then Robert realizes that he has not yet paid for his misdeeds and that to pay is a law of nature. He gives himself up voluntarily to the police and serves a two-years sentence in the penitentiary. In the meanwhile Enid repents and prepares a home for him on his return. In due time the grandmother also repents and all ends happily.

“All the world loves a crook if he is also an artist and a gentleman and Ladyfingers is a very charming specimen, but, alas, he begins to reform far too near the beginning of the story and becomes so noble that he is a little hard to bear.”

“Although there is a good deal too much description, the story is agreeably told. At first it moves quickly, then seems steadily to lose momentum, very much as though it had been started with a vigorous shove and then been allowed to slow down as it would.”

“Mr Gregory has a fresh and vigorous way of writing.”

“While he tells a very entertaining and often amusing tale, it lacks much of the probability in his previous stories.”

GREGORY, JACKSON.Man to man. il *$2 (2½c) Scribner

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