Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 178, 31 May 1912 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND STJX-TEUEGRAM, FRIDAY. 3IAT 31, 1912.

GOOD STORIES FDR SUMMER READING

Posthumous Novel by the Author of "The Prodigal Judge," and a Tale of a Widow Who Dieted. Magazines for the Month Attractive.

comes Is the one who will nerer forget" ' I . ; "Not from one man does a woman learn of men""

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Everybody writes nowadays. At least that is the impression gained from the out-pouring of the publishing houses. Good stories and surprisingly well written are turned out of the mill by writers little known. And in a continuous stream. Those better known to the public evidently find sale for their literary wares since they keep on. Among the latter Marie Van Vorst who has Just put out through the Bobbs-Merrlll Company "The Broken Bell." . There is a certain class of novel which has Italy for itB mise en scene, an expatriated American or two, generally thoroughly Europeanized, a degenerate Count perhaps, an unhappy wife, a more or less consoling lover, tea on terraces overlooking the Bay of Naples, blue and melancholy distances, much sophisticated conversa

tion, a crumbling ruin from which the unhappy wife and the lover, hands clasped, epigrammatically view the distances, an olive tree hardby and always a priest In the offing. "The Broken Bell," symbolizes the

ilife of the heroine, an American girl jwith an European training married off I to an Italian of rank who proves unifaithful although having a certain fond jness and great respect for his wife. (Her ennui, disgust and emptiness of ilife lead her into a love affair with an old friend of her husband when taking la trip through an unfrequented secjtion to visit an old nurse, the man be(ing marooned in this spot through an .unfortunate marriage to a girl of inIferior social status. Later the heroine ireturns to her husband. The story has charm of presentation (but the finale is hardly convincing. It Us definite In character drawing, however, and has the merit of artistic restraint. There are some good things in ithe reading one of them this 'He was grateful to her. If gratitude Is ever awakened in another it results in one of two things according to the nature of the person; the wish to escape from the benefactor forever or n rooted devotion." v

piratically secures all he wants, how a feminine member of the English aristocracy happens to be mysteriously aboard, how she falls in love with the Captain,, how his subsequent adventures lands him in the arms of a buxom bar-maid of his own class and how be finally marries the latter all this is told in the book. And very good telling it is.

A delightful story for a summer day or with a chair cheek by jowl with the steam radiator, for that matter, is "The Minister of Police," by Henry Mountjoy. This is of that class of story which has for its setting the environ of the French Louises at the time when the sinister Richelieu held devious and subterranean sway. What would the world have done without Richelieu? He Is the best theatric and literary property it has. He's the stock in trade of the historical novelists and the raft to which the sinking histrion clings despairing-

1 ly to slow music from the Union. All j you have to do is to put on a red toga, fold your arms and cast darkling looks at the handsome young conspirator

who Is romping recklessly on toward the guillotine with the due regard to the movements of the lilac spot-light, and everybody in the audience is sure you'll be elected to Congress. The Minister of Police, however, is a charming tale of the type, and can be recommended to everybody in search of what is sometimes termed a rattling good story, full of escapes, thrills, bewildering women, beautiful heroes, crucial documents planted in orange tubs and later restored to Richelieu by spies masquerading as devoted retainers to the bewildering ladies, and such . like. Incidentally it draws a brilliant picture of Madame du Barry.

The death of Vaughan Kester, author of "The Prodigal Judge," his best known novel, removed from the con

temporaneous literary world a writer of brilliant promise. Kester was a thorough going American and wrote with a comprehension of American life and ideals. His fictional creations are representative of the type they reproduce, and are painted in with a bold, free stroke whose brilliant color harmonies are not without delicate nuances of tone.

In "The Just and the Unjust" a posthumous tale just issued through the

Bobbs-Merrill Company, he displays those occult qualities which make him a writer to reckon with. The story it

self Is commonplace in plot a murder fastened on the wrong man but the plot is capitally worked up and the

melodramatic action races convincingly on to its denouement. It Is in character drawing, however, that Kester excels. No American writer has conjured up from his imaginative depths, or dovetailed from observation or even photographically reproduced anything more realistic than William Shrlmplin, the village lamplighter a composite of Don Quixote, Monte Christo and swaggering cowboy,, in his own accounts of his prowess to his adoring son, a f raidcat in the face of a genuine adventure but a

shrewd philosopher possessed of a certain humour and superlative egotism as distinct a character as any created by a more celebrated master-hand. Bobbs-Merrill Company.

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phy and drama." the May number of which baa for its piece de resistance, as announced flauntingly, "A Study of

Maeterlinck." by his wife. Georgette LeBIanc, who has been posturing In this country the past season. Madame Maeterlinck is one of her husband's fortunate attachments.

So alluring and unwearied a press

agent is rarely found right in the family. As a Maeterlinck promoter Madame LeBIanc deserves every felicitation, and her celebrated wedded confrere a standing congratulation. When the editors of the International are named, the character of the pub

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Richard LeGallienne. George Sylvester Viereck, Blanch Wagstaff and-B. Russell Herts. There is much good stuff of a various character in the May number. It Ib published at 134 West 29th street, New York.

his popular double-page illustrations. "Marriage" by H. " G. Wells also pages rapidly through this installment and there are other interesting things.

In contrast the same publishingtbouse serves up "The Melting of Molly," by Marie Thomson Daviess, author of the popular "Miss Selina Lue." "Molly" Is a seductive young widow, of dizzy income and undeniable avoirdupois, who seeks . to compress her lovely curves within the dimensions of a "straight front" and implores dietary advice of a fascinating doctor across the garden who by chance is a widower with an adorable infant with whom Molly effectively frolics on the lawn when she Is informed that a certain early lover, now in the diplomatic service, is about to return and wishes to see her in the blue muslin gown in which she bade him a tearful adieu some eight years before. The melting of Molly to the blue muslin state is accomplished, but not before she has rushed into the arms of the doctor in terror after seeing the diplomat coming up the walk hugely verpoweringly and undisgulsedly fat. The tale is amusing, after a fashion. The author lnfleed, might be said to have a sort of kittenish style. One feels that she, not Molly, is uterly cute, and quite, quite funny, to say toothing of being entirely fascinating.

Some people like sea stories. These should read "The Marriage f Captain Kettle, (Bobbs-Merrlll Comipany), by Cutcliffe Hyne, an English 'writer, which "abounds" in marine thrills. A schooner maybe that isn't the ;iiame since the reviewer is not versed tin the technique of .ship nomenclature C-finds itself in mid-ocean without enugh coal to fire its engines, and the lllrst mate, one Kettle and the hero of khe tale, starts out in search of grimy sustenance, running afoul a German I merchantman which refuses help. I How the valiant Kettle boards her and

"His Worldly Goods," are located in New York city and the gentleman in the case in a sanitarium the while his beautiful wife with long blue eyes reminiscent of corn-flowers, ' rides round in automobiles with blonde athletes and an archdeacon stands on the cr"- n nerturbatlon of spirit. This story I by Margaretta Tuttle and published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. It is an absorbing tale, full of good

.talk, distinct in characterization, well

sustained as to plot, atmospheric and possessing literary eclat. A penniless girl of good connections is married off to a millionaire degenerate, developing -tendencies that cause him to be immured in a sanitarium and she proceeds to hold high, cultured and seductive sway in sun

dry mansions to say nothing of a seaside club-house where she works devastation to the extent of being kid

napped and hurried off in a yacht toward Bermuda. She is rescued, however. Later everything turns out well and

she marries the serious young clergy

man who has, from the beginning, been in love with her although he didn't know it until once when they

shook hands and in a delirious flash

her long blue eyes like corn-flowers looking into his own We all know how it goes. ' To tell the truth, there is a good deal of interesting philosophizing about the relations of the sexes "These things I know," she said.

"There is little loyalty among men to the women they sacrifice. It comes at length, all of it, to grudging attention

and veiled disrespect." "When a love affair comes to noth

ing with a woman, she has no other resources to take its place. But a man

goes the harder to work."

"Or loves again," said Nadine, "or forgets it entirely, or gets drunk, or

marries a widow for money, or seeks

an adventure which he may find at any open door. If women would only be

lieve it but they never will. They go

on believing that each lover that

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"The Rosy Cross," by Herbert Everett, is a poem in blank verse and of mystic character, its figures symbolizing the subtler phases of the ego and its climax Browningesque in conception. It is an attractive little booklet, buff, with its motif exploited decoratively in black and rose on the cover, and its publishing raison d' etre on the final page which states "Printed for Lyle Solomon Baer and The Plum Tree Press, at the Dyke Miil, Montague, Massachusetts." The copy before the reviewer is the twenty-first of the one hundred and forty printed.

MAGAZINE NOTES. "The International," is stated on its cover to. be "A liberal magazine f lit-

"The June number of "Good Housekeeping," has for its illustrative chef d'oeuvre a double page drawing by Charles Dana Gibson. "The Most Wonderful Thing in the World." The "Oriental Tableaux," posed by "society debutantees of New York" is also interesting an entertainment given for charity about which the papers said much at the ime, is another effective feature of this issue. Many other, articles of an educational and domestic nature, with a serial and some short Btories, make this number of Good Housekeeper unusually good.

"The Good Enchantment of Dickens," by Henry Van Dyke, will possibly interest more readers than anything else appearing in the June Scribner's although there is an attractive table of contents, including fiction, poetry, scientific articles and an effectively illustrated article on the French painter, Henry Caro-Delvaille.

The vivacious Ray Sannard Baker opens "The American Magazine" for June, with "Our Next President, And Some Others," making the original and astonishing statement that "This is, without question, the most remarkable presidential campaign the country has seen in sixty years." You might, to be sure, see the same statement in the Podunkville Banner, the New York World, or, indeed, the Richmond Palladium and still not be startled by its uniqueness. La Follette continues on his autographic way in this number and James Montgomery Flagg one of

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