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- : iC - r C rU, . ; m CHARLOTTE, DAILY OBSERVER SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1909. ' : ' Vi V ' ylliS5; -..IV 1, .n a view K3'.:,L,i ,n Harris a".-,, !' ,.,r of the , Kr- ' ' .-lasses 01 U1 " ..rjeh usiaa ,,, upset i nn- :.ne' . rnSi" "' . . man m) J" The other I) ,. ,iegro vimuu . ,. i.i.ed elbiS -k n'1 . , mnorr I wJ,u' to beautiful him ted the -T.,h have i'l'' ,es un to how that n itnerlcally lni !Lr tl ' " ' " those whose JSu'0""" .!! narrow and 't ec ,r narrower .till; W r!1,iu ally after lt'r !,C Charles Franrla K.. ' nunent "ample- I"" on'e that the hegro f ' , Intelligent ,,n. :..ii.n remark taUiar f ar" rapidly i'u- . iiansing tne , .orthrn hus- ,,fcf .Mil' (,ct On- "'" ,ra ti, al ana i.r!- 'ii''1 " money fou'.h '" ftpr tn liir3' ' .. ,!:ff. I' n . ','nirtr rttin , wmm he haa h!f h ihond This hiath nd tnlnrmation Uuro ' ' taKaf -- t""" .... mn w the yellow h'A ", ,,,!. where -jM-rie - - d !,,Mfer anj a .lUeuiirity and . r This pnw .,r' hlne a new tin, turns that cul ,, n'l puhlic UI rt ni'st effective l.ut at a frlsht- t. ,n the June K trea' :-S ij jr.n: n, ft i! lnl1! conii-rsii'" Lwh.oh mMt ..tt.T.t..n re tour P t . . . . t .iH 7 hi' r klor-i H .itiKi-rri'r.i s raniunu (tt;!,e-1 I Men nut Aolng Humphrey a " a tale of Mountains; Line. .fpM.r.. hgh Pirr-":,,'u' x tkro'JEt. f" 1', fcK. A'! s H'-l- as: lis in the s .citiiin sea ihe tar-flying !miiit atxl tu m,i. Holman ,, and V. F. whuh drf, r 1 1 Itiitnet. where fi u mr mi1!' Ifmpuratv Iimi ttonmrv.te ,c le iwn depart'!.. Ma! Mp-is deserve in the .n-i.t A insl. !-'. Rupert y "t-er, Man Mis nun nym- n :) a s.-rics w hi, h no lover ' d!i afT'Til to nenlect , Ar- KJK',1 15" e s .Ui'UIUl I Tie h Tsbl- . ml.ui)- much intcreat- ijtfr'i. ' ail" Hi'-: i ass ol fle- i-hi.i -.l -s h" f"ll'.w things haul! fin-1 the n.-ws ,.f the foot- brought i:"wn to ih ininute in ind Fle ets' which runs each tv.r t:,.- ,en-name. "A first A c,. yuf-ntin M. Drakes r"r.ar ,. up. ar un l. r the title 'tirmth i,r Vallev." and an ally r-' ' ' and , harming llt- KM. Tr.- Ii'.m kt Ul.ier Th- s cont ributeJ nmplete novel Van Vorst'il rtti .- ir ia I'..- spo. aal ar . :, hi:..- that num - tog. th. r w ith the f'.ii- f;ioritP8 and h .:nor to make Tlo H'h.-mlan un 'i.t..i! article io a ici Jefferson as he "ii iirai,;.' Island. 'a:!:.in , ontributes i tinatr.cal article, foli.-:'' professors no re h umor .r' '"ii.'d In "The ' Huh c Weir , !('.' s,-,tlt.S ,,f '-rs In the in I Ft.Ties hy nor Ingram, th.-rs. ': "f People's ! en.'s taken .'""Idess of 'i Ite. tor's." Ih' r Rahy," ' '" t plays on st..i v .if each ' n in a very "Ids reatly :!: beautiful s an adap- ' "av s "The M.ss Maxlne "' I li'-r new ' -hi and ln '' Hope -rial 'The K. Jhil- i:. a serial, and Arthur one "The Hewlett sloirt story, -I'na..' With 1 s as this, a ' ' : fail to -I ,11" Popu " U:!I Bruce : rst instal '"'.'se of being Prolific au "k ''ox. Strike '"''I General "s "n- of his v Hide and a " -h" tight Robert P ' ' " leading '' Century. ,s the flrst 's with the table. '" h Mar sr,d Owen ' wished u "' of the se-knowl-' signed ' '"ree oth '' note are r'' Amity, " Moloso ' p'"r' "Salnt c"niain a de- BOOKS AND MAGAZINES llghtful deacription of hla meeting with Stavenaon when the Utter waa as yet comparatively unknown. Dr. Grenfell wrltee of bis "Experiences On the Lab rador," ' which paper la accompanied by an account of "Dr. Orenfell In Labrador'' by Joseph B. Oilder. In the realm of contemporary politics William G Brown discusaea "President Taft's Opportunity.'' and Speaker Cannon writes from inside information as to "The Power of the gpesker." "Uncle Joe" will not lone any of his well-earned reputation for sagacity by thla article, a cursory perusal of which would lead the unsuspecting to be lieve that Under the Reed rules, the Speaker amount to very little more than an ornamental megaphone. Arthur E. P. Welgall stakes some very ancient history live attain in 'A Now Egyptian Discov ery: The Tomb of Horemheb," the gen tleman mentioned being a Pharaoh who nourished some thirteen hundred years before our era. The current Honor's contains two special articles and two short stories which should by no means be overlooked. For the more serious students of contem porary affairs. Prof. J. Laurence La ugh -lin's "The Afcolttlon of Poverty will fur nish much material for thought. One great historian's estimate of another is always valuable and James Ford Rhodes has written a most charming essay on the greatest of them all. Edward Gib bon. Gibbon stands head and shoulders above all other narrators of history save Thucydldes and Tacitus, remarks Pro fessor Rhodes; and while the former wrote of but a single generation and the latter of a scant three, the Englishman covered thirteen centuries in his magnum opus, and did the work In such wise that his most recent commentators, a hun dred and thirty years after the publica tion of his first volume, are still astound ed at his accuracy and insight Mrs. Edith Wharton's "His Father's Son" is probably the beat short story of the month.. The author's well-known skill and keenness in the analysis and delineation of human nature are ex hibited to great advantage, while the atory demands somewhat less concen tration of mind than most of her work Jesse Leynch Williams' "The t'srroll's Millionaire Tenant" will furnish s most delightful bit of comedy to mske the three articles Just mentioned sit well upon one's mental stomach. McClure's seems to be eternally muck raking, and ihert Is some danger that the reading public may tiecome callous to overmuch material concerning the moral and civic corruption of American municipalities. If thla has gotten to bo the caee, a reading of George Klbbe i tractlvely. Illustrated most beautiful Turner's 'Tammany's Control of New'lV- decorated quite artistically such. York" la recommended as an antidote in lrlrf. Is the volume before us. It to such Indifference. Even the most I must he confessed that we opened it laded will alt un anil tk nnia f ih. ' somewhat dubiously. There is a ery bald statements of very much balder and uglier facts therein set down. If a fourth part- of the statements be true, Florence under Its mediaeval tyrants was both free and moral In comparison. George F. Parker's articles dealing with Cleveland's career, have reached the point I at which he became a trustee of the Equitable. Cleveland's tremendous sense of his duty, and his unusual carefulness In Us discharge are the most Impressive points 4n this chapter of his life.' Pre dent Taft in an article prepared before his inauguration, discusses some of hisl,no cover, u nas in ue. ,ueu u- own "Judicial Decisions as an Issue ln I vantage over the ordinary popular Politics" In vigorous clear-cut English. E. T. Brewster in "The Animal Mind From the Inside" upsets some of the notions we had instilled Into us as child ren. He declares (and cites experiments to sustain his declaration), that animals never by any possibility perform an act of reason and that Instinct plays very . ,. . , , , ,, much smaller part In , " " ' .nan unarm oe supposeo. in isci, man. the head and lord of creation, guesees and moves by Intuition a thousand times where he reasons once. "Sergeant Mc any. Man-Mannier. oy r. l. wscrar- lane, ana rne Home-coming Dy fcisie Slngmaster are the best of the Issue's fiction offerings. For lovers of the national game Hugh S. Fullerton'a "Decisive Moments of Great Games" in the June American, possesses a lively Interest Among the incidents related are those describing how I-ange, Chicago's two-hundred pound centre fielder. crashed clear! rapid, and plausible. If one axves throuKii centre-field fence on one occa- the book Its due, and reads It at one slon, but in so doing spoiled a home run 'sitting. It can hardly fail to entertain and saved a game; and how Clark Grif- .highly for the space of a couple of flth, noiv manager of the Cincinnati Reds, ! hours, and leave a good taste In the caused the mighty Bel bach to fall prone j mouth at the end. on his face In a vain endeavor to reach a I The scene is laid n New York ball tossed so gently that a five-year-old I clubdom, and more attention is given boy could have landed on it. "Mr. i te character outlining than the rush Dooley's" srtlcle on "Woman's Suffrage" is as witty as ever, and contains the usual amount of food for serious thought. Rupert Hughes contributes an extrava ganta in fiction called "The Adventures of a Book-keeper," describing how I Horace Wsdhams searched all over the Congo region for adventures In vain, and j returned to find the finest big game hunt I ing Imaginable in his mother's front yard In Oscawana, New York. "The Grest Fear" by James Oppenhelm Is a very' sole piece of work dealing with the labor ing man out of a job. On the more serious side, the American is rather fuller than usual. Ray Stan nard Baker in "The Godleasness of New York" has at once painted a stsrtling picture and drawn a terrible indictment of inefficiency against the Protestant churches of the metropolis. Ida M. Tar bell In "Where the Shoe Is Pinched" dis cusses at some length some rather grave inconsistencies In the placing of a tariff on leather. Prof. W. I. Thomas, whose previous articles have been noted from time to time In this column, has for his subject this ' month, "Eugenics." The learned professor makes a few of his ideas clear, but the majority of them are so enwrapped in techlncal. though ele gant, verbiage that their grasping m, a matter of some difficulty. The roost striking article in the current Van Norden's Is Robert W. Wooley's "Big Men at Play.'1 which is acconv panted by quite delicious caricatures from the pen of J. 8. Anderson. Taft. Root. Knox, all the men now prominent la the natlon'a life, are described from the standpoint of; their favorite recreations, and if the 81017 leans somewhat stren uously to cleek and brassy, it must be remembered that erolf is quite as ancient and honorable a sport a tennis ever dared to be, beside somewhat more rest ful to the perturbed spirits of a Presi dent's official family. Another article in this periodical has an interest Just at this time which could scarcely have been foresees when it was prepared). Josephine Tlghe discusses "Roger and Hla Railroad." and the sud den death of its human subject casta a halo of sentiment around the daring pro ject which It describes. The Virginian Railroad has a mileage of 442 mile and was built at a coat ef t42.eM.90a It was either a gigantic blunder, or a at r oka ef genius .which will one day give Ha pro moter a foremost pUee among: the treat pioneers ef . American drvelepmeot. Which it will be considered, tint alone can tell. The Uohaminedan world has been in unparalleled foment for months back. Morocco. India. Persia, the Balkstn prin cipalities, and. st last Constantinople It self, each In turn has attracted the anx ious aaae ef the civilised world. Wallace Hirst In "When Islam Calls' suggests some ways of looking at this phenom enon, and hints at an answer to the momentous question It evoke, which is "Can Constitutional Government and the Koran Go Together?" An srtlcle which will probably catch the eye of manv read ers and wilt be quite worth the while of sll is William A. Orr's "The Real Pat ten." which describes the famous deal In May wheat, and the cool. Inngt-headed student i-f conditions who saw it through. Still another paper should te perused be fore Van Noruen's is consigned to a dusty shelf, and thst Is Read Gordon's "The Other Side of Bensoate of Soda," which Its author describes as "a little journey Into food legislation and chemical pre servation." Most of us hsva heard that much Iterated substance railed every bad rame possible short of "rank poison:" it is rater refreshing to have the cndgels tsken hotly up in Its defense. It is not probable that such a pic ture will do the least amount of good in the world, and it is absolutely cer tain that the presentation of such topics is detrimental to the healthy tone of not a few youthful readers. In the great artists mentioned above, the evil is the same, but the good la there, too, and must be taken Into account. A careful reading of "Load ed Dice" has failed to reveal the good which balances the evil Incidental to sundry expeditions to Bradrleld s gambling house, where the women of the red-light district are brought Into the lime-light, as it were. In regard to the scene between Palmer and Hose on the island, it Is bare truth to sy. that but two or three scenes in the fiction of the last fifteen years ran match It In unadulterated vile ness. The postofflce officials have often burred material less prurient from the malls. The story as a story is very well constructed and told with a skill that interests us from beginning to end. The nature of the plot requires a cer tain leaning to melodrama In a few of the episodes hut this will scarcely le considered an unpardonable crime In this year of grace. It may he that the dramatic confession of "Gordon" upon his deathbed that he has lost his great waer, would have been bet ter omitted, inasmuch as the infer ence was already in the mind of the reader so vividly as to cause its actual expression to weaken the effectr THE ALTERNATIVE. By George Rarr McCutiheon. With Illustra tions by Harrison Fisher and deco rations by Theodore B. Hapgood. Dood. Mead & Co., New York. (Stone Barrlnger, $ 1 .25. A very dainty story, bound most st- modern proverh which warns one to beware of cigars put up In boxes with too beautiful pictures on the traps, and McC'utcheon has done some very pour work In his time, as well ss some that ranks with the first class. In this case, he has narrowly mlsseti equalling the best thing that has yet appeared over his name. Imprimis, the hook is a delightful specimen of the bookmaklng auid. typographical arts. Bound in pearl ! "'1th ,wo ' harming vignettes on novel In its smaller size. Once the render nets Into the story, the wide margins, exnulsltely clear type and tasteful ornamentation are Indeed things to be gloated over. When It enmes to Fisher's four Illustrations in color, too much cannot be said In approval of what, more than any i . '. ... other one thing outside of the story Itself, contributes to make the book , ,v ..lllsU.,nrv It would he ,mpo(Mljblp , nn(i heiter pictures In .,, ,h, nnrtfollo. and no oasv j task to discover them elsewhere in ',ne rcam of h(ok nu9tration So much for tht habiliments In , which the tale Is presented. Kven l with such advantages, it would he quite possible for the story to be so pale as not to merit serious atten tion. M.'Cutcheon, however, as has been intimated, is at his best here, and that best Is undeniably very good. The story Is slight, as its com pass necessitates but It is definite. Of adventures usually leaves this au thor space for. Possibly the most delicious tld-hit In it Is the descrip tion of the older Van Pycke who has changed his trousers and boots in his Inafnorita's house in order to avoid pneumonia, hunting vainly around without matches In a dark and strange room for his belongings: his Chagrin, not to say wrath. Is some what tempestuous when he discovers that the aforesaid belongings have been sent to the kitchen to be press- led and shlned respectively. 1 Then. too. the entrance of the hero 1 Ine upon the scene is far from bad. f She pushes aside the drawing room curtains to discover three worthy and .respected gentlemen glued to their chairs, for fear of a pet bulldog or uncertain temper, but far from un certain biting powers. The word pic ture of the scene Is ludicrous beyond all description. We think Met 'utoheon's host of ad mirers will be pleased with thia lit tle sketch We feel no hesitancy in saying that it Is worth all the "Nedras" and "Daughters of Ander son Crow" he could write between now and judgment day. LOADED DICE. By Ellery H. Clark. With Illustrations by F. Graham Cootes. Bobbs-Merrlll Company, Indianapolis. (Stone & Barrlnger, $1.50). "Loaded Dice" Is not exactly a pleasing story. There Is something too cold-blooded about the hero who commits at least five deliberate mur ders in his short career, to permit of his being an attractive leraonallty. Yet the ook Is undeniably strong and carries with It a -very sound moral. Its name comes from a rather orlg-' inal source. The hero plans his ca reer as a great gambling proposition. He figure that there may be a Ood. and again' there may not be. If the latter proposition be correct, he is perfectly safe In disregarding all morality and even common humanity In attaining his ends. If there should chance to exist an Eternal Be in:, then his career of evil will have to be atoned for by future punishment. In doing wrong for his selfish ends, he calculates that. In effec. he ia simply gambling on the non-existence of Deity. The contrast between the worldly access of the Vnan. and his absolute lack of any sjjecess really worth while. U brouxnt oat with all the em nhasia of a specially written Sunday school book. Power, wealth, social Position, luxuries of every sort are his. and yet one cannot fail to read between the line his discontent, puck themes are by no means new. but It would be a most optimistic critic thv would carp at their being emphasised again and again. We venture to be lieve that suvh homilies serve useful purposes, nd assist In forming cor tect Ideals in the minds of their readers (provided the readers be young enough to have Ideals still capable of being shaped). With all its moral, and with all Its sound philosophy, however, the book is bad hopelessly bad and cannot in conscience be recommended to the general public. It t the belief of this reviewer that there is sound reason in the dissection of the undercrust of modern society, in that realm is to be found in perfection the disolav of -er. tain traits and passions, elemental and common to the race, which may be looked for elsewhere in vain. Zola and Balzac are great artists and so truly do they hold the mirror up to nature that one swallows the disagree able odors of the operating room for the sake of watching the skilled sur geon at work. But we cannot but de plore the deliberate selection of the deml-mondaine type for a heroine The more attractive she la made, the more pitiable her treatment Is por trayed, the worse is It. KATHINE. B Eli nor McCartney Lane. Harper Bros, New York. (For sale b Stone & Barrlnger. $1 50.) "Katrine" has a melancholy Inter est to alL th.- readers of "Nancy Stair" and "Mills of God." Its au thoress had done some work which, brilliant in itself, gave promise of far better things to come. Particularly In her story of the winsome, loyal Scotch lass, was there Indication that, when the crudity inseparable from all "first work" had passed. there would come forth a polished jewel t ornament the world of contemporary fiction. But such hopes were des tined to disappoint. "Katrine" was not off the press, when the literary world waa shocked by a brief tele gram from Lynchburg. Virginia, bear ing the information that Mrs. Lune had passed awav in that city, at which place she had been taken from a rallroud trtHn in a dying condition. The present story prodiu rs a cu rious mixture of impressions In the' mind of the reader. There are pas sages the beauty and appeal of which quite carry one away There are points in connection with It that Irre sistibly remind one qf Laura Jean Llbby and Mary J. Holmes at their lurldest and worst. Yet In spite of the Imperfections one would not wil lingly give up the hook, the pages have pressed between them not a lit tle of the charm and fragrancy which clung to "Nancy." "Kettrlne" herself is incomparably the best thing in it. not only the character best depicted, hut the finest part of the tout ensemble. She dawns on us llrst, as a daughter, struggling against that heaviest of burdens, a parent's unconquerable weakness He who should have been the fountain of all respect in her soul. Is obviously unworthy of any. since she cannot render him this, she endeavors to make it up by loving him with an Intensity that is very pathetic. It is by his service to this father, that Francis Knven.l Mrst attracts her attention. Her temperment Is too noble not to be amenable to the call of gratitude and freely does she pout It out at the feet of her father's beiw-factor.- This lasts only for a while however: a more intimate, more per sonal emotion succeeds, and she sur renders her heart's devotion In the wake of her gratitude. The pages which describe the Idyl- few"" : ' :: 7v-TTr .....:. "-;:-. -T " ' .. . " -'-. ' "' ' " ' '.-.' v F 'J III I I T I IsrA. k. -V W IJ IV I -"-.v.:,"",', ' r? No Outing Trip Complete vh- i y4-'.' r!ms. without cool, delicious Pepsi-Cola "i ' ;V "wV Adds to your enjoyment Relieves fiSi : 'r'i l . .; :.. r: Mi; your thirst Revives your energies. f"-' A- Makes you forget the heat Often imi- fi-g- i'J: Xr' i-y tated. but never equalled. Guaran- H m, 5k! jr teed under the Pure lift R5 ''.I WWmmfi m& Food Law. Look for M$ - 1- KHKI JSP the blue crown on ..WliTO.Jk rC every bottle. Ijjg 1K summer passed by Katrine and Ra venal In each other's company are the best of the book. The selfishness of the map Is realised only indirectly: the tirst If.i-liness of the w i:mn is ob vious In every act and word. It haa been many a day since a prettier con celt was framed than 'hat of the Irish Lass' "Own 1-and" Inhabited by Col. Newcomb. Alan Brek. Jean Valjean. and their compeers, to which aha flies when things go ill in the work-a-day world Then, too, the love passages themselves are very tender, and one misses the stilted, hackneyed phrases which so often mar the pages of fhe modern novel, when such crises are reached. On the whole, it is very possible, that in this part of the book. .virs utne nas irrt tne very oes worn she din. The inevitable break occurs. Rav- etnJ, having entered upon the ac quaintance In anything but a serious mood, finds that he cannot bring him self to look upon the girl as he had regarded her predecessors In his af fections, and blurts out to her the reason why things must be at an end between them. Katrine accepts his statement with less spirit than we be lieve a flesh-an.l-hlood damswl would exhibit, and meekly withdraws to nurse her broken heart In solitude. It must be confessed that the man's awakening to the fact that he has cam away a pearl "richer than all his tribe," is not described us one could wish. We are told of his attitude in one place, and some score of pages further on we are Informed that he ha discovered himself to be a cad of the first water But the mental pro ceases by which he traveled from the former to the latter viewpoint are but scantily sketched. This lack of finish relegates Ravenels character as a point of Interest to a negligible position It would take many care ful readings to discover Just why and how was accomplished the change which found him a cad, and left him worthy of the love of a Katrine. Dermott Mcl-ermott is quite a dif ferent storv. From the first glimpse we have of him, until his last su preme foregoing of his revenge and rescue of his deadlv foe. his character .is a consistent whftle, and a far from unattractive one at that. If there Is anything to he criticised about It. p. jslbly one iiihv be permitted to wonder . how Frani is Ravenel ever won a jglrl s heart for which he had so faa Icinating a rival. To explain this one must needs fall back on that most ancient of all pieces of philosophy which states the Inscrutableness of the feminine heart. !io much for the good points. From desi anting at any great length upon I the weaknesses of the book we are ex- leuaed by the rule. "Nil nisi bonum." 'it will be sufficient to say that Mrs : Lane has allowed certain tendency to melodrama, observable In the le- ' lulls of the murder anil trial In "Nancy Stnlr." to gel the better of , her indgiiieii: 111 the construction of "Katrine " The early secret mar- ' riHge of the elder Ravenel, and his subsequent divorce, also secret, are too threadbare 11 woof whereon to weave so excellent a design ss such a character us that of Katrine re quires. THE MAN IN MiWKR TEN. By Mary Robert Kin.'hiirt. With II- 1 lustrations by Howard Chandl j Christy. The Hobbs-Merrill Cor pany, Indianapolis. (Stone & B ' ringer Company, J1.50). I This story starts with a young law ! er on his w ay to Pittsburg bearing I Important documents In connection .with u forgery ihso In which h haa I been retained, and ends with the same ' K'iit lenian regretting exceedingly that I one of his arms has been smashed In a railroad wreck. Inasmuch as his ! then occupation on a dark porch with j the fair heroine calls most strenuously kit h1 for the use of both. Between lie ad ventures; galore, hairbreadth 'scapes and deadly imminent bre'ecbes to sat isfy the taste of almost anyone. Since Anna Katherine Green pub lished "The Leavenworth Caee." now nearly a generation ago, the detective story of its class has flourished in great, and oftentimes rank luxuriance. Every conceivable complication a murder may give rise to. haa been worked and reworked. About twenty years ago, Doyle created 8herlock Holmes, thus giving his brethren who write this style of a yarn a brand new Idea which they have not been slow to adapt. Were one called upon to classify the present volume, tt would not be far amiss to place It In the Doyle-Oreen category; it bears mark ed family resemblances to both Its prototypes, yet possesses well-defined characteristics of its own. The variation on the great sleuth of Baker street is little short of gen ius. His representative in this bonk is an Inoffensive looking little govern ment clerk, "a patch on the seat of government," he describes himself, whose deductlvs powers very often lead him Into very uncomfortable predicaments, and yet whose labors have an important bearing upon the development of the story. Now Holmes has given rise to a host of imitations, but Hotchklss Is the clev erest adaptation of the character that has yet come to our attention. The tale is told with the same humorous turn, which made 'The Circular Staircase" so readable. One difficulty about most of stories bear ing a relationship to Mra Green's work, is that to make fhem clear, there is necessary such a deal of ex planation as often becomes weari some. Not so In this case. The au thor has a delicious command of up-to-date slang, and an equally delicious knack of using It. She could prob ably take an agricultural report and transform It Into fairly Interesting reading: and her subject matter Is not of itself the quietest kind In the world. Of course one looks neither for character drawing nor fine plot con struction In a work of this kind. The heroes and heroines are too busy pur suing or being pursued by the mystery to have time to loaf and invite their souls. Episode follows episode in pell-mell fashion until the reader wonders with Intense curiosity how human Ingenuity can possibly bring order out of such chaos. A few page later on, however, order Is evolved, only to be plunged Into Still wilder confusion by some unlooked for development. In these particu lars "The Man in Lower Ten" yields nothing to the rest: Indeed It far ex cels the ordinary book of Its class with respect to them At a critical stage, for instance, th principal char acters attend a moving picture show; the film is put on and there before their eyea they not only see the trsln on which the murder was committed, but even the supposed murderer mak ing his escape after th commission of the crime Mutch the blxarreness of that eplsiode If you can! Again, there are flashes of genuine humor all through the course of the storv. on one occasion, the hern and Hotchklss, the near Holmes, enter by night a lonely country house In which they liHve reason to believe that the object of their search haa been oulte Vecent ly. They make themselves com 0,,'i l.l. y.t ...... 11,. r,.A i lit......... J" l"' "ri "l v .in- in n III toe ui'i J 1 11 the wee itiia' hours of the morning they hear a noise upstairs: arming themselves with pokers thev trace the disturbance to a bed room door: they demand admittance; the answer comes In the hhspe of five revolver shots through the bolted door. By this time the reader Is worked un, to a state of absolute certainty that the long sought Sullivan has been traced to his lair. The door Is broken down. jlw III ; . and there Is discovered trembling msJd-servant, left In charge of the house, who knows of ao valid reason why her rest should b violently dia-' turned at J a. - m. ' Ensues a rapid retreat j of the bold Invaders, who spend a large part of the. early morning endeavoring to fix; - things with ths startled jeTnt..- "v ? s. No notice of "Th Man In Lower Ten" would be complete without-reference to Christy's megntficent Illus trations, which add greatly to th. in terest and value of the book. -".. 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The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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May 30, 1909, edition 1
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