READERS' COLUMN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 17, 8 June 1914, Page 8

READERS' COLUMN.

J...Ai... .vjjvv' JVUVi'JLS. ."XilU Loa.c l. J...UIK,' by Ji -ziiku, • Cv-lluauy. U Jiisii i/jcaus is v.e...uL'a w.ih bur,"' t'.n.Of tile lliUi. U1../..-.U, •.•.il t L'.-» 111 iia.ulliau iiotion tO-djj. A!i,i ccriAtilll.' -J.-u , iiuU;e oi i'tlillle, il-.i.vjn l* uiL- ll'l,;„ mi Ji-er l/.WiS 1 '...[W! hUu'J U„'c|U.ill...a.l,:t With, 110 111CU.1H b..;..,, jk.r loUuw^.,,ll The boivk is a stroJi-; oaj, ;iaiiui,ii,.. ucI i-ate muojujij w.hu \'iu 'yiuves 011° ;.„u j 1 aw itniptou iu rmjunuLcua ilu- -. of au old librarian, wiu i,u„a ! wJjich. arc not sun; d to 1'..0 '■ ...ij.'i. j reader on tin.' top slic.f in .l',ic t]i'j,„u ',,. I cal section. Thdii'i it an üb[,ru„°,u b[ , ru „°, j young millionaire wliu finds ,lim°ci ,ui- ■ . eyuahy yoi<cd. liegiinniug an inn,^.,,., _ I youth, with Uncut ideals, Ire lias bven I married for ihe money and privilc.-v-Jjliis position canters. All I iOo-Ked up m the attitude ot Lite one j M" f«i" tin: one w. .nan. Of ci;'iir.,e. I under the circuiiistaiuv,, she fails him I ill fi.e important function of- wife, and j bis idealism crumple* under the strain. 1 Alanlike, his fancy is caught bv .\ta,ry I Kelly, u delicate c. vf. 7. ho ha.i 'eiilist"'l I his sympathy. ... story rceom.i.s [ Thane's trouble.:, . • peri -ncos and failure in founding his ■..mse, um| brings us 011 the las', pa;;., after ;i touchin.' renuaciation by Mmy, to a point where we NiirniNfi 1 :..it '> ' Mans of the "he.l woman i ; , the v .Li. he : will be i-:-u--cessful. "His Worldly Coods,' by Ma.rgareUa i Tuttle, ImliapolU: The 'liobbs-Memll Company. As .one of the roguhi.r cciilrilnunrs to "The. Ladies' Home Journal" Miss Tuttle Inias earned' an horured name among 'the trait-Atlantic jmirnals. '•His Worldly is easily' one of the best boohs of lihe season's fiction, so tluit Miss Tuttle may now consider herself not only a jounia'iisf, of 'repute. I but a distiiigui-.hca iKvelJ-it as well The brothers Thome are a really i,ri|' liant creation, especial: y the one wh., is t'Ce clergyman, tie is'a better cl-eigy-nian because he a,,ows the man in him to rule rather than 'the Cloth. Afre Colin Car.ion, a=> we at first know her, has a diJliculf position to .fill, as the legal guardian 01 her Mi-band, an infant millionaire, and the ai.lministration of 'his very far-reaching interests. The story is .wrapped about the love ">f Wrenford Thome, the rector, for this Mrs Carson, his wealthy parisMouer, and (Jhe leading spirit in all the charitable activities of his church, flow well hq veils his feelings, until, by the discovery 01 a former marriage by Carson, §i!is way is untie clear to speak as the 0110 man to the 'lie woman, is admirably told. N" 0 breath of insinuation 'mars our good opinion of 'the man or " of Mrs Carson, and the whole tale is J conceived ana carried through in t.he I loftiest 'spirit of idculism. Oirson's escape from custody, and some of the j adventures with him make verv realistic I reading. "IVul Max 1,0g.ui," l,y t> iu ,.l Treirt, aufchior of. "The Vow." etc.. London: Ward Look and Co. We are introduced to : , couple of keen financial men, one a millioniir.c and lih,. other in process- of becoming one. How the pursuit of the dollar the average man "uiil woman ,s ~vi,l,'„m l J )V i !l( . nrnh^,m or millionaires in the fiction of to-day All thr.ee novel,' und,.,. n . v j ow t i,i s „, ( ,,; k deal with one or more. Max I.,man .''\s been Itequeathed a deadly | J <lra,m. Hawkfl. because of the l-itt(.'.- H Chiwiiiery, wllien. while resultin,,•'i'u Ids own enrichment. > n ,.lls di-aster u,d death for Logan's father. Mix siico.es j Hilly (its liiinudf to bring alxiat lla.wl-e"- [ ovcpt'lu-ow, and t..c while falls i„ 1, u ,, j with Ifawke's reputed ,1au..,1,t,.r .\i| o .. n ; Logan's success places him i„ an awk-' I ward' light with his fiancee. wW 0 ; , turn, l,y her clevvr manipulalic„' „f 'finance, corner., him. The resull-iii'i i ! sues' are dramatic, th- final 0,1 com'l,-. ingcarefullv liidde'n to the la-t all (1„. various solutions maje by t |„, ~,,,,. ; j tlto story oroeee.ls bci,,;; ],,•„„„.,+ (n hioi,g.Ht. The hatred and nig <„, Logan's part is kept „p an ,„,. ' eoueiou.s'y to j, (i,,,,,, 1 it ' ''M |lwfrom London to Liverpool „nd 1,-,,,,/ I then to a negro depen,!cncv „,, H'e \l-' !««n «n,»t. la'fore the 1, ippv-ncv-aff 1 pwioil arrives. Interesting and al> ,-,,•], mg to a iHgh d'eg;»ee. -o„„ !it , ( ] n .„.,,„,; fault seems to o]>tnirle-lhn.t A ile«.. Max's .fowK-enew.. yet hj, does not d» the same obvious thing for having treated he,, m m exaet)y .samilar van'. Bdoks mipplied for tn i m hv A s BlW.lrO> ft- Pg- TV-L. .U ■■:.'..»- "'