Show DOROTHY DIX DIXON DIXON DIXON ON NEW BOOKS The summer cummer r novel gauzy of material transparent in plot warranted not to the mind or unduly heat beat the imagination is as much JI a part rt of the regular toot bet weather output as aa ten tennis tennis tenala nis ala flannels or waists and amidst all this mass mM of lightweight and inane fiction a book like Mrs Mn Burton Barto Harri Harti Harrisons Hartion sons on s new n novel A AP Princess of the Hills is Ia a green oasis ouis in So a barren des desert desert desert ert This is story etory is said to he be Mrs Harri Harti Harrisons sons Ions most ambitious bi Oe effort r in action In it she he h mu has s turned her bel back upon the world of ot New York society that site she knows so well and with such charm and ind humor and aD has baa given riven iv n us usan usan t tan an romance set ert in m the rugged rimed nattiest fastness of the hills I But picturesque and full of local I color as it is 15 it does croe not wean us from I our earlier love It is not Mrs Harri Harrison Harrion son on at her best It lack the ing log qualities the clever cl vr portraiture the witty d ogue the UIe keen I tion of the shams and of society lety the satire that made The and A Bachelor Maid such good reading There is sound sense aen e in a shoemaker sticking to his ls l Iet t and even as ac accomplished accomplished com a stol stor teller as Mrs Har Harrison Harrison rison i is HI mo most t delightful when w ben she stays at home bane b and writes of the life ute of lC which she Is 18 a part Her muse mue i Is If not a winged Pegasus It is a park cob Her Rn suppers are intended to be eaten at Del by stuart smart people in evening clothes who have han Just dropped in from the play They lose their flavor and become mere papier mache stage prop o f Z when she be attempts ts to convert convent them into an Italian nesta flesta The Tha scene sc ne of ofA A Princess s of the Hills is laid In Italy Horace Bow Bowdoin Bowdoin doin deja a young American who ho has bas been educated abroad and aDd who has hIlS acquired a deep distaste te for the conventions and restrictions of society ends the Mie last of many lovers lovera quarrels Dolly Carr CarT his fiancee by breaking off the engage engagement engagement engagement ment and leaving Venice The girl gIrls s petty standards and ig ignoble noble ambitions ambition have fretted him hint be beyond beyond yond yonI endurance and h he be determines to forget torget her bel by plunging into primeval simplicity in ill some ome unsophisticated un vii vil village lage la e eBy By chance he be strays into a little out ont of the world place in the north Italian ItaH n Alps Here he meets an old college coll ge friend Lord who has just unexpectedly succeeded to the title through the dearth dear of a cousin Lord Castleton is an idealist a dreamer and he be confides in Bowdoin he has bas fallen in love with a daughter of the people e a girl named Flore a creature of o marvelous beauty the last scion of one of the old worn out Impoverished noble families of or the district and anti that he intends to come comeback comeback comeback back and marry her in spite of the fact tact that sue she has been reared re red as a peasant 1 Bowdoin first sees Fiore Flore as abe comes across ero a little bridge driving a bullock cart Compared with her all aU other women h he had bad ever seen seemed pen pencil pencil cil sketches beside a painting in oils glowing immortality from a masters hand band This peerless J fruit o of an outgrown tree had bad garnered into one specimen all the rich mellowness and radiant tinting of its It predecessors Gowned in purple cotton with a red handkerchief knotted about her splendid hair she vaguely suggested to tu him amber Jac roses IO es the heart of ot an opal and the scent of heliotrope That night Flore Fiore came up to the old palace where whre he had secured lodgings decked out in the heirlooms of her family the dead and gone Countess Marcolini She was splendid in old bro brocade brocade brocade cade with ropes of pearl twisted In her hair and on her breast and Bow Bowdoin Bowdoin doin dots was bewitched Old Venice was before him Like this she might have trailed her sump sumptuous sumptuous sumptuous brocades at a kings banquet or sat with the th court ladies on the palace roof as they wooed the suns gold for tor their locks in preparation for scenes of conquest For the moment Bowdoin fascinated bj by b Flores superb beauty forgot that he be had sought BOught those wilds to bemoan another womans shortcomings and to nurse a broken heart and that his friend had entrusted the girl to his care He was soon aroused to a sense of his duty howe however er Flores aunt had betrothed her to a ahl hideous hl monster named Niccolo the richest man in the village but a miser and a brute Bowdoin used every ef of effort effort fort to get the wedding postponed until Lord Castleton could return from England nd finally bribing the avaricious us Niccolo to leave the neighborhood for fora a certain time This aroused the jeal jealous jealous jealous ous suspicions of the lover and find finding finding finding ing Bowdoin In conversation with the girl he stabbed him and fled fied In the meantime Lord Castleton re returns returns returns turns and Fiore refuses to marry him She nurses Bowdoin through a long and interesting illness while he is re recovering recovering recovering covering from the wounds he received in her behalf and after the manner of invalids he proposes to his nurse and ands s bhe he the accepts him The wedding day ar arrives arrives arrives rives The village Is en fete Suddenly from one direction arrives the handsome young soldier that Flore Fiore has always loved loed and from the other Dolly DoHy whom Bowdoin still adores At the foot of ot the altar Fiore refuses to marry Bow Bowdoin Bowdoin Bowdoin doin and thus are loves tangled threads made straight The story is told with infinite charm and the character of Flora Flore so beautiful beautiful ful tu so o simple yet so sordid but true to the one passion pas ion of her life is drawn with a strong hand and a true touch Mrs Harrison Harrlson has bas also been most happy in reproducing the atmosphere of the little village with its Incongruous ous mixture of ot sublime natural beauty and petty pet human gossip and scandal and greedy greed avarice and on the whole the A Princess of ot the Hills Is an In Interesting Interesting and effective romance well worth reading A Princess of the Hills by Mrs Burton Harrison Boston Lothrop Publishing company 2 0 S The much despised Australian black blackman blackman blackman man is coming to the front with the work of English writers and Mrs Langloh books have attract attracted ed ad hitherto the most attention with her folk lore tales of the Maoris and tribes from the South seas leaS Now comes John Mathew with Eaglehawk and Crow a study stud of or the Australian aborigines All AH the peculiar traits of these very black men are discussed In a most en entertaining entertaining way Everything from their arts to the religion and sorcery their queer marriage customs and their sense of humor Is gone into in very diverting fashion So thoroughly has bas the writer covered the ground that he be furnishes a gloss glossary glossary ary any so complete that a marooned mis missionary after alter reading the book could easily ask th party of blacks that took him captive how they were going to cook him The thorough thoro h study of the Austral lens made by the author was done in Ire inthe Irethe Inthe the years he lived among the blacks whom he describes d ribes as a kindly people by Dy nature although ill III treatment by colonists has spoiled much of the gen gun general eral good temper of the race Eaglehawk and Crow by Mrs Langloh Published by the tha New Amsterdam Book company co pany and David Nutt A Co of London |