Show A PROBLEM STORY The MM tin of thn Pasture By James Lane Allen Published by the Maemll lan Company Nw York A II Dcrgc XCo Salt lake City The problem nnwMitcl In this story Is whethor I young man should tell the girl ho S to marY lie I fillpii he has made from th high Htandaid nho expscts of him or shodil be alUiii with legard to them Tho precept uf tin story Is tcil the truth frankly and fully the liHtmi of tho alary JR that If you do Hie I girl will be so Knocked ali distressed that I she will bmak 1 the engo cnKMii the families will be set by the ears old animosities will be revived re-vived the joung man will fall hop Nsaly and far from the itur poHlllon in which the > ounjr woman hat placed him nnd though she may llnally come back to him It wIll be with the fooling that the 1 wt of both her and him has boen besmirched nnd that their lives must be lived on distinctly dis-tinctly t lower moral plane than nor nature na-ture craved Whether the precept should outweigh the practical lesson is extremely doubtful the reader of the story will almost 1 al-most necessarily conclude that If the disastrous dis-astrous effects are to onaue that do ensuo In the story tho candid young man maje a decided mess not only of his own life but of the life of the girl by his misguided candor S rTh j story Is laid in Kentucky and chlv airy and high lone Is the moving > l mcA mc-A ycung mans life runs In pleasant lines until he unbosoms himself to his Vo trothcd of transgressions of his joulh She i Implacable In her corn ind rage and the mOlt troubled soiL of days Jollow fhl1 Iu I nothing but mlery and limn deralandlng A posslpy and mallrlous old aunt outraRes decency In accounting for the broken OnKasomunt and the pin Is obll td to come to the rescue of the youns Jmnl There arc some lovely characters in the t book but a superabundance of Illy ones the mettle cf the pasture averages poor the stock very little of It Is thoroughbred thorough-bred or even blooded thougn there Is j some The old lawyer the Jllled young mars molher tho old professor irc admirable proesr mirable and the analysis of feelIng and motive is searching old line The descriptions descrip-tions of surroundings and of natural phenomena phe-nomena nro sympathetic aid cxopllont and the story will enhance Mr Allen s al riady high repute as PI author lint his soliilion of tho jiroblein proposed in the nnvt l oilght t not to be followed or rather young men should not do things the con IrasIon of which would wreck the lives cf the persons most concerned In them I 1 |