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Show SEVEN SHORT STORIES. The Troll Garden By WlllB Slhert Gather Published by McClure, Phillips & Co., New York. A series of short stories of vivid Interest, Inter-est, and written With a deftness and force that captivate tho reader. The quality of them Is delicious, and the scenes are as lifelike as realism can make them. There Is ' Flavla and Her Artists," which shows how a frivolous woman, given over to folly fol-ly and fads, cultivating the egotists and humbugs, may utterly despise and misunderstand misun-derstand a husband who Is great. "The Sculptor's Funeral" Is a scorcher on a remote re-mote Kansas community, which Is of the earth, earthy, and which has Its small opinion " about a genius who has been ralse.l in Its narrow circle. ' The Garden Lodge" !- a sentimental story of :i--o, la-tion la-tion with a great musician, built on the foundation of a bohemlanlsm that was rcckbss and Irresponsible. "A Death In the Desert" tells of the lingering death near Cheyenne of a great singer, surrounded sur-rounded by relatives who knew nothing of her world, Shi was literally starving for a touch of her artist world and pathetically pathet-ically received It In the attention of a brother of the master musician with whom she had trained, and whom she. hopelessly loved, "The Marriage of Phaedra" Is a story of a mUtaatlng, and a picture which was unfinished, but Which had very tourhing association. "A Wagner Wag-ner Matinee" n a pathetic story of the emotions of an old h"i who knew much of music, but of the old style; her reluctance reluc-tance to return to common things Is well turned "Paul s Case' 'Is a cruel story of a boy who was "queer." and his awful end It Is one of the finest books of short storhs issued this year, and Is well made by the publishers |