Show Wi Which h Sex x Writes V rites l' l Tales lale ale of Love Loye Is it ti true that w women men have a greater insight than an men Into the complexities and 1 problems ms of the emotion called love It Itis is said at any rate that their interest in the subject is more intense that it amounts frequently to an am absorption absorption absorption tion which excludes all aU else Especially Especially Es Es- when tho the more sentimental aspects of this favorite topic for discussion are involved women are supposed to be much more deeply concerned with i it than th the opposite sex This assumption has las become a leading article of faith in what Mr gleefully calls call the American American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean Cr Credo do has indeed even as asSumed assumed assumed as- as the dignity of ot a National Conviction whether unconscious or ot otherwise Nor Noi is It confined to America alone In the he words of or the venerable jingle Some say yes and some say no but everybody thinks its it's so Many who deny they take it thus for granted might find it hard to prove pro that fundamentally fundamentally fundamentally funda funda- mentally they hold any other view At all aU events the often cited feminine femi temi- nine preoccupation with matters of the h heart rt has grown proverbial Moreover the sex has been pretty generally credited with a profounder profounder profounder pro- pro founder and more sensitive if less reasoned understanding of ot the af affections affections at- at than can be boasted by mere man He it is said knows who to love but the woman is the theone theone theone one who knows why to love In Inthe inthe the field of or fiction women writers aie are sometimes said to have accomplished accomplished accomplished most with the love story as differentiated from the stories that do not deal first and foremost with the theme of man woman and the governing sentiment In fact tact they are frequently frequently frequently fre fre- reputed to possess a gift for this variety of emotionalized writIng writing writing writ- writ Ing that that- thatis is not shared red and never can be by men as well Try as you will wm the masculine author has haj repeatedly been t told ld not be beable beable beable able to tp outdo a woman when she writes of a love that Involves a womans woman's heart Thus It Is that in view of ot this quite general and highly popular belief bellef considerable surprise has been caused by a recent occurrence In book bool publishing D D. D Appleton Co have just issued a collection of tales all aU identified in one wa way or another wi with h this single ingle great and nearly limitless subject and entitled entitled entitled en en- titled Twenty nine Love Stories Ernest Rhys and and C. C A A. A Dawson- Dawson Scott are the editors and twentynine twentynine twentynine twenty- twenty nine different authors have contributed contributed contributed con con- to the volume which It is 15 believed will be in demand as a delightful gift book at this holiday season of the year ear This collection of stories of widely varying mood setting and period have only one element In common and that Is their primary concern despite all differences In handling with the same fundamental motive It has been said that the group of tales chosen represents the best fictional treatment of the subject from all possible angles which has been In Included Included In- In eluded in a single volume for tor each stor story has been selected according to to- the editors for tOr the one reason that It was felt to be the finest of ofUs Its Us type obtainable Hence the object of the work be beIng being belog be- be ing log what it is Is 15 we come to tie the really surprising feature relating to its publication and the the- theone one ne causing general comment This is the tho fact tact that of the twenty nine stories In Included Included In- In eluded only seven are the products of ot women writers And with one ono of the editors a woman Surely she must have striven her best to Ie J I pre prevent nt neglect of ot her sister au authors authors au- au I thors and to place them in the most favorable light possible That may almost be taken for fOl granted Yet YetI I despite this consideration and inthe inthe in inthe the face of ot the po popular ular conviction before mentioned only these few ey survived d the test of admission to the book It seems an astonishing ratio for the sexes that of twenty twenty- two to seven For FOl one thing tIling of course it must be remembered that women have hae not alwa always s 's written ritten for publication that Is 15 13 and a part of th this s collection collee- collee tion dates back jack hundreds of years As for that however a glance althe al at atthe t the index shows that only five of ot the twenty-nine twenty stories selected are really leally old enough as age is com coin l in literature to lie outside the trend of life contemporary anc and thought The Arabian Nights Boccacio Sir Malory the tile Second Book of Samuel and the anonymous old Border Ballads are the sources drawn upon for these five ancient tales Aside from them there are only two or three by such c comparatively recent writers as l and O. O Henry tot for in instance instance in- in stance which do not belong distinctly distinctly distinctly dis dis- to to our own da day And ot of course coulse all aU bu but t the five e mentioned are the products of a time in which women writers have been practicing widely Of a fair total then of twenty-four twenty modern love stories d dealing with what has so often been called caned the feminine writers writer's special province only seven come from Women Women's hands Katherine Mans Mans- Mansfield lansfield field Sheila Smith Kayo Violet Hunt Constance Ho Holme me Flora llora Annie Annie An An- nnie n- n nie Steel Kathleen Co Coyle le and C. C A. A Scott Dawson-Scott alone represent their sex among the men who have contributed contributed contributed con con- to this' this pick of the lit literature literature literature lit lit- on love How one wonders wonders wonders won won- ders is this odd state of affairs to tobe tobe tobe be explained |