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Show So$rtp &t)out gutljorg anb tfte j3eto ffioofcg l novels have. It has a narrative style that doea move along. It haa a group of memorable characters. It haa in full measure the whlineicul humor and dramatic Intenaity which have endeared en-deared thia author to so many thou-ssnd thou-ssnd readers. tThe Century Co., New Vork.) ' New Writer Has Powerful Novel In her first novel. "Doubting f?aatle." Klinor htpp haa aet a high mark. Her Initial effort eompela tha attention M-the M-the dlscrimlnst Ing reader and haa attracted at-tracted conalderahle favorable comment, t Two crltlce compare her work with that of Johe Ualworthy. This In llaelf ta a high compliment for a new writer. "Houbtina I'astle" la a tale of three .peraona: llloria and Richard and Irene:! of youih and middle age. of the' bonds of marriage and free naselos. The portrait of (Jloria la one of the new unmistakable creallona In recent fiction, and In It we feel the truth of lorta both aa Ivpa and aa pert-n. rihe Is a tragic embodiment of youthful paeeionate love. j Hera to be aura la the absorbed snd I aeif-center'l passion of the "child who wants" rather than the aelf-foraetful devotion de-votion of mature love (which Irene haM but It la not groea. It does not depend on. is hsrdly sffected by tha physical act of love. J Pagan or not. this filorla. this child-heart child-heart unprotected.' somehow embodies a I personality nf poignant appeal, a unlver- I asl and perennial feminine type. Honli A Llverlght. New York.) , Mystery Story That Is Different. Th tint Hollow Ifyatrrr." y Rl. ra N. Porter haa for It bro a payrhlt patlsnt who ) ihorkexJ bmrH to amity by n automobile accident. H flndn him. nlf In th mldat of oatraortHnary hap-pnlna-a and imponatrahl. b?w)ldrmnta. H bat Ilea airainat thatr myatary under tha aad handicap of a memory which aklpa iit.raly hia parlod of marital III-naaa, III-naaa, Itavinc aa Uttla trace aa an alrplan over tr lopa that la about all of tha plot 1telf It la wall to reveal. However, U may do no ha tin to inr ret that to find oneeelf, hobbling; from a painful Injury, In a exeat, handeome. well found bouee tn fun atata of occu-paaey. occu-paaey. with heat and food, not a aoul to be found In all the rreat extent of well kept crounda oept a woman locked up In a bedroom who declare, aha la atarv-Inir; atarv-Inir; llarhta In varloua room a switched o and off apparently without human Intervention; In-tervention; a dlaconnected telephone; an unexplained platol ehnt: tha arrival of a hearae at dead of night. In which the hero manage to eecape It la no treaaon to the mvitery to ouanreat that theae thinga are rather good provocation foe pu r.uJng the atory until one finds out-why. out-why. Tha aettlng la romantic, with the at-tractlveneaa at-tractlveneaa of southern California, which fact doea no bad service to tha happy denouement, de-nouement, since thera la tha love motif that th rule of fiction have decided muat Inaplre the actions of the chief character. Tha woman ta the ca.ee. It muat be said, la a moat unusual figure, and lifts the love atory quite out of tn ordinary myatery etory's mechanics. There la a murder trial In which tha newer Idea of Involuntary revelations made by the guilty man to a peycmolog-leal peycmolog-leal expert replace the older neceaalty for tha Interference of circumetancee. Not less, but Infinitely mora dramatic, i Is ths thrilling fictional uaa of tha iy-chlo iy-chlo facta familiar to every modern per-eon per-eon of Intelligence, but which would have bean mystsrloua Indeed but a generation ago. All In all, here Is a book which prom Isee i.ome enthralled hours of complete sheorbHon In the fata of two appealing and likable people entangled In a net alJ the more terrible becaue It haa the Impalpable Im-palpable qualities of the unknown. Not only the hero, but thoae who live him. must aak with rdd terror In their hearts. What did he do In the lost months of hia HfeT It Is this that gives an unuminl suapenae aad tension to & particularly mvaterlous myatery afory. "Th Century Cen-tury company. New York.) A Writer's Struggle For True Expression "Foursquare, by Oraco 8. Richmond, la tha story of two men and a woman John K Irk wood, tha editor of popular refuge from herself. Marriage did change her for a year or so, but inevitably allot all-ot her man appeared. lavld. overburdened with the nrobleme oT the turbulent foreigners uf Kerrigan street. In whoc he hoped to Inetlll :n understanding of American Ideals while he miniaterett to thetr babies, had ft-aei-snd fewer hours of leisure for Nancy, but he unaelflahly urged her to amuae herself her-self with her old frlenda. Thue ahe me Forrester Htone. the financier, and yielded yield-ed to the old lure Of conqueat. It was not until she csughc a glim pee nf what ! life meant to David or what It may mean to anvone who follows a splendid via ion that she realised tha fullness of her love for hltn. Francis R. Bellsmy nas tried vsrlous adventurea from farming to the show huilnass, but It was with the publication of his first novel. "The Balance," a few years ago that he 'found himself. He had written plays from the glad Home days of barn shows with five pins admln-lon snd had gained soma succeas on Broadway with his vaudeville sketches when he embarked em-barked In tha book bualnees. In sleeping cars, hotels, lunch rooms, the young aaleamsn worked on the manuscript of his oovel. Blnce the success of "The Bsl-snce" Bsl-snce" he haa had the lelaure to perfee. the development of his second and equally equal-ly powerful novel, "A Flash of Uold.' rouhlday, iage & Co.. Garden City. N. T.) South Sea Book H&s Strong Appeal "Atolls of tha Sun." by Frederick O'Brien, author of "White Khadows in tha Bouth 8eaa" and "Mystic Isles of tha 8outh Hess." Is based nn the author's au-thor's third visit to tha lonely Islanda of the line. Mr. O'fiilen now writes on the beautiful landa and the fascinating fas-cinating peoples of the far SoutifBeas uAtoiis of tha Sim.' It nas In rich, measure all those elements that made hia "White Shadows" and "Mystic Isles such extraordinary successes. "Atolls of the Sun" .Is not only an absorbing record of travel and a thrilling thrill-ing narrative of adventure; It Is slao a book of humor, of kindly human philosophy, of strikingly dramatic situations sit-uations enough to endow a doxen novels. nov-els. And It la all .presented in an alluringly al-luringly musical proea which- has caught color and cadence from the people and places of that joyous Polynesia Poly-nesia so loved by the author. The new book deala with those biasing; bias-ing; coral ''wreathe upon the equator!.! Pacific known aa the Iangerous Archipelago, Arch-ipelago, which are among; tha most a ma xing- habitations of man. Mr. O'Brien spent months among the Paumotuans taking part in their dally Uvea. Moreover, In tha new book he tells of further adventurea In the Mar-queaaa Mar-queaaa ialands. and the reader meets again thoae unforgetahle native flgurea Kaplodlng Kggs. Vanquished Often. Daughter of the Plgeoo. Seventh Man Who Wallows In the Mire and many others who first appeared In hia "White Shadow. In the Houth fieaa." (The Century Co, New York.) Son of Millionaire Doea Traffic Duty "Two 8h4l Be Born." hy Marie Conway Con-way Oemler. author of "Slippy McT.ee." ta a full-blooded modern romance. Many readera will remember that the outstanding rharacter In "Slippy Mr-Gee" Mr-Gee" waa a professional burglar and a marveloualy eucceesful one, too who became a famous butterfly man. The hero of "Two Khali Be Born" le the eon of a millionaire who becomee a traffie cop and a moat efficient cop he la too. Away In Poland. Imagine an old noble scheming with the aubtlely of Machlavelll to help hia native land to become an independent nation again and ualng everybody and everything within hia power to that end stray bands of gypsies, the membera of a ee-j cret Polish brotherhood with branrhee In every country, even, as a last resort, re-sort, hia own daughter. He matches his wits agalnet the vast dark eenclea of Russia and Germany, and hia mass of plota estend around the world; through Japan, through America and back to Kurope. The little black-haired princess, aa dainty aa a flower and as strong as fire, la caught In the pull of the old noble's patriotic plana and one day ahe flnda herself drifting alone, apparently defenselesa and helplessly, through lh etreets of New York. . WelL It's a full-blooded romance of today, and It haa aU thoae elements of appeal that Mrs. Oemler other fiction magaalne; Mary Fletcher, a talented tal-ented young writer who la "aeelng life" aa It le lived In New York'a Bohemia under Klrkwood'a unwholesome tutelage, tute-lage, and Mark Venn, a young college professor, who realises that Mary Is sacrificing her ability to do work 'of the finer typo for the euceese that came too easily with her popular magaalne mag-aalne stories. Suddenly recusing that she Is being dominated by Klrkwood'a personality. Mary returns to her girlhood home to rest and find heraelf again. Nest door Uvea Mark Tenn. Refreshed by the quiet charm of the old college town. Mary la led to eee that her work and her Ufa muat be built fouraquare on aolld values. With the aid of Mark's wholesome vision she wins a aucceae that aquaraa with tha Ideala aha had ao nearly loot Mra. Orace (I. Richmond la the author au-thor of a long list of eucceesful novels, among which the most famous are -Red Pepper Burn a," the atory of a great physician, and "Red and Black." the atory of a great mlnlater. This book la tha story of a great teacher. In the doctor, the mlnlater and the teacher. Mra. Richmond, baa Idealised the three moat potent factors In the progress of our civilisation. t Double-day. Double-day. Pag A Co, Garden City. N. Y.) Struggle With Self Basis of Story . -A Flssh of Oold." by Prancla R Bellamy Bel-lamy la the atory of Nancy's conquest of herself. There were Innumersbie other conquests of all th. personable young men In t'lew.burv'. fashionable eec for Nancy waa a primitive, paselonste. lovable, voung barbarian to whom emotional es-etrement es-etrement waa tha breath of life, hut Iievtd. the eerloue young phyalrlan whe had abandoned the country chib and tea daneea far tha brotherhood hovea on Kerngan street, sba really loved and hoped to find la her anarriage with him a |