| Show hOUR S SPot Pot or the he Queen In South Africa by Carl Caryl Davis Is II a volume of halt a dosen short hort stories of oC army lifa In Africa published by Little Brown BrownI I A Co 01 Only two 0 ot of them The he ll Hak hack Tells ab the story and nd Blood Wi Will Tell hll have to do with tb the preSent warl the others bI being tale tales of with the natives Tey They at are al all uncommonly good lod In every case lle the author authur ha has 1 a areal real story to lel tell a story with sonic Central dramatic incident and ho knows how to tel tell I it ome ot of them are taI trag tragIc Ir Ic Th lIsa Cra Cross and JuI Not being elp dal notable In this respect They ap are realistic In their lol local color clor character drawing Id IdIn and andIn In the fact that they relate just suds uch incidents u si have han undoubtedly occurred time and again In British warfare Yet Tt these incident ar are of the heric heroic gal al lint lant kInd that I It warms the blod blood to lu read of 01 Mr descriptive pour r rI I Is unusual His HII short crisp Nm tu to follow olow one another with hed head headlong long speed and to breathe te the ery ry spirit It of the tacIt ruh and turmoil and n but bat batte buttie te tie I lie e possesses Ion to a notable d Br Ihl the art of describing a len scene vividly In a few rd Yet YIt hil his I is always alway simple limp Ie and In tact fact these arl are In unusually uly Rood good isles and told with no sal small amount of Il ite rr Far skill kl I It is II the fashion nowadays to say o of any man who writes army tales that he II I influenced by y but Jr r may be congratulated ed d 01 on lh the fast that he ba has mad no ito really apparent attempt to imitate that writer howe however r much he mf may Indirect Indirectly ly Iy OWe to him The on o of the sword A 1 Romane ot of by Leo AD I ii a III stir stirring ring ad and Well el told story of oC the nUl Napoleons Italian Jlian campaign In ise an ant I is closely connected with the bit bittie te tie of Idl I It Is II an of the successful stage drama ot of The Th lal iraa Son Song of at the Sword and is IA a rapid and continuous recital o of dramatic events interspersed d with brief al pg 1 and frequent bursts of p pa and eloquent comment Fran Frane e a arid ud Captain Ie are fine dramatic characters and theIr relations wilts Ith earl each other are marked h by many displays ot of chivalry There is II much In the story to 10 remind the reader o of flume Dum historical romances o of nor do does 1 it purer suffer hy by comparison with them The There Is scarcely In an Irrelevant mOVe mOVement meat ment In It lIvery action tend tends directly C or Indirectly to the denouement and the climax is II as aa effective and thrilling u as I it Is II dramatically consistent and acceptable I It is II quite quit II liberally bra II luI ilius sew New York O 0 W ham Co Co Half A dOln dosen short stories o of sharp European diplomacy snake a reble readable little bk book under the title of A Diplo mal math Woman b by Huan Mee the whimsical literary mall mask o of lomp some one apparently not altogether unfamiliar with diplomatic The stories purport to be the relations of at the lady diplomat herel herself arid Ind hr her bt best work is II done In tie the Interest ot of the Trench foreign omee Her social ocal gives Ve he her access lee to diplomatic circles and her methods 0 of detecting Ita state te secrets ar ac acquainting herself herlt with the contents on lent ot of carefully guarded dispatches and d de detesting testing the schemes ff of her adversaries Ar Al a 55 sIte he relates them Ihm highly er credit creditable lt able to her sagacity But A as a lad ladu lady so u socially important and so 0 bl highly gifted led would not Ilot h be apt to publicly dt de tl tall the proe processes ot of her triumphs we must attribute the stories to th the imagination nation of some writer ot of rare detective capabilities No mater matter where or With whom thy they o however they ar are undeniably cleve clever New Gew York Harr Harper k In A Master lter of Craft Cratt W W Ja Jab b bI hiSs written a Very vry amusing IouI long story which II I concerned wih with the for lor fortunes lun tunes ot of Ca Captain I loe a skipper who disappears ald and gives out II a report I f his drowning In order to escape a wih with three women Mr r humor In this Ihl Ion long story is II not nol nolt t so ready or 1 so I us In hil his bk book rf of short hort tales Many Ca Carries but 11 stor tOI I Mh r reading The av time Mil Mel Fraser profits by the eb h of hi his I is admirably brought out 01 S f N t York Frderick Frederick A SIk Stokes COmp company I n who 10 I is to lilts 11 lIn I the hI best tort short stories Irl of Ir lit in Ih the ls And who II is RII also the Ihl of ii a volume of lull ers j 1 now noll doing some oe un uk k In hI R a if f ti the FAll Tins which its b cala call In iii a 8 recent S h It cli tribute to tn r iii IS Sans am L Simpson who h ha 11 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