Show r r lOr o B BOOKS a a KS Tile lime S Saint l nl TIll The Antonio novel tile the latest work of tile the eminent Italian novelist no no sooner lonI appeared than It was wa placed upon tIle the Index Ll- Ll This Tills fact alone alon ha has been sufficient to the curiosIty curiosity curios curios- curios I and The It ity of ot readers in ill Europe Saint ha had no sooner been placed upon up on the index than It Il was translated Into Inlo arlous languages finally mal making Us its appearance in iii English It Il Is a u I. I hook book that ha has unu unusual ual ml iscu discussion lon Ion concerning the Iho doctrines It pro pro- Rome found them theta nol not nt ot all consistent with lIe tho chuich's churchs I nd lId teachings although continues to protest protect t that he Is himself I out lie Catholic C. However vel that may flaY Ll tc be not since fince Mrs Val Wards Ward's s 's Robert nearly two tto ago ha hatly na hy 11 novel drawn tim about aboul It Il so 80 much hId and criticism 11 it Is most ad- ad viewed b by the chur church h. h as Its FI FIg FIg- Ig- Ig pitied of course In the ban placed up- up 11 It It H. I. I bill bitt lIl man many critics In Ital Italy France and England hove been but bul butI 11 I tie s ks-s bitter in n 11 their denunciation I 1 Items hers have ha vl viewed wed It entirely as lh tile Ihei i I i of or a new religious creed I and ind In ill this tills lI light ht have hav pa passed ed their judgment upon It others sUll still have ol ed upon It Il as a a. no novel nol l pure and anti falling to lo sec see in it anything to toi i rouse f t the he com comment ment of a turn hut t It seems to lo have provoked pro A third tp I ii up can find it h In It Il neither novel tier nor oct tIne but on Oil tile the contrary nothing SI flit ITU ie re than limn a confession conCession These Thell themselves es seem scent lc to h be based b. pon roon the tho ground that thai It II Is possible for Inval I. Catholics to lo be bo cyal Italians as ns asI aswill I will i 11 Ii and serve sere with equal f fervor r or both ch and state Their particular aim aimI I poor alleviation of the distress of or Italy's poem POlI which tt they assert Is Js on ib 11 he Increase Ticy throw themselves Lift Into Inlo a n movement mo having forill forit for it itt ill object the enactment of new laws Jaws their thell end The Thc adm admixture ad ad- i at would effect m mixture of politics in cli church charity s objected to b by the Vatican and l the breach brach with wilh his in 1 wl to attempt to reconcile tile ar var arii ii c factions Failure attended fh h cf- cf fit but It Il has served nt at any allY rate rale to tl til uIa uia l unusual attention to the Italians Italian's tOI I gazz IOs central figure is Dene- Dene a n lay brother who ministers lo to the the- sick iCI and ancl afflicted and preaches lh the gospel of peace and goodwill ac- ac 01 irtI ding log to his own Ideas Inasmuch is these ideas idlas are arc in opposition to lo of or tile church not nol only does loeS os o's object become apparent but bul the reason as well troll for or the bool books book's addition to lo the Index Benedetto however howo is a vel very saintly man ulan and he spreads his good works worl s on every cry lund land casting creed aside ind laboring without regard to the or om religious vie s s of his beneficiaries The Thc circumstances re remind remind remind re- re mind one very much of the recent Crapsey rap e case and Benedetto good a alC as asIC asie lC IC ie is Is really as much without cx- cx use for Cr s seeking to lo remain within the theold old Told of the Catholic church as Dr ClUp Crapsey rapsey e no longer longcr a believer In ln the Episcopal creed I Is without ju justification loll tion In striving to hold his Episcopal pulpit The suspicion of superiors Is ls aroused d and in the novel ho he Is made the victim of it persecutions Those of or cour course c. c excite much sympathY sympathy th thy In lit his hiM behalf but to the tile eju diced reader appear more In ill the nature nature nature na na- na- na ture of a u doll deliberate berate attempt upon the part of to arouse this sym sympathy sympathy pathy path rath rather r than as a lo logical ical or probable probable probable able sequence of Benedetto's behavior The course of oC the priest leads heads him finally to a direct appeal to lo the Pope and this in itself involves c many church questions which are well d de designed signed to lo provoke oke controversy among the readers of the book As an all Incident incident inci mci- dent merely there is a well defined romance lomance the thc influence of which is not nol lost upon Benedetto's work and thought Signor methods arc are fat far more mol eloquent than fair fail lie He employs all his art art and and he possesses es tills this In Inno inno inno no small to measure lo enlist sympathy sympathy thy for his central character Once the reader permits himself lo to fall fail under un uti- tier der the tho sway of this he very probably probably abl ably will subscribe to lo Foga views vic but bul If IC hi lit remains uninfluenced he hc will observe many flatly Haws flaws In the tue ItalIans ItalIan's Italians Italian's Ital Ital- ians ian's plea It Il is duo the tho author authOl hoe hov- hov e ever eer CI to say that the Mm story a aside from Us its bent Is as us a description of ot Italian life both bolh high Ir tnt lou nr n i nil hv Kir in nl i nH n tic In I d dramatic I li quality lIt 6 New York kG G. 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P Putnam Putnam's Sons 5 Tho Thu Fi Chance Chalice Alth Although Robert RobertV V W Chambers Chambers' latest latest lat lat- lat lat- est esl JIO el The Fighting Chance may mayack maylack lack ack some of the tile depth and historical that added adde materially to the tile Intel est of his Ills chain of books s In which Cardigan was to SO J brilliant a alink alink link ink it Il much of the tho best st worl vot-lc that the lie author authol has ever evet done As a aStori Stori lOI and as us nothing more it Is com com- I satisfying Mr h Chambers s has Invaded availed In a way Mrs Whai Whartons Wharton's tons ton's fa- fa a- a field but he deals with smart set sel frailties with far fur less Ie penetration than the latter hatter His ills picture however on this account is broader more mom Impressionistic Im im- im tlc and somewhat more hopefUl hope- hope tul lul in hi tone than thun that presented for or In Instance In- In stance tance In ill The Tile House of Mirth 1 He Hea a assembles In Ill The Tie Fighting Chance Chanco ho tile players of bridge the women with tho ho cigarette habit the vulgar and newly rich ilch the unhappily mated maled arid and those o who prey on all of them the tile social blackmailers but bUl In Inthe inthe the company there thelo are arc ome pleasant a way Sylvia SI Is aware of or these dif dlf- enough ellough r enough aware of or them in 11 fact to love lo aid Si for fOI his virtues s. s but iut not lot then enough appreciative of or thorn them to be blind to lo the thc allurements o of Quarrier's rier's dollars Mr Mi Chambers bels bel's makes an an absorbing stol story of oC the attachment b between S Sylvia atilt and Siward Into which r thlu t- t himself with coldly calculated m u ci ing that i is not a lUll little a I h by t the lIP malevolent malc alIt and amI persons who ilO al' al an- an genuinely genuine true lu lo tile the better thin tIling thing within themselves and arid who ilo do tin not n lose sight of the better bellel things about them theta Somewhat like Airs s. Whartons Wharton's Lily Dart Bart Is Mr Mi Chambers' Chambers S Sylvia Landi the tile principal girl figure In ill The Fighting Fighting Fight Fight- ing Chance Chanco She is fond fetid of a life IIiI of lu luxury ur yet cl to the extent of sec seeking lin by marriage that which fortune has denied de lIe- flied nied her she I Is the antithesis ig I of Lily Burt BurL She plays plas bridge I but ut not with tile the pa passion lolI of lof of a gambler She hc is graceful beautiful beau ie small antI and her life Ufe doubtless would have followed followell a u smooth If not a pleasant channel with Howard Quay Quay- hall had It not I. I been een for fOI tile tho appearance appear appeal ance of Stephen Siward Siward comes sees longs and takes anti takes tin till iii lighting fighting chance lIe He is a gentleman gentle gentle- man Quarrier Is nol not he hc Is possess possessed of if a wimple warm heart hearl Quarrier Is po possessed of oC the heart hearl of a knave In sometimes Innocent meddling of or others oth oth- ers s In ill the tho same social circle Siward however is not Ilot Innocent of oC if responsibility for this tills lie has In Inherited Inherited In- In the thc one devouring vice Ice of oC his forefathers n a taste for drink Against the appetite he ho wages a manful manCul war It ll is a u grim grini silent heroic fight Buhe Bu But 11 he feels himself slipping in the trus- trus gle sic driven to a corner as It ii were wen from which the time demands of appetite will permit him no escape It Is Js then themi that Sylvia finds him in ill his despair and there comes to him him the Iho fighting chance chalIce Item Her love lovo aid ald the strength of her womanhood arc are his refuge refuse while at the tile same lime It is his ills vei VOry weakness that draws her toward him But nut the tile battle Is not won in a n da day mid ami even n in Ill the tile end there Is going Ube to U be he a 0 call for all tile the mans man's courage and all tile the womans woman's love for Cor or In the moment of ills his deepest happiness Si Siward Siward Si- Si ward waId hears the tempters tempter's voice oice am anti and the challenge of his E soul goul ul on guard York D D. Co I I foi I I i c-i I. I For FOI a full nil and amI rounded measure o otin or of tin thrilling tiling scenes cenes situations and events Blindfolded by l' l Earle le arle Ashley Val Wai alcott al colt cott will scarcely fail Call to arouse th the thc envy of oC writers of lurid luri It is a hook book of mystery and anti violence I in which incidents follow In such rapid succession that the reader render who Is diligent enough to tn follow folio th the tite tangled story to Its end will emerge satiated if not exhausted The talC tal first appeared appealed serially in The Tile Reader Reade and amid attracted some attention attention-a a fact act however how that cannot be attributed t tany to tonny any y merit the thc work poss possessor possesses In Ill truth lh tile the publishers announce tin tile book bool In words that proclaim pm Its char dIal acter It glows the they sa say and an glories In its adventure It dazzles am and I. I bewilders s with its mystery y it lures and fascinates with Its Us romance Alof All Al of oC which It doe docs It Is a story of San in Francisco am and If Mr Mt Walcott has in any sense sl sketched sketch sketch- elch ed eel melodramatic novel of hi an any San Francisco realities the re recent re- re cent earthquake is easily accounted for foi The tale talc begins with a murder and ends with a violent death Between Between Between Be Be- tween the two there them al' al are arc other othel- murders mur ders mere det's mere Incidents vaults as-vaults tights lights battles burglaries les andIn and In brief In ill one olle WU way Wity or 01 another nearly near near- I ly t vel crime dealt with by state stale statute Behind all nil these there thelo Is a adeep adeep deep and Impregnable mystery and antI a hero llero that thal plunges into it without reason rea rca son soil sense 01 om motive mothe It Il concerns Itself Itself it itself It- It self with a boy bor who is whisked about abom the tile from flom place to place or on mysterious orders that defy all law la laws las s of logic Incidentally almost almo l ever every conceivable situation that bids fair to prove thrilling is in some sone manner introduced introduced in introduced in- in by hy the author As if the tile itself were not sufficient there i is a stock exchange conspiracy that has In Imi Itself material enough ellough fur for fora fura or ora a considerable bit hit of ot fiction It Il Is probable however cl that man many readers will trill find tile tho book entertaining Its only claim to lo con consideration as good gooc literature at au all is an nn occasional character char char- acter sketch that thai Is remarkably len weldone wel 11 done It is exciting and and no doubt will eventually make mak Its Ils appearance upon the tile boards of the tho melodramatic stage hut but even 11 there Lucre at al lea least t half of Us its Ill must I. I be e dropped In III ol older er to hi lug il-lug Ing it Into the tIle scope of an evenings evening's performance Indianapolis Bobbs j Co hl Vo in lit Ono One of the he most interesting de developments tie tie- In iii the entertainment literature liter liter- of our time tulle has been tho tile U uprising up up- rising of or a group of oC if younger oun er novelists no who have set sel themselves deliberately to Improve upon the time merely exciting lloyd novel of or an older generation and amid to bring It into touch with the time many cut current rent interests and problems of out our complex modern life even while re retaining mo 10 what whal was tho the supreme of tho the older type lype of or book boo Ie an absorbIng absorbing absorb absorb- ing interest l of or if narrative That the Interest Is h increased b by r tho the Ing lilg of the realities of ff daily r life liCe for COl forthe or orthe the more mom mechanical motive anti and cue for fot passion employed however In Ingeniously In- In by the lie older novelists is a u. point that Il nee needs edS s no pro proving 1 nJ The plays play's s tho ho thing u as Hamlet said to toda today to- to da day as of old but hut it must be bo real drama drumlin that aims at al holding the mir mir- lor U up lo tO nature In ill one walk walle or 01 an- an other Tile The passions ma may still supply the tho plot idoL but 1111 the they must have ha their theil set set- ting in real humanity closely d and amid truthfully Today there Is a great at vogue for or novels no containing a U similar blend of or romance and reality The late Inte Mr 11 Selon Seton Merriman l did much to establish lish the reputation of this class of or novel no as a n really artistic product anti and worl working along kindred kindled lines fines ate aio such fl writers writer as E. E Phillips Oppenheim Max Louis Trae Tracy and red Fred M. M White While Of Oc th these sl the latest In ill tile the fluid field Mr Ir Fred 1 M. White Is a t novelist worth watching lie He has of or course se no In Inconsiderable In- In considerable reputation as his Crimson Crim son Blind was one of the tile most popular novels no of or last year yeam- Mr II White z ha hasy haj ideas of ot his own and knows how how- to use them Ho understands too ton that the element clement of ot stran strangeness ene which Is a part hart of ot all real beauty must be handled bundled as such even In lii a novel no of or adventure ns as exciting aa as an anythIng thins that Wilkie Collins ever evem penned His forthcoming novel The Time Slave Slav of or Silence which Little Brown JI Co will trill publish In October er will It Il Is al asset asserted can carry Mr Whites White's tion et further It Il Is Js a sto story of ot the most modern modem phases of oC life lire told with I a most emotional sincerity that thal holds the readers reader's sympathies to tho the last page 4 |