| Show I I 5 S J CI lIs Hume's Humes Lad Taly Jim I Lady Lady Jim of or of Curzon Street I II is without the best work vork Fergus I Hume flume has yet It dono dono and tho most J persistently disappointing J IC It bo lie success success success' and prof proof proof-of r ot strength on tho the part oft oft- of-lK of a author thor to lo pin play with his ills r. reader r lu tu fl Jl character which t takes lakes Jw J J ut or thor thoI and ami Induces M t S i T F T I an n interest quite as ns strong O- O Oa H a living personality could Inspire thou then Mr 1 Hume has han succeeded In the creation an and development of or Lady Lad Jim She Is not nol a n lovable able person tom for all aU I her great beauty She Is so supremely st so su completely ly Impervious to toj toI j I th the the- common and commendable InI hi In I that apply appl to the tho r rest t of or orI womankind so 10 greatly superior in In Intellectuals In- In I Ii to tn all her a associates associate o i-o o captivating to 10 the reader I with the flashes of oC her wit lt and so perfectly barbarian ian In the te testimonial 0 of a a. soul oui that one flails finds almost aJmo t a hate accumulating lating n as thin the paces es 31 are turned turnell Lady Jim I Is married to o Lor Lord Jim J- J Kalme alme a a. a fat an and tolerable English h baronet t without a n single good trait t. so o far Cal as one can Fee see a baronet who gets mom marc than half the 1110 family living lI by hi his winnings at cards card and who allows himself elf a perfect tl freedom e om in the matter matteI of oC love o. loue a conce concession slon in privilege ri l lege logo he does oes not aoL extend to tu his wife wie The They are frightfully in iii debt Though Lord Iora Jim Is la th the younger son eon o of a duke dulc who ha has fifty thousand a year eur and no end of or establishments he Is poor Tho Tim little house In Curzon street an ana and anda a thousand a year Is all ull the duke will allow them and and they ther owe o a. a fortune find and th the constables are coming and the stol story opens with 1 everything dark darl for tor Lady ad Jim and her non-Intellectual non lord Jord v Wo Vo have ha not made It Il clear clar to you h vu beautiful she sho I K is how perfectly inviting an arm animal she h I Is nor how howleR less leR than a marriage CA I K the life liCe she shean an and her husband hl live Jive All that I is delicately COIl CC conveyed by t the e story but you ou know tillS line fine creature with herbig helbig her hel herbig big lIo body and h her r ret red hair an and he hei- hei abundant spirits spirit and her swift mind needs a different man She Sho nee needs a u master and that sin she has hns not found You begin to think he has come Conle when Askew Alke writhing under r the th torture of her coquetries grasps l her by the arm arm- nn and shakes the sha sham l woman clear out of h her r but A Askew ke lacks Inck the quality of continuance He Is strong hut but not And n you ou think again agnin she h has hm- found her mate mato when Demetrius the nUs Russian lan doctor make makl lOVe lovy to her and fairly takes her breath awn away with the int intensity lI ilY of hl his wooing But he lIe fails too ton And while you ou al' al are why Lady Jim Jima must t live c unmated you see the development ai the af-the Tho l So Ho far Cal as overt crt acts of or infIdelity aro are concerned the thc woman Is chaste aslet as Ice let She is simply one of or those In Intensely intensely in- in I tensely animal feminine creatures who Invite In men encourage carp caresses t yield to passion with passion with a limit The clever er brain calls call Ii halt before thy the Consummation consummation con on summation of oC desire simply from flom the thes s selfish lh Jn-lh reason that it I isn't nt saC safe safo There Is no morality in iii such abstinence once ence no virtue In such continence Sl SaIh is saintly beside thom them Sh She Sho at least has the tho hone honesty t of her promises s. s Lady J 3 Jim Ian d dishonorably pr preserves st es her honor It Is Just another pha phase e of her supreme selfishness s Lord s life has been In insured und for tOl I pounds In Ill n thou their extremity I I td Idy Jim Jim reads s Collins' Collins Vonian Woman Woman Wo Vo man nian In while and they arrange for Cor i Jim's Jims pretended d death ath Demetrius I Ito Is Isto i to t-o go to the est West Indies with Garth v 1 on I II Illegitimate son SOIl nn of oC tIle tho luke duke who vho l looks ol much like Jim and when Garth I Idies lies dies the they are to ha e the tile body brought j i home and Interred as that of Jim and 1 Lady Jim Is to gf get t the time insurance Il I j money Is to send to Jim and then Ihn Is to marry Demetrius Yell Well it ii works out to the time payment of the i I j money ney and Jims Jim's disappearance Demetrius De De- Is an exile with a n price on hi his J head hta and and the highway to t i Island and wide rIde open for 01 Or him Si So o Lady Jim goes to Paris and there the nu Rus- Rus I tHan emil doctor is tal taken En IJ by hr the thc Russian Ih i I spies and he and his secret are aro bUrh burled buried I in III exile Lady Jim Jim comes comeR home and amid andis I It is reveling In Iii the Joys that Insurance mone money can bU buy when whIm thy tue duke dule and hIs Jahi pJ oldest eldest est son are drowned oft off the En English Eng Eng- lish th coast and the title and anil estat estates s that would have been Lord an and Lady I. Jims Jim's descend Ic In nn 01 I to Lionel Ka lines a n preacher How ilow w sh rob R t IL iLi i ilo Jip 1 tr a lone Tho hOd if the the- roving roving- captain In whose c ship tho the transfer of oh bodies wa was made when Garth died cJ and andas wa was as embalmed as ns Lord Jim that Jim that buccaneer buc bue- caneer comes cancer comes to Lon London un all and demands u t thousand pounds and Lady Jim Jim has hasto hasto hasto to pay it it or or wh wily why not hot ha e J Jim tin l tack l She outplays the buccaneer r as af she he hoes does every one Jim I Is return returned d It was vas all a conspiracy by Demetrius Ius who loved Lady La- Jim and the buccaneer buccan buccan- eec eer el captain That looks look plausible and the title and estates go to Jim and the Jn lady y But there Is the buccaneer captain who doesn't like HIe being outplayed by byn bya n a lady So So- he goes goos to and Katinka a little Russian Husian noblewoman who lio always 10 loved d the doctor brings Demetrius to the ship and amid th the captain caplain fetched him hInt to England Tho The doctor docto in hi it his ri live five years ears of exile and suffering sufferIng suffer stiffer ing irig has haM been beon smitten with leprosy It is a horrible thing that Katinka brings home Lint But she leads Lady Jim to tn Demetrius The file lad lady must go 0 for Demetrius Is dying and anel ho has hat time the instructions she wrote rote whim he was 1 killing lIlIng Garth in the West Vest In In- In dies So o he goes down dowil into tile the little f vessel eJ nn and Demetrius makes make h lIce her l' l kiss It him The place Is dark and anel silo she cannot see until her lips are pressed a against the blasted vif visage ge of that victim o oher oher her selfishness S So Su she gets gots her cy cypher cypher cy- cy pher letters Jetters and comes Climes away away and and Inthe Inthe in inthe the ye year r Deml dies Everything I Is safe She comes comos almost to love lo her husband There hele Is a pre pretty ty picture of oh her cuddling against hl his great ox like bo hotly body 1 and going oin to sleep on the hl big J sofa And Ana Just a little la later tel thoro thore Is n a J stinging In hl her fingers cl's and a London doctor says It J Is HI like hike leprosy She almost strikes him him and and a asks another an on- other other- and a third and finally an all eighth And th time the thelast la last t one tells her there Is jio doubt It I Is that dread I disease lsen e and In an advanced stage De- De I De-I Ius is If avenged I She takes takeI roo rOl too much a and 1111 dies Sho She cannot bear to go on to h. the time end neL But before that one ono lark dark night how she he looks for help from God God front from the God she he had 1101 n always flouted It Is ono one of or the thui strongest passages ls In all any recent book And tIlt the ho hopelessness le of oC the time womans woman's character charac charac- ter tei Is revealed rc d for the lit last lost time And AndIn Andin In III that intense c scene n when you are tre wishing wIshing- the time miracle mh could CoUll be it performed per pr formed and the Ul words could coul be lie said al SI 1 will Ill Be tIe thou tilOU clean elean- elean you clean you ou find this tills woman supremely selfish has hos won you yon antI and you IOU ou wish Isil you OU could help I her It H Is a pro product of the tho press of or G G. W. W I Co of or Now York and andu It u sto story that will certainly make maJc an Impression I |
