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Show SHORT STORIES I "The Wages of Honor" Includes Best Work of Woman Writer. Magazine readers have come to associate as-sociate the name of Katharine Holland Brown with nhort stories of sound worlanunship and unusual content. "Tho Wages of Honor," one of her: most successful ntories, gives its title to tho collection recently published, which contains some of her best work. Tho title story shows ub a venerable univornity president listening to thel commencement exercises at his thirty-( fifth official anniversary; ho sees tho; donna of the various colleges each sur-, veying his own special achievement in I the graduates who pass by to receive I thoir diplomas. For himself, his life work has been a thing of shreds and patches; there is not ono single completed com-pleted thing to which he may point as his own legacy to the future. How the realization of his worthy endeavor and his fine success c6mes not only to him, but to the youngest and most intolerant of his aids, is shown In a sketch of fine feeling and insight. There are ten stories in the collection, collec-tion, of which none is better than "The IWgged Edge of Forty," which relates the brave struggles of a reclamation recla-mation ongineer whose honest but ill-starred ill-starred work is always barely saved by his sacrifice of any personal profit. The visit of his distinguished "chief" is marked by the threatened loss of the big dredge. How the situation is savely largely by the pluck of the wives of the two engineers is a stirring stir-ring tiling to read, and tho story leaves the reader With a conviction of the ultimate justice of things whlc' is most cheering. Three Mexican! stories strike out Into a comparatively new field, and "Billy Foster and the Snow Queen" in particular achieves a j rare blend of humor and many deeper , qualities. It is an extremely good tale. |