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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2, 1M7.
LITERARY UGHTS AND SHADOWS
Discussed By ARTHUR PENDENNIS, JUNIOR.
"THE FRUIT OF THE TREE," by
Edith Wharton. (Charles Scribner's
Sons.) "The Fruit of the Tree" Is the
first real novel from the Rifted pen of
Mrs. Kdlth Wharton since the publi
cation of her great success, “The
House of Mirth." Lily Bart, her per
sonality and peculiarities portrayed In
"The House of Mirth," were discussed
from one end of this country to an
other. Justine Brent, the heroine of
“The Fruit of tho Tree," bids fair,
through her personality so strongly
drawn by Mrs. Wharton, to now be
come the bone of contention among the
discriminating readers of today. Mrs.
Wharton Is a wonder In the clear-cut
delineation of her characters. She
never. In any of her books, allows her
heroine or women to be lovable; these
women are never those with whom we
would like to live. They are cold
blooded, calculating and. to a great ex
tent. self-consalous 'creatures, about
whom wo all delight to read, but are
willing to leavo them Just where Mrs.
Wharton puts them—In the pages of
her delightful books. Practically all
classes of the well-read do care for or
profess to care for Mrs. Wharton's
work—It Is deservedly the proper
thing to do, especially in “society."
Hut In discussing “The Fruit of the
Tree" It IS well to say that the reader
«ho will most, enjoy It will be "not
like Justine herself, a flamo-llko de-
vourer of the page, but a slow ab
sorber of Its essence." as Mrs. Wharton
speaks, on page SIS, of tho kind of
reader her hero,, Amherst, was. It Is
always a study, clinically shown of
men and women, which Mrs. Wharton
presents, and no one can do this work
bettor or as well ns her gifted self.
The hero of “The Fruit of the Tree,'
John Amherst, a young man of vigor
ous Intellect and of certain noble the
ories, Is employed as on assistant man
ager In a cotton mill, where, owing to
the narrow and greedy policy of his
superiors In office, the condition of the
mill operatives Is wretched In the ex
treme, While he is chafing under the
unhappiness of seeing dally misery,
which, for wpnt of money and Influ
ence, be la powerless to lessen, chance
throws him In tho way of tho mill's
owner, a beautiful young widow. He
attempts to Interest her In the problem
of bettering the llvet of the mill oper
atives and succeeds not In moving her
sensible, sympathetic action—for she
tertd, ei
"He stood by her In silence, hie eyes on the injured man.” Frontls
Ho stood by hor in silence, his eyes on th
piece illustration from "T(io Fruit of tno Tree."
Is self-centered, emotional, a rather
dull woman—hut unconsciously to hlm-l
self In winning her heart, while he
also, almost without knowing It, falls
In love with her; They ore married,
and, naturally enough, the marriage
turns out 111. Here Mra. Wharton,
with extraordinary skill, presents the
heartbreaking trivialities that finally
bring out ths utter estrangement.
Bessy (the wife) Is surrounded by that
drclo of shallow, self-seeking people
whom Mra Wharton li so fond of
picturing and which sho does so well.
Among these people, but not of them]
is a young woman, Justine Brent, a
school friend of Bessy's, whom clrcum-j
stances have driven to making her llv
lug aa a trained nurso. She Is env
ployed at first professionally In the
Amherst household, but abo eventually
becomes a companion, to whom Bessy
delegates the entire management of her
household and personal affairs. Right
here It might be stated that Mrs. Whar.
ton le possibly not very convincing as
regards Justlno Brent's real position In
this housohold, for the author defines
Justlno as a vividly Intelligent, Imagi
native, sonslUve woman. She tries to
bring husband and wife together with
no success, but unconsciously Interest
ing herself more and more In Amherst
and he In hor. In her husband's ab
sence Bessy Is thrown from a riding
horse and receives an almost certain
fatal Injury to the spine—the physi
cians keep her alive, although under
going Bufferings dreadful to witness,
one of them (Dr. Wyant) oven holds
out hopes of her recovery, though Jus
tine's professional experience and the
opinions of all the rest of the doctors
lie In tho other balance. The reader
who Is accustomed to Mrs. Wharton's
clinical studies will fancy that Dr. Wy
ant, who had been rejected a short tlmo
before this by Justlno, had his sus
picions as to the cause of h!s rejection
snd had determined If possible to keep
Bessy alive, to keep Justine and Am
herst apart. Then Mrs. Wharton goes
on to say Just here that In Justine's
hospital experience, “she had encoun
tered cases where the useless agonies
of death were mercifully shortened by
the physician.” Mrs. Wharton, mistress
of her art and facts, must have In
formed herself upon this subject, al
though the average reader will bo
prone to doubt the truthfulness of Jus
tine's hospital experience, certainly that
such physicians were to be avoided. It
does not seem possible that any physi
cian who had thus removtd a patient
from suffering would admit or speak of
it, for a doctor who was known as a
potential murderer would very soon be
a doctor without patients or practice.
However. Justine, fortified by her
above-mentioned experiences, after a
short mental struggle, deliberately gives
Bessy an overdoxo of morphlno to end
her sufferings. After a year or so Jus
tine and Amherst nro married and live
for ten months In blissful happiness,
working among and uplifting the mill
hands, which had been made paHalble
by Bessy leaving half of her fortune to
Amhfret. All this time Justine has
never told anyohe about tho timely and
merciful hypodermic of morphine, and
presently ahe finds herself being black
mailed by Dr. Wyant, who discovered It
at the time. At last she Is obliged to
tell her husband, who receives tho In
formation as most men would receive
It, In the first moment with a shock of
unbelief and horror. Tho deplorable
Inconsistencies and weaknesseMho con
fused cross-currents of passion and
sentiment and all kinds of logical and
Illogical action that might be displayed
by such people In such a position, are
faithfully described by Mrs. Wharton.
In the end the reader leaves John Am
herst and Justine making believe at
happiness In a terrible atmosphere of
compromise. Bessy's father, Mr. Lang-
hope, In the beginning of the novel. Is
like a spiteful old nfald, becoming In
the end an appealing old gentleman.
Mrs. Ansell, beginning as a calculating,
ctevar, selfish woman of the world,
turns heart to becohio the Instrurmmt
_ This Is quit?
nge for Mrs. Ansell—something on
the order of Lily Bart's changes In "The
House of Mirth," especially when the
ler social enemy's
love letters. It is very difficult to he
Ileve that Justine Brent with her Intel,
lect and temperament could have done
the numerous and entirely different
things that she was said to havo done.
Some of us have within our experience
stood awhile by the bedside of some
loved one, racked In the ogonlsa of
death, such as we ourselves would not
Inflict upon a dog, but who of us would
take upon himself to end them? Jus
tine Is a study of human responsible
ties and human Ideals of duty.
The English of Mrs. Wharton Is per
feet, and after the tawdry decorations
of the ordinary novel—what a relief!
“Ths Fruit of tho Tree" will be read
and discussed by all discriminating
readers,
"THREE WEEK8,” by Elinor Olyn.
(Du(field, & Co.) Elinor dlyn had
time of It with the critics when she
published her book, "The Visits of Elis
abeth;" but that experience was not a
circumstance to what she has been
undergoing with critics and the read
ing public (or aome of thorn) alnce the
publication of her new story, called
“Three Weeks.” The author has re
cently brought out this book In this
country, after a run, or moro properly
speaking, a chase, in England. The
author seems to have felt so keenly
tho lampoons of the press and public
In.Englund that she has written a
preface to the Amerlcnn edition of
"Three Weeks," In which she under
takes ' to explain matters. Her "ex
planation” must stand by the book It
self, for In the preface she undertakes
to Justify what ahe has written In the
story. It Is more than difficult for The
Oeorgtnn (which keeps out of Its col
umns all whisky and unclean adver
tisements) to thoroughly explain .to
Its readers Just what "Threo Weeks"
ELINOR GLYN,
Author of “Three Weeks.”
Is about* Sulficsth to say that It Is a
story of the Mason between a magnifi
cent specimen of an Englishman and
the unhappy wife of a prince In the
Imperial houeo of Rueala. The woman
la a beautiful tlgrees; the man Is n
heavy creature, who, through hie con
nection with this woman, la, eo Elinor
Olyn says, uplifted to better thlnge.
Some parte of the book are very In
teresting—other parts are dull. It Is
undeniably an Improper book. There
Is no earthly reason why It should havs
been written to exploit the passion of
two people who meet accidentally In
Switzerland, and who fall desperately
In “love,” breaking all human und
divine laws In so doing. The author
explains that she has drawn a tiger,
and In so doing the could not give It
the attributes of a spaniel. Certainly
not) But who wants to see the picture
the heroine. Possibly so; no one will
take the trouble to dispute It, princi
pally because while "Three Weeks" will
surety be a "best seller" on account of
Its steps beyond tho decent, the read
ers who poro over It will not be the
kind who ask questions or who would
be capable of giving an answer easily
understood by the cultivated. "Three
Weeks” Is simply a book, appealing to
the degenerate tastes, whatever the au
thor may say to the contrary. Of
rse. It pictures a'ccrtaln kind of life,
did “Camille," but “Three Weeks"
and the former book, even In an ex
purgated form, are one thousand miles
t In literary merit, so would "Sap-
be If compared. The question,
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then, Is, has an author the right to
discuss for the general reading public’s
pleasure or othorwlse a certain phase
of the half-world, of which Elinor
Olyn would say hor hero and heroine
were not a part? The Georgian thinks
they were—It not by station In life—
certainly by Instinct. The bad effects
of such books, while they teach that
the way of the transgressor from God’s
and man's laws Is terribly hard, they
present pictures of n mighty lot of
pleasure connected with the breakage
of those laws. Therein lies tho harm,
A young matron of Atlanta told this
reviewer that when she began "Three
Weeks” so Interested did she becqmo
that sho could not put the book away
until ahe had finished It. This young
woman Is a walking example of n hap
pily married woman, and yet she
thrilled over “Threo Weeks,” that pic
ture of the forbidden and correctly
forbidden topics. Tho book will be sold
as n "best seller" no doubt, because
first It treats of subjects that had best
be left alone and because parts of the
book ore Interesting; so la Bocacclo's
"Decameron," but one would not place
It in the hands of very young men and
women .without expecting a thrash
ing.
“THE DAUGHTER OF ANDER
SON CROW." By George Barr Mc-
Cutcheon. (Dodd, Mead & Co.) There
surely should be some method of legal
Injunction or procedure In equity that
would prevent—hold up for a time—
or prevent permanently certain publi
cations of so-called literature under
the name of the “best sellers." There
must be somo such legal procedure—
the only question now being how to lo
cate It In the code and apply It. It. Is
not the harm that such books do—
they have not the strength to harm a
kitten—but It Is the fact that they take
up room In libraries where real books
111# strength of character, unites these i
two factions after many trying expe
riences. And In this Polly Pat takes a
prominent hand—often speaking "when •
not spoken to,’*\ and always the re-1
marks having some good effect in the
work that he father has undertaken.
Polly. Pat calls the parish her parish;
she really thinks that It Is sho who Is
doing tho good work, and while her
efforts to accomplish something to help
her father are alwnys wrong—still she
unconsciously Is doing the very good
she was trying In another way to ef
fect.
It Is a charming story. It Is written,
no doubt, from the author's heart. The
characters are well drawn, the people,
even the puree proud Farwells and the
labor leader, Noble, are made appeal
ing to the reader's heart. It Is a de
light to recommend so simple and
clean a story that Is Interesting.
“THE CRUISE OF THE MAKE-
BELIEVES.” By Tom Gallon. (Lit
tle, Brown & Co.) “The Cruise of the
Moke Believes" Is a charming story.
The humor Is delightful. Every now
and then the reader of reviews will be
struck with the statement that such I
and such a book reminds one strongly!
of Dickens' style—especially tho humor
of It. Many times. In the language ofj
the stroet. the critics "are talking
through their hnts." But really Mr.
Gallon has, In this book discussed,
written something that Is remarkably
like Mr. Dickens' style. That Is say
ing a great deal and one should be
careful In making a statement of that
kind. The Georgian Is careful In this,
and believes thut any reader who will
be fortunate enough to read "The
Cruise of the Make Believes” will agree
In this criticism. The story deals with
a young chap In London with a great
deal of money and time on his hands.
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who art foolishly guided by book
sailers' reports and generally somo of
these books, not all, are unnecessary
nuisances. "The Daughter of Anderson
Crow" Is herewith offered as exhibit A
to Z, Inclusive. There Is nothing on
earth In It but Impossibilities and
washy twaddle used to startle and
stimulate the false Interest and de>
scrlptlons like this (describing tho In
comparable heroine), "a raro flower, as
dainty /as the rose, ns piquant as the
daisy."' “The unmistakable mark of
the high born glowed (23rcandle?) In
her face, the fine traces of blue blood
graced her every movement, her every
tone and look.” When she was 20
years old "we find her the queen of the
village, Its one rich possession. Its only
truly sophisticated Inhabitant.” Now,
Isn’t that lovely? Couldn't the reader
love a girl llko that? A gltl who re-
semblee both a daisy and a rose? How
two-faced!
The plot of "The Daughter of An
derson Crow” Is Just what the reader
can expect If he has labored with “Jane
Cable," "Nedra" and the "Biology of
Graustark,” llkcwlso the "Castle of
Craneycrow." Mr. Anthony Hope sure
ly hus a great ileal to answer for In
Inventing-tho "Zenda" type of story;
•till a great Inventor certainly can not
be hold responsible for the faults of his
would-be Imitators; still something
ought to bo done and that shortly. The
Georgian Is willing to receive sugges
tions as to what steps should be taken
to stop the flood of effusions from Mr.
Hope's Imltatore nnd also to lend
hand In building the dam.
In all of Mr. McCutcheon's stories,
we have the same wonderful young
man, tho some beautiful woman, tho
tame Interferences of fate with a cap
ital F—then the circumvention of said
fate and the consequent "happy end
lag” with the girl In the hero’s arms.
The only pity about the great salo
of tho effusions of Mr. McCutcheon and
his kind Is simply that such produc
tions take the place of worthy books,
which are much more Interesting, of
course better written and tar greater
In their good effect. Of course It li
useless to argue against success ex
hlbltod by the "best sellers;” It Is Just
a waste of time nnd patience. Thomas
Dixon, Jr.'s "The Traitor," with all of
the press notices published about that
book, hardly one #|ioke well of It; on
tho contrary, the book was deservedly
"roasted" from one end of this country
to another. What Is the answer? Sim
ply that "The Traitor" has been one of
the “best sellers" all over the United
States. "The Daughter of Anderson
Crow” Is a characteristic sample of the
"Fluffy Ruflles” type of .novel.
“POLLY PAT’SpXrISH." By Win.
Ifred Kirkland. (Fleming H. Revel)
Co.) When the reviewer for The Geor
gian finished his reading of vThrss
Weeks,” he was fortunate In taking up
next a delightfully clean little book
Called "Polly Pat's Parish.” It was
something like the use of Ilsterlne,
wiping out the exotic effect of the Ti
gerish pictures. "Polly Pat’s Parish”
tells tho story very charmingly of a
minister who comes with five children
restdale. The mother of these children
Is dead, Polly Pat, age 16, attempts very
rldlcuously to regulate the four young
er children, designated as "Tht-4-ln-
hand." Polly Pat Is a very lovable
child, outspoken but trying hard all of
the time to help her father not only In
housekeeping, but In the manage
ment of the parish. Forrestdale Is a
two-sided town. On the one side the
rich owners of -ne mlU properties, on
the other the labor unions and Its lead
ers. The story runs then about the
management of these tWo Interests;
how Mr. Everett, the minister, through
lives on Arcadia street. Next door Is
a dear girl who, through her exertions
—the keeping of a lodging house—she
supports a disreputable father and
brother. The hero sees all of this and
wants to do something or anything to
relieve this pretty Innocent sweet girl.
How he did It, by enlisting In his cause
the dlsreputablo father, letting It be
known that the father has come Into a
legacy; how he gets entangled with
this "make-believe” only practiced to
help the dear girl who he, of course,
falls In dove with—the book delightfully
pictures. There are all kinds of hap
penings, absurdly ridiculous, keeping
the hero on the go to avoid the young
girl's discovery of the deceit. The hero
of course becomes helplessly entangled
with the father and brother—he can
not shake them off. He attempt# the
latter, la pursued to his yacht, when
the whole crowd take a cruise, are
shlpwrcckcd-and so on nnd so on. This
Is enough of the plot to let the pros
pective reader know that "The Cruise
of the Make Bcllevee" will give more
pleasure In a quiet hour or two than
many books recently Issued, by not
•training tho mental effort or worry
ing the reader. The book would work
admirably on the stage. A casual
reader could divide It up Into four acts.
It Is a very Interesting story,
“BEAU BROCADE.” By Baroness
Orcsy. (J. P. Llpplncott Company.)
According to "Beau Broqade,"
pleasing story of adventure, when the
Pretender Charles Edward Stuart had
failed In his "'campaign, and had fled the
country, a young urtny officer. Jack
Bathurst, had been dismissed from his
regiment for striking his superior of
ficer, The trouble came over a game
of cards. In which the superior officer
had been caught cheating by Jack
Bathurst. Jack had to leave the army
In disgrace. He took up for his occu
pation chivalrous hlghwaymanry. Jack
was, of course, a handsome devil,
charming to the ladles, robbing only
the rich to give to the poor box, and so
on. At this time Philip James Gas
coyne, 11th earl of Strctton. through
false testimony to parliament by a sup
posed friend, had been condemned to
death and was now In hiding as a
supposed adherent to the pretender’s
claim to tho throne, now gone glim
mering. Philip has a beautiful sister,
who undertakes to carry to King
George certain letters which prove
Philip's Innocence. She starts out,
meets the handsome highwayman and
then the trouble begins. The letters
are stolen from the sister; at the risk
of death, Jock Bathurst gets them back
In. Fortunately for all concerned,
highness, the duke of Cumberland,
passing with his army through the vil
lage Is shown these letters and all Is
well. Jack Bathurst, for hts devotion
to the Innocent, but persecuted earl.
Incidentally to the lovely sister. Is
pardoned nnd restored to the army by
the duke of Cumberland and placed on
his highness' staff. Of course Jack and
the sister love each other. There Is
one thing about the book, there are
many that are charming about It, but
especially In Its light form are the con.
venations between Jack and his
sweetheart. These conversations are
gems In love-making. The story Is way
ahead of the general run of such stories
and should be sold to and read in
great quantities by the discriminating,
who very often care for light, but clean,
thrilling stories of Ittiprobable adven
tures.
ray lew of that book In Uncle Remus's
Magastne for November, by Mr, Don
Marquis, can understand what kind of
a novel Mr. Vlereck would produce.
“The House of the Vampire" Is Just
that kind of a story you couldn't de
scribe If you would, or wouldn’t if you
could—suit yourself. The Story has a
catchy name. Instantly .the reader's
mind Is filled with suggestions of a "a
rag and a bone and a hank of hair”
and all that sort of thing. But nothing
doing on that line. No rag, no bone,
nary a-hank of hair. The “vampire”
Is a gentleman who attracts to him
certain wonderfully bright' young men,
from whom he mysteriously draws their
thoughts for his own use and profit
even before tho young men have spoke!
these thoughts. That's the story. Only
In this book the story 1* specialized
Into one act or ?e» ult thereof. There
Is n bright young chop In this story
who has wonderful thoughts, but before
he can put them on paper the vampire,
during the nlghtlme extracts them In a
mysterious way from him and uses
them In the vampire's own productions.
Of course this thing could not keep
up, cither the young chap would get
real angry and quit the game or the
poor fellow would lose all of his mind.
Tho latter, he did, having been sucked
vnmplrlthly of all his brains, ho goes
forth from the apartment house to a
sanitarium and the book ends, only,
however, after a terrific scene between
the vampire and his victim. The book
Is uncanny. High flown with weak
wings, the result, of course, being not
a great success. If this reviewer could
have written "Nineveh” he would not
be very proud of "The House of, the
Vampire." Possibly this comparison Is
a bad one, still Mr. Vlereck Is a re
markable young man, or paraphrasing
Mr. Dickens In "Martin Chuzzlewltt,"
“he Is one of the greatest men this
country has ever produced."
THE GEORGIAN’S CANDID
OPINION OF THE MAGAZINES^,
Tho American magazine for Novem
ber Is very Interesting. Sines that
great collection of used-to-be "muck-
rakers,” who could not got along with
the old McClure’s Magazine, took
charge of and rejuvenated the Ameri
can magazine, wonders havo taken
place. Tho magazine Is running soma
advertisements In the press about the
November number, that In splto of our
vlewe of publishers' advertisements gen
erally, the ads. of the American for
November aro correct. Tho magazine
for November would be hard to outdo In
Its class. Mr. Lincoln Steffens boglns
In this number an Interesting series of
articles called "Tho Mote and the
Beam."
The November number of Current
Literature Is one of those charaoterlstla
Issues that always come from that
press. "Way Our Fleet Goes to the Pa
cific,” "The Contest In Clevqland,” "Is
Woman to Blame for Marital Unrest?*’
are some good articles In ths November
Issue. Current Literature Is filled with
good things, taken from all tho author
ities of the newspaper and magazine
world. This magazine Is almost a ne
cessity for a reader who cares to keep
up well with current events.
In Harper’s Monthly for November
begins Mrs. Humphrey Ward’s now
novel, called "The Testing »of Diana
Mallory,” which will be watched and
read with Interest. There ore'the usual
number of short stories, one by Mrs,
Mary E. Wllklns-Freeman, also that
delightful department, "The Editor's
Easy Chair," by W. D. Howells, Justus
Miles Forman has a good short story In
the magazine. Mr. Forman can wrlto
good short stories, even If he does dis
mally fall down on novels. Harper's
for November Is a characteristic num
ber, which statement should explain
Itself.
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A receipt is given with each order bearing number of order, and if
order is lost, refund is promptly made to either remitter or payee.
Are payable anywhere. An order drawn to a payeo in New York can
be cashed in San Francisco, St. Louis, or at any Express oflico in the
United States and Canada.
Are negotiable through any number of different hands, nnd can be
used in remitting exchange.
RATES.
Not Over. $2.60 . . . .
3c
Over
$30.00, not
over
$40.00
15d
Over
S 2.C0, not over
$ 5.00
5c
Over
40.00, not
over
50.00
18o
Over
5.00, not over
10.00
8c
Over*
50.00, not
over
60.00
20a
Over
10.00, not over
20.00
lOo '
Over
60.00, not
over
76.00
25c
Over
20.00, not over
30.00
12o
Over
75.00, not
over
100.00
30«
Over $100.00, at above rates, according to amount.