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OLIVE SCHREINER'S NEW

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toll, and fever, Uridine at last finds Russia," by M. Vladimir Pollakoff tells the stary of an Emperor's the peace of death.

amazing love for a woman who was A Happy Mediate

ancultured and illiterate, and whe Like Lyndall, but less effectively did not even have any share of good because it is said from the man's looks to recommend her, yet a ["Undine," by Olive Schreiner; point of view, and therefore less woman of whom Peter himself passionately, the 'Piece of Perfec-wrote, after nineteen years of' mar- Ernest Benn, 7/6.)

tion to whom Undine had given herried life: "Although the Inequality Olive Schreiner is, to most love, sums up the attitude to women of our stations was great, yet so ever repenting people, the authoress of one book that Olive Schreiner is always work- far am I from

ing to destroy. A woman to be myself of my choice, that I have, on "The Story of an African Farm," womanly should have nothing strik- the contrary, found myself possessed that lovey and pitiful tale of Ing or peculiar about her; she not of an Empresy in name, hot of. Lyndall, the girl who had the cour should shun all extremes in manner one in Reality for Magnanimity and age to think for herself, and make or mode of expression; she should good Understanding, and of an have no strong views on any sub- Angel in human form for Beauty her own life in the loneliness of the ject, especially when they differ and all Manner of Virtue." History African veldt. The book is a from those of her surroundings ...

has handed us down some wonderful passionate plea to the world to allow There is between all extremes a the right to have social happy mediate, and there a woman and economic standing as rational should be found. Men may turn to one side or the other. A woman beings and not only as drudges or

never must. This may seem very as doile. I once heard an old man say,' cries Lyndall bitterly, that he out of never saw intellect help a woman as much as a pretty ankle; and it was the truth. A little bitterness,

women

Literary Aspirations

Paul Mallon, son of Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mel'on, in spite of his father's millions, wants to carve a Paul has literary career for himself. won several prizes for his work at Yale and wants to be a writer, business seems too calm to him.

date, but the mind that thinks in such a way is not extinct yet; and remember. that this was written. forty years ago by a child

of seventeen.

The Horrible Cousin

In spite of the unnecessary heap- ing of tragedy on tragedy, so often a fatal temptation to the young writer, this book-deserves to be read. The character drawing of the women is good; that or the men less convincing, except that of the horri- bie Cousin Jonathan, with *his enormous, mouth mouth that. seemed for ever hungering and seek- ing after something. The girl who wrote of this man with his 'half- angel, half devil' nature had not had only happy experiences, and could see too well into the darkness where a man must stand and make war on his own soul. Sometimes the writing

stilted,

is a little

a little formal, sometimes rather rhetorical and forced, but ᎥᎨ is never slovenly, and often admir- able. Much of it is alive with pas- sionate feeling, and an artist's observation, burning with the force of a child's imagination, working at white heat to describe and convey to others the tortured self-analysis of the suffering and over-tried heroine. Artistically less perfect in structure and in style than its successor, the novel in none the less remarkable, and is one of the few juvenile works of a famous writer that is to be read for its own sake, apart from mere literary curiosity,

stories of the loves of great men, but few no strange or fateful as M. Poliakoff has evoked from the past.

For those who love to read of the

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a little searching for work, a little passionate striving for room for the exercise of our powers and then we go with the drove. A woman painter's early love, and of the must march with her regiment, erect that love had on his art in Duval, and many other dashing out- In the end she must be trodden after life. Here is pathos, joy and laws move through pages that ring down, or go with it; and if she is pare-souled idealiem written in a with the story of their exploits and wise she goes."

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A Ghastly Tragedy

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When Peter the Great tçok an imaginative, and morbidly sensitive Estonian slave-girl to his heart and to rangons of the baker Calvinis made her the Empress Catherine 1. tir type, tortured by a sense of sin, of Russia, he changed the Russian and driven into defiance of all se-

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