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THE CONSIDINE LUCK. By H. A. Hinkson. The
Considine Luck is primarily a story of the Union of Hearts,
an English girl’s love affair with an Irishman, and the
conflict of character between the self-made man who is
the charming heroine’s father and the Irish environment
in which he finds himself. The writer can rollick with
the best, and the Considine Luck is not without its
rollicking element. But it is in the main a delicate and
serious love story, with its setting in the green Irish
country, among the poetical, unpractical people among
whom Mr. Hinkson is so thoroughly at home.
A SUPER-MAN IN BEING. By Litchfield Woods. Both
in its subject-matter and craftsmanship this is an
arresting piece of work. It is not, in the usual sense, a story
of love and marriage. Rather, it is the biographical
presentment of Professor Snaggs, who has lost his eyesight,
but who is yet known to the outside world as a
distinguished historian. The revelation of the Professor’s
home life is accomplished with a literary skill of the
highest kind, showing him to be a combination of
super-man and super-devil, not so much in the domain of
action as in the domain of intellect. An extraordinary
situation occurs — a problem in psychology intensely
interesting to the reader, not so much on its emotional
as on its intellectual side, and is solved by this super-man
in the domain of intellect.
GREAT POSSESSIONS. By Mrs. Campbell. A story of
modern Americans in America and England, this novel
deals with the suffering bequeathed by the malice of a
dead man to the woman he once loved. In imposing
upon her son the temptations of leisure and great wealth
he is a means of making him a prey to inherited
weakness, and the train of events thus set in motion leads to
an unexpected outcome. The author is equally familiar
with life in either country, and the book is an earnest
attempt to represent the enervating influences of a certain
type of existence prevailing among the monied classes
in New York to-day.
THE DARKSOME MAIDS OF BAGLEERE. By William
Kersey. A delightful novel of Somerset
farming-life. Although a tragedy of the countryside, it is at the
same time alive with racy country humour. The
character drawing is clear and strong, and the theme is
handled with the restraint of great tragedy. This book
is of real literary value—in fact, it recalls to our minds
the earlier works of Thomas Hardy.
STEPHEN SWIFT & CO.. LTD.
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