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TnE CAPTAIN’s DOLL—D. H. Law¬
is a difficult
rence—Seltzer (82.00). This volume
at the White
contains three long stories, each a
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vivid symbolic study of a character
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lowing the war. In The Captain's
planning a
Dolt an Austrian countess is forced
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to earn her living by making doll¬
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figures, one of a Scotch captain
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whom she marries after the death
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of his wife. The doll symbolizes the
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erican letters.
woos and wins an older woman, who
y of Chicago,
tries to run a farm. In Ludybird
rrick, whose
an English countess is fascinated by
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the strange philosophv of a wounded
rs of silence.
Hungarian count. These tales are
h Keith Pres¬
free of the tiresome sex discussions
tand gayer
which marred Lawrence’s last two
vith
Henry
novels. Their intense mysticism
and
Edwin
shows his work at its best, though

novelists.
it may puzzle readers accustomedsto
chiefly pie¬
straight stories.
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Schnitzser—Knopf (4250). Schnitz¬
find Harry
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than g noveliste The present novel
east, Carl
is a franslatjeff of his longest and
best fiction With his accustomed
urg is the
subtleteänd melancholy it pictures
iterary life.
the life of a young man in Vienna
He is Chi¬
who lives for pleasure only, his vari¬
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with its
ous entanglements, his interest in and
ining lake¬
creation of musie, his friends both in
Citz.
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the gay upper society and the hum¬
itomized a
bler middle class. Schnitzler here, as
andburg is
always, regards life as a poetic
voice, hesi¬
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substance, and the characters are
always real people caught into the
re Swedish,
mystery of life. Schnitzler writes
warmth of
always with the utmost distinction;
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but the range of his work varies little
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from certain artistic and social cireles
I-American
in Vienna,
railroads.
He has
and soap¬
Tux Housr or rur SECREr-
Lombard
Claude
Ferrere—Dutton (83.50).
editor-in¬
Three infamous old men live like
ate paper.
icts of life
cruel spiders in a dark house in a
people in
rocky ravine. They are the pos¬
gliness, of
sessors of an appalling secret.
A
ny other
French captain penetrates to their
s curious
retreat. They demonstrate to him an
ro and In¬
experiment in the latest methods of
gand his
magnetism and hypnotism. Through
bezieve,
American
the course of the action horror creeps
nearer and nearer. Spirits summon
Sandburg
a man bound in a trance. The whole
1, bending
interest of this shuddery tale lies in
cks down
the culminating horror. It does not
ng of ho¬
take rank with the best work of
lbandoned
Algernon Blackwood. But it has all
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the necessary substance of a very ex¬
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K R2 CCARESDNER ANZE
vom:
Neuere österreichische Prosadichtungen“
Seit sich im Schaffen Ferdingnd v. Saars, Marie von
Ebner=Eschenvachs und durchsdie robuste Eigenkraft Anzen¬
grubers und die zielbewüßtere (J. J.Davids allmählich
eine eigenärtige von aller anderen deutschen deutlich unter¬
scheidbare „österreichische Literatur“ herausgebildet hat, hat
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K. Bienenstei n, Der Einzige auf der weiten Welt (Brlg.
Benz, Stuttgart, geb. 2 X 50 3), Müller=Gutenbrunn,
Arme
Komödianten (Vrlg. Staackmann, Leipzig,
4):
G. Leutelt, Das zweite Gesicht (Brlg. S. Fischer, Berlin,
3 M 50 J.); Alb. v. Trentini Lobesamgasse 13 (4 +); Komtesse
Tralala
Wuter v. Molo, Der gezähmte Eros (4 K);
Wir Weibgesellen (4 ;X), diese vier bei Schuster & Löffler in Berlin;
P. Rosegger Die beiden Hänse (Vrlg. Staackmann, Leipzig,
.4); G. Biberich, Auf der Spirale (Brlg. S. Fischer, Berlin,
3 4 50 Z).
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