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The poet-hero of this, one Francis _jGordon, is shown as a sorrowing young widower in its opening chapter, as his wife of but a year is lying dead in the house. He absentmindedly turns up a copy of his own book en- titled "The Nut Errantâ€"A Novel in Verse" dedicated to "M. H." and we t learn that M. H. had been his mistress before his marriage. Clearly a young poet of parts, and not lacking experi- ence. He promptly sets out upon a voyage of consolation, in which he lives up to the title of his first book. â€"It- takes liim to India, and then the fclessed old Taj Mahal takes a hand in his education. It becomes to him the "spirit of woman," of the woman whom he sees in a vision and calls the "Woman of the Horizon." The rest of the book is more or less a search for this ideal female. It car- ries him into some queer places and through an abundance of bizarre hap- penings. Eventually, of course, he meets her. She is, appropriately, named Beatrice, and, emulating the proper attitude of a poet toward a half divine Beatrice, lie puts her on a pedestal andâ€"leaves ber there. * But she gives, himj;he de- sired Vision, so he can np# ^retire into the silences and produce- a real fmasterpiece. "You have given me," he explains, "what money cannot buy Iâ€"that God whom you .found for your- self. Last night I spoke with Him; land JJe showed me all my life . ^ V His purpose is work for the common good/' So he decides to write, here- after, not "to shock people" but to help jthem." A salutary conclusion, whichn might be helpfully applied to »*#*fp^ the education of a good many young writers who have fcot yet passed be- yond the shocking stage. WEU-FINISHED STORY THE HIDDEN ROAD. By Elsie Singmaster. Houghton Mifflin Com- Vfie' prediction of Prof. William Lyon Phelps that "Elsie Singmaster will stand high in contemporary fic- tion" is in a fair way to be justified. She gains power and breadth; this is a better finished and more subtly conceived story than any of its prede- cessors, which is no small compli- ment. It might be called the quest of a young woman for the ideal male â€"whom she does not find; a search for happiness, in the belief that to love and be loved is the chief and aim of disillusionment, ending in uncer- tainty, though poor Phebe is not left entirely without hope. • "Perhaps you can have content- ment with love," another woman, Ger- trude, tells Phebe, "but I know you can have it without. Contentment is what you want. . . . I'm fed up on this talk about beauty, but that's sound logic. And keep your head up." -. . „ That seems to be the "moral" of the quest, in so far as it attains any finality. But it leaves Phebe only "a little over twenty-seven years old," and there was still a possi- bility in the background. The move- ment of the tale carries Phebe from her sixteenth year to this ultimate point of disillusionment. ; She lives with her uncle's family, in a Penn- sylvania German environment, to which she partly belongs, although her father had been a wandering Englishman. Much of the best of the book is given to the delineation of the life of that community, and of the family. Many of the accounts of these slightly alien, isolated peo- ple have touched them rather grossly^ but Elsie Singmaster prefers to em- phasize their lovable, altogether fine qualities, though she never exagger- ates. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, the "man from Maine," is well worth the book, for a single life that can compass bare foot, ambitious boyhood at one extreme and the .ownership of three great internationally «n|ow" magazines and two successful and in- fluential newspapers at the, otner can not help but havem dramatic and in- spiriting interest. 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