Its qualities of homely fidelity
and quiet humor make it distinctly worth reading, and one story, "White
Pebbles" ranks with Miss Brown's best work.
THE VELVET BLACK, by _Richard Washburn Child_ (E.P. Dutton &
Company). I do not regard this as more than a piece of extremely
competent craftsmanship, and its interest to the man of letters is
largely technical, but it contains one excellent story full of dramatic
suspense and a certain literary honesty. I think "Identified" might be
commended to a short story anthologist.
THE SONS O' CORMAC, AN' TALES OF OTHER MEN'S SONS, by _Aldis
Dunbar_ (E.P. Dutton & Company). This collection of fifteen Irish fairy
and hero tales, told by a gardener to a little boy, show considerable
deftness of fancy, and although the idiom Mr. Dunbar uses is borrowed
and not quite convincing, his book seems to me almost as good as those
of Seumas MacManus, which probably suggested it.
GREAT SEA STORIES (Brentano's) and MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY (4 vols.)
(Doubleday, Page & Co.), edited by _Joseph Lewis French_. These
anthologies, which are somewhat casually edited, are worthy of
purchase by students of the short story who do not possess many
anthologies, for they contain a number of standard texts. But I do
not think highly of the selections, which are of a thoroughly
conventional nature.
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