on the cover of a new novel attracts most readers with the expectation of good writing and a good stony. But we are bound to say that "Dormant Fir will disappoint them. Tt may be perfectly possible that when the lover (Langdon Masters) of a married, woman (Made-lino Talbot) is farerd by her husband to leave the town in order to save the lady's good. name and thereupon takes to drink, because departure means the ruin of his journalistic ambitions, the Jady will first of, all try to drink herself to death and then, deserting her husband. will deliberately go ta live amongst the Jowest women of San Francisco, out of a feeling that. if her lover is degraded through their loves, she must be: degraded too. But it is the sart of possibility which looks so utterly impossible in print that one wonders of a writer of Miss Ather-ton's artistic insight having perpetrated it. Moreover, the story is
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