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YOUNG MAN OF MANHATTAN-Katharine Brush-Farrar & Rinehart...
Engaged. Frederick Roberts Rinehart, youngest (third) son of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart ("K," Bab-A Sub-Deb, Tish-); and Miss Elizabeth Sherwood; at Geneva...
THIS STRANGE Roberts Rinehart...
Appropriate title for the author's departure from the safe realm of mystery and romance into the dangerous realism of thought and emotion?This Strange Adventure. Any woman?every woman? is the theme; but the particular woman Mrs. Rinehart chooses is a delicate soul, and what little spirit she has is crushed and twisted by circumstance. The proverbially gay '90s are sufficiently Victorian to give "Missie" a sense of duty toward her elders?always she defers to them, always she forfeits her own happiness. First there was her father upon whom she and the rest of the household danced attendance...
Incidental characters Mrs. Rinehart creates with a sure touch?the chorus girl turned by marriage into a lumpy termagant; the stern old grandmother who indulges a reprobate son. But, often as not, her dramatic moments flare into melodramatic anticlimax: Missie, weary of a wasted life, staggers to her old home, turns on the gas stopcock, falls asleep. "As the sun rose it turned into burnished copper the tarnished gas bracket, through which no gas had flowed for many years, and beat pitilessly on her throat; that throat on which her life was etched with fine lines, and in which...