Made in _France. By. H. C. Banner. (T. Fisher Unwirt.)—
"French Tales Retold with an United States Twist" is Mr. Runner's sub-title, and he gives some four or five pages of explanation. The originals of his stories are to be found in Guy de Maupassant. What he has done to them it would be hard to
s,av; indeed, he has not by any means done the same to all. „.
To nee" for instance, though not, as we are expressly told, a translation, might be one. Everything about it is French. "A Pint is a Pound," on the other hand, has all the extravagant humour of an Arkansas story, It s impossible to see where the French element comes in. "The i
e.ardly
Joke on M. Peptonneau" is French again, outwardly and l
Dominick's Convert," but Frenchnw of Quebec' and so is "Father
Propriety" we get back to Old France. . In the "Prize of ee. Whatever the origin,
Y however, the stories are deJidedl inusing,—a precious quality .nutv days, when England is almost entirely gone over to the
" new humour," the dreariest, surely, of all human forms of thought.
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