THE REIGN OF QUEEN ISYL
IN “The Reign of Queen Isyl” the authors have hit upon a new scheme in fiction. The book is both a novel and a collection of short stories. The main story deals with a carnival of flowers in a California city. Just before the coronation the Queen of the Fiesta disappears, and her Maid of Honor is crowned in her stead–Queen Isyl. There are plots and counterplots–half- mockery, half-earnest–beneath which the reader is tantalized by glimpses of the genuine mystery surrounding the real queen&csq;s disappearance.
Thus far the story differs from other novels only in the quaintly romantic atmosphere of modern chivalry. Its distinctive feature lies in the fact that in every chapter one of the characters relates an anecdote. Each anecdote is a short story of the liveliest and most amusing kind– complete in itself–yet each bears a vital relation to the main romance and its characters. The short stories are as unusual and striking as the novel of which they form a part.
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By Lloyd Osbourne
LOVE THE FIDDLER
LOVE fiddles both merrily and sadly in the stories that make up this book, but however he fiddles he makes the music for a sparkling, charmingly told love-episode. “All the world loves a lover,” and all the world has here choice from among a very wide and varied assortment of them–every one a human and real person–involved in an event which the author makes you feel is critically interesting.
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