“THE RUNAWAY BROWNS,”
by H. C. Bunner, illustrations by C. J. Taylor; publishers, Keppler & Schwarzmann. The experiences of Paul Brown and his wife, who escape a tame, adventureless life, with a view of having “things happen to them,” and to this end leave a pleasant home to be gone a year and a day, are just the reading for a Summer’s afternoon, and there is still enough of Summer in the air to make it enjoyable to its fullest. How the Browns fell in with a band of barn-storming professionals; how they became tin peddlers; how they took charge of a lone hotel, and how they finally and gladly reached their trim cottage, is told in these clever and amusing pages, and will bring more than one hearty laugh even from those unused to smile.
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Under the title of “Made in France” H. C. Bunner has gathered a number of short stories, all founded on tales by De Maupassant. Several have suffered so great a sea change, however, that the original writer, if he were alive, would not recognize them. In these about all that Bunner has borrowed from the brilliant Frenchman is what he calls the “ethical situations.” Others bear evident traces of their French origin. Mr. Bunner explains the motive of his novel scheme in these words:
“I have selected a few ethical situations from among the brightest of Maupassant’s inventions, and have tried to reproduce them, not as translations, but as English or American stories based on a Frenchman’s inspiration, and I have done this with the sole hope of making that inspiration clear to people who will not or can not read Maupassant in the original. If through the new climes, the new times, the new changes, the new worlds, indeed, into which I have moved his people and their adventures, you catch a better glimpse of the best fancies of M. Guy de Maupassant than you can get through the misleading mechanism of a literal translation, I shall be glad, indeed.”
There is no question of his success, for nine out of ten of his readers would find De Maupassant less amusing than Bunner. The volume is very cleverly illustrated by Taylor.
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