A long list of works gertrude atherton has to her credit as a writer . she is indisputably a woman of genius. Not that her genius is distinctively feminine, though she is in matters historical a pas-sionate partisan. Most of the critics who approve her work agree that in the main she views life whith somewhat of the masculine apirit of liberality. She is as much the realist as one can be who is saturated with the romance that is california . her birthplace and her home, if such a true cosmopolite as whe can be said to have a home. In all she has written there is abounding life. Her grasp of character is firm; her style has a warm….