The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-02-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.


THE CuAPTrr OF PEARLS; or, THE WHITE AND
BLACK RIBAUNoNT. BY the author Of THE Heir
OF Redclyle," with Illustrations. New YORK: D.
Appleton Co.
The scene OF the story before US, when 10 aiKe one
Of Miss Yonges best AMI weakest s laid in France,
and begins in Paris during the reign OF Henri II.
The good natured King, desiring to put an end to
feud that had existed for many years between two
branches OF the Ribaumont family, brought about
the marriage OF Beranger de Ribaumont to Eustacie
he Ribaumont du Middle Merle the united ages OF the
couple not reaching ten years. The youthful BRIDE
qrooms father, who mad married an English woman,
and who was himsefa Protestant, leaves France ana
takes up his residence In England to avoid persecu-
lion. The little husband and wife are separated.
l3eranger is brought up as Protestant and Eustace
rs Catholic. When the former has at
tanned his eighteenth year a letter arrives
IN England from the guardian OF his child wne,
who desires the marriage annulled. TINS the
family OF me oridegroon nea ,,nla "a las ,a
ciitating this severance OF the ties de Is introduced
at court and Is deceived by his cousin Diane, VINO
tails desperately In love with him afterwards INTO
surprising that she Is his wife, who, he subsequently,
learns does not agree willingly TO the projected u-
vorce but has given her consent under the impress
sion that he does not care for her. or course they
instantly become devoted to each other, the King
Charles TX and Queen espouse their cause ana tney
secretly remarked. In the meantime IL was the
designuof her guardian that she should marry ms
son. Narcisse, and thus retrieve the fortunes or ms
Mdsar ne an on % .au in ~
the pair of lovers. The Huguenot massacre taxes
place ana Beranger Is supposed to be one OF the VIC
inns, but Is only desperately wounded and escapes
to England. Eustacie believes herself widow, Dut
remains true TO the dead. virtual prisoner, she
succeeds in escaping from her guardians custody
birth TO a daughter. She dispatches messenger 10
the family OF beranger asking them to receive her
child. Beranger, being ave. receives the letier ana
promptly starts for Paris again. He falls into the
power OF his cousin and Is imprisoned. Diane, VINO
love and asks him TO marry her, which pro-
position he Indignantly rejects Finally she aids MIN
IN escaping; ne discovers Obstacle ana her infant,
and the book closes with the happiness or all the
good characters attained. Such Is the story as given
IN this very meagre outline 1t is very interesting,
out lacking LII power. Miss Yonge has not sum-
GENTLY caught The spirit OF the age in which her
characters lived. Beranger Is frequently coarse,
rude YOUTH instead OF the open, candid individual
very good, and the interest In the work well Kept up
TO the end.
LA PuPILLE DE LA LEGION D'HoNNEUR. Par Louis
Enault. New York: G. Lassalle
An excellent French novel. Free from all the OBJ
jectonabe features often Unfortunately attributed
to modern French novels, it is spicy and interesting,
without the slightest seasoning Of immortality and
witty without being wicked. In presenting the
exceptional experiences Of pupil Of the Legion
OF Honor, II gives vivid pictures OF brief
blissfu married life in Brittany; OF ten
years OF schoolgirl life at 81. Denis; of few weeks
OF Intoxicating life OF pleasure at Paris, at Irouyille
and at country chateau, ana OF painful, but
and ultimately successful struggle with
poverty, hunger, neart sickness and other woes and
peris which Deset poor, lonely young girl IN the
great French metropolis. Jeanne Dervis story is
patheticaly ana powerfully told. The characters
which gdre IN IL so distinctly indydualized that
the reader almost imagines that he has personally
known them all, from the brave beautiful and
loveaDe heroine herself, "who accepts labor as the
law OF life and triumphs by it," TO her devoted
Jacqueline and the little grsettes who befriend her
in dire Distress as wen as the arstocratc adorers
whom she magnetzes by her charms including the
amlable and sincere, but weak wed, Count dc Bots
Robert, the odious Baron de Banchelande and the
manly mysterious and chlvalrous Marquis de YER
Ieins VINO becomes her happy husband.
NATURES NoBLEMAN. BY the author or ''Raclel's
Secret.n New York: Harper Brothers.
We have IN this work a novel of unusual merit, so
ar as the plot and the deneation OF the characters
are concerned. The author Is intense, graphic and
Thus much in favor Of the book Its
aults are twofold. In the first place there Is not
enough Of dialogue; the characters are described by
the author, instead OF being made to describe them
selves. The most interesting form Of fiction is that
which makes each individual develop by actions or
his or her character. The next fault Is
one. In the sixth chapter Miss Beatrice
Rossltur retres to her room, unlocks little drawer
In the dressing table aud takes from IL lOcket OF
chased gold set with turquoises. Here we quote the
author:-
She pushed little spring, the oekst opened, there was
she did stained with faded, rsaOrown marks
In a lock OF gray hair matted together though 1t
had been wrapped while wet with hood. She moaned
heavily she uniolded IT, and the matted lock lay be-
fore her Then hot scadg tears fell he face
seemed suddenly to grow old with misery
at bel II cannot be ~ she moaned, ~ could not
tell him all. Oh, God my punishment is greater than can
bear"
She thrust the paper from her Great sobs shook her
frame
Here is the germ OF splendid sensation, but after
carefully examining the book nave failed to find
the explanation. Whose gray matted locks mad she
before herr What caused them to become matted
with blood Such glaring neglect Ii almost unpar-
donable ON the part OF the writer.
THE JERUSALEM DELIVERED OF ToRQUAro TAsS0.
Translated into English Spenserian Verse, with
Lie OF the Author. by ], IA. Wiln. Third Ameri-
can, from the last English edition. New York: d.
Appleton Co.
1t would be saperiiuous to write an extended no
tice OF one Of the finest poems which has ever been
translated into the English language. To the lovers
of poetry Jerusalem Deiveredn win ever be well
come. The volume before is excellently gotten up.