New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-09
XEE.YoRK LITERARY NOTES.
NEW NOVELS.

NV N.Y. LIS.
The historical novel of ancient times was
judicious MIXTURE of deep dungeons gorgeous knghs
with bRu,e-axes hung dangerously ell over them' ae
sparing but well hammered URldens flying along unuot
ground halls irolhreasted papes, Distinguishing ma
and headsman of disheiical aspect Ihese' slhiN"a
"pientifuly with "Base cIavensV "InSoient 0uNnS
and Ghosts made VI a cup of fiction exhiiIeV-
Inc II not cheering The modern historical
povel Is much tanner affair IL INDUCES
IN not more than three braves tremoes on "o
verge OF ghosts. and II 10 accomplshes Nervousness
and ha ha lug father It's much as II can do Inc
devoted aud saiRcd hero and heroine, the desperate
yillu'" and the good angel sti get each other in'o
various picturesque kinds OF trouble, but ,the eooo "u
thunder and fine rolling rs Of old have gone GOWN iVi
ever below the literary horizon. characteristic ana
not violently entertaining specimen Oh mo NC"
STYLE il For The King" English mover SOU
" be reprinted by the Harpers. 1t is story OF ee nc
beion OF l7ts aud has TO do not at all with The CheNa-
Her hat with the woes OF husband ana VIE Nno arc III
the tolls OF Aendsh Colonel once disappointed sutton
of uadames The good angel OF the book ISL niue
Scotch doctor who taxes snuff, ard poohpoohs youtmul
fctions A usIevolent papa the enenny's side, ana
:. ,,tt.h sister add 70 tho heroine's misery. Moro
shan that her noble husband is continually getting
,elous and bouncing at her, only to be sootbed to sum
er eelmness by scOldnE II isn't necessary to say
mat they come within an inch OF death nnumeraole
mes and the book ends with the execution of the
Colonel and the return 60 their ancestral castle OF the
entirely uncomfortable work. hut the good people who
like what willis called platitudnous commonpaces"
viii doubtless like THIS. ...
more interesting and in every way cieverer novel;
also in the Harpers press woman's Vengeance"
by James Payn. II modern story, and is nowhere
dull while 1t has many excellent little scraps Of charac-
terstudy That the plot is not altogether obabe and
that great deal Of the sentiment is exaggerated are
faults which few recent novels are without The woman
who revenges herself the beautiful ana foOshly-
Jealous wife OF Arthur Tyndan English squire He
has married her partly for her money, while stili
Loving Another TO whom he had been half
engaged in his college days. Jenny-poor
little Another-s young woman, accomplished and OF
exquisite nature poor and humby oOrn. OF course
given these three there unpleasant complications
between the faithful husband tie uniusty suspicious
wife, and the good little Another AT last, Mrs
Tyndau, falling ill., Is taken TO France by Ar
thur, aud there they thrown from their
carriage and hurt. Carried TO tho hospital,
another patient by strange mistake, is put In Mrs
Tyndas place and dies No knows that the corpse
hers and she sezes the opportunity for her unde-
served vengeance She allows her husband 10 believe
her dead and after time ne marres Jenny. The cul-
imitation OF revenge the appearance 70 poor ~
Of what she thinks the ghost Of the first Mrs Tynda
an appearance which almost causes her death. Before
the unhappy woman can complete her unpleasant work
very ILL., aud that hint summons reinOrse
and Arthur. and dies asking for pardon Thereafter
nothing hut happiness for Arthur and Jenny.