Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-11-16
NEW SCH00L0F ROMANCE
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The old stories OF knights who were
holpen Of faery queens, who fought with
gobllns, who hal charmed lives, or who
wore amulets, the old marvel of the long
search for the Holy Grail, the tales OF
sudden-appearlng saints and suddenly
dlscomAte1 devils, Of devils In fiiars'
frocks, and devils In every other disguise
known to tsilors, diessmakcrs, and cos.
tuners, the stories Of giants, dwarfs,
witches, brlgands, charms, magic, astrol-
ogy, and all such, Lave gone the way of
all the earth. Don Qulxote slew them all
wh,n he fought with priests and wind
mills. But the human,cravlng for wonder
has not gone, and the manufacturers of
stories are introducing a new Style" as
the millners put II. Since we can not
have fairies, devlls, giants and dwarfs, we
have something more modern, but not
bit less od-cuIdliug. We have a sort If
scientific blood and.thuuder story that
takes the place Of all the rect. Steam is
our giant, lightuing our dwarf, magnetism
our magician, mesmerlsm our witch, and
lunacy our horrible ogre, ghoul, or what
not.
Here is story, a beautiful, refined
story, meant for the drawing-room Of a
man who has friend, Friend, German
student, little crazed by too much meta
physics, has thrown an apple-wOman and
somebody else down into hole under his
dwelling, and is starving them to death to
see IL the animal will not appear as the
human wastes away. He Is trying a bril-
liant experiment. Hurls the narrator
down, and he finds himself, after few
days OF starvation, bowling like wolf,
while the appie-woman has passed into
the vegetable stage. He Is delivered WHEN
I ~. -. uauafa hla hut
the apple woman Is dead. Details care
fully given with choice profuslon OF
horrors.
Here is another. AninLocent girl clearly
proven TO have stolen ducats, forms, aud
precious stones. They disappeared during
q storm, and the circumslanttal evidence
points to Christine, (nice name for a
thicfD Broken window and ever so many
other evidences, even TO a pearl found in
her drawer. Christine, of course, denies,
weeps, fAiuts, laughs in Mysteries, plum res
of the quay into the briny waters Of the
cold and cruel soa, is fshed out by the
police or somebody, and shaken mp, rolled
rubbed, dried, stimulated, aud rtsuscita'
ted. Learned professor Interested In Chris
don't believe, WoH't believe that she is q
thief, eaH find no evidence By which t6
clear her. All here Is a spot found OF
Iut DbhIl In kuh ulhWtAs ~ 10 NNAAbhA'
J as big as a pin-head. SEARCHES, climbs
tracks, and at last finds the horins, ducats
pearls, aud precious stoaes in a fused con
dition in bell, which has been inverted
by the lightning, which carried of thes'
precious things, conveyed them along lcirs
, and deposited them In the bell Christine
is innocent, and everything is lovely.
Here Is "A story OF the telegraph operator
who teaches his wife to use the instrumen
enough to spell the words "Come home ,
lie is on duty away from home at nigh
? Grows neryous-aw fully, horribly, super
stitieusly anxious let some evil shall hap
, pen at home. Is half inclined to wax
! The other operator and ride home. Horo
of horrors The needle moves II spell
with difficulty, as If iyro were at the IN
strument. But it spells "C-o-m-e h 'o'm-e.
lie mounts a horse, and reaches home Il
i, time 10 recover his wife from the burnlnl
n building, aud learns that she dreamed 0
;, danger and Of spelling these words.
n Here is a mesmeric story. Man an
1 wife fe-horeymoon- Switzerland delight
y full time. Wife is startled by the apparl
8 tion of a man with a hideous nose, wh
has a spell by which he draws her. Nv
or three times It occurs, and the spell
broken. Husband has to go to see oil
uuclo-rich, creamy old uncle with WI
e die. Wife implores him to stay wit
+ her. He must go. Fails to hear from b
d wife, returns, and finds that man wit
!, the nose called for her, and carried he
2, off in Il senseess s'ate. Husband Graz
y with sorrow, hunts the world over, and
is still hunting, but no wife, no man, I
l. nose Of that SOFT to be found.
ie We are evidently at the beginning Of
At new sort of romance. 1t waits nam
in We have il "The Nightmare School
Fiction. ~ Hearth and Home.