New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-15
BOSTON.
LITERARY NOTES.

oARoIINE FAIRy1d.D CoRBiN--A BOOK sURE TO
Bx prscUssEp, AND TO MAKE FHIRSDs AND
Yoses-" MATS FoLIIEs" BY MISS MARY d..
pRvssorr-M LovE WITH POOR PBss-MARING
A roRrUSE WITH CHICKENS.
sSaom REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIiE TRIBUNE |
Bosr0N, Oct. 49," HIS Marriage Vow
svrtten by Miss Caroline r. Corb!n and about be
published by Ice shepardl Is novel snicentiypro
houDoed in It's ideas and strong in rte statements OF
tbe 90 provoke discussion. 1t pupOrts 60 be written
IN the interest Of marriage and yet is as far remover
from the ascotc morality which would condemn q man
Scr discovering that flower because t grew
outside OF hIs garden as fI0m that license "h'eh
would pluck rose, matter where 1t grew" because
a. sweet Mrs Corbin claims TO deal with human nature
IL is striving always 10 elevate At toward what ~
should be. ..r t..
Chester Ens, her hero, is aspiring CONSCIENTIOUS
delicate ana tender soul. She dwells much npon ms
strength ALSO but that head there wall he TWO opn
Sons Marion Films his wife, beautiful inyaiid-with
al incnra naady Of the spine. which developed some
cir months before her marriage mic ths Aopeiess condI
ton but which Chester Sms was altogether TOO tender
and unsehsh 10 accept as reason Ter not iuhing ms
marriage engagement IL strange Life which
these two led IA their beautiful country home OF
oourse Maronunabo 10 leave her bed-coald be in no
tuH sense the companion OF her husbands life BY the
very circumstances of his position the things he would
naturally have most enjoyed deDarred him. Fond
OF travel could DC selfish enough 10 leave his
ufo-oOd OF society, he prevented from gathering
10 about himfond OF children. Marion shrank with visi-
bic reluctance from the subject when once be proposed
a. adopt a child. he was denied thus all the delights
full life holds for happier He. had only his Dusi
nese-he an extensive mill-owner-his howers' ana
abe beautiful luxurious room, whore the helpless beau
ufnl, nxury-Oying woman lay always, ana waleu ior
him. 10 Der, on the other hand, hfe was mol
barren. because 10 was so intensely dramatic. 1he
M tall her
tive strong determination at all hazards to absorb
and concentrate his whole being IN her being his "hoo
hie ia her ifo" Sine woman OF acute perceptions
and strong will and she succeeded IN MAKING herseli
his world 10 be there was no moment III wnlch
he would not have given all bls worldly goods II she
could but have been restored to him. the healthy bloom
ing woman who had won his early love. But be
reasoned ali hives have their drawbacks, and periec-
ton s OF other world than this; and
years he bad preserved toward his wIe an ideal
trnthfhDess without Thought OF reserve. Then came
has desire adopt a child, and her evident unwilling
ness and he began TO guard himself against defee
tion. ~ her sole inheritance in life" he said;
There nothing left her besides me. 1t would be un'
manly to yeld her the tribute of my every
tbought and wish" But when man sees need TO
whisper snch counses to himself. must 1t not be that
already the bloom Is going from ms lover
Just at this iuncture upon the the hero
me- Inca DenDey. She is the widow of Cecil Denney,
Chester Fins Denney, bright aud beautiful boy OF
nearly years, who had been named by his father
for Mr. Ens himself, andwbo therefore had peculiar
claim upon that gentlemans regard. Mrs Denney
eaae with her boy TO take up her abode with her hus
bands mother, nexfdOOr to the Ems mansion. Only
low wall covered with bttersweet, divided the two
gardens, in Of which the young widow
three years widow, nOw-vorked every morn
tLg and in the other. Mr.. Films. OF course
tbere was every that he should be kind and
polite helpful toward his old friends widow; and
here too was her boy ms namesake, child whom
he need not Marion by adopting and yet in whom
he interest himself, for whom he could do what
ever prompted IN the Of his dead friend
IT would be long tale TO tell the chain of circum-
stances which drew Chester Elms and Lucia Denney
and closer neither of them suspeenng any dan
ger until at last their love like the spirit shut mp
in Jar In the old Arabian Nights story.
Tie cover OF the Jar was removed, one
day. and the genius rose loftily, lifting his
mighty head and towering body toward the heavens.
and there was no shutting the covers down on him
again. So with their love. Some accident lifted one
day, the OF the FAR, and they gazed with half
frightened eyes on spirit they never could remand
Into obscury. And il is in just this suffering the lid
20 he taken off the jar that perceive what to
Chester Euss weakness 1t is weakness most natural
Indeed 10 poer humanity but man whose strength de-
served the supernatural praises bestowed on it by Mrs
Cotbn would have been weak, Just here. Then, to
be sure. there would have been 10 story, and what
would you havei If you wish absolute perfection
must search for II in other soil than tempestossed sui
feIing passionate, human hearts.
To the letter of his marriage vows Mr. Elms was GER
taIny true Marion missed something from its spirit
She saw her husbands devotion 10 little Chester-ior,
more and more the boy was becoming his idol. She
OWNED his interest Lucia, though she knew him too
well 10 doubt his fidelity TO herself and with that pas
sonate strong win OF hers, she determined TO
hon .aVHf IN linz
springs for the Summer and In the Autumn remained in
New York, while he came home for week or two TO
arrange his business During this time he took little
ChestertO whom he bad the year before given pony,
and Of whose horsemanshp he was very proud-o ride
with him daily. In the last Of these rides the
boy was thrown from his horse, struck his
temple against sharp stone, aud was killed
instantly The depicting the imohers paralysis
Of grief most wildly drawn. The hand that held
the pen that mother who has herself wept above
little graves IL half broke the heart OF Chester Ems to
leave the 10 whom his deepest love had clung
before he knew IT, in this passion OF woe and despair
Lucia he asked her. "is there comfort which you
viii take at my hands ~ She looked up into his face
with stony. immovsoe calm. " how shall that soul be
oomfored" she said, 70 whom there Is left no voice in
all the earth TO cay. love you - And yet those were
The WY words re must not sayhe bad said them once
in one mad weak moment; they must never cross the
lips Of Marion's husband again
He went away heavy Of heart, for he too had loved
little Chester scarcely less than She That Winter, while
he was at the South with his WIFE was the bi:terest
OF Lucas life She patient after awhile for
her motherDaw failing fast, and Lucia tended her
with a daughters gentle dutfulness. But at last,
day, seemed 10 her that she found her SOUL Not yet
had she found God but only that something in herself
winch had heed OF Him, that eternal something over
which no sorrows no loss, no despair could triumph
utterly which could not be absolutely defeated any
battle Where was theTanswer 20 the cry Of this souli
IAN infant crying in the night;
An infant crying for hghtf
AUG with 10 Language but cryf'
a, l.ofo hnrn n.ai