New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-12


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n. JnIy Tn the rst place. there are no musfstoes OK
hiding flies Then the air Ia dryer snd in spi'e VI ""
snow you are less likely to take cold nigns. INC
n lighter more aify, and more cheerful "neu 'no
are leafleas; and there is better hunting Hoe o., ,
fur bearing animals are In better eonon'o"' -,
sottan ia gay that Lynx Hunting IL properly "ooA
- -, 3D., ,ho,. ara times when all boys In our
tasses. o,o,
Ear less cheerful reading IL "Expiateu' Inc" horoi
With which j. r. Osgood Co. are about 10 tempt the
summer public II Is the saddest OF saa DooKs-ihter-
estng indeed, but painfully interesting It's Story
simply and directly told without superiuous sentence;
n, how terrible sory kind Of fatality runs through
q, "a throug an old Greek drama. The scene is laid IN
Wa,es The heroine the fair, innocent almost sanity
daughter of Q noble, but eyn house. Terrible crimes
have been wrought by some OF her ancestors; and a
curse Is the or all the characters introduced
In the book only eat, after long woes, into
any sunshine OF bappiness When Alice the heroine
IL a baby. her mother is guilty OF folly,
but not of ain; ana the husband and
father relentlessly shuts his doors against her
forever. Alice up motheress and YET for her
mothers sake, hated by her father He adopts the
young daughter OF relative and on this Leone he De-
the love he refuses his own child Ahce Is gen
orous enough 10 love L6one also. Indeed, generosity
and unsenshness the keynote OF Aces character
and therefore the very means by winch the avenging
norant OF the others heart chooses to fancy herself in
love with man who loves Alice. and whom Alice loves
with all the intensity of her strong silent nature Alice
tbereupOn refuses him, and he Is betrothed 10 Leone
and this grows miscOncepton "hieh lesdS her
father shut his doors against her. as ne had long De-
FORE against her mother She leaves the house. ne sees
her going toward bridge he knows to he unsafe. and
does not call her back Within an hour the prdge ID
swept away but a scarf Alice has worn Is found on the
han ila her hOdv
feels himself n murderer and the horror grows ana
grows him TIL he Is ready to deliver himself up 10 the
authorities But before the CHASTITY satisfaction OF ths
atonement can be allowed him, his punishment com
pleted by poison administered by woman whonl' ior
years he had maintained a. guest, friend, and house
keeper she escapes suspicion and taxes Leohe whose
engagement has been broken, TO travel with her. In
France she attempts to suocate Lonie with charcoal
and is sufocated herself by means OF an unforeseen
shock which leaves her senses clear, but Keeps
her body prisoner among the deadly eharcoal luWes'
Alice is found after awhile but only to die immediately
OF consumption In her true lovers arms WINE ne not
long after goes down with his snip. These are Only part
of the horrors you will sup, you read this volume.
Yet as said its interest Is powerful; and doubtless
the cayest aud brightest of your readers Will Ike II best
Thcrets an epoch at which all fond Of tragedy,
hut il before VIC have suffered When Fate has pressed
the hitter wine OF sorrow to our own lips, we woulu
rather sec the Vokeses dance than DesdemonA die Ihat
man must have had an exceptionally happy I've VINO
does not prefer comedy TO tragedy before he has come
TO forty years. But DOUBT there are young people
enough to read "EXpated," and 1t Is powerful lesson
on the peril OF the rotrbution which extends 10 ipo
third and fourth generation.
Apropos OF novels Lee & Shepard will publish this
FAIL a novel by Mrs. Caroline f. Corbin. entitled His
Marriage Vow" Of which shall have more 10 say here
after.
Augustus Hoppin has provided advertisement II not
a cure, for Hay Fever" by making collection OF
sketches on the subject in the style OF his Crossing the
Atlantic" at which the very ickest and eroSsest pa
liehts viii have laugh OF course j. X Osgood Co.
will heliotype IT, Roberts Brothrrs u publish the
translation Of Lessing's LaoeO0 which Miss Ellen
Frohingham has been making Shepard Gin promise
a wonderful book Arizona, and altogether, the pub
i.hcrs are busy in spite OF the thermometer. l. G. NJ