The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-11-01
Fashionable Tale

As all the disappointed novelists who la
10 find book publishers for their works car
no, possibly be accommodated in the char
table institutions, it is fortunate that Their
are still liyings to be made by neglecte
imaginative writer's, in the composition
New York letters for credulous provinces
journals, and that a power OF unlimited 4
IRRIGATION. which might otherwise renal
unemployed, can be thus utilized for Il
entertainment of the rural mind. Literal
ambition, subjected to this direction, do
not generally accomplish enough harm
its fictitious narratives of the metropolis
require serious attention; but as q ooI-
of curiosity, in showing ut times evan.
ties through which it has mlsss For in.
form of expression, its p",,,oso,lne az
pies merit some ocasiHk letter for the
stance ule N JsssHt of frequently ador-
feminine, OF snc fictions of fashionable
outer press IA the aristocracy of the
ming the sand other distinguished high
city nc represented as practising the
tnte and manners attributed to them
Vie ordinary imaginations Of sentiment
al shop girls, apprentices, and the thea
trical audiences OF the Bowery. In a re-
cent metropolitan epistle to shighly pre-
tential journal of Chicago, wealthy hei-
ress and "a young man Of this city who
has abilitv, character and culture, but no
money beyond $1,000 or $1,000 year,
earned by his own eXertions, are described
as performing romance Of about the
grade most in favor with every immature
deviser of dime novels. The vastly rich
heroine is afraid 10 encourage matrimonial
suitors lest it should he her fortune more
than herself that is beloved and the poor
young man of ability character and culture
refuses 20 think of marriage, because he
could love only lady of the most aristro-
cratic refinement, aud would be too proud
and noble TO ask such one to share his
poverty. This latter exalted king hears
of the other, and, in "a spirit OF mischief
more than anything else, shows his char
acter and culture by accepting bet o
$500 to $1,000 that he will make the heires
retract within certain time her cynica
resolution of celibacy He gains he
acquaintance, and is prosecuting his digui
fed mission with some success, when, +
his great surprise, he finds himself actual
in love with the fair subject of his gentle
manly pleasautry, and magnanimously in
forms her that, in consequence thereof
they must part forever. His magnifcien
pride and nobility of nature forbid him d
ask the hand of woman richer than him
selt-and they must say last farewell
Whereat the queenly heiress, not 10 b.
outdone in generosity aud good manners
insists upon proposing the marriage her
self and insisting upon it, to spare hi
splendid spirit all anguish in the matter
and thus the latest aristrocratic wedding a
the season is finally brought about, 10 TN
delectation OF the most brilliant circles d
New York society The whole narrative
given with surprising richness Of famiia
incident, is a very fair example Of the styI
OF social episode in high life general
imagined for the provincial press by it
New York correspondents and shows VIII,
such correspondents have not found book
publishers for their longer novels. The
must needs write only tales of the worl,
OF fashion and having pesonal knowledge
OF that world only through very untruSt
worthy kitchen legends aud boarding hous,
gossips, their descriptions and character
cations do not strike the average Harper
Appleton, or Carleton, rs being eligibl,
Tor the book market-N j. World,