The New York herald., 1874-12-14

often one's good fortune TO come across such
really agreeable novel as this.
FELIciA-The Countess Won Wisselsbonn Is a
strong character ana a fine woman, bat could
never have done what she did.
Miss RACHEL-Do you refer 10 her marriage with
Count Won Wlssesbonn
FEIAciA-ies. and cannot understand how she
could consent 10 throw herself away upon al
most idiotic man, although rich anu a count, De-
cause ms Old uncle insisted upon II IL was her
duty 10 40 So she made him q most devoted wile
and Baron Won Dossenoergh knew that she would
when he proposed the marriage
Miss RACHEL--Rene Won Haden is q pretty nice sort
OF u fellow. although have "A grudge against hun
Tor the way IN which he speaks or my country
women. Listen 10 TINS -''UDe can be admirably
entertained by an American lady In the pause be-
tween two dances; she has plenty OF wit and ami
nation put IN tae family circle these S ladies' seem
irritation, word which means even less than CO.
qnetry, ana the more admirers they can show the
happier they are and their principal occupation
consists In main tanning the proper balance be-
tween them. If an American lpdy ever
allows herself 10 be carried away by impulse the
motive Is always curiosity. never passion; she
possesses the external but not the spiritual,
Charms OF womanhood 1t Is not the men who
give the stamp Of emptiness to American life; it
Is the lack OF poetry, the poverty OF Ieeing OF the
The DocroR Whose Indignation has reached the
boiling polnp-The man VINO wrote that BOOK
was never 10 America and never saw an American
what he has heard OF the New England housewife,
ana ne imagines tnat sne Is tue type Of America
womanhood With shake of disgust the Doctor
put on hts overcoat and hat and set out upon his
morning rounds.
rELlClA-l DO not WONDER tuat 1htner was lu-
dignanL he believes as ! do, that American
women are the hnest In the world, and
It makes him angry to have them written
about III that ignorant way. But as for the
story. Valentine ana Won Halden would have
made splendid couple n the iates had been
kinder. admire old Baron Won Dossenbergh very
much for he had a noble heart beneath ali his
roughness. Ais nousekeepcr can hardly be blamed
Tor having loved him, but no blame Is severe
letter Tor those twenty years.
Miss RAcHEL-I like the way in which the book
ia n
place II Valentines husband had died after the re-
conclliation between the baron and his son, ana
Rene and she had married. 1t was much better
to have him marry Magda and that Valentine
should end her lie IN devotion to her imbecile
Detle had Independence enough to shake or the
conventional and not end his story like every
other
.srEN DAYS IN sPAIN.n
After so much romance 1t Is pleasant to turn to
real iie, and We Will lend listening ear to wnat
"Ten W Days Days ia % Spain, James mes 4. W Usgood Col
Miss RACHEL from her corner by tue fre)-l
wlsn that Kate Field had made It twenty instead
OF ten days IN Span; | am Perfectly delighted
with this little book OF hers. How new she makes
the old scenes appear, and how much she often
The .Do.ToRMMiss Do miss Field is certainly clever
writer don't know when have enloyed book
morning and almost forgot one OIL my best
patents. And bless my soul. II didn't tell MrsS
the BllnKer, so absent-m minded am getting. /
get SO tired OF long-wlnded books OF travel, that
are more guide book and history tnan anything
else, that IT Is q great pleasure to come across
volume OF personal experiences III travel.
FELIcIAI should thlnk that the Bltnker would
have set Miss Field crazy. II she hadn't such
well-balanced mind she would have been ravlnc
lunatlc after two days. experience with that ex-
asperatlng man. l envy her her Sightseeing and
her Independence. To think that sne saw real
bull fgnt-how dresdfully fascinating. wish Nj.
Barnum would get up bull light at the Hippo
drome; perhaps he would II 1t was suggested to
him.
FRED from between the covers OF the book)-
Eaid oQa NrQ cafn a N n
bull fights. She seems to take In the situation OF
Spain ct glance.