The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-03-02

ceverly contrastei with that of Sugar Hadir, the
rare and generous cheitain OF the Turcomans,
and OF his gentle, pretty wife. Emineh, two Turks
OF the poetcal age Of Islam, Prince Lubom'rskrs
book will probably be translated into English, ana
Americans should read IL.
"LE CHnvALIER CAssE-coU," BY n. FORTUNE De
BoIsGoBBY.
This Is a dashing novel in the true French style.
tissued with improbabities, but smart and dimcult
TO lay by when once the first page has been read.
After performance at the Grand Opera in Paris
the box openers gong their rounds hnd 10 2
private boxa beautiful youEcss ww99ms9 lying dead,
ala beside her Surprised, but not frightened
chiid, who speaks jarg0n which no Frenchman
can understand. How did the woman die-na-
turally or by murderS This is a secret which the
Chcvalier de Casse-C0u takes two volumes to un-
raveL He was going down a passage when he
heard the box openers shout for help and hasten
ing to the spot he feels stricken with pity for the
little foreign child and adopts her. His two vol.
qm l, are spent hunting down the MUIR
derer Of the strange woman, who turns
out to have died naturally after all; but
before he arrives at this certainty the Chevalier
mas dragged US GREATNESS and fascinated through
all the prooaoie~ ana improbable adventures Of
Parlslan lie. AT the end he discovers, to his
astonishment that his adventures have not been
so useless az he expected Tor his adoption of the
enid has caused him, by slow but sure degrees to
become respectable member OF society, instead
oithe spenahrift and rake he formerly was; and of
course, he Is rewarded in the O al way by the
love 0f his ward, who grows up to be beautl-
iul woman and marries him.
'L'ETE DE SAINT MARTINI BY THE COUNTESS DE
MIRABEAU.
"L'Ete de Saint Martin" is the name which the
French apply TO the lew days of bright warmth
ana sunshine which now and then exceptionally
gladden. the earth at Martinmas; and this novel
tells us how lady, having attained the Martin
mas period Of hfe-that is the forties-became
seized with . furious love for man wholly un.
worthy OF her. The Iadys maiden name was
Renee de MutreuX. Her birth was highly noble,
but she condescendngly overlooked at The age
of twenty, In favor OF hard-workIng but pro.
dtgiously rich man Of mean extraction, NJ.
Fauve. with this opulent and gifted being-for
he is both gifted aud afrectionate-she loves
happily for seven years. and at his death she feels
so tnconsolabe that she could easily have been in
duced to burn herself over his grave IN the Indian
suffice fashion. When her grief has sOftened she
leads an exemplary life Of widowhOOd, doing
charity and silently worshipping the memory Of her
dead husband. But at forty an ignoble fortune
hunter comes across her path wOos her for her
money and wins her in gaiiOp. The scene in
which Renee coming TO her senses after her folly,
recognizes how despicaDle an individual she has
taken for her master are well drawn, and the
moral conveyed may be wholesome one
to other ladies' OF forty who are be-
sieged by insinuating strangers ten years
younger than themselves Il have noticed this
book BECAUSE 1t is being much read at present;
but the subject OF it is one which would have been
better handled by male author than by lady.
Ladies make strange havoc OF the delicacies
when they hold pen in their hands
l must conclude by saying that Mr.. Henry NJ.
Stanley's "How Found Livingstone" has been
translated into French by Mme Loreau, and is
published with proiuse illustrations. The book has
derived additional and sad interest from the death
the great explorer, whose wanderings and trials
have been so lately familiarized to the world
through the columns Of the HERALD. Bret Harte has
also found French translator IN M. TheOphie
BENTON, of the Rerne deS DeuJ MOndeS and il may
be said that the American humor:sts very pathetic
tales OF life in California are much appreciated
In Paris as they are across the Atlantic. But NJ.
Benton has committed an error in translating the
CONDENSED Novels" The fun Of them can only be
understood in English, and by readers thoroughly
familiar with the authors whose defects they
parody. To Frenchman 'LOthaw' and "No
Title" must seem like printed nightmare.