The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-03
TALKS ABOUT NEW BOOKS.
0The Love That LiVed"-"MOre Bedtime Sto.
rieS"-"The Treasure Hunters"
CHAT ABOUT DRESS.

"what is that book you have been porting over
all day, Feliciasn said Miss Rachel laying down
! her work and looking inquringy at her cousin.
FELIcIA-This Is one OF Harper's last "The Love
That Lived" by Miss Eil0art.
MISS RACHEL have Just finished the book and
must say iound it very absorbing.
| Mrs. NORTON-I should like to know something
about thus book that appears to interest you two
young ladies so deeply.
Miss RACHEL-Well can give You the story IN a.
few words IL you have not time TO read the book
In the nrst place, there are two heroes and two
heroines-an old couple and young couple. The
love that lived was between the old couple. whose
early relations have resulted in complicated
pl0h The story opens in q country vii
lage In England, where, standing upon
bridge, talking radicalism to j0urneyman
printer. is the young hero Robert Reed. While
they talk the bridge Is swept from under them
and the two men are dashed into the water be-
meath. The printer. Tony Byng being a good
swimmer, manages to save himself, while Reeo Is
rescued by young swell, Lionel Rivngton, who
was standing near BY at the time OF the accident.
With the Rivington party IS Sybil Chevne, junior
heroine, niece OF Mr.. Rivington, SENIOR, and hts
two daughters Maud and Avic. Reed would almost
rather have been drowned than to be rescued by
Lionel, Tor although he Is but poor bookkeeper,
living with his mother In cottage In the wood,
he has been bold enough to look admiimgly upon
Sybi, who lives at the manor. Reed has OPP
portunity to save Loners life some time after, SO
they are quits. They hate each other, however,
for Reed knows that Lionel has more than
couslnly feeling for Sy bill while Lionel IS outraged
that such base born fellow as Reed dare even
speak to a woman in her position. Mrs. Reed
goes up to Wycheholme. the Rivingtons' place, to
thank Lionel IOr saving her sons lie, and while
there she sees q portrait OF the elder RivingtOn,
taken in his early manhood, hanging upon the
wall. She looks upon 1t and nearly faints, but
manages to control herself and leaves the house
In an agitated frame Of mind. Later on she sees
the original OF the portrait, now gray haired old
man, and her suspicious are confirmed.
To make long story short 1t appears that twenty
nve years ago Mary Reed married Robert Surtoun
poor young bank clerk. He became dreadiully
Ill, and to get the necessary iood to keep him alive
his wife took money belonging to his employers.
For this she was tried, found guilty and sentenced
for seven years. In the meantime Robert her hus-
band, got worse and was taken away by his sister.
He hears nothing OF his banished wife until alter
the seven years OF her exile are up and then he
learns that The ship she sailed Tor home IN was
wrecked on the voyage. She, however. had taken
passage in another steamer and landed safely in
England with her baby. But her husband was not
believing that she was lost at sea- is persuaded TO
take his uncle's name, RivngtOn, and marry his
daughter Laura, although he never loved her, nor
she him, for that matter. The father dies and the
son-in-law succeeds to the business and makes an
immense fortune. All the time his heart Is buried
In the with his dead wife,
After all these years OF toll and poverty Mary
Reed, as she now calls herself and her son Robert
drift to WINCHESTER, where the Rlvlngtons live.
The truth Is soon discovered by Mrs. Reed, Mr..
Rvington and his sister Millicent, and finally made
known to Robert Reeo. sybll, Tony Byng and at
last to Lionel. Mary Reed is repaid for all her
sufrerings by finding that her husband stln loves
her more than lie. and she is happy.
Mrs. NORTON-And Is she wiling to keep quiet
and say nothing about her rlghts-to live IN
poverty while the other vile is surrounded by
every luxury
Miss RACHEL-Yes; for she would rather have
her husbands love than his money, and she feels
pity for the other woman. But Robert her son, Is
not so easily satisfied. He thinks he has been
treated shabbily and wants his rights.
FELICIA despise man like Robert Reed, who
pretends to superiority over MS fellows, but
who. when he comes to be tempted is as weak as
the weakest. TO be sure he resigned his right to
Wycheholme, although ne knew IL was his by right
OF entail, but he would not have done 1t but for
Sybil, who was splendid woman, too good Tor
him by far.
Miss RACHEL-He would have been thorough
going rascal II he had told innocent Mrs. Rving.
ton and her daughter OF the true state Of the case
They mad done nothing and it would have killed
them to have known the truth Then he really
had no right to the money, for 1t was Mrs. Riving
TOMS rom her father and his father had only in
creased 1t by inherltlng his father-in Jaws bus-
ness.
! FEIICIA-Still n
have resigned everything in favor OF the man he
hated.
Miss RACnEI-Not everything for did not he
/ win Sybil, VINO was worth more than all of Wyche-
holme and Its wealth and he would not have won
her If he had &C ed differently.
Mrs. NORToN-It seems to me that innocence
and ignorance did great deal OF mischief In that
story. Although the plot at first appears quite
unnatural, can readily imagine such case. To
have her husband die In her arms was as much as
Mary Reed cared Tor, poor thlngl One mother
lived only for her son and the other only for her
husband. more equal distribution OF love might
have had better results.
FELICIA-The little glimpse we get Of the two
Rivngton girls makes me sorry that they did not
figure more frequently upon the scene. And dear
MISS Micent, sae is the kind OF an old maid that
mean to be.
Miss RACHEL-I thought that our election days
were bad enough, but 1t must be awful over in
England at such times. Imagine defeated can
didate for Congress being followed through the
streets by bowling, Kissing mob ready to tear
him limb from limo, or to offer him any lndgnity.
The trouble Ia this country is that defeated can
didate Is not considered OF even enough conse.
quence to excite mob. II he Is thought Of at all
it Is only in pity.
SPEAKING LIKENEsSES.
81 did not suppose that Miss R0sseti could write
such silly book as thisn said the Doctor with
copy of speaking Licensees" Qsoberts Bros.)
in his hand. at Is too commonplace to be worth
whiIe A little girl has birthday and everything
goes wrong, and then she goes TO sleep and
dreams OF enchanted children. one child Is called
Hooks and has hooks growing out OF 1t winch
hook everybody; another is called Quilts, VINO
sticks into everybody another Is called Sticky an
other Shiny. There Is grand row and the