New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-16
BOSTON LITERARY NOTES.
TWO NEW NOVELS.

srur SILENT WITNESS" BY EDMUND YATEs-"A
NINE DAYS WONDER" BY HAMILTON MDE-LEE
A suErAID's PAIL ANSeUVCI,MENTS-THE NEW
ppsroN JUVENILE MAGAZINE.
fyKou , REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE.
BosroS. July 13.-phere is singular dearth
Of leal line this summer. Not one SIcat one mas
been published. aud bat few which one can coascien,
tlosy praise rs coed in their degree Here, for instance,
Is The Silent Witness" by Edmund Yates william F.
CHA Col II Is poor piece Of ionneywork, as com
parcd with Elack sheep" or Broken to Fairness" by
the same author The most that he claimed for IL is
that IL holss your attention, from first 10 last despite
your protests You sup your IN Of horrors from the he
ginning but having began H. YOU VIII read 1t through.
It,night well bc called Easy LESSONS in Murder" IL
bogus with murder and robbery and ends with suicide
Heath bankers confidential clerk, assisted by Cap
tain stucy himself ~ cardsharpcr, and as com
nj &c rascal as the wits by which he lives will admit
ros and murders his employer ana takes possession oi
au the ready money in the bank, and also OF an I'M
nense fortune in diamonds which had been oonhded TO
the bankers care These get on with their splendid
lcoy escape as easily a. the Nathan murderer baied
the NewYcrk police They get away TO lonely cottage
where Studley lives with his dau tcr Her just declared
lover day, and finds the two men looking over
tAoir possessions. lie knows them we'll lie is clerk
under Heath in the bank and he has lost much
money al cards to Studlcy. hears and tie proof
81 their crime and steal away when he STUN
blcs ia the dusk portmintoau ana IN moment
Tie Phistines arc upon him. OF there Is nothing
10 do but to murder hin and Heath gets through the
affair with the Of accustomed to such business
But what is the use Anne studley-a good and sweet
girl looking in AZ the window, has seen her lovers
cruel murder and sinks down in swOon so that the
secret is unsafe still Probably Heath would have muir
daoi her her father who was not much OF athcr
,o lo sure might have objected; lie contents himself
with marrying her, under a promise never 10 sec
her after THE ceremony. She goes through TINS
farce pcrsuad d by rcs father that il is necessary
10 his safety Almost Immediately after sic runs away,
ls,ying Il be inferred that size is d adj
From this cheerful beginning the book goes on There
IA crccy pleasant in - hut it has plenty OF eX-
ctcnent % an unwh olcsOne, unnatural Kind, Inc style
l. rather oycny for since Yates has written 50 much he
Is geti.D. careless That od0us vulcarisn "put in an
prrcaance" is inffcqucnt and for my part don't
Ike sun, Auccisins different to- any better Than
do the Yafccsns az which our English cousins are wont
Ia MI spcly Bat in spite Of d,ocs OF STYLE and III
sc Of horrors o; plot The true story power
which Nj Yates has always AZ ls command Is displayed
Il, tli. book as IN his others However You dislike
IT, YOU read il through; and there j. thing in Witch
j. very charm the generous and faithful presentation
of an almost perfect friendship between two pure unseii-
nh and altoc,ther loyabc giIls. SO many men nave
snccied ofiy az the friendships of women that II IL
pleasant 10 find man of the world like Edmund Yates
believing in thc gcnun, and nobility oi the lifelong
love for each otter OF two good women
Anothcr new novel les fan Of horrors but also exas-
crttlW i WI
ilton Af6 ~ II. Oscopl COL There Is no battle or
Murder or sudden death il, hut there il plenty OF
trouble rel heroine Of the book Is woman VII"
has not ouy suffered bat s'nncd No Becky sharp, she
though q, one TIM she looks like an intriSuanie-Dut q
woman who longed Cor love too much, AMI was too rcck
less as how sAc ii who made mistakes, ana tlled
In vain q retrieve them who sought bread for forty
three year, finding only q stone and tncn when al ist
tie true breed 81 life offered 10 her put it away from
her ps and went ahuugcfcd for the sake Of others
Lead and dro foI her, ali tender souls! The book
las faults enough Of style aud Of pot hui tins one sad
WOMAN in It gives il hold on our sympathy Whai
De- the moral OF the book mot forgiveness OF SINS thai
lor 10 men, but-wo!ncn be born men, all Of You. If
Won will keep on being women why, you must take
the consequences.
IDeN slepart arc about making their Fail announce
ucuts. II II were not SO bad pun should call them
serious publishers bee they publish so many sc's
To-. T. the Great Wosein ScTics;' the "louns
America Abroad Series" the Yacht Club Series the
..Iorcat Glen Series; :" the "NaidenlOod Suies etc.
,r TO all these series new volumes to he added 10y
w,llkuoyn authors Besides these there viii he new
book hy Prof James De Mile; The Sunless Lam j.!
jules Verne handsomely illustrated: new romance by
Anrllc MAY; "The Four-'ootcd Lovers by Frank Al
br.snn; 1.-THE Great Bonanza book OF stories OF ad-
,,uurc with UPWARD Of two ItAdgC lustrat os Capt
Charles ". Hall will give Lost in the lcehet's
thrilling romance OF sporting adventures there VIII De
.'The Humorous Library the "R'ading Club; the
o and Heroes OF the American RcyOluon; and The
Tom Folio Cia-sics" These. not al; and 80
Inga 1T loOEs one publishing hiln az least NV
at. in "a r"od time canning, though the book trade Is
IL Io,i;rcp Co. have nearly rcady the second number
q, tri NV iyt nile magazine, tie Wide Awake Inc
i. inc iIvr and , cried COR H. The trouble is that one
docs not See low SIR Lohrop 10 continue 10 make 1t SO
,oi n llc low price OF doiais Srar. The list o
contributors and ~ artists include some OF thc very ns
LANES ard Tie ciitcr is certainly showing thorough
'ompseenion 81 the hcods Oh me odls IOIHs l. - ~
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