The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-04-08

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though considerable OF q prlg Calverley evil
IDENTITY means well. TO pc sure, he talks IKE .
tutor to his young friend, but that Is a small SIM
The'scene where Harry aud young Greenfield are
acriit on the Atlantic. tne sole occupants OF the
yacht Alaria, IS cleVerly painted. II is not often
that a man cescends from Mr.. Hamerton's height
to write book for boys. and stin less often does
he attain the success that Is acnleved In "Harry
Blount.u
THE BLossoMINd OF AN ALoE.n
The Growler does not think much OF 'srhe Bios
soming OF an Aloe,n lHarper & Brothers., but then
you know what an unreasonable fellow he Is.
Mrs. Cashel Hoey's novel differs very little rom
the average novel Of the period, except IN the fact
that 1t is perfectly sweet and clean. Anne
Cairnes is the heroine ana Is the only daughter OF
a very respectable man, who made his money In
trade She lives on q bit OF property adjoining
that OF Sir Alexander Meryyn, with wnose daugh-
ter she ts very intimate. The daughter gets mar
ried and ladies' from sight In the early part OF tho
book. Ola Lady Mervyn Is quite fond OF Anne,
and as she Is as poor as she Is proud she deter
mines to make match between tho heress and
her son, David Mervyn, ''of ours.n But David has
no such thought The truth Is he has wife
already. He married poor girl that he loved,
but has not yet had the courage TO tell his mother
Lady Mervyn Is not a woman TO inspire
1uuuuSuCGS IOu u IOHlunuC UOy, duu the
old father Is In such delicate state OF health that
the shock would be his deathboW. so David
bures ms secret deep in his own breast At one
time he determines to tell Anne Cairnes all about
II, as she Is his good friend and a strong, brave
girl, but for some reason he postpones the evil
day and goes with his regiment TO tho CrImea. His
wife and baby spend some time near Hastings,
where Anne Cairnes meets them and makes O
wafer color sketch OF the mother now clever
those English girls are with their brush, TO be
sure, though she has no idea that the woman,
who goes by the name OF Martin, Is David's wife
An. II she had only known Mrs. Martin or Mervyn
leaves Hastings and returns TO London, where
sne hears that DAVID has oeen mortally wounded.
and she dies from the shock.
In the meantime Lady Mervyn learns David's
secret and comes down 10 London to upnrald
mis- wife, probably, but the poor woman
Is dead before she gets there. She Ethen
hires woman TO take the child and bring her up
as her own. As the woman Is taking tho little
Lucy home she Is Killed In railroad accident. and
1t is given out that the child is killed Also Lady
Mervyn feels ike murdeTess TOR a time, but she
soon shakes of that uncomfortable feeling.
Il should think she might feel like onen says
the Growler.
Anne Calrncs, who. by the way, Is the aloe,
nurses the fire In her breast and settles herself
GOWN 10 the lie OF al Olu Sl2 knO KB nObl-
Ing OF Dayid's early marriage. Instead OF petting
parrot or a cat she takes the orphaned daughter
OF Mrs. Allen an old pensioner OF hers-to bring
up. which is a much more sensible plan. Fifteen
years nave dragged by, and David--now Sir
Dlvd-reiurns home from India bringing Cyril
Westland, Anne's nephew, back with him. Cyril
at once falls IN love with Miss Alien, VINO
IL q singulary beautiful girl, and asks
her hand OF his aunt Anne. Anne puts MIN or
unTil she can consult Sir David. The two old folks
talk the matter over and Anne tells MIN what the
dying Mrs. Allen told her--viz., that Mary Is not
her daughter. but that she picked her up a baby
crawling among the rains OF wrecked railroad
train, fifteen years before. Anne tells all this to sir
David and shows him ring that tied around
the child's neck. David looks at Ii and says 'That
was my wiie's ring;' and then he explains his
early marriage to Anne, and after putting two
and two together they decide taat Mary, whose
zeal name is Lucy. Is MS child. Father ana
daughter have a meeting, which u not described.
to the Growers DISAPPOINTMENT, VINO confesses
that he likes to be in at the finding OF the straw.
berry mark. what Is more natural than that.
after the good example set them by Cyril and
Lucy, SIR David ana Anne should clasp HANDS over
the wasted years Tue aloe was long time in
poisoning, but at last IL bossomcd as tae rose.
VALENTINE AND MS BRorHERn
fTne story OF Valentine and Hts Brothern
Harper Bros.) is, IN our opinion the best novel
that MR.. Olipnant mas put lortn IL mas more
strength and originality than Is usually found in
her works. The plot Is not particularly startling.
You see very soon how IL Is all going turn out.
II Is In the character drawing that the attraction
hes. we DO not think that there is a really poor
character in the book. IL Is a wonderfully consIs.
ten. story. Each person IL true to himself Mary
NJ "a ar
second thought there are women Ike her, though
they are not interesting. she was only a wreck;
her life had been robbed OF It's sweetness by
Richard Ross.
at IL not often tnlt a novelist can approach 20
near to the sensational without touching upon IT.
It would have been 20 easy for MIS- odphant TO
have made her story melodramatIc. she had all
the material at hand; yet sne arose superior TO
the temptation says the GROWER, VINO mas not
been quite himself Of late.
The gypsy woman, Forest Myra. gives the color
TO the book. u Is 4 little singular how man VINO
developed old Richard Ross could ever have
done impuslve q thing as was MS marriage
with the gypay girl. whether no would have
continued TO love her II she had been satisfied to
have passed her lie with him in tho realms Of
civilization is a question. The book does not pre-
tend to explain how the singular marriage came
about II only deals with its resuIts-vaentine
and his brother. The description OF poor MyTa's
entrance into the village Ia the rain, with her two
boys clinginR 20 ner gown. ner struggle with her.
self as to which OF the Two she should resign TO his
nople grandparents, ~ very pathetic. But there IL
nothing the book more beautaul than the love OF
Old Lord and Lady Esksde for their vagrant grand
child, VINO Is brought TO their door In the petlng
rain. Row many high-born danes would have
Rugged the little ielow in all his mud and wet to
their shining satin bosoms As the little Val grew
In strength ana beauty the old folks lived their
life over again. But the iatner was not well
pleased. lie had SET aside the memory OF his boy
hood's lore ana devoted himself 10 the collection
OF old CHINA and the study OF diplomacy.
Val was a NOBLE BOY ana grew into a noble man.
There was just enough gypsy blood In him TO give
him relish. And Dicx the boy who stayed with
his tramp mother, nc had less OF the gypsy In