The New York herald., 1875-09-26

as the hills and the characters are neither fresh
interesting There Is wicked old father, who has
wicked son and a not much better grandson Each
Of these persons is named Buckley Caderwood The old
man has a daughter who "crossed in love, and is
consequently and cynical There is old house
keeper who knows the Calderwood secret and keeps
the old under her thumb The second Caiderwood,
being ood-for-nothing, is kept OF the family
| estates with his wife and and daughter Ausce.
Miss Eleanor lives with her old father and seeming
secret in the air determines Gnd it out She had
little Chinese key and she dreamed of little Chinese
lock that II would it, So up she hopped in the night
and found the lock she wanted in tho hack Of curl
ousy carved Chinese idol She turned the key and out
| rolled "the last will and testament of Slas Calder
wood and directions for advertising my eldest son.
| James Calderwood or his heirs. 7"
Miss ALSAVIyA-This is becoming exciting.
Miss EuPHENIA-There is mystery enough in the
book Well, Eleanor discovered tho secret which
that her grandfather, sas Caderwood had driven his
eldest son James from his house believing him guilty
OF a crime that Buckley had committed, and these
papers for the purpose of making atonoment but
they had been concealed by the perndfous Buckley In
tho meantime Eloanor's nephew and nice young Buck
and his sister Austice having half of their mothers
blood in their veins develop something better than
their paterna ancestors. They love Buck enamorcd
Of Margaret Keith, bouncing blonde the daughter of
rich manufacturer and Ausco loves Eugene Dillon,
and they made love in the garden while the mother
drummed ON the harp in the parlor
AUGUSTUS CHARLEs-The writer evidently wants to-
impress her readers with the idea that her people
old time gcntlefoks, and that although some of them
have fallen from grace they should be treated consd
eracly account Of their ancestors and They
are continually talking about family, which is bad
sign in an author as it is in the persons themselves.
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private papers in the dead of night she tries
him in a measure because he is gentleman forsooth.
The sayings and dongs of her characters do not
them gentlemen and ladies' you only suppose they are
because she tells you 80 on every other page.
Miss EUPHBMA--TO resume: thoro Is O great deal
of plot and counterplot and supplying Of miss
ing links some love making and other matters
necessary to the makeup of novel. At last old Buck
ley dies, having at tho direction of Mrs Todd, the
housekeeper left all his money to charitable insttu-
tons. or course, the heirs disputed such will,
taking for their ground that the money not his,
but theirs until the heirs of James Calderwood should
come to claim their own 1t not long before
heir to light in the person of Eugene Dillon who
was tho son of the dead James. He proved TO be a
generous follow pensioned his relatives and married
his cousin Austice and in the language OF the book,
now "the dust of Sas Caderwood might repose
peace after complete, if tardy, reparaton.'
ga QUESTION HoNoR.n
''Here is a book said Miss Amaviva taking up
copy of Christian Reid's ga Question of Honor" I'd.
Appleton CO.. from the library table, that every one
reading, and which most all think interesting The
is Land in the South and the characters Rosa
lind, Madeline and Basil Severn, Gordon Lacy Mary
Carlisle, blind heiress; Arnold Devereaux James
Champion and Helen Champion. Basil Severn is en-
poyed in Mr. Carlslcs factory and is engaged Helen
Is tn lam .hom
Madeline is engaged to Gordon Lacy and Mary Carlisle
is engaged to Devereaux during the greater part OF
story. The trouble is that nearly every of these
persons is flirting with the fance of the other which,
naturally enough, makes some tlo difficulty.
AUGUSTUS CHARLEs-Not a bad idea little danger
in real lfo perhaps but quite exciting the par
ties concerned
Miss Acknowledgement had claim against
the Carlisle property and the right to settle it by
rying the heiress Her afiIction gave him opporu
nifty for Irritation that Rosalind not slow to avail
herself Of
Miss EurHEMA-There is something horrible to mo in
the idea of marrying blind person. 1 think that
Dcvereauxs engagement almost justified his Irritation.
Mrs CREED-You know my dear, that he engaged him
self to marry Of his FREQ will She was a charming
girl quite good enough for any man, and Rosand was
simply detcstabe. l wonder why 1t Is that plain,
straightforward men, like Champion, often choose
such girls for their wives 1t be owing to the law
of contrast
Miss ALMAyIvA-Lacy and Madeline are not well
matched either In this case the the bad one
II a happy day for her when she found him out
Helen much better suited to his poetic" tempera
mont 1t is little strange, but in books literary mon
represented generally either knaves or fools the
same with literary My experience is that
literary people with notable exceptions arc just
like other They and there Ia no roasor
they should be long haired If men, or short haired if
women The day for such cccontricties is passed or
if il is not II should be. But to return the story
Devcrcaux is not the fortune seeker that one has
TO believe in the FIRST instance. He never
marros Mary, for the good reason that she
dies before he has time. Sho tolls him on
her dying bed that she Is go ng to make her property
to him, but he begs earnestly that she will not
that she grants his request Madeline is chosen for
her heir and nherits all She is good innocent sort
of girl and, though she Is touched by Mary's kind
ness would rather not have tie money She finds
letter Mary to her before she dies in which
she tells her that Devercaux loves her adenc) more
than all the world besides, though he believes that
there hope for him, and ho wants to marry Mary
Mary fond of Madeline that she does not get angry
at her betrohcds confession, but makes her will SO
that no and her rival shall have her money and
dies happy in Devereauxs arms. Madeline is of
course surprised at this state of things, and as
she is not in love with Devercaux and is en-
gagged TO another man. she refuses to touch
the money. Devereaux refuses too and this is the
question of honor Lacy hears of his fancs determi
nation and tells her what he thinks of her conduct in
terms that show what sort of fellow he s She for
tunaiey finds him out and thoy separate and he goes
10 New York and marres Helen Champion This
move surprises Basil somewhat but he Is glad that the
blow came before 1t too late. After two years
waiting Devercaux and Madeline got married and thus
settle the question Of honor
Mrs CREED-It Is a clever little story and enjoyed
II not little.
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