The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-12
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o. whatever you choose to call 1t. can For Her." Is
out with another book in tho vein entitled "All
For Him. George W. Carleton Il Co.. Like its pre-
decessor OF this story Is laid in New York.
aud streets and numbers are gwen to make u moro
rca Also. liko the other story. this ono begins win
MURDER and tho plot hinges tho discovery OF inc
murderer There great deal that Is clever about inc
book but there want Of connectcdncss. or rather
want OF compactness, about 1t which proves not 70
DO the work Of literary man. The author mas way
OF rambling on in curious fashion ter the sake OF air
Ing pet theory telling story. For example, no
takes up some thirty odd pages in the heart Of the
book TO toll ghost story that earthly bearing
upon the plot Another fault of tho book Is that Inc
author enters too infinitely into certain offensive DO
tails OF tho disscctng room, and OF sea sicKncss
The story opens at Congress Hail. Saratoga whore
part OF the body OF young woman Is o'scove'eu
packed away IN q trunk the other part having oeen
sent 70 tho Delaware Water Gap. The murdered
woman was the mistress OF man about town. VINO
murdered her at No. = West Foriy-ioursh street,
and had her cut up and packed, described In tho
book Horrible this IS II finds us parael IN tho
case of tho unfortunate Alice Bowlsby. Tho best
pxrs Of tho story are the descriptions of local scenes
and familiar pcrsonages All the principal characters
IN the book are said be persons known in New ork
society," Tho author paints New York society In very
black colors and should BIO very sorry to think u
as roton ms hc would lead to believe He says mat
Tho worse n man is known to be, the more corrupt
morally, the more no Is admired by tho ladies' This
we take the liberty Of fatty denying man known
TO DO such man as the Charles Barton Of this story
would not DO tolerated IN any circle OF New York So
cIety with the least prctenco TO decency.
The murdered woman Now YORK actress, and
IN working up the case tho detectives find their way
into dramatic agency in downtown side street,
which is described as Major G. Lafayette Smiths dra
matte agency and which will DO readily recognized.
"While the detective waited . young lady walked up
the front steps of the plain brick house. aud on ring
Ing bell ushcrcd into what had formerly been
tho deep parlors OF tho mansion. The front and
smaller OF these apartments was uncarpetcd. There
was glass partition it's street end, In which
was little conical window with q shelf beneath H.
and tho word s'Cashier" painted above
Tho walls of this room were covered
with playbls OF every description. largo
and small garish in all coors OF type and coarse wood
cuts There was Barney Williams in "Tho Emerald
Ring ;, and Dan Bryant in s'Shaun the Post" and
Tom Dick ana Harry In almost anything and cvcry-
thing elsc Over the mantel pacard displaying
in lctcrs OF gold the announcement that "Lades and
gentlemen will be registered upon payment CT 81,
which entities them mako any inquiries relating to
professional affairs for year. Managers, IS. No
questions answered except on payment rs above"
The Barton family the type OF class. Mr.
Barton, the father, was merchant, who
spent most OF his time down In gloomy
pfico in south street, somewhere among tho ship
shandlers. stranded salts and old junk men. where
DO was supposed 70 graphic with ships with ledgers
and somehow or other with the West Indies He was
, shy, careworn little man, grown bent and gray in
the daily graphing above to say nothing OF the land
lords tho butchers, tho dressmaker's, the mner's,
the furriers the jewelers., and the florists bills sent
the aforesaid Office by Mrs. Barton and her Jour
marrageabe and-to be- hazards daugh-
tors with whatever he grappcd, these latter were
probably throw him the oftenest For tho Barton
family In everything In the giving OF dinners, IN mat
Of church pews, carriages receptions, dresses,
fashionable charities lived sumptuousiy according TO
iher neighbors ideas Of what was ntng amt proper
up to whatever rules their neghbors laid down-and
In everything accorded themselves to whatever their
uciehbors insisted the Bartons ought to do"
The workings of the Post Once and the Dead Letter
Dfice are described IN detail Is an official who will
DO remembered by al who had business TO transact ut
The old Post Office.
We hopo that The likeness Of no young lady in New
York will DO found In Jcannie Barton. who TN her
fourth summer out could not have counted her fira-
tions. They numbered by dozens weekly. She
would nirt with anybody who introduced to her, II
he was oodlookne, and would allow him to palm her
yoit little hand very eary stage OF the joint opera
pom In fact she had nirted with almost every man
me know by name, Philip alone excepted. All those
iairs moro less desperate and socially conspicuous
IN character, had passed or from JEANNE like water
OF ducks back. Many man had gone 10 the prop
or devil on her account II she did not maintain her
own particular cemetery, she at least contributed
largely to the support Of The Continent OF Europe-to
the high vino and to certain othcr trade, fully
prosperous n not mentonable, by her affairs. No
md OF were travelling brokonhearted In Europe or
Thinking themselves into mild destruction, or forget
sing certain commandments, on her account. But
pow for tho rst time her lfe she had nirted with
4 whom shc could not have, II she should happen
TO want him. Sho who had learned to look upon all
men her own-should she caro- to fancy them-was
nj last confronted with OF the who not
hers and could not be hers at any price. And the
antccedent and preliminary prohibition absolutely sot
her into o fever OF desire"
Nothing could be much moro vulgar than this de-
scriptiop, though OF vulgar woman. The dcscrp-
tion OF social gathering is better and like tho
truth :-ro stranger the aspect OF New York reccp-
tion evening party that OF the reunion in FIRST
class young mems boarding school, where tho young
men wear their first black coats and permitted to
receive thcir mammas and unmarried aunts. Tho
rooms are full OF mature young Indies, matrons and
beardless youths passablo sprinKling OF battered
old beaux but aid tho impression by answering Tor the
tutors. and tho prevalent youngness OF the mon is stu
pupary. Tho explanation Is. perhaps, that Now York
society is too fovcrish long enchan its masculine ole
nen,s Mon, a rule, get enough Of the rushing rou-
ne-thc sameness Of sraussy music and OF breathcss
watzcs-verv speedily, ana turn to tho philosophic
cigar the upper stories, or to club and cocktail with
relief that Is far from icigncd Men go "into soc
ety. at twenty. II they heroes tnoy keep that
sort OF thing up say as far as tweptyeght or thirty
At thirty they havc as rule Withdrawn into matri-
monv or It's equally attractive counterpart, msan-
thropy leaving thor places to yet boys, to grad
uate and get out in turn"
Various persons arc accused OF bcing tho author Of
these books but OF all tho number tho ones to whom
pamor points most decidedly are Oakoy Hall and
james Appleton Morgan. IL Is sad. with q show oil
authority, that II Il is not II is the other. who
ever the author may DO he has yet TO learn how to
construct story no has the materials anu the power