New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-06-07

ment with Phil Captain Comyns, when ne meots
Berre again IL in the position of having reproposed
10 his false love, widow. The artless berrie
has opportunity TO explain that she no longer en-
gagged and after q tender scene she goes nome
broken hearted. When Captain Comyns calls at
her fathers farmhouse to console her, for the
widow had played false with him again. he finds the
family broken up by smallpox, and Berrie, who had
remained to nurse her brother, convalescing after
dreadful sickness that left her dis6gured She re-
fuses to see her lover having resolved that to marry
him now would be to make him unhappy. But
afterward she is walking on the sea-shore becomes
enyeloped in fog and in her confusion walks into
the sea- This gives Sir Randall chance to save her
life and gain wife.
"A Lesson in Love-" the second volume in the
Round Robin Series is an entertaining story, and
while some readers may think the lesson in love is
too much as if it were given in schooroom among
girls and boys, this may be the quality that Will
most recommend it to many others John lruax'
the hero of this story. is introduced as brilliant
New-York lawyer. verging on middle age, who has
been 80 absorbed in his profession as to care little
for society and to give no heed to the attempts Of
lady admirers to ensnare his affections. We are to
take it for granted that this shrewd, worldly man
is entirely unsophstcated in matters of the heart
The accident Of having a beautiful widow for a
client as defendant in suit to recover property,
opens his eyes to the desirability of marrying ana
having home of his own. He makes love like a
statistcian to four columns of figures He IL viva
cious man despite his methodical ways. tie IS q
celebrity as people are described in books but II IL
not so apparent why women should find hun the
loadstone of their affections. Mrs warrington iais
deeply in love- almost on first sight, and Truax
without being sure of his own wishes. engages him
self He also meets one Of the persons interested on
An. all nc 1o,veuif Doris Gordon pretty
young girl in her teens 1t amounts to this, that
he makes love to her, engages her affections, dis
turbs Mrs Warrington's quietude by his attentions
TO the young girl this leads to a broken engage
ment and the susceptible lawyer finally marries
Doris These incidents set forth in a really
finished manner and if TruaX is unsatisfactory as
great lawyer and celebrity, Mrs. Warrington Is
reasonable Doris IS not without character, and
carries off admirably a scene with the half jealous
half imporng widow, and the minor personagcs arc
tolerabe.
Happy Lucky" by the author of Rut-
LEDGE will assist in willing away summer after
noon if the readers mood is not too serious and his
taste will admit of ordinary incidents clevery re-
lated and murder and a court scene shown in de-
tail by way of sensational contrast The heroine Is
n widow with two children who has rented cot
tage Mt the sea-shore FOR the summer The tutor IN
q neighboring family falls in love with her hail
crazy woman occasionally employed at the cottage
stranges one of the children and the tutor, owing
TO q chain of unhappy circumstances, is arrested
and tried for the murder But OF course he Is
found mot guilty. and when the real culprit is
discovered the charming widow and the poor tutor
find it easy to fix day for the wedding
1t is pleasant to turn for an our from sketches OF
nineteenth century life to jdy Of ancient Syracuse
by Professor Ebers. The beautiful story which he
wrote to his friend Alma Tadema's classical paint
ing. "A Question:" has been translated from the
German by Mary J. Stafford. Xanthe, the white
draped daughter of the decrepit olive grower sits
moody on the marble bench by the roscbuSh and
willow bordered brook with the blue sky and the
deeper blue sea forming background to her grace
full head and shoulders. Phaon, lying prone upon
the bench the youth who had been suspected OF
midnight carousings when he was in reality watch
ing her fathers felds is asking the old question;
will YOU have me OF our cousin Leonax for your
husband 2" The style is simple. the sentiment pure
and lofty and the details full enough for illusion
without being labOrcd, as n scholar OF Professor
Eberss great learning might he tempted to make
them. 1t il praise enough to fancy that If Phaon
could have held this little volume in his hand rs he
Law there on the bench and spoken it to Asnthes
doubling ear, she would have been charmed into
accepting hinl-as in fact she was.