Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-29
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An AuIOBlOGRAPh1. by Anthony IrOllOpe. |
.Sew York Harper & Brothers, Fransiin |
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Surely this ia one OF the most delightful of |
sutobiographies 1t is first of all graced with
that charmingly simple yet vigorous and
graceful style 30 marked characteristic OF all
that Anthony Trollope wrote To this ID
added the unreserved frankness that some
have criticised in Trollope' "1hackeray;" and
no one who hap read Trollope's North
Amerlca" will be surprised to learn that this
story OF his own life partakes in no degree of
the tediousneas that has repealed come from
his novels. The book is very full record of
his doings, thoughts and feelings from early
childhood. The opening chapters, telling of his
wretched school life and his brilliant, cour-
ageods mothers literary work, are enhancing,
while later the story of his life as postal
clerk is replete with incident.
The story Is just what lovers Of Trollope
would expect to lind it, and II COMFORTS
exactly with the fine bluff face of the frontIs-
piece portrait. 1t ls the record of an active
manly life, and the reading of it should spur
men to honor and duty. Perhaps Trollope's
most striking characteristic as writer was
his industry and this is in strange contrast
with his absolute idleness as school boy
The list Of his writings AZ given by himself
IN the short preface to the book by his
son is subject for wonder. Surely
no man save q newspaper drudge. who
writes his daily two or three columns, ever
oenned no much for publication. AS u reve-
| latlon of the doings i'll an intellectual work
| shop the book ID marvellous Here we learn
how that great creation, Mrs. Proudly, was
| produced, and how that astonishing gallery of
| ecclesastlcal pictures was evolved, strangely
enough, almost fr, IN the authors inner con-
seriousness, for he says that he knew few or
| no clergymen. The book il In every way one
Of the most satisfactory of autobiographies
and the lover Of lrollope who can be content
to leave 1t unread after dipping into the first
chapter, must be person of strange intel
lectual construction. For sale by q. f.
Thomas Co., this city.
OLD MEXICo AND HER LOST PROVINCES
! by William Henry Bishop, Published by Harper
| BfotheTs, sew York, 1898.
Mexico is not far away in geographical
miles, and yet its neighbors in the States
are very unfamiliar with it. Capitalists have
been drawn toward it Of late and in CONNER
cal circles Mexico, and Central and South
America claim great deal of attention. But
a nation into which American capital sufficient
to build $4,000 miles Of rail roads has gone il
bound to demand even more attention, and
MIR, Bishops book comes to fill this need.
1t ID a compilation i'll neat form Of the
illustrated papers which have recently ap.
peared in Harpers Magazine. describing a
journey in Mexico Southern California and
Arizona by way of Cuba. or the City Of
Mexico. II is a surprise to learn that it il a
grave and not gay city, and that it has
nothing Parfsian. There are chapters on the
railway enterprises, fine arts, wines and traits
| of peculiar history. In the chapter on social
| fa ~ n fh.
still made love to chiefly IN their balconies in
| good, old fashioned, romantic style"
The author Journeys from the capital 10
the Pacific coast and sails to the Lost
Provinces and there in southern California
the reader ID transported into a fair land,
with unvariable temperature, tropical luxuri-
ance OF plant and fruit growth, handsome
villas and fruitful! vineyards. With the
author one enters San Francisco, which
faces toward Asia, as New York facer
Europe, and once i'll his train, one followt
him willingly through tho interesting scenet
IN this most cosmopolitan city. and all the
while one feels 81 though he were in Il re
mote part Of the world. He gives hasty
glimpsea Of Chinatown, the Spanish and
Mexican quarters, till at last one realizes that
san Frsuclsco Offers the advantage OF saving
trip around the world"
Leaving this conglomerate Oriental Ameri
: can city, the route Of your chatty, quick
witted guide after skirmish among tn,
villa. Of the bonanza kings lies into the win
10 tsge seAAou at San jose, and thence to Mon
r tefey, the GUNNER resort Of the Pacific coast
inland thence to the Southern Pacific rail
road, aud By itthrough the 400 900 acre farms il
the san Joaquin valley "a desert that bloom
like the rose, TO Fresno Sisalia, Bakers
i VILE, and Los Angeles, telling AZ he goes tn,
points Of interest Of old Spanish missions o.
Irrigation, orange grove aud cattle ranches
r at san Diego the traveller 10 well down /,
/ the Mexican frontier, and leaving II behinC
r. the journey lies through scorching YUM
i across Arizona to Tombstone ''the very lates
Y and liveliest OF those mushroom civilization
!. which 10 often gather around find o
!, the precious metals II you 20 beyont
{ ancient San Xavier, you go without this wide
awake fellow-traveler.
" Mr., Bishop has given the world
l. delightful picture Of southern California
= II In not tale of travel. You are not awar
X that you are travelling with the author, bu
Il feel that you are spirited from place to place
N The style is spicy, brisk and chatty, and a
a the same time one gets much information, an,
II the author Is so well aided by the artist VIII
4 has filled the book with scores Of handsom
J. wood cuts, that there remain in one
memory many scenes in this interestn
T. country, where tho old and new, the nativ
le and foreign, are az Enthusiastically mixed as tn
ID gaudy bits in the kaleidoscope. We receiv
u the book from c. F. Thomas q Co, this city
t. BANNED AND BLESSED. After the Germa
o. r.. Werner, by Mrs. A. l.. wlster. Pull
lished by j. Is. LippincOtt x Co Philadelphia
IA 1854. Price $50.
r. To class OF readers who seek to be amuse
at Mrs. Wistsr's last translated novel will
or delightful. On the other hand. it is quite
to likely that those wishing something whic
az will yield gain OF knowledge will 50
" "cui bono?"
ne Aside from the narrative OF the story, tt
I'd picturesque descriptions " bsronial life