Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-05-09
LITERARY BOSTON.
what Authors aud Publishers are
Doing.
May oh, 1884.


May oh, 1884.
To the Editor Of the Free Press and Tlmes.
Dust reigneth. Last night the moon shont
as red in the face as an autumn sun when
forests are Burning, and, in the afternoon the
view was curtailed on every side 10y vel.
low haze. The gales of late had traversed
the roads and scooped the atoms up from
their resting places and sent them whirling
hign in air, and men ate dust brealhed dusl,
and their thoughts were Of the dust, dusty.
We're "bettcr now" as Mrs. Bardell said, in
the arms OF the immortal Pickwick.
Lee & Shepard have begun their spring
campaign by issuing number of old books
in new dresses, Trowbridga's works, for
instance, that the new generation may be.
come acquainted with the delights OF
"Neighbor lakewood" &c ldjo's Cave" and
their congenors Underwood's Lord OF
II'nself," and juvenile book or two
among them heng Jane Austin's Dora
Darling, the Daughter of the Regiment, -
md irs sequel, "Ontpnst." These last were
the dtlight CO such of US as were children
J twenty years ago, when we followed Dora
around at the quarters OF the army, thrilled
with her at the bay OF the bloodhonnds
Symrathizrd with the young officers who
could not keep heart free entirely, and
thought it most dpli1hiful when 1t seemed
to bp drawing the nearer to the wedding f"
some one of them, only 10 t1nd in Outpost"
"A slightly different though equally satisfac-
tory solution Of the problem.
They have published another book Ivy
! Harry French, 'The Only One" and for the
| ,NFt bo erlo he
! title hes no reference 20 bis claims for fame
It first appeared in the lumns Of the }os
ton GloJe where it doubtless fulfilled it.
mission; it is sensational, to u degree, with
lis good hero prig, it's bad hero New
York Weekly English baronet-who marries
a few times in the course OF the story ms
many rich girls as he conveniently can and
-di.po1es -of the old love In time for q
new when he runs through with their
money, the whole twisted up in a jules
Verne plot that Is as difficult to unite aS
Thor found the wire rope OF the giants
bread bag. Apparently the author thought
So, too, judging from the cOntorlions of the
story. And yet it has many redeening
points, exasperatingly many. The prig is
we'll drawn. FOR one and when on the wing
the author il thoroughly at home. lie is
cmphatically a bird of passage, and at his
best while travelling, as his other works
would show,
r herts Bros. have brought out the
! "Uem,nscences' Of Lord Ronald Cover.
uo volumes in one. with a portrait. When
any 1ne in high life drops into print the
world stands by in respectful admiration ;
witness the late 'urnals of the Q1een fol
instance. But this book 10 better one,
| more Interesting In every way than mat
| Lord Cover has met many men, from Carl
h4ld 10 Harry Montague and travelled Tar
and wide Il think that | recently saw by
the papers that h" is now among the lima
Ilayis). qnd he tells Of them, and describes the
ca,tl. s. the raily life, the giving and rroeiv-
| in. m marriage of his friends and relations
aud the little gOssiDs IN general with sucl an
nnorent. tnassuming air that such matters
must he important to his readers slnce II Wa-
So 10 him, 5.d his tale 10 90 straightforward
and frank that it really is delightful reading.
Let no one be drceivrd. however by rxter-
nails, and imagine that it is small book, fol-
the pages are thin and number many.
ITough'on. Mfflin & Co. have ssue'
lamonr Other works one by Chss, Ego,r
Crlddock. (stage name, real name to be hep
a secre') whom his publishers think to- ne me
now Bret Harte. I'm the Tennessee Mruh'
aims Is a collection of sketch among w
Inrtu,0r.d m0untaneers Of that State, some Of
|
lJafL2y, and others OF which do not REGAL
mpr,,pg There is a strong undercurrrut U
! ra,hoe running through them all. A me'a"
choly more evid, Mt than Harre's, humu
more refined, p'lrer conception Of woman
hood among the undercrust. IL Is i'esi
ground moreover and far from exhausted b.
This one volume, while the author seems L
be- quite az much At home in his SWING o
'ialect as bis gifted brother of the South
Cable
Osgool & Co., have not yet started in tn
spring races. although they have long IL
If announcements. They have issued the
p last hciotypes until fall, howtver one
tine Little Mother" by Jean Nj 'lals, en-
T gr,ved ny A. Turril,-a pretty little gIri i
, n Lanrtry cap. holding her doll with he
irhr form brought out by the dark trunk o
"A huge tree in the rear, with glimpse o
q lie marx beyond the other, "Dorothea
: engraved by T. Atkinson, after the palntln
= f Henry lie Jeune. Just portrait OF
D very Young girl. with big eyes and banged
aiNing mir, With one shoulder bare swee
If face and Innocent and what ladies ca
ii,herubic. That closes the list for the pres
+ Mt, not counting one from Cupples "
Imam which firm has had rather hard luck !
aoint of quality of late. There are severn
s holiday works that wot Of, but may u,
q speak Of in this letter. Mrs jackson, Ill
II lis in town. | met her Tor a momen
and in a desultorv conversation about Nj
'. she remarked with laugh that MIR. A'dflc
~ Ircl4r.s hers to be he most undecipherah
4 f al; that comes TO his Office, She is 500
- o have a long story in the Christian OnIo'
IN ne first over her own name, and proofs
i liz are being struck off at the Universal
ipres, the proof reader told her that II
n mad to read her Mss for six months
., should certainly lose his senses. J admire
re- ,is frankness more than did his discretlo
II 'or her penmanship always seemed We
p ,Min 10 me hut, M she herself said, peop
4 an either read it fuently or not ut II
81 There is no half way measure about it,
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