National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-01-24
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE WANE OF AN IDEAL" From the
Italian of "The MarChesa Colombo" by
CLARA BELL. New York: William T..

THE WANE OF AN IDEAL" From the
Italian of "The Marchesa Colombo" by
CLARA BELL. New York. William T.
Gottsberger. Washington Brentano Bros
The announcement that IL is translated
by Clara Bell is of itself a guarantee that
q novel is good one. Her selections
are always wisely made, and show o re-
markable versatility and ability in trans
lation. While her English is unvaryingly
good and idiomatic there is always about
it faint and pleasant suggestion of the
language from which it is translated.
The present novel is a story of modern
Italy, and gives n graceful and skillfully-
drawn picture of Italian village and city
life. Men and women are undoubtedly
tho same all over the world, and the
simple and natural story of THE Wane
of An ldeap might be told with
equal naturalness of many q young
man who comes to New York or Wash
ington, leaving behind him his country
homo and his country love. In the
broader opportunities, the progressive at
mosphero of u city life, he grows, or at
least changes, while in the peaceful, un-
varying routine of her quiet country
home, she stands still. The hero's strug
gle with circumstances, his final success,
his gradual descent from the high stand
ard of his youth arc skilfully told, and
there is unusual dramatic power in tho
story of his sudden resolve, after years of
neglect, to return to his first love, of his
burning impatienco TO reach her, and OF
his revulsion OF feeling when no sees her.
The strong, quiet pathos of the conclu-
sion shows a masters touch.
DELDEE !; OR, THE IRON HAND. BY F.
WARDES, author of 1.-THE House on the
Niarsh," and AT the Worlds Mercy" New
York: d; Appleton & Co. Washington: w.
H. Morrison,
More ambitious than either of its pre-
deCessors by the same author, "Deldee"
is hardly as successful. Miss Warden, in
her complicated plot, has undertaken
rather more than she can handle. The
intricate manouvering of q number o:
characters, most of whom have two or
three confusing aliases. their appearances
and disappearance, the elaborate details
of missing papers, the plots and counter
plots concerning matters of very little
Importance, become q little wearisomo
when prOtracted through $40 closely
printed pages. There are timos when the
reader becomes interested, but rs whole
lHo bubh 10 hhNNAAlt hiAA ouAANNhAhk Va q
disappointment to those who were pleased
with THE House on the Marsh"
IN CASE OF AN ACCIDENT. by DIR. d. A.
SARGENT, Illustrated, Boston d, Lothrop
a Co.
The author of this little work is con-
noctod with tho Harvard College gym
nasium, and ho has embodied In the book
tho substance Of his several talks be fore
the ladies' classes. His aim is to give
such practical information as will aid to
self-preseryation in time of danger and
to teach few simple methods of meeting
common accidents and emergencies.
RED LETTER DAY. Swiss TALES FROM THE
GERMAN OF MADAME JOIINSSA SrNRi, by
Lucy Wheelock. Boston: d. Lothrop ~ Co.
Madame Spyri has established quite re-
putation as the leading German writer for
children, and she has found capable
translator in Miss Lucy Wheelock, Of tho
Chauncoy Hall School, Boston, who has
rendered couple of the stories into Eng
fish under the above title. Tho book is
quite prettily bound and illustrated.
1.-THE IsHTO RICAL REFERENCE BOOK"
comprising Chronological Dictionary OF
Universal History and u Biographical Die
tiOn0ry. by LOUIS HEILrElN. New York; ID.
Appleton n Co.; Washington: W. IL. Nor
risOn.
Mr. Heilprin'5 previous experience in
the line of encyclopedia work has proved
him to BIO conscientious and painstaking
scholar, and prepared the reading public
to expect something gilmore than ordinary
excellence in tho book Just issued. From
the nature Of the work it will readily b.