New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-08
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
SOME NEW NOVELS.

WHITE HEATHER. BY WILLIAM BLACK. Harper *
Brothers. r.
A MODEL WIFE. BY G. l. GENUS. philadelphia; D.
H. Lippincott Company. ,,-,.
A MISSION FLOWER. BY GEORGE IL. PICARD "ni'e'
Stokes Il Allen ~ ,.,,o
FOR AWOMAN. BY NORA FERRY Dos'oh iA"0-
TWO GRAY TOURISTS ny RICHARD MALCOLM JOIN
sroSr baltimore, Baltimore Publishing Company
CRIss-CROss. BY GRACE DEMO LIcHlELD' IT, T. fu'-
MANS Sons. -
AFTER ALL By LILLIAN SPENCER Chicago s. C.
CAS- We WENT MARCHING on" Story OF the
War by G. W. HosMER. NJ D. 1Gmo' PIP $40 h"F'
per & Brothers. . =,
Aurora is q continuation of the Jewel III tne
Iotos," and possesses all the charms which charac
terized that excellent novel, The scene is still Italy
for the most part and the characters are those MISS
Thicker has famiiiarized us with. The DUKE tno
new Duchess, Aurora COronari, Renzo' Mariu anu
MANY other old friends are reproduced. Tue Deau,S
of the description, the delicacy and cearncSs VI "o
misunderstanding. the thousand h''le 'o"Y"0'
,vh;cb bespoak careful observation of Italian
life and manners, are all mere iho u
yeIopmcut of Aurora's character is very sh"-
fnl and the most exigcnt novel reader
must be satisfied with the means by when Sie ana
the Duke are at last brought together III spite oi
soemipolv inusperable obstacles The earthquake
ot Casanccio,a is described with much power ana
at the same time without sensationalism. In some
,.snects Aurora is q better written story Ihau
"The Jewel in the Lotos," and it falls below inc
latter in nothing There is genuine Ieelns ioi 10"
ture and poetry throughout the book, aud us ireS
ness aud delIcacy are very pleasant.
"Tho Red Route is capital story OF ltlsn hic'
Jt deals with the career of a young lrislmah VINO
It's out with the ambition OF being LORD Chahceilor
of Ireland, becomes entangled in secret reVoiu-
tionary society, happens upon the POSITION vi pr
vate secretary to an irish Member OF Parliament,
and meets tragical fate just when his future
seems assured. The whole story is decidedly un-
backpeyed and it is not only full of incident ana
dsscrint,on. but is we'll and even brilliantly writ
ten. Tho original characters are numerous ana
clearly drawn The young Widow Lynch and heI
court of anxious suitOrs the beautiful Princess OF
the Claddagh the American Feniau General inc
Irish Member of Parliament, are all real ana very
amusing people. The story is told with plenty Vi
shirt and is lively and full of interest throughout
Captain Jeffery. the English officer Is however
perhaps less realistic than the Irish Characters
though by no means unskilfully drawn
t. would be possible TO make good story out Oh
''Wbite Heather" by eliminating the lnteTnnapie
salmon-fshiug episodes, but as 1t Is they over
,yoigbt Mr.. Blacks novel terribly. Everybody
fishes aud keeps on fishing, and when they are not
oecupied in fishing they are either talking about
6.hinp or lanenting that circumstances make II
,wnossible for them to fish. Apart from THIS
solmor-mania there is some very good work IN the
hook. Meenie Douglas is a charming creature-o1
the "Prncess of Thule" order OF course-and
Ronald, the poetical young eamekeepor' Is me
fellow Bat he drops into poetry TOO o1teh' and
oo+b to sov his verses arc anything but first rate
os a rule if quite good enough Tor an lhspneu
keeper. There Is an American mlihohane' ana MS
daughter. who always calls him "pappa'" and VINO
f,D,ye Arttar
INDUCES in peculiar kind of suppositltlous AiieI-
lean slang of rather a novel kind This Is an eX-
neriment which is painfully unsuccessful out
which shows merltorious desire on the part OF
M Rack TO take new ne departure. If he
Uonld or could get away from Scotland. perhaps
,o might do hotter bat any such change as tals
rppears to be hopeless
Mr. Bret Harte has got into rut from whlch he
saa,,s unable 10 extricate HIMSELF why VIII he
Leen working over and over the already eXhaus'eu
material of his earlier stories Maruld
roorolv rearrangement ofthe old Californian peo-
nile and scenes and episodes There Is spanish
GIRL and Californian millionaire. and an npossiole
tramp made NJ of the familiar article dasheu WIN
Monta Crjsto and the Cors1ir. The catastrophe is
new and there is some pretty description but IL Is
all on the Old lines. No thought seems TO have gone
"a the construction of the plot while the story
draos along in q way far too strongly suggestive OF
;pdolerco and Indifference the part OF the
,rrter II would be interesting TO know whether
Mr.. Harte is really hampere1 by mental limitations
winch prevent HIM from achieving success save IN
short stories or whether the mediocrty OF ms later
work is due to lack of energy. lhe TACT thai lie
seems TO have made scarcely any use OF MS I'M
doIbtedly keen power of observation since ne leI1
California perhaps renders the latter conjecture
the more probable.
a Model Wife" belongs to a class of novels OF
oneratiyc character, which doubtless ma plenty
of readers but admit of no Communications lhere
&c neither spec al talent nor perception OF nature III
II. There is plot and there are characters pu'
they arc unlike real people in nearly every way
The heroine IS not unskilfully drawn. but all her
nisfortunes fail to create genuine sympathy Ior
tits impossible to believe III her emotions. lhe one
;,roof the story is that 1t is clean and so harm
less.
The author of "a Mission Flower" calls II as
tinctively AN American novel," though the prInci-
nal characters in 1t Spaniards and Engh9hihcn.
Il an impossible sort of story taking 1t altogether
hpttbere is some toicrabc character sketchng IN IT,
Of which Dona SOlace and Manuel offer the best ex-
,mples The picture of the old priest IS not BAD.
The English people are the least natural, the eifl
especially being unlike anything in the shape OF
woman TO be found between the poles, while the
brother is a stick" of the most wooden kind, The
general effect of the story Is iatlgulng
aFor a Woman" is pleasantly written short
story Of the peculiar sentimental sort which women
1--we AMI in which all the interest centres upon the
feelings and relations of a particular girl and a
u,rtjcular young man. 1t is, i'll fact love-story'
n little ont of the common track, iiimsY enough
Int graceful and in good taste. 1t IS good BOOK
wLerewith to amuse an hour on tie railway OF al
the seaside hut far too uns bstantal IN ali respects
for serious criticism
There does not seem to be any good reason lor Tue
making Of such books as Two Gray TOURISTS II
purports to be an account oil 'ho III =,
IL nll4rI, SnulhcrNnr2. III