St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-08

to be of immense value And surely respite
in some such solution as Mr.. Donnelly has
so boldly and stoutly produced will be all the
more emphatic when the present edition Of
M. de Nadaillac's elaborate essay is studied.
That gentleman has certainly obliged us with
a massive and invaluable work. And as to
the mechanical convenience of manufacture,
paper, ink and illustration, the Messrs. Put
nam could not have more bountifully pub
lished it..
MIR. YATES AS A MAN OF THE WORLD.
There are biographies and biographies.
There is the now superseded Boswellian
form; consisting of a sort of stenographic
report of every time man rises or sits
down, of what he eats, drinks, reads, writes,
says. docs-which, however much we relish
the report, makes one itch to kick the re-
porter. Then there are three or four modern
and current kinds. There is the lazy biog-
rapher's plan, which is to simply empty a
trunk full of old letters in the face of the
public, The egoistic plan of assuming the
public's interest only In himself. And,
lastly, there is the delightful, chatty writing
of ones own autobiography by telling about
ones friends, neighborhoods, acquaintauces
travels, experiences: and, by keeping ones
self carefully in the background, actually
putting the reader en- rapport with
ones self! We gratefully acknowledge
that this latter plan Mr.. Yates has pursued.
In the fifty years of his London life he has
well used pair of good eyes, and good
memory. And this compacted volume fairly
bristies with great names Dickens, Thack
cray, Trollope, Jerrold, George Lewes, Sir Rol-
and Hill, Hollingshead, Albert Smith, John
Oxenford, Harrison Ainsworth, Charles Mat
thews, Frances Anne Kemble. Planche-and
hundred Others. And We are able to testify,
from enchanting perusal, that the matter is
entirely fresh and new. There is nothing
more delightful in biography than this run
ming chain of pleasant "reminiscences, and it
would be unfair alike to Mr.. Yates and his
publisher to too heavily draw out its best
things in newspaper review. The book is
packed full of entertain ment, and the reader
should return a fee for the fund before pur-
chase of the book itself. The book is deserv-
ing of careful perusal by all literary men for
it so perfectly embodies, and we may recur
to it again in times of less pressure. The
highest, the very highest praise we can give
it, is that it deserves a place on the shelf
alongside of Anthony Trolope's autobiogra-
ply, which latter certainly is the best read
and best praised book of this generation, if
not of this century.
REPRESENTATIVE BRITISH CREATIONS.
The Messrs. Putnam, of the Knickerbocker
press in New York and London, issue in the
pretty, square 16mo. form which they have
used so effectively in their publications of
collected and selected matter-these three
volumes of orations by Eliot, Pym, Chatham,
Mansfield, Burke, Pitt, Fox, Mackintosh,
Erskine, Canning, Macaulay, Golden, Bright,
Beaconsfield and Gladstone Walhalla of
which Americans are as proud as English
men must be! To each selection Mr.. Adams
has affixed d biographical sketch, with notes
as to the particular Grafton selected, the cir
cumstances, occasion and effect of its de-
livery. These volumes are for the library
shelf, for reference and consultation. But
they will be highly acceptable to the better
and more deliberate class of readers every
where.
CURRENT MAGAZINES.
81. Nicholas is still classed as a juvenile,
but there must be few among adults who
could not cut its leaves with pleasure. Like
the Century it is a magazine of art, and the
two are something the entire country ought
tn ba prou1 Of nrnducinn This Jauno ~
number, like every other admits of no odious
comparisons between It's pictures, splendid
as they are, and its letter press. Among its
contributors this month are Mesdames Thax-
ter, Clement. Alcott, Richards and Prescott,
aud Messrs. Boyesen, Talbot, Cheney, with
others. We are assured by the Juveniles that
the chef d'9ugre, however, is a story, "Davy
and the Goblin" by Mr.. Charles E. Carryl
Century Co., New York City.
ALLISTo-A Romance by John Emersie-Pub-
lished by John d. Williams, New York. For
safe by st. Paul Book and Stationery company.
Price 81 %.
Without doubt st. Paul could furnish the
plot for many thrilling romance if there was
''any chiel amang its citizens to take
HUGE NdluIG HAS luIulSuCu buC
setting for the play with a lavish hand
and there are no end of players Whether
Mr.. Emersie in Alisto has taken part Of
his story from real life, or whether ii is a
pure coinage of his brain we can not say.
1t is a st. Paul romance, however,an natur-
ally as such possesses interest
for the people of this city.
bnr al NJ If
name aud kindred. He was adopted by a
lady and through her kindness educated.
Possessing the faculty of making money, he
became rich and then he set out to
quench an Unsuitable curiosity TO know ev
erything. He Travelled in Persia and India
and tried to gather the ''pearls and gems Of
the old religious systems" He wasl in turn
mesmerizer, clairyoyant and alchemist, and
always n weird uncanny mortal like the an
Client witch OF Endor calling up some Samuel
in the past life of some associate .
He lost his life In an experiment
with gases, just in time to
save his wife from being victim. The book
has many merits. The plot is original aud
ingenius; the story well written and the
characters are strong and the shadings are
delicate and true. The history OF Allisto, as
written by himself for the eyes of his lady
love. must have been as unintelligible as the
Hindoo LEGENDS of Vishnu aud Brahma, and
without the subtle power Of the mcsmer-
izer, which Allisto possessed, could
hardly have touched her heart. The anthor's
name is new In the catalogue Of writers, but
tue work be has done gives promise Of better
things in the future.
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY
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