New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-09-22
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orr 90 NAME By JrIIAS HAWTHORNE DOB
ton: 1icknor 90
A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT. BY A. e. T. ehA'iN0 ~
S' r. Patnams Sons.
THE pARsoN pUMoRP .s story Te IF snS Sapn
BY G. MASynLh iSSS' oa''Fi'' ''''''
NO MEDIUM By ASNE THOMAS harper " D'o'
Tho story If a Jewish musician is n strlKihs'
ORIGINAL and weird'tale, full of power anu p"'''o
and in all respects distinctly out OF the c"iiuo"
Tho inspiration might have been derived lio'l
old Taimudic legend. it is so little IN heepins "
the mosaic life of thel present Inc s'oiS 20 ~
vopnc Jewish music teacher in tins CITY ho i"i.9
in love with beautiful girl OF his own raw =
also !, professional musician, ana inc c""iSV W -
1--we runs smoothly until, on the eve Va '"o -
100 tho fair Veronika Pattczuol is mysteriouS'
murdered Ernest Neuman, her lover, was l'e' 'o0'
with her He is arrested and treh' Inc on
sta,t;aI evidence against him is streng but ho Is
oori,ted Life has lost all attraction Tor hl H. "u"
be conceals himself by ging his name aoan"oi
inc bs orofes sion and taking service as "aiVei -
n Gernan beer saloon. Here, after some yo"i' va
wretched stagnation, he makes the acaua'n ''ii1V
q Young man who recognizes his superiority w ~
surroundings. ACQUIRES his confidence, ana many
;rd,ces him Il, 90 and live with him acting as HIS
se.retary. This friendship gradually Lits nun ouV
of the morbid mental state into when MS ions
brooding over she past has broughS hl'n' "'
.asnuos his muscal studies. The accidental
,,n f nortrait of his father. which had been
With some lost family papers. leads to seSrcn iol
ord a stranpe finding of these latter. Among then'
a. litter written by his father and lett ior MS
or,,sal when he reached the age OF twenty-ohe. IL
oo,to;ns a startling narrative. The father IeiaIeS
thot a curse hangs over the family and has done LOT
several generations 1t takes the form Oh nl'riV''
;nfdelItv and every member OF the lhhiy mn'
marrjes has mis- life blighted by TINS lgnohihy' AH
writer of the letter tells his son that he mas ooen
b.raved NV his best friend, and he commands the
vounp man TO follow and find and stay the SeuuVei
and all his kin, warning him that IL lie laiiS '"'
fathers spirit will take control OF him ana acco'
pish the vengeance in spite of him. Az the coSo VI
tbe letter the name of the family enemy Is given
md Ernest discovers 10 his horror thsV :" 10
Nicholas Pattezuol-the father of his mnruere"
love How after this. through means not less
stranoe and supernatural than those which uhderie
tbs rat Of the story Ernest uncOnscousy writes
down narrative of the murder of Veronica, SNOW
INC that his body had been the nstrImeht OF tnAt
crime and his fathers spirit the impeding agent
the reader may well find ont for hlnseH' 'he
story exhibits an imaginative force, dramauc
instinct and a constructive skill not lar rehoNeu
from excellence That the author is himself
musician is abundantly evident, and while the
supernaturalsm OF the book is DOUBTLESS renee
tion of the modern tendencies in that drecuon,
it savors far more OF the hoary Ola World IDEAS OF
eneh subjects than of anything to be found IN the
Spritualism of the period. The working out oil so
strange aud abnormal plot, without any descent
i,to mere crotesoueness is triumph OF art, ana
iustGes Ms in assigning high rank to this apparently
first production Of writer who, judged by snch
GOOD WORK is destined to further successes IL lie
continues To write fiction.
In"Love-Or a Name" Julian Hawthorne has
had rccourse TO New-York politics for part of his
mach merry. though they are dImy presented and
en- veiled by imaginative colOring that no recOg.
r;.ion s nossible Ii cannot be said that t1e story
e. n faithful likeness of anything. Seth Drayt0n,
the principal figure is a Boston millionaire VINO
disappointed In a Massachusetts gubernat"rlal
Gamma IN. has moved to New-lork aud undertaken
TO con roi not only state but National politics. lie
is swagad By very mixed motives, revenge and
reform holding apparently equal POSITIONS III MS
mind He has conjunction ABOUT s'tdilhg tho
l;v ~ of the Devil 70 serve Heaven in, and plans
reforms in company with the most hopeless
scoundrels How far such character is possible is
perhaps moot question, but at all events be is
interesting and in novel that is after all. the
main consideration Warren Bell, who is too
upright for anv compromise with evil at first. but
who suffers Drayton to use him, and who permits
himself to be engaged to Lizzie Dravton (who does
not care for him. and for whom he does not care IN
reckless manner. is, though meant for tho hero
by no means the most attractive person IN the
story. Nell Anthony, who loves him yet refuses to
marry him, and then goes To New-York to watch
over him. is a curious conception Tom PeeksKiIl,
the vulgar cad of broker, who steals poor Lizzie
Draytons affections only to betray her father
through Ter. Is a libel upon Wall Street-perhaps ;
4 -. hot nrap M mi
with the decanter instead of merely disiiguring
hun. Seth Drayton's idea of setting up a dictator
ship and of controlling Presidential election by
means of an Independent candidate shows that Mr..
Hswthorn,'s knowledge of American politics Is
chiefly theoretical. His views in this direction
appear to be pessmistlc, which IS pity, Tor there
has been far too much of that kind of depreciation
in recent fiction. There is much good descriptive
work IN the story, and the interview beween Judge
Muhlbach and Warren Bell is as good anything
In the book. But after all Dir. Hawthorne's char
acters do not impress themselves either distinctly
or agreeably on the readers mind and 1t IS difficult
to avoid the thought that it, as intimated. Warren
Bell marries Nell Anthony, they will be likely to
discover before long That the have made mistake.
What is likely to happen when young girl
whose mother is a washerwoman, and who is her
self pretty but densey ignorant is transplanted by
heartless society woman INTO a fashionable circle,
by way of " a social experment"f This question
Mr. Soaring has set out to answer. but as anything
like success under the conditions given would be
miracle, and Lizzie in this story is further
handicapped by a hncolic husband whom she had
married secretly before she went from home, it i:
perfectly clear that alternative is left her but t.
die as patheticaly possible. This she does, and
all we can say in praise OF the story ia that Mr.
Soaring has made it short, and that the publisher
have printed it in large type.
Mr. G. Manville Fem is prolific author of fa
to middling stories. Tho Parson O. Dumford " il
of this kind. 1t is tale of English country town
life and would be duer than 1t Is but for the flavor