New-York tribune., 1886-01-31
,,,u7 vopK nNIY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY, JANUAhf 01, TO-"

CRYSTALS projected from the rocky Wa.ds III ,cs
alyss tlf they seemed 10 dissolve llOl nv" w., 80
INT INTO light The hue ot the Wa,'I WE WE r,.'cr
i ouU ,'', ,vhirh had never seen. and sa'l never
oran see on this side OF eternity. N"' ~. - i
not the hare-bcll, nearest IA IL llh' y, b,rn
ali natures flowers: not turqu"!S'. IL ,'PPt.'
NAT tbe untathnmablc tthtT itSri c0Ntu 'c.t
10 one who had not looked on j. q schSu ~ al,
supernatural lovcllnts.. Comparison tuu'I cr.Ty
soil such inmitable purity. Inc "hl c"'i ,;,,, tr.
., "a i'm Ky or on earth in the least Ttsr w
asprct OF this extraordinary pool was llc ' noi
burning sulphur. Here was na'n' iT,I ~ Mem
could have borne 10 dive into u ~ a.
in Norway we should have seen far down ". i'.' i
ing Iorrlrl. inviting MS 10 plnn2c ana ''," l. ,,,
all belonging 10 1t for such nome am als J NOT inr
pouionshjp IL WAS bath for the goes iu,'' Il'I 49,,
man A,trmis and her nymphS sh"uI" nav W ~, "a "a
swimming there. and we Act'ton' uarlhs o"i law
gaze on them. =, ,.:,,
OF Mr.. Frondcs hasty journey across the United
States there is not much to he said. lie seems /"
have been very pleasantly impressed by san ran
cisco. where he says that people have more ta't'
than in Ncw-Yor&-a remark which we beie'e
that no previous traveller has thought oi making
Tho following Judgment will meet with more gen
eral approval in this country:
Let me say here. that nowhere IN America hlIc
| met with vulgarity in ITS proper sense NuI9a'',S
lies in manners unsultcd TO me cqnultiJ o " I has
which You belong lady is vulgar wneh Hlie 'I 'itI
the manners of a kitchen maid, the kltchci il5io
is vulgar when she affects the manners ol ia"S
Neither is vulgar so long as she Is c0ntrnted 10 nc
herself I'm America there Is 10 dlhcrencc ol
t1tinn and therefore every one is satisfied with his
own and has no occasion TO affect ahythlhg'
zrpu. A posthumors story By HELEN JACKSON ur
H.. l6mO., PIP 2j3. Roberts bro'heIS
This last work of Mrs Jackson in published
under circumstances of peculiar interest. she was
busy with it in her closing days; and wheh shc
knew that death about TO overtaKe het S"c
sent the incomplete manuscript to her puDllSn'l
with touching and simple note and an outline OF
IL. hn "
in its unfinished state. So far the principal mel
dents are concerned. "Zcph" has probably been
sufficiently worked out it does not appear that the
unwritten chapters would have contained any sur
prises or any newell situations, would they nave
developed any further the characters with whose
fortunes the tale is concerned. Perhaps. however
they would have gwen point to a purpose winch is
now rather vague. "'The chief lesson Tor WDlch
wrote it," says Mrs Jackson "w was to he forciDiy
told at the end" In its present condition 1t has the
fault of dealing too fcebly and TOO sentImentalN
with the divorce questlona danger OF our civiIlza
ton with which we cannot afford TO trlie even III
stories Two amable and interesting people are
enabled to marry and be happy in consequence oI Il
divorce, obtained bv a guilty wife through the col
lusion of her innocent husband. Thus patient
virtue profits by its own fraud and gets recon-
pense for long-sulicring out Of the abuses of the
nevertheless full OF true feeling. The personages
are few and are vigorously drawn. Poor soit-
hearted shambling Zcph has an element of hcro.Sm
in his simple straightforward character, and events
call out the latent capacity for manly dee Is which
cannot but accompany nobility of soul. He has the
! instincts of a high minded gentleman under his
homely exterior and poctical sensihllity, too. as
| he shows on the miserable Saturday ght when he
spends almost his last cent TO get good supper ior
his errant wife and hurries to make all cheerful Tor
her in the home which size has resolved TO leave tor
ever. All this incident is admirably told the
/ groteSquc and the rcpulsyc struggling with the
! pathetic Miss sophie Burr. the thriving spinStei
who kecps a Colorado boardingi ou~c. Is a creation
less original than Zcph bat hardly less attractive
and rough Gammcr Stein, IN whose Missouri dia-
/ lcct lies rich store of humor supplies the third
voice for a striking trio. In the management OF her
rufians and other bad persons Mrs Jackson ~ more
conventional 1t IL in The finer types OF charactcF
that she shows her knowledge OF the human heart
and her sure touch of our feelings. Tho narrative
portions of Zeph are animated. the movement !.
brisk the construction is exceedingly elective ana
the Dialogue is full of point.