St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-22
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Miss Bertha Arnita Cole has sent to
the GLOBE a copy of ellis Love. A So
ciety Novel;"
In the letter which accompanies the
volume. Miss Cole says:
b. "This is my first effort at novel writ
| ing, and trust that you will receive it
with the spirit of fairness which charac-
| teriZes the columns of your journal. l
suggest that if you have not leisure led
]-itors are generally overwhelmed with
work, l believe), to read my effort close
ly that you will insert the following:
miss Bertha Arnita Cole, "a debutante
| in the world of literature, is the author
ess of His Love. A Society Novel; The
volume is clever story of modern soci-
ETY. life as seen by one who, from her
panion of the first people. We cheer
| fully commend His Love- to all devO-
tees of summer literature. Price Is
cents. For sale at all newstands and
| firSt-claSS book stores.
lit is not within the province Of a
book reviewer to judge OF the merits of
work from the manner in which it
affects him personally. If it were,
Miss Coles ''effOrt'' would not receive
| recognition here.
| He must arm himself with judicial
mind; be a judge, calm and dispassion-
| ate, for the millions of readers who are
anxiously awaiting his dictum. Cold,
mercilesS justice, as it were, must flow
from his pen.
| For this reason we calmly weigh
'His Love" in tine balances, and submit
| the result to our readers.
Passing by the comment we might
make, that it is our sincere wish that
Miss Cole had never become a debu-
| tante in that world of small cOmpen-
sation and great glory to which we be-
| long; and the further unkind comment
that might be made that "His Love"
much resembles certain symptoms of
callow boyhood sixteen - we
come to the novel itself.
Miss Cole has written what she calls
"a society novel;" without the slightest
reference as to which society she has
fired her production at or into. We
must Judge then from her characters,
their conversation, and above all, their
morals, that she has written for to that
society. that says "ither' for ''either;"
prefers late hours to sensible ones, and
considers a champagne drunk ''jOlly
fun"
Her heroine-Vere de Vere-smokes
cigarettes. is slangy, can ''coach"
Jockey or ''tip" gamester consum-
she is rich, her mother naughty, her
father insolent, and her brothers-rakes.
Miss Cole makes sad confession in the
little notice she gratuitouSly offered us,
if she intends to admit, that these are
the ''first people" to whom she has been
a companion. We have some recollec-
ton of the Bible saying that they are
the ''last,' or, perhaps, ''and the first
shall be last"
We're, de We're dresses gorgeously, a
delirium of red, black and old gold hair.
No reference being made as to her
physical proportions, we presume that
she is built just as other women are.
Where she differs from them is in the
quantity of her gray matter and heart.
Miss Cole has given us type of
| woman, unfortunately, common to So
called society. A brainless, heartless
creature-a thing that exists for the
hour and then goes the way that God
intended that it should. The mind is
weakened, the heart tainted and the
entire mental system debauched by the
contemplation of such wOmen-either
on the pages of sumner novel or in
life.
Heaven knows that there are pure
womeD-mothers, sisters, sweethearts-
in life, who might. if some authors saw
fit to choose them, make the pages of
literature shine with splendor by being
transferred to them. Miss Cole has
made a serious mistake in offering in
place of them-Vere de Vere-a woman
AN infniteSimal part of Society-nOth-
ing else.
Clap-trap authors make clap-trap
characters for their works. Miss Cole
comes within this category. We have
given her this somewhat extended notice
fnlI IynnyyIaJrn thot IL oHu
the wares she offers, but not with that
intention.
Honest men and pure women who
read for mental strength and improve
ment will understand that Ibis Love"
is to be avoided as one would shun the
pestilence. Those of prurient taste
will unQuestionably read it with avidity.
| 1t will through them be an additional
instrument to the debauching of the
national mind.
The slang that pervades its pages;
the indelicate, unsexed women that
pose as its characters; the idiotic hero
and his brainless associates will all be
''just the thing for some.
We have omitted reference to the hero
Intentionally. The title of the book is
a misnomer. 1t should 10y Her
Mashes" We hope that Miss Cole will
accept this hastily-written tribute to her
book in the same spirit of honesty that
it is given. We candidly advise her to
cease her literary efforts. She will not
! be missed if she takes our advice.
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The Forum for August will contain
| the second of a number of articles by
| Edward Atkinson on problems of
| Wages and Production" In this article
| he shows the insular quality of British
| economic thought and marks out the
| way for an American social science. He
shows how, under republican inStitu-
| tions, production is gaining OH con-
sumption and the condition of the labor
! ing class is constantly improving; and
he insists that the part of the human
mind will play in increasing the food
supply of the world has been left out of
reckoning This is fatal fault in the
Malthusian doctrine that population
will increase faster than food-produc-
ton, and in Ricardo's theory or rent.
! The capacity of the earth's production
under scientific treatment cannot even
be conceived. The same number will
contain a notable comparison of the
| governments of Great Britain and the
| United States, to the advantage of the
latter, by new writer for the reviews
Judge James M. Love, of the United
States district court of the Southern dis
trict of Iowa. Judge Love is the Oldest
+, United States judge in service, with one
exception, having been on the bench for
thirty-two years.
Mana, at twenty-five Cents.-T. B..
Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia have
| just published an entire new and cheap
edition of ''Nana," by Emile lola, to
sell at the low price of twenty-five cents
copy, retail, making it one of the larg-
est and cheapest books for the price
ever published. They also publish a
new and complete edition of all the