New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-06
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search Of unused material the tale 10 enc Of msnr
crussaney sui womsns pesvers'tv. 10 10 very s'".
plc hat not the less pleasant and sesh. The hshst
folk ere reprsseused ~ ead,ns lives Of va'narohai
eusefn~ss. aud their rsiis on which v sn nne".'-
prosuis.aa Calviaisan. lends grin snd r"sFc" "'.
nifty 10 an occupation the constant pcris OF ~n'cn
strengthen md broaden the chnracterS OF tho*
who follow 10. The career of CHRISTINA, the
spoiled hcauty who hes grown MP 30 selfish ms 10
appear heartlcss. 10 oleveriy developed. ana the
rcsdcr TO lows her wilful coarses with Increasing
interest, and watches the beautiful patience ana
self-controI OF her husband with curiosity ana al
nra,iou. She 10 eurel fuallv. but through bitter
suffering. Modern science might object thnt the
change of nature Indicated Is not In accord with
real experience, and that sel6shness deveoped to
such point would not y,ed to either suffering or
persuasion. But there are no rules without excep-
ton. and if novalists were under bonds to repre-
sent only the severely and individually real. most
Of them would become uDreadah'e, not be-
cause humaa ure is really innpid or monoton-
ous but because the gift Of clear perception Is rare
Miss Barr has drawn in this case high type, but 1t
is type aud therein lies her full Justification 1t
is u wholesome aud we'll written story.
wea always sure of something original from
Mr. Barring. Gould, and The GayerOcxs Is pei
haps he most singular story he has written IL 10
q relief sometimes to leave the perusa' or those
novels which are written in conscious furtberance
of some special theory about fiction. and take up
one OF the earlier period. IN which observation
and fancy trOt rythmcaliy in harness. ano
the. author employs whatever machinery
comes handisst. without IN the ieast
caring whether he Is romantic or realistic or any
thing else but enteTtaiaing 1t Is this latter klnh
of book which Mr.. Baring-Gould offers in The
Gaverocks" 1t is wild COrnlsh story, win a
strong dash of the supernatural taking The shape
of ghostiy vendetta The way in which the au-
thor handles his "other-worldllness,' moreover is
quite refreshing DIS arding all the conventional
Methods he IL PRODUCES MS svook with all the care
less confidence of genius, In he most material
ways IT appears in daylight to numbers OF people
in the most mundane and matter-of-fact fashion.
insomueh that nobody suspects it OF being
what IT really Is Notwi hstandine its solidIty 1t
yanishes at will with all the ease and more than
the CELEBRITY displayed by the Cheshire cat in Won
derand As TO the ifr represented IN The story. II
is haisayage for the part full OF strong Local
color. ani III many respects evidently almost pho-
tographic Altogether an odd. Out-of-the-w way but
decidedly amusing romance.
Tie search for new situations and motives leads
noyelists INTO many extravagaDcies. Mt Westaii
has been prac Using sensatOnalism for some time,
pre- 'erlng the compsrat vey easy resort oil urdIs-
covered c tie. and peoples as he fran work Of his
plots In ~ Queer Race" he has followed The same
lIne inveuilpg an island somewhere near the
equator peo,led by a II ongrel breed of pe3alds.
the fruit of mingllng the blood OF savages and
Europeans The physiological f,ct at such unions
never have produced piebaIds and for reasons
which any medical student can doubtless give
easily enough, counts for nothing with ms anthor.
But perhaps the strain put upon his lnagina'ion III
causing two me,, of whom Que was a iaDdSInan,
10 navigate n large ship for days and WEEKS to-
Get her. may have somewhat impaired ms Iudlciai
faculty. and so given his fancy an undue dominion
Jules Verne used 10 do this sort OF thing WIN an
elaborate pretence of scientific possibilities, bur he
has grown careless or has been spoiled by success
and We are sorry to LAY that Mr. Wes;alps book re-
sembes his later and Ider style. II NAV, too, DC
suggesie cd to novel writers generally that the prac
tice of giving the Victory always to the civilized
SIDE In la ties with savages or barbarians 10 not IN
accord with some lulte modera experience. The
B-lrish disasters in South Africa at R"rke's Drift
and Isandlwaua tho annihi'ation of Hicks Pacha
army by the Arabs OF the Soudan. the extinction
of Clusters command the Big Horn Ill our own
country the severe reverses inflicted on French
forces by the Hovas i'll Madagascar, are suihcientv
in evidence to justly an occasional variant Oh ule
stories which have hitherto been 50 vaing'orlouSly
ei1ad