Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-09
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

DOOhO hlND nv hOlsCs
IzNA, OR SuSsHISEANp SHADOW, by NJ.
Ozella Shields. J. =. Ogilvie, New York.
This In a very entertaining novel with mn
intricate, but not improbable, plot. The
runaway marriage ofa young Englishnan
with Spanish lady, parents that relent too
late, and unbending pride bent by chang
ing fortunes, these and other things form
the framework for endless scheming, In
trigue and adventure, all with a pleasant
ending, though after much sorrow.
IVAN, THE SERr, by Sylvanus Cobb, jr.,
J y. Ogilvie, New York. In this romance
the author Of the "Gunmaker of Moscow"
manages highly Improbable and rather
lurid plot In way that must be confessed
entertaining. Tho striking figure Of the
Russia, whose character IN drawn with
vigor and ease suggestive Of portrait
nom life. This book is an old fashioned
romance fitted 10 modern days, and II has
become the style to cry down books Of this
kind as sensational In plot and untrue to
life but there Is moro true art and less
harm In them than I'm the average society
novel. The hero is not Ivan, but
a Count Ruric, who IN brave,
kind hearted soldier and first sets
the stream of adventure running by
allowing a woman to enter the coll Of her
father who In condemned to death for head
ing u Polish instruction. For this breach
Of discipline he nearly loses his own life,as
the czar declares u forfeited when he learns
Of the escape Of tho Pole disguised NJ the
daughter Ruric In his turn is helped to
escape In u marvellous way by Ivan, the
serf of u trusted adviser of the ear named
Menzikoff. who IL villain of the old ro-
mantle sort. Ivan In not really sert, hut
gentleman, who appears to exist for tho
sole purpose of OK POSING and extermi mt ing
| Mr.. Menzikoff, There are desperate fights
aud thrilling adventures with Turks and
Russians,a and n beautiful Cireassian maiden
is won and married after great trials, by the
| heroic Count Kuric.
A lady i'm Boston says she cl,anced
| To occupy rooms nj " hotel immediately v
| adjoining others tcnantcd by Mrs burnett
She had scarcely taken possession Of heI
apartment when she heard n scampering ol
small feet through tho partition wall. and
then came a child's cry of "Mamina--
| Mamma"
Whereupon ensued u series of audible
slaps and squcals, and finally woman,
angry voice, saying: How often shall
have to tell YOU to call me Dearest and
| not Mamma?"
The humor of this lies in the fact tina
according to Mrs. Burnetts account sc
ofen repeated TO her friends, the boys fe
Of their own accord into pretty way o.
calling their mother by their fathers pe
name for her. II will be remembered tha
Little Lord FauItleroy himself copied, n,
Mrs. Burnett says, atter her son Viyinu-
does likewise. One cannot help wondern,
II the youthful nobleman of the romano,
was likewise spanked into calling hi
mamma Dearest"
MIDNIGHT SUNBEAMs, r. c. Kimbold
Cupples 4 Hurd, Boston. very inter
esting account of travel in Norway nm,
Sweden, where travel is rapidly becoming
more common. The writer il n keen an,
thoughtful observer of foreign ways an,
manners. The reader In well impresse
with the honesty and simplicity of tn
Scandinavians, who settle their restauran
and hotel bills on accounts kept by them
selves which are never questioned, have n
mlycourteous, cheerful and indepenCi
ent. At one point when the train stoppe,
the conductor gravely announced: "Gentlo
men, this is Hell; we stop five minutes.
Looking about, he, however, saw none O
the traditional marks Of the locality named
and came to the conclusion that "whateve
Hell may signify in Norwegian, thi
place Is decidedly different as regards eli
mate from that ofthe same name Inentione,
in King James version" I"
l.. Piang h Co., Boston, issue a YER,
pretty card on our national flower Colorec
plates of the trailing arbutus and COLDER
ROD are bound IN neat cover with u desigI
OF both flowers and there are on eNtr,
leaves, poems on each by Hopestill Good
win, whose Puritan name is his only cxcus
Tor dragging In the Pilgrim Fathers in hi
lines on the arbutus A postal card nd
dressed To the publishers is to carry tn
vote for national flower The result O
the vote so secured will be published fron
time to time in the papers and on Januar,
], 1880, the final decision will be mailed 1,
every voter. On sale by Herr, book seller
The TRAMP AT HOME, by Lee Merrj
weather, Harper 4 Bros. The author is
tramp of fame who not long ago wrot
AN entertaining account of how h
tramped over Europe and managed I,
Keep his expenses down TO fitty cents
day. This book includesa great deal of in
formation about the laboring people q
America, Just as the other did of the Euro
Pean workingmen. Mr.. Merriw eathe
has the tact and ability to go among tn
people for facts that most students of NJ
cial science and political economy sock /,
hooks or do without Along with the SO
rious matter there are many interestin,
incidents, like the cony yersation with younl
man In charge of the signal station oi
Pixies Peak. He said that life was :,
monotonous up there that he feared m
would go crazy. His reports seemed 10 b.
useless, as they arrived too late to be of ser
vice In weather predictions. "Sometime,
l stand nj the window with my telescope
the wind without is keen and cutting as .
knife. ! can see the houses of Coiorad,
| Springs, twenty miles away; see the yisi
! tors sitting In their shirt sleeves, sippin,
iced drinks to keep cool and the iadie
walking about In white summer robes
Then / lever the glass-the summer soen
Is gone. i am the only livin,
thing In world Of eternal ice and snow
and silence"
| THE CosMoPoLIrAN keeps up to the high
| est standard. The most notable article In
| the current number IL am almost incredibl,
but circumstantial account of the "Peni
tent brothers," of New Mexico. They ar,
Mexican fanatics, whose ordinary pursuit,
are forsaken during Lent for daily re-
nglous processions In which they stagge,
beneath the weight of enormous crosses
| or iiagellate themselves with the Singing
buck-hor cactus, winding their agonizinr
way under the lead OF a dismal fife 10 M
extenlporized calvary where, on Good
Friday, one Of their number il crucifed.
| THE MANUAL OF AMERICAN WArEp
WORKS, by NJ. NJ. Baker, Ph. b., first am
nual issue, is published by Eagileeriso
| -Ne~s and contains very satisfactory and
accurate account Of the new works erected