New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-16


may be imagined IL reaiy IL "'n '
illustrations capital.
T., sTbe Inst Inca We have one OF those s'"i''
which have become rather common oil 'a'e $500.
csutraI idea OF which is the discovery OF "
of some lost or unknown region. Inc i0s' .
pesed to have persisted in a great esi'Hqu go,
,,d.I uavs turns ND I'm q secluded valley on tn0 'o
49, ' 80, rsh.r. he and his companions had
r., c,rr,.d nv a sibterraneous current inc sup
nos.d writer Of the tale finds his way there 10 inc ~
manner aud with the aid of stan OF SpAn,s. .,s
the lost Inca does great many ~o"oiiu
things invents now and tremendous Arulory, p".'
dovn rr,at rcbellion and acts generally IN hisns
advanced not 10 say supernatural. manner iho'' y
- ,n,.ru,t, in the novel; but 1t suffers a. all @lch
-. A. from the remoteness and alien character
Of the interest
III. as,.ct,ve who figures as Sergeant Von' In the
tall, which Is said to be from the diaI OF Inspector
Rvrnes Is certainly anything but the hero OF 'hs s'oS
MS function is TO DO prcpetusy missing shrewd ana
.udacious rascal whose various criminal enterprises
are recounted These appear to embrace most VI Inv
ncre notorious cases of the kind that have occurred
IN this country and Europe for several years anu the
head thief is the centre and director OF
. cano having ramidcations all over the world. SER
rean, Won ingorfonsy tolls after this modern Robert
Macalre always coming upon his track seversi DAYS
or weeks too late catch him. He Is OF course ahoh
at last but not through the superior craft OF MS
pursuer who finally stumbles upon his prey almost
by accident 1t story OF adventure and stratasem.
told with brislrness and visor.
II "white Marie" is really founded in fact. as the
author intimaes It must be regarded as very sao
story indeed II concerns white child little GIRL
who passed the daughter of muatfress' on
plantation at the South. Little Marie in no respect
resembled her putative mother, who moreover was
observed to act toward the child With peculiar TO-
spectf,t tenderness Inquiry, however failed 10 cio
any substantial testimony bearing against inc o',
womans story, and Marie thougn
with special kindness because OF 10.
beauty intelligence and sweetness OF dspos'"o"' s.
ND a slave. Then came tragedy. Inc son VI "0
owner fell In love with her, and the owner IN II. OF
anger authorized his brutal overseer TO put an eho 10
the vounr mans folly by marrying Marie 70 iuii-
blooded negro This done. ana inc poor croa'urc'
who really had not drop of negro blood IN her VEINS
was condemned be the mother or heiuhalus cn'i-
dren and to be separated forever from the race TO wh
che knew in her heart she belonged. This palmetto
tov g. told hv Mr. Harlan with fitting simplicity and
Gov, readers will Law &c down without sigh for poor
White Marie"
Edith Sessions Upper combines the new feminine
school of aesthetic fiction with very fair instinct ior
the sensational and certain adroltness OF ouch' by
vbosa Hand, Is the story of a mysterious death, In
which three or four persons are made 10 appear euS
involved though of them really nan part IN inc
ifna
whom no woman can resist and who breaks all hearts
with easv Indifference IS on parade here but forfl
rato1v for the authors credit she caused MIN 10 De
removedn at early stage OF the prooceulhss
through the agency of convenient COBRA ana men
the ENHANCEMENT. which is quite sklfuliy handied'
beqlns One of the best points In the novel is us
compactness 1t has action and incident enough for
three volumes but all is compressed INTO space much
less than the average extent
Tho
the author of "The Administrative has endeavored
10 nortray the cowboy as he IS" II this representation
be true then the cowboy is at least as obectonaoie
a parsonage as his worst enemies have made him ap-
pear The strange Wild story between these covers
however does not paint him as he Is NO "oman
could possibly do that. The cowboy IS better IN some
respectS than Miss Curtis shows him. but In nearly
all narticuars he is different from her conception.
She does not exaggerate the occasional brutality Of the
more awess members OF the class but she could not
comprehend the workings of those coarse and queer
minds II would probably be Inaccurate TO assume
that no such crimes as she relates have been COM
u,tted on the plains no ynchngs for the qualification
of private hatred; bloody revenges enacted by
women In truth everything tragic and violent ana
criminal that could happen has happened on the Dor
dars of Western civilization at time; but II does
not follow that It iustfable to collect the most ex
IRENE cases ard put them IN a novel; charscterhins
them as fair illustrations of cowboy life and character
"Tbe Bursting Of a Boom" is founded on the land
snecuIation In Southern California, which recently
made so much noise and collapsed so quietly ana
oucklv A love story is interviewer with the account
of the boom.- and an Eastern man who has dropped
the better part of his fortune among the real estate
sharks is consocd for his losses by winning the hand
of a Young lady so entirely ard strangely uncon-
ventonal as not whether he has any money or
not. There is much force or skill in the COM
position.