Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-07-13
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Errant," etc, etc. Frank 7. Lowell, d Co.,
publishers New York. Barr.
Derrick Vaughan, novelst-povelist Of
course; one Immediately thinks that Miss
Lyall is going 20 take us over the well
| worn theme Of the trials Of an unsuccess-
ful writer of fiction, work a sort Of An
thony Trollope out of her hero; we are
agreoably surprised to find that Derrick
| Vaughan's trouble Is not in getting his
works published but in the writing oftben
The plot of the story if not entirely new,
IL at least fresh, for there arc not many
| figures in fiction illustrative of fllial af-
fection, and Derrick Vaughan must have
had more than the sense of duty and
human pity for his father a young man
just ending his career at oxford. and in
tending 10 settle down in London, and
read for the bar, when his father, who has
always lived In India, was invalided
home. one of the most touching scenes
| In the book is the meeting of Major
| Vaughan and his son, when Derrick dis
| covers that his fatheris a habitual drunkard.
For two years he devotes himself under
| the most trying circumstances TO the care
| of his father. While his brother not only
wins brilliant name for heroic conduct in
rcscuing an officer from the enemy but
also the girl Derrick hoped TO make his
wife. However in the end. virtue is re-
warled and Derrick not only succeeds in
making name for himself in the literary
world but his love affairs have a happy
result. Miss Lyall speaks of life as a
checkered affair of shade and sun, in
giving Derrick Vaughan his sunshine, that
is Freda Wenifiold, sho considerably
weakens her story, which in all other re-
| spects IL one of the strongest she ever
wrote.
Derrick Vaughan is one of the most pa
thetic books we have read the author has
the faculty of making you sympathize with
persons who figure in the story.
Some of Edna Lyall's books arc calcu-
lated to do harm to good cause. Put into
the hands ola young person they are dan
| gerous, for all sentimental sympathy must
| be with tho atheists. An older reader at
| once secs her weak points, and We are
happy to say ladies' or gentlemen, be they
| Christian or atheist. are not in the habit of
behaving with the brutality Miss Lyall
credits TO society in general in 1--WE Two"
| -
The iHdHtic will soon publish a long
| poem by Mr.. Lowell, entitled GLOW con
| suited the oracle of the gold fishes"
Oscar Fay Adams, who lived for time
| in Lancaster and wrote for the INTItiIGEN-
GER, is now in England writing the life of
| Jane Austen.
"John Ward Preacher" is in its forty
seventh thousand, but what is that to the
sale of Mr.. Dauders "Tartarn sur les
| Alpcs," which in France alone had
amounted ON the first of June TO two hun
dred thousand copies
y RIDE On A CYCLONE, by w. II. Bal
lou, illustrations by II. Clay Coulton,
Belford, Clarke q CO., publishers, Chicago,
New York and San Francisco.
We would be disappointed ii we thought
on seeing this title that we were going to
read of some supernatural phenomena: al
though the author does speak of man
who goes 10 sleep in New Dresden, Idaho.
and awakos thirty-six hours afterwards TO
find himself on the top of house in New
York, having been hurled through space
in the path of cyclone, but il is without
clcvorncss and clumsy hit at the syndi-
Gates formed IN New York hy Wall street
men, who under fictitious names are easily
recognized.
Scribners announce history of tho
|
discovery to the end of the civil war.
Tennyson is ont cruising in tho summer
seas in the yacht of the bereaved Lord
Brassey.
"The Demagogue," the novel left in Ms.
by Petroleum V. Nasty, Is TO appear
scriallv in the Toledo BIadc.
BUDDHISM, in its connection with Brah-
mani i.pI and IIinlnis,,, IA.
with Christianity, by Sir Monior Mouior.
Williams; illustrated. John Wanamaker.
The double-namcd author of this
serious but attractive work lived for "A
long time in India and evidently knows
his topic thoroughly and treats il fairly.
At the outset he ruthessly siaughters a
very firmly established and venerable
legend TO the effect that buddhism num-
hers more adhorcnts than any other re-
ligion. lie asserts that there are not more
than hundred million Buddhists i'm the
world, and lest any one should think this
quite Few he follows 1t up with his firm
belief that the -four hundred and fifty mil
hon adhcrents of Christianity make "A
bigger host than any other religion could
muster In China the great majority of the
people are followers of COntucius and in
Japan there Is Confucianism and Shin
toism. Sir Monier argues that the sym.
patby with Buddhism proiessed by these
rolgionists do not make them Buddhisls.
lie describes temples and monasteries and
contrasts buddhism with Christianity, and
clearly analyzes the character of the former
Starting from very simple PROPOSE
tlon, which can only ho described as an
exaggerated truism-the truism, | mean,
that all life involves sorrow, and that all
sorrow results from indulgiug desires
which ought to be suppreSsed-it has
branchcd out into a vast number of COM
rlicated and self.contradictory propositions
and allegations. II has in its moral code
much common ground with Christianity.
aud III its medieval and modern develop
mcnts presents examples of forms, cere-
monies, litaules, mOnastic communities,
a And yet n greater contrast than
that presented by the essential doctrines of
Buddhism and of Christianity can scarcely
be imagined. Strangest of all. Buddhism
with no God higher than the perfect man
has no pretcnsions To be called a religion
in the true sonSe of the word, and is wholly
destitute OF the vivifying forces necessary
10 give vitality 10 the dry bones of its own
morality and yet II once existed as a real
power over AT least one-third of the human
race, and even at the present moment
claims vast number OF adherents in Asia,
and not few sympathizers in Europe and
America.
HERE AND THERE IN NEW ENGLAND