Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-11-09
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

Company Boston and New York.
This year has been n particularly lucra-
tive one for the novel reading public, for
there has bcon All unusual number of good
novels written aud published. MissTincker
has given us remarkablyclev one to add
u this list a story Of life and character in
Italy and New England. II would be a
rather difficult task TO undertake to tell the
plot of Two Coronets," for the story
dates from 1880 to the present time be-
sides this there are numerous small plots
throughout tho book which are finally
woven in with grand conclusion.
The majority Of novels with the
scene, or part as this is, laid in
in Italy, are not usually found to contain
very Interesting matter. They are generally
little too nlelodramatic TO suit our taste,
but Miss Thicker has given us a very en-
tertaining picture. To begin with, she
knows well the country and the people of
which she writes, not the "doce far
niente" of the Italian life, which seems so
pleasant from the outside on the contrary
her Italian heroine, Beatrice da Sangio.
seems to have been born under an un-
usually lucky star, for from her birth a
stain rested on her name, adopted by re-
ations who not only hated her. but also
feared her, treated as one far below them
in rank her whole life tended TO make
her nature hard and unlovable, and
one is surprised to find that
when she docs gain her end that is to prove
her right To her name and estate, troubles
seem to have softened her nature and she
is the one who is ever ready with her help
and sympathy. Then one turns with pleas
ure from the dark aud scheming Italian
life to the bright and pure atmosphere of
the New England homestead; to the
well described scene of the country school
house, which the author has given us with
such quaint touch of humor, following
the life of the school mistress and her hus-
band. DR.. Martin, with their quiet and
happy home life and watching their eldest
daughter, Atalanta, who is Miss Tincker's
American heroine, apleasant and rlaus-
BILE girl from her cradle until she reaches
womanhood aud gives her love and life
into her Italian lovers hand
without doubt what imprcsses me most
in portraying the characteristics of the
Now England people. It is here that she
shows her appreciation of tho good that
true and noble men and women can accom-
pllsh, and 1t is here that her keen sense of
humor peeps out, which never for one mo-
ment is ill-natured. The "Two Coronets"
will increase Miss Tinckers reputation as a
novelist.
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The November Cosmopolitan contains
the first Of two arguments on the question
of location for the worlds fair. The side
of Chicago is presented by Senator Charles
B. Farwell. II will be followed in Deccm-
written by William Waldorf Astor. The
MS. of Mr.. Ethan Allen Reynolds, which
was lost in the whirlpools of the Grand
Canon of Colorado, ut the time that three
of his companions perished, has been re-
written and appears in this number.
Another article is the work of Mr. Pelham
Clinton, who obtained special permission
from the queen of England to photograph
her stables and horses, obtaining from the
head grooms such information as would be
of interest concerning The Queens
Stables
"a
NATURE, weekly journal for the gentle
man sportsman and naturalist, 10 Warren
street, New York. This brand-new perioG.
ical bears only slight resemblance to its
-
IL has about fifteen large pages neatly
printed and tho signed articles are by
naturalists and true sportsmen of ability
and skill. Charles Halcck writes of
Natures revenge on genius" and there is
avery interesting article on THE senses
of ishes," by William G.. Harris. Other
good articles are "a natural Western game
preserve" Ilaps aud mishaps in gun
ming" kahkalin aud the squirrel"
80
ArrLEroN's Book News, Wanama-
ker, comes with portrait of Edna
Lyall Miss Bayley which will
probably he disappointing to her
many admirers, as she has neither
the face OF genius nor of deep thinker,
and, though she gives evidence of Il meas
small trace OF IL in the portrait A critic
OF tame writing in an English magazine
oi success In literature, confesses himself
quite unable to understand the success of
fdna Lyail, which he insists can only be
ephemeraL lie names many writers now
forgotten VINO were equally popular few
score years ago, ana says that the solid
nterary merit when MISS Bayley lacks is
the only guarantee OF lasting success.
however, the authorcss ~ rolling in the
shekeis III u way that makes her kind of
success very pleasing ana she can afford to
iet o'nels WORK Tor post-morlem fame and
poverty. ~ sad that twenty thousand
copies Oh berrick-Naughan were sold
.he hrst aher ts puhllcation IN England.
MISS haSley Is an invalid ana an erratc
worker having litt'e time To devote to
WlltlhS, nut rs sslu 10 WORK 10 Soule extent