Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-14


IDENTIFY wishes to show us Katherine's
high sense OF justiceJ gives him the will.
which he destroys, refusing to accept her
sacrifice, " preferring TO earn his living
by his pen. Katherine enjoys life by the
means of his money, doing charitable
deeds thinking that she is using II as he
would wish but not for any length Of
time, for her uncle's son, who was be-
lieved TO be dead, suddenly re-appeared
claimed and gained the fortune as next Of
kin. Tho dread of seeming 10 seek
Katherine for wealth had kept Erring-
ton silent, now he tells her of his love,
and in the words Of the author, $50
they were married. "
II is disappointing book, entirely too
long, and only interesting by snstches
the characters are like the figures ON the
top of the hand organ which will not be
human beings though the pressure of
make believes, wercS equal to that Of Mr..
Swivelle's Marchioneex. II is to be re-
GREETED that Mrs. Alexander did not stop
writing after she gave us "The Wooing o.
IT," Her Dearest Foe and few more of
her early works, for IL would be so much
pleasanter 10 remember her by those books
| than by some of the trash she has lately
| given TO the public.
| There is great dearth of good strong
! poetry and quite steady flow of trifiing
| verse through the magazines and papers
| Even SO thrilling u calamity as the Johns
| town flood brought out no startling pow
! erful verses from the vast army of rhyme
| makers who claim to be the poets of the
! day. Old Dr. Holmes lately remarked that
the verse of the day is very good verse, but
very little Of it is real poetry. at is not
sufficiently striking to impress itself upon
the world to endure. The disposition is
! 10 indulge in the fanciful forms of verse,
! such "a tho sonnet, the triolet and the ron
deau, all pretty enough in their way, but
very few poems of this character have ever
become immortal"
TuE STATESMAN, a monthly magazine,
| ~ La Sale street, Chicago, is "devoted TO
the problems of practical politics" and
seems to I'll this alliterative declaration OF
intentions with ability There Is clear
article on Postal Savings Banks by Horace
!. Smith, OF Philadelphia, an essay on the
single tax theory and one on local option,
with others, in lighter vein.
Tar TpuE STORY OF HAMLET AND opHE
| ia. illl', DIOWn " 'O.. bcslcn,
People who study Shakespeare by dis.
section will bc pleased with the True
Story of Hamlet and Ophelia," by Frede
rilla B. GilChrist, who will hardly pardon
the omission of her middle name, as she il
of Boston. It is truly astonishing how
much labor may hc expended in q single
great work of great poet, and 7 never en-
counter these elaborate critical studies
I.I,, a
has been taken from production for thess
delivers and deep thinkers on old master.
pieces might do good work of their own, i
they tried as hard and persistcntly rs they
do to get all they can from the work o
others This writer, for example, show
ability that would make her famous if wei
applied. hitcr the ghost has left him Ham
let says:
go, all you host OF heaven y earth Wha
And shall couple hell? o, ie! Hold, hold
And you, my sinews, grow not instant old,
But boar NE suny up"
Now il has remained for the bold goniu
of Miss Gilchrist to give this a new mean
ing by punctuatng the second line as fol
"Aud shall | couple? Hell y
! nance. by carolinc Washhurn lockwood
, Funk ~ Wagnalls, New York and Londor
J | publishers.
The whole manner of this book is absur
and forced the plot is based OF the stron
facial resemblance of two brothers. W
certainly do not agree with the author [
p the preface IN thinking that it is a fair eX
a ample of a good, wholesome, old fash
, ionod romance" We could easily imagin
, that the old fashion authors, take Mis-
Austin, would he indignant ut the idea {
, any one comparing Saratoga romance I
Northangcr Abbey, in which the priucirG
4 scenes are laid at Bath, IN those days I
? the English what Saratoga is to-day to th
/ | Americans.
! Would YOU Believe
l Tho Proprietor of kCmps Balsam give, Thut
sands OF Bottles away yearly? This mode
| advertising would prove ruinous II the Balsai
was not a perfect cure Of Coughs and all ThrOi