Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-06
OUR BOOK TABLE.

| LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND ITS sHOREs-By
| w. H. II. Murray. Published by De " olfe,
| Fiske & Co., 365 Washington street.
| A writer who can call the thoughts of
| men and women from busy surroundings,
| and who introduces them into scenes
! where nature revels in the very luxuri-
| ance of beauty has no mean mission, and
| is deserving the gratitude of seekers of
! unalloyed pleasure and absolute rest.
| This Mr.. Murray has repeatedly done
| in various works on the beauties and
possibilities of summer life in the Adiron-
| dacks, but never has he entered so fertile
a field as is offered in Lake ChamplaIn
| and its shores. There cluster historic
| interest and natural beauty. Its beau
tiful wooded slopes and bold cliffs have
| resounded with the boom of cannon and
| its lovely waters have been orimsoned by
the blood of men fighting for freedom,
for home and for principle. Since the
3rd of July, 1909, when Champlain first
gaZed upon it, this lake has been the
scene of bitter struggles. and not many
days after he raised his wandering eyes
to note it's marvellous loveliuess he
battled with the IrOQuois. Here English
and French fought for supremacy land as
late as 1912 was fought the battle of
Plattsburg, when England and the Uni
ted States were in arms against each
other.
The beauties of this sheet Of water
have won praises from all visitors, and
Oh its shores are handsome summer
homes of some of the wealthiest peo-
pie of this country. The generous ex-
panse of placid waters forms an ex-
cellent opportunity for. boating and ele-
CANT yachts, tiny sail and rowboats
dot
throng the hotels and find the pleasure
nature here provides to be fairly mex
haustible. No one who loves nature in
her most generous mood, and who loves
the tradition and histories that cluster
around such favored spots can afford to
lose an opportunity to visit this charm
ing locality. MIR. Murray has faith
fully portrayed the beauties of this re-
gion and to read the book is to quicken
q desire, in one who spent four years
amid the scenes, to once more gaze
upon them ere going hence. And fur
Their, TO create a purpose in summer
travellers to see for themselves the rare
landscapes he SO wildly paints.
SARATOGA ROMANCE; OR, A MASK OF
HONOR-By Caroline Washburne lockwood.
Funk & Wagnals, publishers, IS and 20
Aston Place, New York. Twelfth edition.
Modern fiction is susceptible of three
divisions-the analitic, the didactic, and
the cratic. None of these is the best
province OF the novelist, even if he suo-
ceeds in writing well and attains
popularity. Pure fiction that faithfully
records very human experience, that
uses neither the dissecting knife or the
scalpel, that does not pursue cereal
flights nor grovel in the slums, is legiti-
mate reading. and affords pleasure TO
scholarly minds, that find in its perusal
respite from mental strain.
When amid such deluge of that of
which fiction is misnomer, 1t is pleasant
to find a summer idyl like this
romance, - and rest in its simple,
wholesome realism that is not Zolaism.
The work is highly Endorsed by Senator
Vanderpoole, who is authority in the
world of lighter literature, and the
reader will be repaid the reading by a
pleasure akin to that afforded by reading
standard fiction of the school of such
writers as Hawthorne and Dickens.
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