New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

1T y H @ ana 49, Z r. %nso%. ismo. PIP aa0'
MODERN GHOSTS Introduction by George wilnah'
Curtis 16mo PIP. 225. Harper q bro',.e's. .s
COUNT ToLSTOl's GOSPEL STORIES w., Thomas
. by Nathan Haskell Dole. 12mo, PIP s43' A"o'"''
Y. Crowcl 4 Co. ,ou,o
WEDNESDAY THE TENTH. BY Grant Allen 1smo'
PIP. l3l. Boston: D. Lothrop 70. ,,,ssou 1emo
A MARRIAGE AT SEA BY W. Clark kusseh ''
PIP. 172. John W. Lowell Co. -,.. w,,,,v
PART OF THE PROPERTY. by Beatrice "'"'''
12mo. PIP. 3ia. d. Appleton q 20 ,,., nm Greene.
LEON PoNTIFEX BY Sarah Pratt MS ,lIo T ro
12mo, PIP. 232. Boston: De Wohc' fis"o W.
Julus VOLTS "Thc Robbcr Count is tale OF the
IIartz country founded upon the historical epo' vi
tho struggle for power and supremacy pe'Me0' o0
Commits of Reginstcin and the bishop Oh haioois' "
The struggle ended. Is well known IN .'c TRIUMPH
of the church. and the yoke of Alluret OF hesnseri
and his family was broken. The author has told the
story with spirit.
.,...,o, ~ weird and supernatural stories IS
,,,s,aa nndor the title Modern Ghosts" with an
s+osuc,ion nv George william Curtis. The volume
,,aos stor,cs nv GUY de Maupassant Pedro Antonio
AZ A,aroon Alexander L. Kielland. Leopold komperI'
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and GIOVANNI AaeHeiI,'i
craziani one OF the best is Maupsssants lhe
Harlsp with which the collection opens Dut 'he' a
ALL good in their which Is the modefh way anu
the translations carefully done
ur Nathan Haskell Dole has brought together those
received the generic name of Gospel stores as 'ey
ro meant TO illustrate Scripture passages Many OF
these have been In circulation for several years unuer
various forms, but il is convenience 10 nave t''
all in one volume. Their characteristics are too We'll
known 70 require any further definition
Mr. Grant Aliens little story "wednesday the Ien'n
Is an episode of life. being spirited account
NJ a rescue Of family of missionaries VINO hau o0o'
seized by island savages and doomed to sacrhoe III
ctraI Coi
nosslble through the flial devotion o. two boys VINO
mt 10 sea in an open boat seek aid and WHO arc
picked up nearly dead after drifting many days
In "A Marriage at Sea- Mr.. Clark Russell tells
the story of an eopement in yacht. which Is nearly
lost In a Storm the transfer OF the young co"Po ~
vessel bound for New-Zealand. and mair'aso p0'
formed bv a shp-captan on rather doubtfulN legal
principles 1t is short and simple III structnie' anu
sufficiently interesting to amusc an Idle ho'r'
The author of The Awakening of Mary Fenwick
does not seem to us TO have developed WIN hlarhei
success the vein of sterling fiction she opened Ill ''''
novel "Part Of the Property" suffers from 'ho
}tsness of the Mot which centres upon the relations
between wilful girl and a rather Rocbcsterllke nero,
whom she at first dislikeS very heartily but WHO Vi
course-as happens somehow in novels ohN-sucoeeos
I'm overcoming her antipathy and winning her los0'
melancholy end to this love ahair r'Ne' '''
narrator still spinster Truth to tell the story hagS
and drags considerably. and 1t Is not equal % i's
predecessor.
We cannot say that Mrs. GTec1cs new novel Leon
Pontifexs strikes Us as a marked success. The bearer
of that remarkable name is altogether too sanity ana
wonderful a person to be sympathetic 70 average
mortas. and there is too strong contrast between
his early and his later life for belief in the realty OF
his repentance 10 be very strong There Is much
clever writing in the book, though we do rot like u
read OF beautiful blacksmiths with green eyes
Reulah is the peasantest and most natural character
in the tale but even she throws herself away upon
worthless man.