Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-04-26
BOOKS AND AUTHORS.

LAKE -CnAMrLAiN AND ITS SHORES BY
,he H. N aM1ns:y %srssE Ss Tss
etc. De Wolfe, Fisks a Co.. Boston.
Many years have passed since "Adiron-
dack Murray" brought before the public
the attractions and charms Of the Adiron-
dscks; what was then an almost unknown
region TO pleasure-seeking people has now
many familiar and fashionable resorts,
while Lake Champlain, although equally
attractive for It's scenery and decidedly
moro interesting for its historical associa-
tions, has been almost neglected. However
Mr.. Murray predicts that = day will soon
como when thousands upon thousands Of
visitors, not alone from the East, but from
the South and West, will visit this region.
II is selfish.I do not deny, but believe we
would enjoy the wild woods, the pictur-
esque streams and the magnificent noun
tain scenery infinitely more as they are
now described TO us, than II the country
was dotted over with the green ana req
summer hotels.
Mr.. Murray In his recently published
book has had abundant materials ct his
disposal, for no spot In America is 20 rich
In natural scenery or has had ~ eventual
history rs Lake Chsmplain and its
Sborcs"- The authors idea IN writing this
book was 10 correct certain historical facts
which, until now, have never been pub
lished correctly; SO the first chapters con.
of this lake and its localities. Then follows
a chapter describing the attractions this
section offers the people In search OF
amusement and rest. One can hardly
agree with Mr.. Murray In hts chapter on the
yachting facilities. No doubt the lake aud
It's waters offer many and varied induce
ments TO the yachtsmen, but II Is hardly
settled fact,as Mr.. Murray evidently thinks
1t is, that these waters are 80 vastly superior
for sailing To that stretch OF sea-board,
from the low and sandy shore Of Delaware
and New Jersey to tho "stern and rock
bound coast" Of Maine, The last four
pages OF Mr.. Murray's book are devoted to
legends and interesting points gathered
during his investig ltion OF Lake Cham-
plain and Its Shores, which by no means
forms an uninteresting part OF his enter
| tanning volume. A. Nelson Cheney has
contributed short paper on "The Game
and Fishing of Lake Champlnin.
Two YEARS IN THE FRENCH WEST IN
DIES, by Iafcadio iearn. author of"Chita,"
etc. Illustrated, Harper 4 Brothers, New
| York.
| Udrper's Magazine published series OF
| sketches on "Life in the French West
Indies" by Iafcadio Hearn. These with
| additions are now reprinted In separate
book and may best be described as a series
of long and agreeable Impressions; impress
| SlOnS OI tnt couubTy WncIc Nbts sSV"ss
spent two delightful years; impressions OF
the peopio who seem to be surrounded Ey
| such halo of romance.
| At first in describing his travels the
author uses, as an artist would say, " too
much color; afterwards, when he be-
comes acclimated to the bright green,
pale green, vapory gray Of tho mountains,
the lemon colored, blue and green blaze oi
the sunset :" his accounts of the land and
its Inhabitants are both Interesting and tas-
cinating. Naturally country that has
been 10 widely written about by the mod.
could offer very little that IL new to the
pen Of the author of the present volume
The chief charm of Mr.. Hearn's narrative
lies not in what he is telling us, but In his
manner of telling 1t. lie has peculiar
style entirely his own he seems to have
fallen under the influence of these tropit
latitudes, and to have impaired this feeling
to his writing.
The most satisfactory parts of the whole
book, to our thinking, are the sketches o
the people we say sketches OF the people
which Is hardly true In the exact meaning
| of the word, for Mr.. Hearn has overlook &C
the male portion of the population. anc
| lefl to our Imagination 10 decide whether
they are a steady, hard-working race, o.
whether they are content to live life o
dotce far niente. But around the womei
the author has woven many fanciful ant
| IHSClIttluR HttuTeS Ol tuciE eNcty
life. The account of the powers of endur
anco of les p0rteases or creole carrier girls
Is remarkable; they are accustomed Il
walk over mountain roads at rat
of fifty miles day with weigh
of hundred and twenty to hundret
and fifty pounds on their heads
Perhaps their life Is more to be enjoyet
than that OF les Jldnchisseuse (washinl
women) who stand from dawn to sunse
in the river washing and bleaching thei
linens, with certainty that only for
short time will their constitutions be abl'
to stand the severe strain.
Mr.. Hearn frequently laments that he Il
not an artist to be able to paint the difieren
scenes that came under his observation. |
he is not an artist he certainly is an artistic
observer, and he is endowed with poets
love for the beautiful he has accomplished
in his now book, "rwo years in the Frencl
West lndies," what very often both artis
and poet fail to achieve, that is, to impress
on the minds OF the people the scenes HI
portrays the people he describes are no
mere figures OF the imagination.
Ex-Speaker Carlisle publishes In TN
Forum for May review of political event
since the last presidential election, his ain
being to show that the Republican part,
conducted the last campaign In order 4
procure tho offices, and the DemOcrati
party in order to further the principle o
| taTll TtloTui nc uTpueS tiltt botu kluet
what they struggled for; tho Republican
have the offices, and the Democrats see tn
principle for which they contended gaiuin,
In popular favor every day. lie points on
how the Republican party cannot carry on
two opposing promises that it made-trst
its promise to the people that 1t would re
duce the tariff, and second, its promise h
protected manu- ufacturers, and to pensioner
that 1t would increase taxation for thei
benefit.
In the Cosmopolitan for May Miss Bis
lands second article on her fast trip aroun,
the world Is remarkably well written an
should give her even higher literary rank
Some descriptive passages are not sur
passed by anything of the kind publishes
in recent years, and there is an originate
and force in the style that is refreshing
The observations on Chinese in Californi
aud on board the Pacific steamer show thu
this traveller kept her eyes wide open, an
thought about things in spite of the rap
pace. Nellie Bly, talks and writes likes
school girl, Miss Bisland writes like
woman of cultivated and refined brain
who is gifted with no small genius as
pen-driver.
DJAMBEK, THE GEORGIAN. A Tale {
Modern Turkey. From the German of A
q. Won Suttries by II. NJ. Jewett. Wit
an introduction by Mangasar NJ. Man
gasarian.
The author of Djambek, the Georgian
has boldly entered new field. at least |
placing his scene in a country which q
yet has received very little attention fror
the novelist - Turkey. The provinc,
| GEORGIA as the titla Indicates ia the ma ri Z