St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-09
THE LITERARY WORLD.
New Books-Bright Magazine Ar
ticIes-Timely Sketches.

New Books-Bright Magazine Ar
ticles-Timely Sketches.
Emilia Pardo Bazan, author of "Rus-
STA, Its People and Literature" trans
lated by Fanny Hale Gardiner. was the
Spanish fiction, and naturally became
interested early in Turgenief. Dost-
viewsky, Tolstoi and oil ers, who have
continued in the path of Russian real
ism that Gogol, as leader, followed. She
believed that the impulse of our age
was toward representation of truth in
art everywhere, and that everywhere
the novel was becoming a result of OBJ
servation. an analytical study. She be-
lieved that the only way to under
stand the realistic movement
was in connection with its social
movement, and found in Russian litera-
ture, which had assumed national
character, by devOting itself to social
progress, the exact expression, land
even the artistic Interpretation" of
tendency of an epoch. a nation and a
race. Under the division heads, The
and Its Literature" Rise of the Rus
sian Novel," and "Modern Russian
Realism" the relation of the social to
the literary movement is studied with
an insight and statement that present it
in its principal connections afreSh, and
with notable thoroughness. She
Joins cultured and keen critical
power when she concentrates her
thought upon an author or lit
erary work for an individual
estimate or general comparison, the lat
ter being resorted to often to show the
qualities of the French school in which
she was taught, and which, with the
Russian, is now influencing all litera
ture to realistic development. The
study of the rise and character of the
Russian novel is very important. That
of the relation of the social and literary
movements contributes to it throughout
with much that is new to show how the
novel reflects the longings, sentiments
and changes of Russian life. SIT APP
pears revolutionary and subverSive be-
cause the spirit of Russian intelli-
gence Cor nihilismJ and Russian
educated people is So" In con-
clusion, the author considers the cen
SureS directde against naturalism, say
ing that 1.-The Russian novel proves that
all the precepts of the art of naturalism
may be realized and fulfilled without
committing any of those sins of which it
is accused by those who knowit through
the medium of half adOZen French nov
els In Russia, where the read
ers do not ask the novelists for intricate
plot or high-colored sketches, the novel
is chaste; do not mean in the moral
sense of being moral with an air of af-
fectation, and frOwnS and false modeSty.
mean chaste without effort, like an
ancient marble statue" Chicago: A.
McCIurg & Co.. Boston: Damrell &
Upham.
The ''Stories of Three Burglars" by
Frank r. Stockton, is full of the
authors gentle and Irresistible humor.
He is not content with lighting brill
iantly the comic side Of human nature
when fearing and meeting the midnight
robber, but sends piercing rays on the
romantic and realistic style of current
fiction, and on public taste for them. In
the latter, and in the general concep-
ton, there is suggestion of the spirit
| and method of Gilbert. but it is faint
| through refinement of qualities and
delicacy in expression. The subject
| and mode of treatment very likely will
make it his most popular humorous
work. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co.. (;
Boston, w. B. Clarke & Co.
~
Under the title .'Fame and Sorrow"
| the new volume of the TRANSACTIONS of
Balzac, by Katharine p. Wormley, col
lects the Story of the title, Col. Cha
bert" ''The Atheists Mass" LA