St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-05
NEW BOOKS.

Often has it been said, "The Amer
lean War novel does not exist Was
this true?
1t is evident that Mai. Kirkland
thought it was when he undertook 'The
Captain of Company K.' for the book is
utterly unlike anything that has before
appeared on this side of the water. Its
realism is like that of TOlStOi and
MaupasSant.
His dedication ito the surviving Off
GERS and men of the firing fine; the men
who could see the enemy in their front
with the naked eye, while they would
have needed a field glass to see the his
tory makers behind Them" gives the
Keynote of the book. 1t is the march
ing, lighting, hoping, fearing, suffering.
dying. trlamphing common soldier who
commands his sympathies = ana his
readers. 1t is. no Charles O'Malley nom
sense he serves up, but the JOY and pain,
laughter and tears of real campaign,
including D0nelSon and Shiloh ana some
lesser fights.
The men are Chicago men, and the
women VINO came to see them and nurse
them in the field, and who welcome
them home, are Chicago women; but
the haps and mishaps will fit into many
company III many regiment from any
state in the North.
The soldier or soldiers friend who
reads it-as all such should dO-will
ind his heart warming and swelling, as
the old scenes are brought back in all
their reality.
SocialS. There has long been de-
mand from societies. clubs. benevolent
associations and other organizations de
SlrOuS to raise money. for novelties in
entertainments. This book supplies
this want. More than score of anus
ing SocialS and other entertainments are
described, and every society and club
Will find some suited to its purposes
Every family should have one. With
this book as guide, it wOuld be possible
TO have different entertainment every
week during the winter.
Among the entertainments described
are the following: c Social. Crazy
social, the Holidays, the Week, Pink
Tea, Brown Tea, etc, Phantom social,
Mother Goose social, Old Grimes Plas-
ter OParis Figgers. the Authors social,
Quaker social, TOyland social, Dick
ems social, Mum social, Law social,
Fashion social, COnundrum social Pop
corn social, Leaf social. Palette social,
Puzzle social, Maud Muller social etc.
The Marriage of Gerard" is typical
French novel of the modern artificial
school. 1t is a novel of the love affair
of Gerard Gle SeigneulleS, a provincial
aristocrat, and is exceptionally moral in
tone. The heroine, Helene Laheyrard,
is an unusually bright and natural
young woman. and is more like an
American young girl than the convent
bred damSel of the usual French novel.
The plot of the story is slight, and it
has little to recommend it to the aver
age reader.
"a Woman in the Case, or Debtor to
the Devil" is the somewhat startling
title of an anonymous novel. 1t is,
however, not in the slightest degree
erotic or even meIOdramatic. 1t fails of
being startling and is unnecessarily
lengthy The redeeming feature is the
exceptional personality of Helen Graves,
the woman in the case. The character
is inconsistent, but sweet and womaniy
withaI.
The ScIibners will publish shortly a
new book of travel, entitled Across
Russia" a narrative of a journey from
the Baltic to the Danube, by Dr.. Charles
A. StOddard, the editor of the New York
Observer.
Boy readers will find much to their
taste in new book 10y G. f. Lummis,
entitled "a New Mexico David" 1t
will be published by the Scrbners, and
consists of sixteen stories, based upon
the authors experiences among the
MeXicans and Indians of the Southwest.
The same firm will also issue soon
''>tories for Boys" by Richard Harding
Davis, a collection Of rafting and eX-
citing stories Of base ball, foot ball, ten
mis-, boating and other sports.
THE Warwickshire Avon" is the title
of an attractive and valuable work, de-
scriptive of the scenery and associations
of ''Shakespeare's country" which Har-
per q Bros. will publish early in Dc
tOber. The volume is the work of A. T..
Quiller-COuch, first introduced to Amer
lean readers as 60" the author of "a
Splendid Spur" and it is profusely
illustrated from drawings by the we'll
known artist, Alfred Parsons.
WOrthington IL Co. announce lie
Sage's Asmodeus, or The Devil Upon
Two Sticks" for immediate publication.
Studies in the WagnerIan Drama, by
Henry e. KrehbIel. will be issued in
the middle of October by Harper Il
Brothers. While giving somewhat
minute analysis of Wagner's immortal
to an understanding of the real position
which the great refOrmer of the opera
occupies in the world of art, and to in
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