The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-08
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

HADAssEH; OR, FROM CAPTIVITY TO TfRssr
STA THRONE. BY E. Lenty Collin tt CeM
York: Cassell Publishing Compsfs s9olo
by Lowman & Hanford.)
"Hadasseh" is q powerful romance fanciens |
Persia. opening with q scene at the cdf Oh Az
taxerxes. when the beautiful Queen snu re-
fuses to crafty the kings vanity by9peanns
unveiled before gathering of goverr9 OF trio-
utary provinces at Lusa. He Panisnes
her and selects as his queen faosssen,
a Jewish maiden, to whom he give tersian
namen. which passed down to postfty forever
as Esther, the Queen Esther Of theeipie. Inc
story is. in fact, that fascinating a Dramatic
book OF the Old Testament wen tells OF
the confusion of the eneses OF the
Hannah, and OF the exaltapu OF Nor
decai, the Jew, uncle to tn queen. The
interest attaching to the stf OF Esther Is
entirely human, and the pane romancer
treats bis theme accordingly. ts WORK IL III OF
absorbing interest, graphic infs descriptions OF
the famous Persian monarc, OF the magnific-
ence of his court. and the hpits OF the Meedes
and Persians 400 years BETS Christ But Is
not satisfactory story eiser 10 the bioie-u
that may be said with becoaing reyerence-ano
il is not more SO in the hnds OF the romancer.
1t seems to suggest that tire 10 another version
to be told, and If It verelo for the persecution
of the Jews which exces sympathy for them,
1t would be a narrative very human motives,
ambitions, diplomacy "a revenge
vey little honor eaabe given king whose
polio. was dictated h,his passion for woman.
and wen the attempisf both ancient ana mod
ern writer to endow lis love with exalted attri-
butts fails before Il picture OF his oeauflful
fe-Vastti-uncrsTned, thrust OUT ana oe.
ridd because she referred the sacrifice Of hef
crown to the sacrice Of her modesty. Her onf
offase was that s5e refused TO obey the order |
herking and husand, given while flushed WI /
wiz, to appear kfore his guests unveiled
ortfr that seeusd a. immodest to womapi
horace and tine a. If IL had been 70 aprft |
LIZ Phryns nfore the judges. "Hadass
ranks among he highest efforts to seculs1e
bitcal narratives.
D1SA's LIVERY. BY Eva Wilder McGlsn.
lew York. Harper Brothers.
Diana's Livery" il one of the most delftfui
pstorals in, prose recently issued from thfesa
It's not without faults Of constructed cue
rninly to a too detailed elaboration oaiuof
pints, but they show onscientiousneAuu
helity which suniciently atone for trifs "
fcts. The scene IL laid in o Shaker vage In
Lntuctv and ALI the motives which w peo-
te together in such community are v co our
i character and incident The pine Ii
hannah, young girl who has been 1gn' up
4 the precepts OF the fsitn, and whf "ooeo
\ man of the world. She resists nea,'s
rorptinr AZ devices OF the evil onS lure her
rom her ascetic duty. but finally AseIe -
kcome a wife. Human aspirsns oreak
hrough the law of selfimposed, ssacrince oi
he Shakers, and the community ruany Gus.
ategrates The story abounds oi
he quaint idioms OF the faith afne iocah'y,
md many Of the passages are efsieeiy prsc-
.ical. Describing the dead tor sa VINO
ran away from the village to hidie "eaAnS
a. she believed II, which inducfel " oecoine
a wife, the authorees says: was no
trouble IN the composed lace, ns oa' Sun
reserve whatever she had Pr Aniougns nsr
countenance was like whits" "nen' py
the force of night and dark ioiu' anu De-
comes q bud again"
SEVEN DsxAnRRs. By Ann eAouii SAosson-
New York: Harper Br
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