The morning call., 1891-08-09

IN little church on the coast of the Gulf of
Mexico ana before him appears vision in
the shape of a woman, whose face re-
semb!es that of one he has loved, and who
changes of his dream her place is taken by
a celestial sweetheart. In after life this
vision face haunts him and it appears to
him on number of occasions, once at n
carnival ball at New Orleans in the couu-
tenance of a Madonna-lke young dancer
Although she is beautiful, an heress and
from Chicago, the young man from Boston
discovers that she is unhappy and as want
ing in soul as Marco in the Marble Heart"
One night this apparently heartless
creature watches for phantom boat and
its ghostly crew-said to haunt the coast of
Pass Christian, and while she is standing
BY tree, is suddenly attacked by an es-
capped lunatic, but is saved by the Bos-
tonian, who OPPORTUNITY comes to her
rescue. A friendship, Platonic of course.
springs up between them, and he, in time,
shows her the eternal life of the spirit and
gradually leads her out of the temple of
Venus, away from the idols of materialism.
and fixes her second sight upon view of
the unseen world. The characters in the
story are we'll defined and there is much in
this novel that attracts the attention of the
reader.
HER SISTERS RIVALRY Albert Delpit.
(321 PIP. Chicago: Laird & Lee) This is an
French of Albert Delpit 1t is thoroughly
French, highly sensational, ami is the story
OF two sisters who were in love with the
same man, and there are many exciting cpl
sodes IN the race to secure the affections of
this one man. One of the sisters, after
many trials, having become satisfied that it
Is impossible to win the love of the one she
wishes and that her sister is likely TO win
him, resolves that she shall not and deter
mines to murder her., When her sister has
retired and fallen asleep she lights brazier
oil charcoal in the room, and then herself
retires, Intending to die with her, so as to
avoid the legal responsibilities of her crime.
The plan, so far as it applies to herself
works well, for she dies, but her sister is
discovered still breathing. is resucitated.
choice and her sisters hatred. 1t is de-
cidedly French story of love and tragedy.
This book is offered in cloth also as No. %
of the " Library of Choice Fiction"
A DEAD MANS DIARY-d42 DID. New
York w. ID. Rowlands.) This book, which
is described as the diary of dead man, writ
ten after his death, is put on the literary
world AS waif without father. for the
writer withholds his name, but G. L, Bet
tany, NJ. A, who stands in the light OF god
father for the wall, says, in preface, that
:" the writer. who prefers to remain anony-
nous, Is one whose essays and stories have
been received with high appreciation on
both sides of the Atlantic" Portions of
this narrative have appeared serially in is
sues Of Lippincotts Magazine. The nara
tive purportS to be the actual experience of
the writer during heightened absence from
his body, during which time he was believed
to be dead. There is no one to confirm or
deny what is set forth in this book, and for
that reason the author has the satisfaction
of knowing that he has presented what he
claims is original. The popularity of this
book entities 1t to careful reading. 1t
treats of death, punishment in the hereafter
and of eternal rest.
WAS IT THE WoMAN's FAULT?-By
Saville. (420 PIP. Chicago Donohue, Hem
neberry 81 Coz In this novel, which the pub
fishers issue as an addition to the Dearborn
series Of tirst-claSs fiction, there is presented
a very good story based upon the mad infat-
nation OF an unprincipled man to gain pos
session OF the wife OF Il man who was at the
point of death. He steals her from her
home, and finally induces her to believe that
he is her husband. After lapse of years
there is singular combination of circunl-
stances. A woman is taken very i'll on the
Continent, physician from America is
summoned. ami in his patient he discovers
his wife who for many years before had
been stolen from him and the two after such
a long seraratiOn are reunited. The story
is told in an exceedingly pleasing manner,
one that is calculated to and does rivet the
attention of the reader. No one can pick
up the novel and regret having read it
through to ascertain il it was the woman S
fault.
MICHELINE-B Hector Maiot Chicago /:
Donohue. Henneberry IL Co.. This is II very
pleasing story, translated from the French
by Hattie L. Miller. and it is translated
with remarkable fidelity. The story has
for basis the efforts of Il mother to regain
possession of her daughter, whom she had
been forced to leave. The story, of course,
is French, and has some peculiar features,