The morning call., 1891-11-15
LITERATURE.

WHAT WOMAN WoULDN'T-By Isabel
Fallen Smith. Chicago: DOnohue. Henne-
berry x Co. 225 pp) In this novel the au-
thor tells very sensational story of love,
desertIon ana revenge. nretty Southern
girl is wOoed by one of her neighbors. She
finally consents to a clandestine marriage,
but lie, not wishing to burden himself with
a wife, induces friend to assume the part
OF minister That friend, at the eleventh
hour, discovers that bis conscience will not
| circuit-rider who, being authorized to per-
| form the marriage ceremony, does marry
| them, and after time the newly made nus
| band, believing that il was all mock cere-
| mony. deserts his bride, who, few months
| alter Just after she had become mother
| discovers, on reading news paper. that her
| husband had, in an adjoining town, married
another. The child was taken away from
| the mother and given TO family to
adopt. The grandmOther on learning of
her son-in-law's perlidy is stricken with
apoplexy, and the deserted wife makes
| vow to pursue the destroyer of her happi-
ness and punish him to her satisfaction.
She goes to Europe. marries, becomes a
| widow, and after time returns, enters
| upon life of luxury with the money left
| her by her husband. forms gay acquain-
| tances, among them the man who was mar
| RED To her, but who does not recognize her.
| She also forms the acquaintance of an old
| gentleman and his daughter She leads her
| first husband on, lie having attained high
| social and political position and by making
| him believe that she was deeply in love with
| him makes him promise to desert his wife
| ana children for her, and she commences
| to work his ruin. She works a scheme by
which lie loses his prestige in the House
| OF Representatives, of which he was men,
Der. works deal in stocks In which he was
| interested IN such manner that she
| makes him dispose of his shares at
| sacrifice and secures II for herself, and by n
shrewd deal makes great deal of money out OF
| II. Having ruined him politically and fnan-
| cially, she causes separation from his vile and,
| having done this, he comes 10 claim her, when
| she turns upon him, declares herself az mis- law
| iul vile anu produces the proof, and then orders
| him from her presence He finding himself an
! oulcast puts an end 10 himself with a bullet.
| The young girl whose acquaintance she had
| formed proves 10 be her own daughter, and after
| time the woman, satisfied with her vengeance,
| sickens and dies, and before dying meets the
| second VIE tells her all, makes ample provision
| iof her and her children and leaves tho balance
OF her property to her daughter after having
| story Is one iepIete with intrigue.
THE ANARCHIsTs-By John Henry Mackay.
| (Boslon: Benz lmin X. Tucker. 3O5 pp.) The
| auhof OF TINS book styles II "a picture OF civil
| llZaton nj The close of The nineteenth century"
| Mackay Is native OF Scotland, but WAS edu-
| Gated IN Germany. and he Is The author OF
| number OF poems IN the German, some OF Them
| having attracted great deal of attention,
| notably, "Sturm" ana % torigaug." These Two
| belong 10 the class Of books that do not meet
| wih the approval OF the crowned heads OF
Europe, for they strike at the foundation on
| winch royalty rests In fancied security. The
| publication OF The last-named book was forbid.
| den. The Anarchists" was published IN the
| German language and Is The first prose work by
Mackay. In II lie sets forth the principles oil
| The anarchists which have 0een translated into
| English for this edition. and he claims that in
| no other held OF social lie does there exist to-
| day more lamentabe confusion, n more por-
| tebtouS ignorance, than IN that OF anarchism"
In lDls work he sells forth his peculiar ideas, and
| wnle these VIII not meet with the indors me Mt
| OF many OF the people of the world they are
| TO oe INFORMED on the subject may have a correct
| understanding of what the class of people TO
which Alackay belongs think and believe.
THE FISHES OF NORTH AMERicA-By W. c.
| Harris. (Nsw York: w. q. Harris. In parts,
| Part 2. illustratcd) The second part of :" The
| FISHES OF North America" which, as has previ-
| ously been announced In this column, is TO be
| Issued III forty parts, has been published. Fol-
loving III the line OF tile first number 1t deals
with the lie history Of fishes caught with hook
| aud line. AS In the first part this has with II
| Two beautiful reproductions In c0lOrS and HE
Ike TO an admirable degree OF oil paintings Of the
| yellow perch ana the rainbow trout. The text
OF the present issue is devoted TO the distribution
| and classification OF fishes, and MIR. Harris, who
has made fishes a lie study, Omits no essential
scontlhc 1acts. He presents the text In a manner
that Is alike interesting TO technical and general
| readers. Tho book when completed viii be u
most valuable addition to ichlhyology.
| WAS LINCOLN A SPIRITUALIsT?-By Mrs.
Nettie Coburn Maynard. philadelphia; Rufus
o. Hartranft Cloth, 264 PIP, 81 5U) Ills book
Ia the work OF Mrs. Maynard OF White Pian.,
N. Y, who for many yea $ was known to the
| people OF the East, aud In fact 10 all who devoted
| any attention To matters appertaining 10 spiri-
| tuallsm, rs trance medium who IN her par leu
lar sphere had attained high standing. II Is In