St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-25
NEW BOOKS.

ga Little Rebel" by the Duchess, is
like all the rest of that popular writer's
books bright, light and entertaining.
While 1t may be true that one may not
acquire any very deep store of abstract
knowledge from reading "a Little
kfbel," or any other such books, one
can readily place them in the hands of
young people, to while away. summer
fanr, with the comforting conviction
THAT while they are thus employed they
are not likely to come to harm in man
nfrs or marals. Prof. CurZon, who is the
ahero of the book, is perfect gentleman,
pure and above reproach, to whom
dying friend leaves pretty wilful
daughter as ward. When YOU read that
Ethe lovely little Perpetual Wynter,
that's the herOine's name, is heiress to
EHnlimited wealth. acquired in the wilds
of Australia, the complications that
may arise are easy to guess. Through
Fall our hero comes as free from fault as
q knight of the round table, and the
story ends, as all stories should in this
work-a-day world. with everybody
happy, the evil-doers punished, and the
good rewarded, love triumphant, and
the air is full of the music of the
|sWedding bells. .
The Hand of Destiny"is atranslation
from the German OF Ossip Sehubln by
Mary A. Robinson, and is. a most de-
Hghtful story most beautifully told. Its
literary style is good. its characters liv-
ing men and women such as one might
Ind among cultivated, heightened peo-
pie any where. The scene of the story
is laid in Rome, and through it all we
feel the wonderful Roman fascination
that dremS all sorts of to that his
torical old city and keeps them
there in spite OF complained OF dis
comforts. retic merchants and Roman
fever The dramatis persona are high
born, titled Austrians, but the main
character.the hero of the story.is young
Secretary of the Austrian Legation
Stertzl, whose love for his beautiful
young sister, tinker Stertzl, moved
him to wish for her all the good the
world can give, and blinded him to the
fact that all Austrian nobleman can
love, or at least can marry, only in his
own class. He allows friendship to
rlpen into love between his sister and a
fellow secretary Of legation, and, when
too late, he sees that the lover is only
lover and makes no effort to
be more, and his little sister
is whitening before his eyes,
goes to demand an explanation of
scurrilous bit Of society gossip printed
in one of the Roman papers. Misun-
derStanding the attitude of the Count
Sempaly, Of whom he had come to de-
mand the explanation, Stertzyl struck
him in the face with the offending
newspaper. OF course, duel follows.
and the breast of the good and loving
brother is pierced by the counts sword.
The tragic pity of it all is that the
count had really loved Zinka and had
written letter to her brother that
morning asking for her hand. To the
sorrow of his friends for the sudden
ending of young life so full of prom
Use is added the bitter regret of its utter
| uselesSness of his death. Such stories
as this restore ones faith in high-bOrn
people. We see that honor and truth
fulness and high-thinking are confined
to no particular class, but can flourish
as we'll amid the rank growth of social
success as under the yeOman's fustian
Jacket. s-.e,
A collection of short, etertaining
stories will be found in Mr.. Anstey's
volume, entitled, THE Talking Horse,
and Other Tales" Each story is told
10 that vein of irresistible humor which
has made the authors name famous
throughout the English speaking and
reading world.
sThose who have been impressed with
the power of the late Woicott Bales
tiers novelistic pen will be glad to
kaloW of the publication of his most re-
cent novel, entitled 'The Average
Woman" These realistic tales, taken
as types of the average woman, have all
the delightful characteristics Of the late
rDvelist's pen. =
give of the choice volumes of Heinrich
sHeiee,s works, handsomely bound i'm
maroon cloth, have already been issued.
-ILe translation has been made by Mi.
Charles Godfrey Leland, and is spoken
OF most highly.
The conducting of services by the en-
peror OF Germany while OIL voyage to
the "land of the midnight sun" was suf-
hcIently unusual to create demand for
the sermons read by him. and they have
therefore been given to the public in a
volume entitled ''The Word of the Lord
Upon the Waters"
Mr.. AnStey'S new collection of stories.
entitled 1.-The Talking Horse and Other
Tales" and novel by Hannah Lynch,
entitled "Daughters of Men," are both
recent issues i'll the popular ''Strathmore
Series"
1t is seldom that a young writer is
able to reproduce the atmosphere of
section OF the country as cleverly as
Miss Gilman has done in THAT Dakota
Girl" recently published by the United
States Book company. In addition to
this local color she has added a love
story of absorbing interest.
Marian Calvert Wilson has devoted
great amount of time to making her re-
cent story, ''Manuelita," historically